Industry News

Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger did a really bad job as Governor of California and even worse on the Apprentice…but at least he tried hard! — Donald J. Trump

The collapse of Big Radio. Radio is a local medium and is most efficiently managed locally. Large players may reap efficiencies of scale but are very difficult to manage. Cases in point: IHeart and Cumulus, the two largest, are struggling under debt and are on the verge of collapse. They will be broken up, their stations sold off to small, locally managed radio operators.

The third of WXYZ Detroit’s kids radio melodramas ‘Challenge of the Yukon’ debuted… for a Michigan audience only. The comedy team of Abbott and Costello (pictured) joined the cast of CBS radio’s ‘Kate Smith Hour.’ The mischievous chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs became a regular on NBC-TV’s ‘Today Show.’ And Vancouver radio station C-ISL got the okay to move down the AM dial from 940 to 650 KHz and increase power to 10,000 watts. ALL the milestones for Feb. 3rd INSIDE.

Allan Holender, a forty year radio veteran, is about to launch a new online radio network for Boomers and Beyond from his home studio in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia

He was hard to get to know initially as a person, but when you did you found out how enthusiastic he was, how very deep as a person he was and, frankly, that’s what carried over to radio…all of these life experiences he put together made for an incredible radio mind that went with it.

The veteran television personality Dave Gerry discusses his retirement from reporting at CTV Vancouver, many years elsewhere, storytelling, and more, with Joseph Planta.

The parlour game ‘Twenty Questions’ began its 8-year run on the Mutual radio network. Radio station CKLG signed on at 1070 KHz licensed to serve Vancouver’s North Shore. ‘What’s My Line’ (pictured) began a 17 year run Sunday nights on CBS-TV. NBC-TV debuted the 90-minute musical ‘Midnight Special,’ which would run for almost nine years in the late Friday 1 am slot following Johnny Carson. And Britney Spears was both the host and performing musical guest on NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live.’ ALL the milestones for Feb, 2nd INSIDE.

with his gig with McBrides The Point in Port Moody coming to a close before Christmas, its great to see Dave is back on course....

Bell Media lets another go...

PSR received word, former NW Sportcaster Jim Mullin, who's been with Shaw Media up until now, has joined the TSN Radio Network