RIP: Ex-CHEKer Philip Campbell, 65
Campbell was a CHEK-TV Victoria anchor-reporter for 22 years until he left the station in 2009.
Originally from Catalina, CA, he went to college and worked in Oregon before moving to CHEK in 1987.
Eli Barsi’s farm-girl grit cultivates career
Eli Barsi has always been a do-it-yourself kind of woman. It probably stems from her upbringing
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THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Nov. 6th
Happy Birthday to Sally Field, Emma Stone, Mike Nichols, Glen Frey, Fred Penner and Maria Shriver.
On this date Windsor's legendary CKLW came into being when two previous stations were merged; the first commercial TV station WGY Schenectady went on the air; 'Meet the Press' debuted on NBC-TV; Phil Donahue's TV talk show debuted in Dayton, Ohio; 'The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour' premiered on CBS-TV; Fox-TV debuted the action series '24'; and New York's WOR-TV paid a record $182,000 per episode for reruns of 'The Cosby Show."
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Mutual Fund Scammer with a C-FAX Radio Show, Fined $17.5 Million
DAVID MICHAELS PAID FOR A WEEKLY INFOMERCIAL ON C-FAX 1070 RADIO THAT GAVE HIM ACCESS TO MANY OF THE PEOPLE HE VICTIMIZED
Ghomeshi scandal reveals CBC hypocrisy
And no more laments from Mother Corp. about the national insensitivity that dismisses the problem of dead and disappeared First Nations women
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Broadcast TV is Pushing the Sexual Boundaries; Censorship Demanded
Out are love triangles and awkward dates. In are jokes about anal sex, "fisting" and teen masturbation that Parents Television Council president Tim Winter (pictured) says are "absolutely inappropriate for primetime broadcast television."
WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. Nov. 5th
Happy Birthday to Bryan Adams, Elke Sommer, Art Garfunkel, Sam Shepherd and Sam Rockwell.
The comic strip 'The Gumps' debuted as a series on CBS radio; 'The Big Show' debuted as a Sunday night 90-minute radio spectacular on NBC; Vancouver's CKNW increased power from 1,000 watts to 5,000 at 1320 kc; the 'Nat King Cole Show' debuted on NBC-TV; the second Jackson 5 TV special aired on CBS; Tom Jones guested on the soundtrack of Fox-TV's 'The Simpsons'; and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition made their TV debut on CBS-TV's 'Smothers Bros. Comedy Hour.'
Those bowing off the world stage Nov. 5th include Fred MacMurray, Johnny Horton, Bobby Hadfield of the Righteous Bothers, Bobby Nunn and Billy Guy of 'The Coasters' (16 years apart); bandleader Guy Lombardo (pictured), and career Canadian broadcasters Norm Marshall and Sid Boyling.
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KOMO/KVI Talk radio PD Paul Duckworth retires
Duckworth tried to hang up his headphones a couple of years back...
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Hal Yerxa’s CFCW was founded 60 years ago
The year was 1954 when CFCW went on the air
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