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A recording of a tense meeting last fall in the Vancouver Sun and Province newsroom offers a chance to eavesdrop on the kind of difficult conversations about bigotry and representation happening inside many workplaces across North America.

Nick Cannon watched enough of George Floyd’s “public lynching,” as he called it, and spoke about it on that Friday’s show. But behind the scenes, he was plotting. “I wanted to be on the front lines, ground zero, in Minneapolis,” so he boarded a plane.

Rosemarys career spans 1946 to 2001. A pop singer and actress, also had success as a jazz singer. In 1952 she had the hit Come On-A My House.

IT WAS JUNE 19th … when Gillette became the first-ever network TV sponsor on NBC-TV’s coverage of the Billy Conn-Joe Lewis heavyweight boxing match,… When the Goodson-Todman game show ‘I’ve Got a Secret’ with Garry Moore as host (pictured), debuted on CBS-TV… When at the height of the folk music boom, the Kingston Trio debuted their own weekday show on CBS Radio… and when Roberta Flack hosted her ABC-TV musical special, “Roberta Flack… The First Time Ever,” with The Blossoms and Seals & Crofts as guests. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Q Country and Star FM looking for a SM

Thirty years ago she was with NBC News, working as foreign correspondent (1990-92) and then Today Show news anchor (1992-93. But now at age 62, Margaret and her husband are moving to North Carolina to be closer to their son Kyle.

Since this year's COUNTRY RADIO SEMINAR it has been common to see three and even four female acts in the top 10.

The singer became a symbol of hope in Britain during the Second World War and again during the coronavirus pandemic with her song “We’ll Meet Again.”

IT WAS JUNE 18th .. when ‘The Adventures of Ellery Queen’ debuted on CBS radio in a 60-minute format for the first six months … When the adult western ‘Gunsmoke” wrapped its 9-year run on CBS radio… When the luminescent Nanette Fabray (pictured) made her final appearance as co-star of NBC-TV’s ‘Caesar’s Hour’… When Vancouver’s CKNW AM 980 launched the Western Information Network .. .. and when Dan Rather’s final report for CBS aired on the network’s feature weekend news magazine ‘Sunday Morning.’ ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Legendary deejay Red Robinson took to Facebook to note the demolishing of one of his early broadcasting bases.