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IT WAS MAY 22nd … when Jack Benny signed off his last live network radio broadcast after a run of 23 years… When the Seattle-based Brothers Four sang “Greenfields” on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show. And Canada’s Wayne & Schuster did a skit from the Old West called “Frontier Psychiatrist” … When New Westminster-born actor Raymond Burr (pictured) starred in the title role as the last original Perry Mason episode titled ‘The Case Of The Final Fade-Out’ began filming…. ..and when ABC-TV’s ‘Hart to Hart’, and the NBC-TV sitcom ‘3rd Rock from the Sun’ , as well as ‘The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,’ aired their finales. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

It's a BCAB-Tini celebration from the third and last day of the 70th Annual BCAB Convention held this year in Osoyoos. Puget Sound Radio thanks our long time radio buddy Fraser McAlpine for his coverage. Just a note, some video coverage will be published on PSR next week...

IT WAS MAY 21st … when Kamloops B.C. got its first FM station as CFFM 98.3 signed on … When CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show aired from Montreal’s Expo 67, and featured Petula Clark and The Seekers, with comedian Alan King… When after a 5 year run, the final episode of ‘Miami Vice’ aired on NBC-TV… .. and when after 8 seasons the finale of the sitcom ‘Newhart’ was seen on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

I found myself on a CTV panel with my old friend Craig Oliver last week and he unctuously said “We have to stop this guy” (Trump). Why and how, I asked; no (coherent) answer came

The former ship-based pirate station, Radio Caroline, has been handed its first full-time AM broadcast licence

A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump.

IT WAS MAY 20th … when the Canadian Marconi Company station X-W-A, later CFCF, in Montreal aired a musical concert, the first scheduled radio broadcast in North America, and possibly the world… When CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show featured Peggy Lee, The Brothers Four (from Seattle), and retired baseball great Jackie Robinson …. When the 25th Emmy Awards gave top honors to The Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore… ..and when the final episodes of ‘Barney Miller’ and “Roseanne” aired on ABC-TV… and the “Cheers” finale was seen on NBC. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Beckel was axed for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee.

IT WAS MAY 19th ….when the 20th Annual Emmy Awards gave top honours to Get Smart, Mission Impossible & best actress Barbara Bain … When NBC-TV celebrated the 50th anniversary of Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater with the 2-hour special “Motown Returns To The Apollo”… When the final episode of LA Law aired on NBC, after a wildly successful 8 year run… ..and when the final episode of Angela Lansbury’s “Murder, She Wrote” aired on CBS, after 12 seasons. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Throughout the 12-minute long segment, Smith teared up several times, at one point having to stop to reach for tissues to wipe his tears.