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BuzzFeed, the news and viral content factory that has sometimes been burned by made-up news stories, has hired a leading warrior against fake viral content to head up its new Canadian editorial operations.

  April 27, 2015 Each year, Jacobs Media does a study on the country's changing media habits. The annual "Techsurvey" looks at how consumers are receiving...

IT WAS APRIL 27th ... when Seattle radio station KIRO first began broadcasting as 50-watt KPCB at 521 meters (580 khz.)... When the first broadcast of (pictured) Canadian director Fletcher Markle's drama anthology ''Studio One' aired on CBS radio... When NBC TV's "Today" show went abroad for the 1st time .. to Paris France... and when the final episode of "Green Acres" aired on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

It was all about the “broads” at the most recent luncheon gathering of social group the Broadcast Legends

IT WAS APRIL 26th ... when the Ozarks comedy 'Lum & Abner' was broadcast for the first time on Arkansas radio station KTHS... When the daytime drama 'Lorenzo Jones' debuted on NBC radio... When 'The Prince and the Pauper' appeared in prime time on NBC-TV, starring former Beatle Ringo Starr... and when the 200th episode of 'The Simpsons' aired on FOX-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTy8wxB4RoE&feature=youtu.be Mainstream Media Shuts Down Discussion about this stuff? California, the San J0achin Valley, one of the worlds most productive and recognized bread baskets of the...

Got screwed? Get Jesse. It’s an entire news franchise in four words. And few American TV newsies do it with more exuberant panache than Seattle TV's Jesse Jones.

An NBC News internal investigation into Brian Williams has examined a half-dozen instances in which he is thought to have fabricated, misrepresented or embellished his accounts.

IT WAS APRIL 25th .. when the future iconic broadcast news pioneer Edward. R. Murrow (pictured) was born in North Carolina... When the New York experimental TV station that preceded WCBS aired the first circus on television.... When Vancouver's CKST AM 1040 dropped its adult contemporary format and began airing commercial free Classic Rock, enroute to adopting an all-sports format two weeks later... and when the TV-movie "Dukes Of Hazzard: Reunion!" aired on CBS, 12 years after the series left the air. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Glen was a staff announcer at CKWX Vancouver from 1934 to 1942. After the death last year of 100-year old Peter Stursburg he is believed to be the oldest surviving Canadian radio broadcaster. The video salute to Glen has been completed and aired tonight at 5 pm on CFJC-TV. It is available 'on demand' at the 14 minute mark of the 5 pm newscast, which is posted for online viewing at the station's website.