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PBS will use the channel to broadcast popular shows already on its stations, like “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” “Dinosaur Train” and “Wild Kratts.”

On February 24, 2001, Vancouver radio lost a legend. Rick Honey lost his battle with throat cancer at the age of 53. Although he’d been battling the illness for nearly two years, his passing was very sudden. Just a few days prior, he’d done his (unknown to even him) final morning show on Vancouver’s 600 AM, a gig he’d started the previous August. Although I’d met Rick on two occasions while he was broadcasting live from the PNE, I was not a frequent listener to his CKNW “Road Show”

Neil Morrison moved to the west coast after a 16 year stint in terrestrial radio in Toronto working at the legendary, ‘Spirit of Radio’ and then later becoming 102.1 The Edge

It was Feb 23rd when The Beatles made their third appearance in as many weeks on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show, When The Fifth Dimension guested on ABC-TV’s action series ‘It Takes a Thief.’ When the first Juno Awards were handed out, celebrating the best in Canadian music. (The first year they were ‘The Gold Leaf Awards.) And when 65 million Americans tuned in to NBC-TV for the Spielberg movie ‘Schindler’s List’ with minimal commercials. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The problem appears to be with the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation, or CASL.

Here is another example…the first client to use a “Deal or No Deal” parody ad got noticed for being on the edge of a new trend. The 20th client to use a “Deal or No Deal” parody ad looked lame and tired

One of the oldest three-letter call signs in the US, radio station WOR went on the air from studios in Newark N.J. The first presidential address on radio from the White House was delivered by Calvin Coolidge. Vancouver’s CKLG AM 730 dropped its experiment in talk radio and returned to contemporary hit music. And Sportscaster Al Michaels was at the mike as the USA scored its ‘Miracle on Ice,’ upsetting the USSR, enroute to Olympic hockey Gold. Bernie Pascall called the game live to Canada. ALL the milestones for Feb. 22nd INSIDE.

With more than 175 channels, SiriusXM has much more variety than typical AM/FM radio but a small fraction of the ads.

The fiirst TV soap opera ‘A Woman to Remember’ debuted on the shortlived Dumont network. the 200th episode of “Perry Mason” (starring New Westminster’s Raymond Burr) aired on CBS TV. Neil Diamond’s first TV special aired on NBC-TV. And David Letterman (pictured) returned to his CBS Late Show some five weeks after having emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery, ALL the milestones for Feb. 21st INSIDE.