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Outsider music hero had been hospitalized with a kidney malfunction before his death of natural causes.

Apple TV Plus will be launching in Canada November 1st, at a cost of $5.99 a month. That's just a few days before Disney+ Nov. 12th, and $3 a week less expensive.

“We’re bringing back some names and voices from the past to celebrate the station,” said CFAX morning-show host Al Ferraby, who will take calls from listeners and host notable station alumni as guests, including former owner Mel Cooper and Hockey Night in Canada commentator Rick Ball.

IT WAS SEPT. 11th .. when the Miss America Pageant was televised coast-to-coast for the first time. Future TV star Lee Meriwether won the crown … When the last of Gillette’s Friday Night Fights was seen on free, home TV. Veteran Don Dunphy handled the blow-by-blow as he had on radio & TV for 23 years… When the Canadian newsmagazine “W-5” launched on CTV… When the Carol Burnett Show premiered on CBS, with the first of 278 episodes over the next 10-and-a-half years... and when the world's broadcasters reported the dreadful facts of one of the USA's darkest days. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!

Many massive, foreign, Internet-based media and content companies have unfettered access to our market, with more on the way. These international companies are fragmenting audiences, intensifying competition for programming, viewers, and advertising, while diverting revenues out of Canada.

Stingray Radio is proud to announce that Zach Bedford, Program Director of 90.3 AMP Radio in Calgary, is taking on an expanded national role in addition to his leadership of AMP Radio. 

"On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I wake up and I think that I'm the greatest thing ever. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, I think I suck."

“We’re not going to be afraid to talk about anything,” said morning host Bubba the Love Sponge Clem. “I think this is going to be some of the most polarizing radio that Orlando has had in a long time.”

IT WAS SEPT. 10th … when vaudeville star Jimmy Durante made his first radio appearance on Eddie Cantor’s “Chase and Sanborn Hour” on NBC… When Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King took to the radio to announce that Canada was now at war with Germany (WWII)…. When comedian/singer Eddie Cantor moved from radio to television, as he hosted the Colgate Comedy Hour on NBC TV… ..and when Seattle’s KING TV introduced the first local TV newscast west of Minneapolis and north of Los Angeles, anchored by Charles Herring (pictured). ALL the milestones for Sept. 10th INSIDE!

He gave life to characters Jerome the Giraffe and Rusty the Rooster on the beloved children's show