Industry News

/SEATTLE APD/MD/afternooner JON MANLEY has exited after five years at THE END 107.7.

IT WAS APRIL 29th …. when Toronto radio station CFRB aired its first program from the Columbia Broadcasting System in the US …. When the enduring nighttime soap “One Man’s Family” debuted as a weekly 30-minute radio series in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle … When the 15-minute daytime drama “Young Dr. Malone” began its 21-year run on CBS radio … When Canada's Fletcher Markle debuted his drama anthology Studio One on CBS radio .. and when ‘Wide World of Sports’ began its remarkable 37-year long Saturday afternoon run on ABC-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Word received from Edmonton about the move of Karl Douglas to CIUP  doing mid-days...

“The results show that programming decisions have a direct impact on the success of songs, and that women are not afforded the same opportunities as their male colleagues.”

For 40 years C-SPAN has aired live footage of Congress—“your unfiltered view of government.” For the past 30 years, Mr. Lamb has hosted a Sunday night program, interviewing everyone from Richard Nixon to the leftist historian Howard Zinn. Mr. Lamb says he hasn’t missed a week since 1989.

Quebecor called the court filing a “maneuver to evade the substantive issue” in the ongoing dispute over TVA’s specialty channels.

IT WAS APRIL 28th … when Bill Drake installed ‘Boss Radio’ as the soon-to-be-dominant Top 40 format on KHJ AM 930 in Los Angeles … When Mike Wallace first became a Sunday evening TV star as host of the syndicated ‘Mike Wallace Interview’ across the US… When Arthur Godfrey concluded a decade of TV stardom as his weekday show returned to CBS radio only status… and when sportscaster Ted Reynolds (pictured) passed away after decades of playbyplay (& Olympics) broadcasting first at CFJC & CJVI and then with the CBC in Vancouver. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Dave Warawa just reviewed a book on Canadian Media, by Richard Stursberg, who believes the industry is in Serious Financial Jeopardy... 

Derek is about as fluent in football analytics as anyone in this country — he made a cottage industry out of it with his ‘Details’ segment on TSN — but he also brings a true joy and excitement for the CFL game.

Stewart worked behind the counter from the mid-‘70s at Rhino Records’ store on Westwood Boulevard, a music hub not unlike the one depicted in the book and film “High Fidelity.” He was an archetypal “record store guy” who loved little more than “turning people on” to music or films that he thought they would love.