RIP Richard Loney, Canucks’ Anthem Singer
Richard Loney sang the anthem at the first Canucks NHL game in 1970, going on to sing for the team for the next 40 years. He also sang for the the Lions, Whitecaps, Giants and at Safeco Field for the Blue Jays.
Bill Good talks with Joseph Planta of the Commentary…
an excellent interview with Bill Good who just launched his A Minute with Bill Good on NEWS 1130 (CKWX)
Rich Terfry aka Buck 65 talks with Joseph Planta
The musician and broadcaster Rich Terfry a.k.a. Buck 65discusses his new book, Wicked and Weird: The Amazing Tales of Buck 65 (Doubleday, 2015), with Joseph Planta
WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept. 9th
IT WAS SEPT. 9th .. when the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was formed as a broadcasting service of the Radio Corporation of America, with partners General Electric & Westinghouse. 26 stations made up the US's first national radio network ...
When the 1st broadcast of the long-running TV soap "Love of Life" aired on CBS...
When 54 million viewers (82.6 percent of the U.S. television audience) turned their TV dials to the 'Ed Sullivan Show' on CBS to see 21-year-old Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley ...
.. and when NBC-TV's "Huntley-Brinkley Report" (pictured), their evening newscast, expanded from 15 to 30 minutes, as had the CBS News (with Walter Cronkite) a week earlier.
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!
CJCA/K-97 Reunion happened Sunday the 13th
Its the K97/CJCA reunion this Sunday at O2 JOE's Tap House & Grill (North) 13509.127 St, Edmonton
Judy Carne, Laugh-In’s ‘Sock It To Me’ Gal, Dies at 76
Carne left 'Laugh In' in its third season and her acting career faltered afterward as she became heavily involved with drugs.
TUESDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept. 8th
IT WAS SEPT. 8th ... when The Hoboken Four, featuring a 19-year old Frank Sinatra as lead singer, appeared on Major Bowes Amateur Hour on WOR radio, and won the week ...
When Canada's first English-language TV station, CBLT in Toronto started operations... two days after Montreal's French-languageCBC station...
When "Bat Masterson," a western starring Gene Barry, began its 108-episode run on NBC-TV...
..and when the pioneering space series "Star Trek," starring Montreal-born William Shatner, debuted on NBC-TV.
ALL the milestones for Sept. 8th INSIDE!
NDP Leads the Polls: Deja Vu? by Harvey Oberfeld
Call it the cold feet factor: where many people like what they are hearing from NDP leader Tom Mulcair, but fear giving him/party power at the same time; where the Liberals (despite a flawed past) offer a safer, perhaps more comfortable alternative under new leader Justin Trudeau; and, despite the polls, don’t write off Prime Minister Stephen Harper …
CBS Seattle Radio Stations For Sale
Word on the street has at least some of the cluster of CBS-owned Seattle radio stations up for sale. The CBS-owned stations include the...
Martin Milner, Star of ‘Adam 12’ and ‘Route 66,’ Dead at...
Adam 12 had a more realistic quality than previous cop shows: The partners, played by Milner and Kent McCord, on which the show narrowly focused, would patrol with no idea what they would encounter through the course of the day, and viewers got to witness the highs and lows in their lives.
