FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 7th
IT WAS AUG. 6th ... when just months before the US was pulled into WWII, WNBT, Channel 4 in New York City, broadcast TV's first audience-participation show in which studio guests played charades....
When Martin Kane, Private Eye was first heard on Mutual radio....
When 16-year-old Paul Anka (pictured) made his U.S. television debut on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, lip-synching to his first hit "Diana"...
..and when the reality series Gene Simmons' Family Jewels had its premiere on the A&E cable network.
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Radio managed by remote control by Marty Forbes
A ‘great’ General Manager does many things to make a radio station highly successful.
Leadership is everything.
Brad Dryden New Morning Man on 101-5 KOOL FM Calgary
Brad Dryden is the New morning man at 101.5 KOOL FM Calgary starts his new gig Next Week....
THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 6th
IT WAS AUG. 6th ... when one of radio's first serials, Real Folks debuted on NBC radio...
When singer Dinah Shore started her own Sunday evening show on the NBC Blue radio network. Later Dinah would also have a successful TV career spanning more than three decades...
When Chubby Checker appeared on Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut Show (ABC TV) and introduced ‘The Twist’...
..and after establishing himself on Mexican border powerhouses, Wolfman Jack (pictured) debuted on WNBC Radio New York.
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Research Director Inc. Analyzes July PPM’s for Seattle
This marked the seventh consecutive survey that HUBBARD Top 40/M KQMV (MOVIN) was the 6+ market leader, shared in this case with CBS RADIO Classic Rock KZOK,
Tarzan Dan & KOOL FM Calgary Part Ways…
'Tarzan Dan' Freeman/KOOL FM in Calgary Cut the Cord ' and he's on the hunt for his next gig...
Fired CBC Politico Evan Solomon Surfaces with Sirius XM
Satcaster Launches 2015 Election Campaign Show
courtesy BroadcasterMagazine.com
2015-08-05
Today SiriusXM announced the launch of SiriusXM’s Everything Is Political: Campaign 2015 with Evan Solomon, a show...
WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 5th
IT WAS AUGUST 5th .. when KDKA Pittsburgh aired the first-ever baseball play by play, with pioneering announcer Harold Arlin at the mike ...
When the daily radio drama "Backstage Wife" first aired on a network (Mutual), after proving popular for a few months on Chicago's WGN. It moved to NBC a year later, and to CBS two decades later!...
When after becoming a huge TV hit in Philadelphia, Dick Clark's "American Bandstand'' made its debut on ABC...
.. and when Prince George (BC) got its second private radio station as CJCI 620 signed on the air. "C.I." stood for Central Interior...
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Pepper & Dylan Return to 91.7 The Bounce!
Pepper and Dylan will kick off your morning from 5:30 am – 10 am, followed by Liann Cameron. The Mike Chalut Show will bring you home and keep the party going all day long in their new time slot 2pm – 7pm, and DJ Mike Thomas will still be spinning the 5 O’clock Traffic Jam!