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150 of Nat singles reached the charts of pop, R & B and country. He started out as a trio of jazz artists and eventually a vocalist. Send For Me was one of the hits in 1957 for Nat. Sadly he passed on at age 45. ...

IT WAS JULY 25th … when the Canadian Marconi Company made the first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast from Signal Hill, Newfoundland, to the S-S “Victoria” 1200 miles away… When 2XAG in Schenectady, NY (later known as WGY) became the first radio station in the U.S. to broadcast with a 50,000-watt transmitter…. When in pre-WWII New York City TV station W2XBS presented television’s first musical comedy. The show was Topsy and Eva …. ..and when NBC-TV’s “Midnight Special” featured songs by Neil Sedaka, Janis Ian, Jessi Colter, and Kraftwerk. Hostess for the week was Helen Reddy (pictured). ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

More recently, Hauer was featured on TV in story arcs in HBO's True Blood, and Syfy's Channel Zero, which is filmed in Manitoba.

Harry McWatters, founder of Sumac Ridge Estate, SYL Ranch, Time Estate, Time Winery and Evolve Cellars died in his sleep on July 23rd, 2019.

It's not clear if he jumped or was pushed, but Calvin worked his last CHEK newscast as an anchor last Sunday.

Details of her extensive radio/TV resume can be found inside. She succumbed to cancer July 20 at age 66.

The keyboardist and singer behind the Meters and the Neville Brothers was hailed as an icon by Louisiana governor John Edwards

For more than a year Neal has been host of the station's morning news which was available only on-line.

While The National averaged 401,000 viewers, CTV National News had more than double that number, with 993,000 tuning in.

IT WAS JULY 24th .. when U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (pictured) stopped in the middle of his 4th ‘Fireside Chat’ on national radio and asked for a glass of water, which he then sipped… When the melodramatic serial “Romance of Helen Trent” debuted on US midwest regional radio before becoming a CBS network staple three months later, and running daily for the next 27 years!… When NBC correspondent Edwin Newman became news anchor of the TV network’s ‘Today Show’…. ..and when the independent sales of three BC radio stations.. CJAT Trail. CJAV Port Alberni, and CKAY Duncan .. were approved by the CRTC. ALL the milestones for July 24th INSIDE.