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Our operations have been 100 per cent funded by the local and regional businesses that have been buying access to our audience for 50 years. That model is terrifically challenged, with nearly 50 per cent of all advertising now going to the duopoly of Facebook and Google.

A number of Seattle broadcasters past and present made moves this week, not all of them positive. And Bell hired four female streaming anchors.

Producer behind Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull staged numerous tribute albums and was pivotal in the career of Jeff Buckley.

IT WAS APRIL 8th … when the original radio voice of ‘The Lone Ranger,’ Ontario-born Earl Graser, was killed in an auto accident at age 32 … When country singer Jimmy Dean began a morning show on CBS in what would be a futile effort to defeat NBC’s Today Show … When UK singer Petula Clark starred in her own NBC-TV prime time special, with guest Harry Belafonte (pictured) … and when the last original episode of ‘All in the Family’ aired on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

In its 11 seasons, Modern Family became the last broadcast sitcom to rack up both huge ratings and top awards, winning the outstanding comedy series Emmy for five consecutive years.

Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories of everyday working people and changed the face of modern American roots music, died Tuesday at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

It’s clear that with hot spots in such Major League cities as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston, baseball or commerce in general is not going to happen in those places any time soon.

The two-hour special April 18th will celebrate community health care workers and support the WHO's global fight to end COVID-19. Lady Gaga will curate the specia

According to one insider, the co-CEO's of the parent company have pushed the editorial staffs at its publications to not run stories, to spike unfavorable stories about friends and to overpromote Valence-owned businesses like Dick Clark Productions

IT WAS APRIL 7th … when the first national rock and roll series, Alan Freed’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party’, made its debut on the CBS Radio network… When San Francisco deejay Tom Donahue turned KMPX-FM into what is considered to be America’s first alternative “free-form” radio station, playing non-commercial music by album-oriented bands… When Rickie Lee Jones was the musical guest on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, performing her soon-to-be smash hit “Chuck E’s In Love”… and when the 100th episode of “Married With Children” aired on Fox TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.