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Movin'92.5 continues to dominate, followed by talkers KUOW and KIRO-FM, and Classic Rock KZOK.

it's the people's media network, supposedly serving Canadians from coast to coast to coast, yet are they really serving us, or helping to divide the country?

"You cant just take her away when her life was about to begin.”

Her last chart-topping album was 2002's A New Day Has Come.

It’s the date that brought us Rich Little, Robert Goulet, Ernie Coombs, Tina Turner, Charles Schulz (‘Peanuts’ cartoonist), and Eric Sevareid of CBS News. The CRTC introduced ‘simultaneous substitution’ of US programming to Canadian cable systems; NBC premiered a 30-minute ‘Price is Right’ game show hosted by Bill Cullen; the CBC televised the Grey Cup Game for the first time; Elton John (pictured) guested on FOX-TV’s ‘Ally McBeal’; and ABC telecast the TV special ‘Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York.’ Details and ALL the Nov. 26th milestones INSIDE.

"Despite blaming all of its problems on Mr. Moonves and claiming that it has taken steps to improve race and gender issues at the Company, today's CBS 'leaders,' those making the key decisions on such issues, are all white males, whose decisions belie CBS' self-serving rhetoric."

Happy Birthday to John Laroquette, Jill Hennessy, Christina Applegate, Amy Grant, and Bing Crosby’s widow Kathryn. Texas radio station WTAW aired the first football play-by-play; four decades later, CBS telecast the first NFL game in color; and decades later, CBC-TV aired the Grey Cup game for the last time. Also on this date Seattle got its first TV station, in fact the first station north of San Francisco; CBS cancelled the last 5 daytime serials on radio; Michael J. Fox revealed he had Parkinson’s disease and would be leaving ‘Spin City’; and CBS televised the TV special ‘Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing.’ Obits for Nov. 25th include Canadian TV chef Madame Benoit, comedian Flip Wilson, actor Jack Albertson (pictured), dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson, and onetime CKNW staff singer Alberta Slim. Details and ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Four staff changes of note at Vancouver and Victoria broadcasters.

Happy Birthday to Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks, Sarah Hyland, Billy Connolly, Pete Best, and the late Howard Duff. It was the day JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald himself was shot dead by Jack Ruby; radio station KVI started serving Tacoma with 50 watts at 1280 KHz; CBC Vancouver opened its new radio-TV headquarters on Hamilton Street; the private eye show ‘Simon & Simon’ debuted on CBS-TV; Dusty Springfield and The Muppetts were featured on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show; and Frank Sinatra ended 2 years in retirement with the NBC-TV special ‘Old Blue Eyes is Back’. The music world lost Freddie Mercury, Big Joe Turner, and Kiss drummer Eric Carr, and actors Richard Carlson and Pat Morita also passed. Details and ALL the Nov. 24 milestones INSIDE.

Early in 2020, country-music legend Hank Williams will be the subject of a six-CD collection which gathers a series of 144 performances from radio shows he hosted nearly 70 years ago.