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Shields, 60, prefers to praise his co-workers as key contributors to his success in radio. “You’re only as good as the people working for your operation,” he said.

For the first time since PPM was implemented radio put together six consecutive months of year-over-year listening growth. In August radio managed to continue that trend, notching another month of growth

The reason radio is struggling, many media buyers believe, is because of consolidation that has concentrated radio ownership in the hands of a few industry giants.

Robert Blake, Jason Sudeikis, Jack Warden, Jada Pinkett Smith, Fred Willard, Frankie Avalon, James Marsden and June Foray all were born on this date. ‘Roving Mike’ began its 50 year run on CKNW, Victoria’s CKDA moved up the dial to 1220 and doubled its power to 10,000 watts, CBS radio came into being with an initial 16 stations, ‘Toast of the Town’ on CBS-TV became ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’, and ‘Wagon Train’ began its 8 year run on NBC-TV. Ken Burns opened his 18.5 hour documentary ‘Baseball’ on PBS; ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ and ‘Get Smart’ debuted the same evening on NBC-TV, and the sitcom based on a rock radio station, ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ had its premiere on CBS-TV. Details and ALL the Sept. 18th milestones INSIDE.

O`Hara-Byrne brings over 15 years of international journalism experience to Vancouver Island.

It was a reunion 35 years in the making. What a wonderful time had by all that could attend. A big thanks goes out to Wade Sorochan who helped me in bringing the K97 & CJCA gang together again.

News/Talk is an art form lost on the new generation of programmers caught in the vortex of shrinking audiences, declining revenue and head office demands for higher margins. By Doug Rutherford (Pictured) former Corus Radio GM (Edmonton)