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Some 2½ weeks into the job, Rob Fai knew he made a mistake leaving the Vancouver Canadians to join UBC’s athletic department as senior manager of communications.

Happy Birthday to Billy Graham, Joni Mitchell, Buck Martinez and New Zealand’s talented Lorde. Also born Nov. 7th were the late musicians Al Hirt, Joe Bushkin, Red Ingle and Phil Spitalny. Vancouver’s CKLG began airing a syndicated ‘History of Rock & Roll’ which won them a ratings book; radio’s first sci-fi show ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’ debuted on CBS; the weekly medical melodrama ‘Dr. Christian’ began its 17-year run on CBS radio; the Righteous Brothers, Peggy Lee, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass were performing guests on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show; NBC-TV began the first airing of ‘Gone With the Wind’ over two nights; and Studio One began its decade-long run featuring anthology drama weekly on CBS-TV. Leaving us this date were Steve McQueen, Maverick’s Jack Kelly, Northern Exposure’s Peg Phillips, and Clyde Gilmour of the CBC’s Gilmour’s Albums. Details and ALL the milestones for Nov. 7th are found INSIDE.

  This past week the CRTC denied applications from Golden West and Clear Sky for a new station in Sylvan Lake. Although the Commision came to...

Nothing bothers me more nowadays watching radio station promo booths 'shoved to the corners' at key events and being manned by street team people who are too busy playing Angry Birds or Words with Friends instead of actually chatting with listeners about the radio stations they are there to represent.

Independent estimates put online radio listening at close to 80 million listeners in PPM markets

During an induction into the NATIONAL RADIO HALL OF FAME in CHICAGO, BOB KEVOIAN, longtime co-host of the WESTWOOD ONE syndicated BOB & TOM SHOW, had jaws dropping as he announced his retirement, effective at the end of this year.

Happy Birthday to Sally Field, Emma Stone, Glen Frey, Bill Henderson of Chilliwack, Fred Penner and Maria Shriver. On this date Windsor’s legendary CKLW came into being when two previous stations were merged; the first commercial TV station WGY Schenectady went on the air; ‘Meet the Press’ debuted on NBC-TV; Phil Donahue’s TV talk show debuted in Dayton, Ohio; ‘The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour’ premiered on CBS-TV; Fox-TV debuted the action series ’24′; and New York’s WOR-TV paid a record $182,000 per episode for reruns of ‘The Cosby Show.” ALL the milestones for the date are INSIDE.

The Gabriola Radio Society’s request for a third one-year extension, until November of next year, to launch 98.7 CKGI-FM Gabriola Island (BC) has been denied.

Happy Birthday to Bryan Adams, Elke Sommer, Art Garfunkel, Sam Shepherd and Sam Rockwell. The comic strip ‘The Gumps’ debuted as a series on CBS radio; ‘The Big Show’ debuted as a Sunday night 90-minute radio spectacular on NBC; Vancouver’s CKNW increased power from 1,000 watts to 5,000 at 1320 kc; the ‘Nat King Cole Show’ debuted on NBC-TV; the second Jackson 5 TV special aired on CBS; Tom Jones guested on the soundtrack of Fox-TV’s ‘The Simpsons’; and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition made their TV debut on CBS-TV’s ‘Smothers Bros. Comedy Hour.’ Those bowing off the world stage Nov. 5th include Fred MacMurray, Johnny Horton, Bobby Hadfield of the Righteous Bothers, Bobby Nunn and Billy Guy of ‘The Coasters’ (16 years apart); bandleader Guy Lombardo (pictured), and career Canadian broadcasters Norm Marshall and Sid Boyling. ALL the milestones for the date are found INSIDE.

Our friend Bob Saint recalls the old days of listening to am radio stations from across the nation during the late evening/early morning hours... AM Radio at its best...