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She joins Jordan Cunningham, co-anchoring the CTV News at 5.

After 38 years at CBC, Wendy Mesley announced her retirement from the national broadcaster

The 2015 BCIT Radio Arts & Entertainment graduate joins after five years at Mountain FM

For nine months of the year, CJRL was a 1,000-watt full-service AM station serving the 10,000 or so souls of Kenora and anyone within about a 50-kilometre radius.

IT WAS JULY 3rd … when “Hawaii Calls” began its 60 years of radio broadcasts from the Moana Hotel on the beach at Waikiki. At its peak it aired on 600 radio stations around the world… When the comic strip character, Blondie was first heard on CBS radio, starring Penny Singleton & Arthur Lake … When Pamela Martin announced her departure from BCTV to join Bill Good as co-anchor of CTV Vancouver’s 6 pm news… When the legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted their own network radio show on NBC… ..and when “The Andy Williams Show” debuted as a summer replacement series on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

After a nearly half-century career telling the stories of southern Alberta, CTV Lethbridge news director and senior reporter Terry Vogt will sign off this fall, when he is set to retire.

“revenge is a dish best-served cold?” Former Fox News show host, Ed Henry, delivered a frosty plate

From a family of Russian Jewish immigrants,[3] Carmen was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Lyndhurst, Ohio. He has been involved with music since early childhood. By the age of two, he was entertaining his parents with impressions of Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray. By age three, he was in the Dalcroze Eurhythmics program at the Cleveland Institute of Music

IT WAS JULY 1st .. when Prime Minister Mackenzie King dedicated Ottawa’s Peace Tower carillon in the first Trans-Canada radio network broadcast hookup over telephone and telegraph lines… When Hall of Fame sportscaster Jim Robson at age 17 (pictured) broke into radio at CJAV Port Alberni … When an apparently sanitized Elvis Presley appeared on NBC- TV’s ‘The Steve Allen Show’ in a tuxedo and sang ‘Hound Dog’, to a real live Hound Dog… When Vancouver’s country music station JR Country 93.7 signed on at 9:37 a.m…. …and when Toronto CTV flagship CFTO-TV transmitted the first colour television in Canada. ALL the milestones for July 1st INSIDE.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction on June 30, leading to his release from a Pennsylvania state prison just hours later.