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The report also finds that listeners switch for a variety of reasons — not just in reaction to commercial breaks, but also an ongoing quest for a better song.

StreamOn’s live streaming capabilities include its easy-to-use Streaming Transmitter, which has recently been redesigned in collaboration with Futuri’s engineering team

Another year of Crystal awards for radio creative will be handed out May 4th at Canadian Music Week. So it seems appropriate to take a closer look at the criteria the judges use to make their selections.

He starred in the Burns Chuckwagon Show on CBC Vancouver 1954-55, and worked under the name Iron Buffalo as the all-night deejay on CKVN/CFUN Vancouver 1971-73.

IT WAS APRIL 7th ... when the first national rock and roll series, Alan Freed's 'Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party', made its debut on the CBS Radio network... When San Francisco deejay Tom Donahue (pictured) turned KMPX-FM into what is considered to be America's first alternative "free-form" radio station, playing non-commercial music by album-oriented bands... When Rickie Lee Jones was the musical guest on NBC's Saturday Night Live, performing her soon-to-be smash hit "Chuck E's In Love"... and when the 100th episode of "Married With Children" aired on Fox TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Haggard had been battling pneumonia, and was hospitalized earlier this year.

IT WAS APRIL 6th .. when the comic strip 'Little Orphan Annie' came to life for the first time on NBC radio ... When 'This is Your FBI' debuted as a weekly 30-minute drama on ABC radio .. When Swanson & sons introduced their frozen 'TV Dinner'... When Bob Hope (pictured) hosted the 31st Annual Academy Awards that named 'Gigi' best picture... and when singers Peggy Lee & Tony Bennett, and comics Rodney Dangerfield & Joan Rivers headlined the Easter Sunday edition of CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show. ALL the milestones for the date, including Rudy Hartman's 99th birthday ... INSIDE.

IT WAS APRIL 5th … when less than five months after the first NBC network broadcast from New York, the Pacific Coast-based NBC ‘Orange’ network aired its first programmming from temporary studios in San Francisco…. When 19-year old Barbra Streisand (pictured) made her first network television appearance on NBC’s late night “Jack Paar Show” with guest host Orson Bean… When the final episode of the original ‘Hawaii Five-0’ aired on CBS-TV… and when the FOX Broadcasting Company debuted coast-to-coast in the US with two Sunday night comedy shows, Married..With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Ronn Owens to remain at KGO.... much more inside