NDP Leads the Polls: Deja Vu? by Harvey Oberfeld
Call it the cold feet factor: where many people like what they are hearing from NDP leader Tom Mulcair, but fear giving him/party power at the same time; where the Liberals (despite a flawed past) offer a safer, perhaps more comfortable alternative under new leader Justin Trudeau; and, despite the polls, don’t write off Prime Minister Stephen Harper …
CBS Seattle Radio Stations For Sale
Word on the street has at least some of the cluster of CBS-owned Seattle radio stations up for sale. The CBS-owned stations include the...
Martin Milner, Star of ‘Adam 12’ and ‘Route 66,’ Dead at...
Adam 12 had a more realistic quality than previous cop shows: The partners, played by Milner and Kent McCord, on which the show narrowly focused, would patrol with no idea what they would encounter through the course of the day, and viewers got to witness the highs and lows in their lives.
Rawlco Radio’s Calgary station changes…
UP! Calgary keeps the same music, but with a name change....
MONDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept. 7th
IT WAS SEPT. 7th ... when pioneer Vancouver radio station CKFC first took to the air from First Congregational Church...
When the final episode of the original "Dick Van Dyke Show" featuring Mary Tyler Moore, as well as the last "Beverly Hillbillies" episode, aired on CBS-TV...
When ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on US cable TV as the world's first fulltime sports TV station...
.. and when CJRY-FM Edmonton signed on as Shine-FM, with 100,000 watts at 105.9 MHz.
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!
We Never Called It Content by Dick Taylor
Radio is an art form. When you remove the artists, there’s not much left. Larry Lujack (Photo)
SUNDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept.6th
IT WAS SEPT 6th ... when the first prizefight to be broadcast blow-by-blow was heard on WWJ Detroit, as heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey scored a third-round knockout ...
When Lionel Barrymore introduced us to his latest crowd-pleasing character as 'Mayor of the Town' debuted on the NBC Red radio network...
When Canadian television debuted as Montreal's CBFT aired the drama 'Oedipus Rex' in French....
..and when the hit radio sitcom "Fibber McGee and Molly" ended after an almost 25 year run.
ALL the milestones for Sept. 6th INSIDE!
Roundhouse to Launch early October
Puget Sound Radio received word from Don Shafer, the man behind Roundhouse Radio in Vancouver, telling us the launch date is set for the first week of October
Stay tuned...
Media Now Onto a Story Blog Readers Knew a Year Ago!...
In Rome, locals warn you not to ride the subway and take great caution on buses … to avoid the legions of pickpockets, who they say hail mostly from Romania, Albania etc.
YouTube Canada Teams with Rogers Radio Network to Create One-Hour Weekly...
Rogers says it’s the first radio collaboration in Canada for YouTube, a division of Google and one of the Internet’s biggest draws.
