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Streaming means we can tune into breakfast shows, travel bulletins and local gossip on every continent – and revel in radio’s ability to create a sense of community.

In our first edition of the series, Mark Connolly and Tara McCarthy kicked the sputtering engine of their imaginary camper van into gear and headed for Jasper National Park.

Airing commercial-free across all markets and platforms on Sunday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. ,artists, activists, actors and athletes will share their stories of hope and inspiration in a national salute to front-line workers combatting COVID-19 during the 90-minute show.

Here is my latest video on the uncovering of millions of $$ sent to the Wuhan lab under the control of Dr. Fauci and in Canada,

IT WAS APRIL 24th .. when Jack Webb introduced his short-lived pre-Dragnet detective-adventure radio show ‘Johnny Madero: Pier 23’ on Mutual, with Gale Gordon and William Conrad in the cast … When Dick Powell (pictured) appeared for the first time as ‘Richard Diamond, Private Detective’ on NBC radio… When ‘X-Minus One’, a quality show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC radio, offering some of the best drama of the era… and when ‘Your Hit Parade’ ended after a nine-year run on NBC TV and many more years on network radio. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Fans swarmed CBC’s comment sections on its news site, bombarding unrelated news stories with pleas to revive Anne with an E. The group even infiltrated Netflix’s quarterly earnings call on YouTube, spamming the comments section.

For radio listeners in Windsor and Detroit of a certain vintage, DJs Robin Seymour and Johnny Williams likely played big roles in the forming of their youth.

IT WAS APRIL 23rd .. when Lucille Ball made the first of her 34 appearances on the cover of TV Guide … When Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, and Vicki Carr, with comedian Bob Newhart were Glen Campbell’s guests on his weekly CBS-TV variety show… When NBC-TV aired the pilot of ‘Baywatch,’ the show that introduced the world to Ladysmith BC’s Pamela Anderson … and when Toronto-born conductor/composer Robert Farnon (pictured), who got his start in the 1930’s playing trumpet on CBC Radio’s “Happy Gang,” died in England at age 87. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Knight collected two Emmys in 1995, one for playing Peggy Buckley, the real-life owner of a daycare center who's tried for child molestation, in the telefilm The McMartin Trial, the other for a guest stint on NYPD Blue. She picked up a third Emmy in 1988 for playing the mother of Mel Harris on Thirtysomething and was nominated eight times during her career.