Industry News

He was one of the best 'disc jockeys' Vancouver has produced, in the 96 years radio has been a factor in the area.

IT WAS AUG. 3rd … when 36-year-old announcer Frank Blair (pictured) became news anchor of the NBC-TV Today Show, a job he would keep for the next 22 years!… When CBS-TV war correspondent Morley Safer sent out a Vietnam report showing American troops using their Zippo lighters to set fire to thatched huts in a Vietnamese village … When ‘Tonight Show’ host Johnny Carson graced the cover of the Burbank telephone directory… ..and when the ABC-TV news magazine Primetime Live debuted, with Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer headlining. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE

It was a weak month for Rachel Maddow. The MSNBC host, who leads the network’s primetime slate, fell to fifth place in the July ratings, behind four Fox News programs that dominated the monthly numbers in total viewers.

As of August 1st Ted has been appointed News Director of AM 1150 and as of August 6th, he takes over as the newscaster on the AM 1150 Early Edition with Phil Johnson.

The Trudeau Liberals are trying to buy the media ahead of the upcoming federal election

Look at those hours on the air at CKWX! You must realize that in the Fifties this represented a lot of air time

IT WAS AUG. 2nd .. when the TV station now known as KCPQ (FOX 13) in Tacoma-Seattle, began broadcasting as KMO-TV Tacoma… When Canadian-born CBS correspondent Morley Safer (pictured) sent the first TV report from Vietnam indicating the US was losing the war… When CHUM-owned TV stations in Victoria, London, Barrie, Wingham, Windsor and Ottawa became A-Channels… …and when radio station WHTZ-FM, Newark, New Jersey (serving New York City and environs) – signed on as “Z100” with Scott Shannon and the “Morning Zoo”. It went from “worst to first” in just a few months. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

AJ Calloway is leaving the syndicated entertainment news show Extra after six women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct and rape.

The 30-year Global anchor started his career over 43 years ago when he got a job as a part-time DJ at a radio station on Prince Edward Island in 1976. Webber moved to BC in 1978 and, in 1990, arrived in his beloved Okanagan.