SUNDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept.6th
IT WAS SEPT 6th ... when the first prizefight to be broadcast blow-by-blow was heard on WWJ Detroit, as heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey scored a third-round knockout ...
When Lionel Barrymore introduced us to his latest crowd-pleasing character as 'Mayor of the Town' debuted on the NBC Red radio network...
When Canadian television debuted as Montreal's CBFT aired the drama 'Oedipus Rex' in French....
..and when the hit radio sitcom "Fibber McGee and Molly" ended after an almost 25 year run.
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Roundhouse to Launch early October
Puget Sound Radio received word from Don Shafer, the man behind Roundhouse Radio in Vancouver, telling us the launch date is set for the first week of October
Stay tuned...
Media Now Onto a Story Blog Readers Knew a Year Ago!...
In Rome, locals warn you not to ride the subway and take great caution on buses … to avoid the legions of pickpockets, who they say hail mostly from Romania, Albania etc.
YouTube Canada Teams with Rogers Radio Network to Create One-Hour Weekly...
Rogers says it’s the first radio collaboration in Canada for YouTube, a division of Google and one of the Internet’s biggest draws.
SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept. 5th
IT WAS SEPT. 5th .. when the populat daytime drama 'Life Can Be Beautiful' began its 16 year run on NBC radio...
When Frank Sinatra was instrumental in the reuniting of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin live on Jerry's Labor Day telethon...
When the US got its first network hour-long news show as the Public Broadcasting System's "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" expanded to 60 minutes...
..and when "American Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark on ABC, was cancelled after 30 years on television.
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Predicted: Canadian Newspapers, Local Broadcasters to All But Disappear by 2025
Daily paid circulation as a percentage of Canadian households has fallen from just under 50 percent in 1995 to 20 percent in 2014.
Reporter Pete Combs Moves from Atlanta to KOMO AM 1000 News
courtesy AllAccess.com September 4, 2015 at 4:44 AM (PT)
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Longtime ATLANTA market reporter PETE COMBS is joining SINCLAIR News KOMO-A-F/SEATTLE as morning reporter, he posted...
Drex Live talks with facebook challenger founder of KUBE
This is the one we believe can and will overtake Facebook... Its all about the Privacy Issue and KUBE Wins it All!
FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept. 4th
IT WAS SEPT. 4th ... when BC-born actor Raymond Burr starred in the last original episode of the CBS-TV courtroom drama, Perry Mason...
When Jerry Butler & the Impressions made their national TV debut on ABC-TV's "American Bandstand"...
When the short-lived Carol Burnett-Richard Hayes Show, a 20-minute nightly variety package, debuted on CBS Radio...
..and when the last of 98 original episodes of "Gilligan's Island" aired on CBS-TV. It would continue for decades in syndicated reruns.
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Hal Anderson Debuting New Show on FAB 94.3
“Hal Anderson Sundays” will debut September 27 and air Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Besides the weekend stint, Anderson will also join Kelly Parker and Alix Michaels weekdays at 7:20 a.m. for a daily feature segment.
