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No weather person, no sports anchor, and only one parttime reporter appeared to be involved, but there was a decent smattering of local news and footage,

Many complainants expressed disappointment that the long-awaited arrival of smaller basic TV packages and different channel choices didn’t prove to be the deal they’d hoped for.

Handsome, square-jawed and athletically fit, the dark-haired O'Brian appeared in a string of movies and TV anthology series in the years before he became a star portraying the real-life Old West peace officer on “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” which ran on ABC from 1955 to 1961.

Would someone tell our politicians…at all levels …that Vancouver is FULL! Are they oblivious to the reality of HUGE prices for housing here and almost NO vacancy rate for rentals …. or how thousands of college students can’t find housing here for this Fall’s semester? So WHY bring more than a thousand NEW refugees here …on top of the 1,300 already being housed here in hotels ..at public expense????

IT WAS SEPT. 5th .. when the populat daytime drama ‘Life Can Be Beautiful’ began its 16 year run on NBC radio… When Frank Sinatra was instrumental in the reuniting of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin live on Jerry’s Labor Day telethon… When the US got its first network hour-long news show as the Public Broadcasting System’s “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” expanded to 60 minutes… ..and when “American Bandstand,” hosted by Dick Clark on ABC, was cancelled after 30 years on television. ALL the milestones for Sept. 5 INSIDE!

Kirk LaPointe now gets to sleep in, making way for Martin Strong in the mornings

Dave Cutler is a special guest on Wednesday October 12th (More details Inside)

IT WAS SEPT. 4th … when BC-born actor Raymond Burr starred in the last original episode of the CBS-TV courtroom drama, Perry Mason… When Jerry Butler & the Impressions made their national TV debut on ABC-TV’s “American Bandstand”… When the short-lived Carol Burnett-Richard Hayes Show, a 20-minute nightly variety package, debuted on CBS Radio… ..and when the last of 98 original episodes of “Gilligan’s Island” aired on CBS-TV. It would continue for decades in syndicated reruns. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!

John L. Daly hangs up his mic and lens from Global BC News

Toth was last at Corus Entertainment’s CJOB, but was laid off during their last restructuring in 2015. Before CJOB, he was with Shaw TV for about a decade.