Industry News

The breakout of leaders in all the demographic subgroups for Vancouver, Edmonton & Calgary.

It was a March 7th when radio station KARI 550 signed on the air from Blaine, Washington with a Christian-spoken word format… ..when the “Beatles” made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio in England. ..when ”Peter Pan”, with Mary Martin and Cyril Richard, was presented as a live TV special on NBC’s Producer’s Showcase. ..when Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin co-hosted the 82nd Academy Awards telecast .. ..and when Vancouver’s CKWX 1130 dropped its adult contemporary music and became a country music station. Specifics, and ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

News/Talk CHQR is back in its familiar #1 spot, after one 12+ book where Country 105 took top honours. But Oldies XL 103 made the biggest gain, jumping into the #2 spot.

A great book for QM/FM which jumped to the top.

"I'm going to fight this, and I'm going to keep working," the longtime Canadian-born host says in a video message.

Sportsnet turned to an in-house successor to fill the vacancy created by Scott Moore’s departure by promoting Bart Yabsley to network president. Yabsley most recently served as senior vice-president of sports and entertainment partnerships and content distribution.

On the air, Gene 'Bean' Baxter noted that he is a British citizen, having been born there, and visits England quite often given he has friends and family there.

Please take the opportunity to shine a spotlight on one of your rising stars, as CMW and “Friends of Steve Young” once again salute Steve with the “Allan Waters Young Broadcaster of the Year Award in Honour of Steve Young”. 

The R&B singer — who is facing 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving three minors — broke his silence in an explosive interview where he denied the claims on 'CBS This Morning.' "I'm not a devil and by no means am I a monster," he says.

It was March 6th when the first US telecast from an airplane was aired from the skies over New York City… when NBC-TV aired the musical special “An Evening With Diana Ross” (pictured) …. when the 100th episode of “The Six Million Dollar Man” aired on ABC-TV… and when Walter Cronkite signed off the CBS Evening News for the final time, to be replaced by Dan Rather. Specifics, and many more March 6th milestones INSIDE.