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Following nationwide protests against racism, the people behind the animated shows "The Simpsons," "Family Guy," "Big Mouth" and "Central Park" are rethinking which actors should be able to voice a non-white role.

Since mid-March, the Star Trek actor has been sharing daily Captain's Log updates which ran the gamut from his days at home to projects on which he and fellow actors were involved. Shatner has a sizable audience with more than 2.5 million followers on Twitter alone.

https://youtu.be/Z22HO1v2fsM His Deal 5-13-2020 Zoom meeting featuring special guest Pat O'Day Part Two George Towes interviews Radio Man Pat O'Day https://youtu.be/YJU7KQ_77yU    

JUNE 27th is the birthdate of Captain Kangaroo and Khloe Kardashian, and also gave birth to an ABC-TV soap called “Loving.” Red Robinson held his first rock concert at the Kerrisdale Arena starring Bill Haley, Elvis began taping his first TV special, and Billy J. Kramer guested on the Ed Sullivan Show. Jim Pattison got the okay to buy six Van. Island radio stations. Hugh Grant was arrested for ‘lewd behaviour’ with an L.A. prostitute, and John Lennon was finally granted his Green Card. Gale Storm and Don Grady and Canadian teen idol Terry Black breathed their last, as did the TV shows Miami Vice, The Flip Wilson Show (pictured), and the NBC Matinee Theatre. Details of these and dozens more milestones for June 27th INSIDE.

Adrian Harewood is one of the few on-air journalists to have been consistently outspoken about the public broadcaster’s deep-rooted deficiencies with regard to race and representation, well prior to this month.

Unilever PLC said on Friday it will stop advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the United States for the rest of the year, citing "divisiveness and hate speech during this polarized election period in the U.S."

Stimulus grants range from a minimum of $1,000 up to a maximum of $100,000 in radio advertising per business. The recipient business has twelve months to utilize the radio advertising towards booking and airing a radio advertising campaign and is not required to invest additional sums with Stingray radio stations.

IT WAS JUNE 26th … when Ted Rogers Sr. invented the alternating-current tube which facilitated plug-in batteryless radios. Until then, all radios had been battery operated… When comedian Fred Allen ended his 17-year run as host of his own radio show. Allen was (unsuccessfully) attempting a transition to TV… When Canadian folksinger/songwriter Joni Mitchell guested on ABC’s Mama Cass TV special from Los Angeles… ..and when CKNW ‘s Bill Hughes (pictured, right) qualified for the Guiness Book of World Records as he broadcast the 12,000th edition of “Roving Mike.” ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Multiple news outlets reported that the decision followed discussions around the appropriateness and historical associations with the word “Dixie.”