CKNW Soon Promoting Its Availabilty on HD Radio
The Recent News page at the Northwest Broadcasters site alerts us to the fact that, starting Monday, CKNW will be promoting itself on-air as...
Pattison fills Senior Management position with Bill Stovold
Bill Stovold has accepted an excellent opportunity to lead our Group’s Engineering Division as our new Director of Information Technology & Engineering
BROADCAST DIALOGUE’s Take on the Latest Bell Media Slash & Burn
Broadcast Dialogue details the names, big and small, who were dismissed this week at Bell operations from Ottawa and Quebec to Vancouver Island.
CTV Loses Robert Fife to Globe & Mail
Laurie Graham has been appointed Acting Ottawa Bureau Chief for CTV News, effective January 1, as current Bureau Chief Robert Fife assumes a new role at the Globe and Mail. Fife remains at CTV as host of Question Period.
THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Nov. 19th
Happy Birthday to Larry King, Dick Cavett, Ted Turner, Alan Young, Allison Janney, Meg Ryan and Jodie Foster.
On this date the first mass market transistor pocket radio was introduced; the cartoon series ‘Rocky & his Friends’ debuted on ABC-TV; Linda Ronstadt appeared as herself on FOX-TV’s ‘The Simpsons’; a six-hour Beatles Anthology began airing on North American radio; NBC aired the 100th episode of their hit drama ‘ER’; Vancouvers X-FM 104.9 switched to All Christmas music, and a year later Victoria’s CHBE107.3 did the same.
Ending their stay with us Nov. 19th were US sportscaster Bill Stern, songwriter Bobby Russell, producer Terry Melcher, Dick Wilson of Charmin toilet tissue ad fame, and Toronto-based classical actor John Neville.
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.
Several High Profile CTV Ontario Anchors Sent Packing
It is unclear how many jobs in total were cut in Tuesday’s layoffs, which focused on the studios in Agincourt, Ont., where TSN and CTV News are based.
19 Cut at Bell Stations in Winnipeg
At CTV Winnipeg, no on-air staff were cut, but the TV station lost its operations manager, promotions manager and payroll manager, as well as a camera operator, editor, floor editor, feed and play operator, web producer, traffic manager and receptionist.
Dallas Gray is Out at Newcap Okanagan
Before Newcaps purchase of K96-3, Gray (Pictured) was instrumental in the launch of the Classic Rock station in Kelowna
WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. Nov. 18th
It’s the date that brought us Linda Evans, Elizabeth Perkins, Owen Wilson, Imogene Coca, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Collins, and Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly.
Edward R. Murrow’s acclaimed documentary series ‘See It Now’ debuted on CBS-TV; ‘As It Happens’ started it’s nearly 50 year run on CBC Radio; the first CanCon rules for TV were announced; CKNW Radio boosted its power to 5,000 watts at 1320 KHz; ABC-TV aired Britney Spears’ first TV concert; and Fats Domino sang ‘Blueberry Hill’ on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show.
Nov. 18th claimed the lives of bandleaders Ted Heath and Cab Calloway, singers Dorothy Kirsten and Hal Dickenson (The Modernaires), composer Cy Coleman and actor Harold J. Stone.
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.
TSN’s Off the Record cancelled amid Bell job cuts
Off the Record, a popular daily half-hour talk show, will soon end its run on TSN after 18 years. Officially, OTR is “evolving,” with host Michael Landsberg staying on to produce shorter segments to be aired during the network’s nightly highlights show SportsCentre and online starting in the new year.
