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IT WAS JUNE 3rd …when Dragnet (with Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday) was first heard on radio (KFI in Los Angeles), a month before it went nationak on NBC… When the Hollywood Palace on ABC-TV hosted the first North American performance by The Rolling Stones… When the characters of Nancy & Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV’s ‘As the World Turns’, after an absence of 5 years… and when the final episode of the original ‘Star Trek’ series aired on NBC. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Another honour for the soon-to-be-retiring News Director of NL Broadcasting Ltd.

After 26 years with Newcap, Hilary (pictured) bids adieu

In the the weeks following his death, it was widely reported the 57-year-old has been abusing painkillers. It was also reported that Prince was scheduled to meet with an addiction specialist doctor on April 22.

Canada AM will deliver its final headlines and interviews when its last episode airs tomorrow, Friday, June 3 from 6 – 9 a.m. ET.

It didn’t matter if we lost a few points or slipped from second to fifth in the 12 plus numbers. We were the ones giving them effective ads, so high tide or low tide…they stayed by our side.

IT WAS JUNE 2nd … when TV broadcasting started in Canada as Radio Canada’s Channel 2 in Montreal began airing a test pattern… When the coronation of 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II was broadcast around the world… When Barbara Walters interviewed the legendary Katharine Hepburn on TV and asked what kind of tree she would be… ..and when the final episode of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” aired in syndication. ALL the milestones for June 2nd INSIDE.

Kash Heed of Pulse FM talks with these hockey guys.... The biggest broadcast buzz in social media circles these playoffs has centred on a group who gather at Vancouver’s CITY-TV studio to call the game in Punjabi for OMNI.

Thanks to Feliks Banel of Northwest Radio Voices for this feature of Burl Barer telling a story about Charlie Brown and Pat O'Day . . .