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Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie are currently co-anchoring NBC's morning show with miles between them as the world grapples with a global pandemic and a fight for racial equality.

IT WAS JUNE 13th … when the Rolling Stones made an appearance on ABC-TV’s “Hollywood Palace,” during their first tour of North America …. When John Lennon made his last TV appearance on an ABC-TV salute to UK entertainment mogul Sir Lew Grade that had been taped in April…. When NBC’ late night TV host Tom Snyder interviewed serial killer Charles Manson on what has since become the most famous edition of his “Tomorrow” Show… ..and when Garrison Keilor (pictured), host and storyteller on the award-winning US public radio series, A Prairie Home Companion, left the show and its delightful shores of Lake Wobegon for Denmark where he intended to spend his time writing (he returned to the U.S… and the program … two years later). ALL the milestones for June 13th INSIDE.

The episode features a character, the elderly Major Gowen, using highly-offensive and racist language about the West Indies cricket team. The BBC removed this element from repeat transmissions in 2013, but UKTV was airing the unedited version.

It appears the Canadian establishment press is desperate to generate further division among the Canadian People in the pursuit of further attention and profit.

It is back on the Canadian airwaves, presumably on most of the stations that replaced it early in the pandemic with a show out of Toronto.

Mulroney – whose reality bridal show I Do, Redo has now been dropped from the network – has since apologised for her behaviour, which influencer Sasha Exeter says had left her "paralysed in fear".

A California pop band. In the ’60’s they had a number of hits, including Cherish in 1966

IT WAS JUNE 12th … when pioneer Toronto radio station CFCA had its Grand Opening. Foster Hewitt broadcast his first hockey game on CFCA eight months later…. When Pittsburgh’s KDKA became the first 50,000 watt radio station… When the Sunday night TV extravaganza that would be must-see family viewing for the next twenty years, “Toast of the Town,” (later the Ed Sullivan Show), made its debut on CBS… ..and when the early TV comedy hit “Mr Peepers” starring Wally Cox with Tony Randall, aired for the last time on NBC. ALL the milestones for June 12th INSIDE.

Hollywood Cinemas 3 in suburban Vancouver will relaunch with screenings of Trolls World Tour and the 1982 classic E.T. The Extra-Terrestial, and a maximum of 50 seats sold per auditorium.

In the last 48 hours five companies – T-Mobile, SmileDirectClub, Disney, Papa John’s and the office furniture company Vari – have said they will pull advertising on Tucker Carlson Tonight.