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“In The Spotlight’s mission is to really get to know the people in Winnipeg’s arts community, while promoting the lively local cultural scene,” the station said in a release

IT WAS AUGUST 5th .. when KDKA Pittsburgh aired the first-ever baseball play by play, with pioneering announcer Harold Arlin at the mike … When the daily radio drama “Backstage Wife” first aired on a network (Mutual), after proving popular for a few months on Chicago’s WGN. It moved to NBC a year later, and to CBS two decades later!… When after becoming a huge TV hit in Philadelphia, Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand” made its debut on ABC… .. and when Prince George (BC) got its second private radio station as CJCI 620 signed on the air. “C.I.” stood for Central Interior… ALL the milestones for Aug. 5th INSIDE!

Job Openings Happening in Kelowna with Castanet FM Radio...

IT WAS AUG. 4th … when the first tennis match on radio was aired on Pittsburgh’s KDKA, the first US commercial station… When the CBC carried out Canada’s first television transmission from a helicopter… When the Everly Bros. sang 'Wake Up Little Susie' on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show ... When the Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to rescind the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’… ..and when Duncan BC’s radio station CKAY 1500 became CJSU (SUN FM) 89.7. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The cartooning weatherman who sketched humor into his hand-drawn forecasts on KING 5 in the 1960’s, died on Saturday morning in Seattle. He was 91.

It appears Kirk is leaving his evening show at Roundhouse on his own terms.

Bell is renewing its call on the CRTC to reverse the decision that forces broadcasters to let Canadian viewers watch U.S. Super Bowl ads. They claim the change cost them $11Mill. in ad revenue.this year.

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

After 30 years of admirable service, it is with mixed emotions we announce that Global Regina Station Manager and Saskatchewan General Sales Manager, Mitch Bozak is retiring

The solution is to decrease the number of breaks to four per quarter, down from the previous 5-6-5-5 pattern.