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The musician category is awarded every third year in rotation with two other categories. BAYERS, a recording musician for 58 years, is the first drummer ever inducted into the HALL OF FAME. DRAKE is the first pedal steel player to be inducted.

Frank Gifford was born in Santa Monica Calif, Elvis Presley had died in his Memphis mansion at the age of 42. Jack Paar replaced Walter Cronkite as host of CBS-TV’s “The Morning Show.” longtime host of CBC-TV’s Man Alive, Roy Bonisteel, succumbed to cancer at age 83. Plus who is celebrating a birthday today, and hit songs over the early years

Conservative Larry Elder is rising in California and Democrats are terrified.

Welcome to every reporter’s conundrum: Who to believe when confronted with different versions of events. 

IT WAS AUG. 15th .. when CBS inaugurated the first nightly TV news broadcast, a 15-minute feature with anchorman Douglas Edwards reporting the day’s events. At first it was seen only in five cities in the Eastern Time zone… When Peck’s bad boy of Vancouver radio Jack Cullen (pictured) made the move from CKMO to CKNW, taking his Owl Prowl program with him… When Vancouver radio station CKWX moved from 980 to 1130 on the AM dial where it still resides as News 1130… ..and when the CBC locked out 5500 employees coast to coast, all members of the Canadian Media Guild. The labour dispute was not resolved until October. ALL the milestones for Aug. 15th INSIDE.

Shotgun McGwire hasn’t been behind a microphone since 1997 but is returning to Westman on Q Country 91.5

This is the same person who claims moral superiority over everyone on the Internet!

in 1942, Garry Moore (pictured) hosted a new radio program on NBC. “The Show Without a Name” was an effort to crack the morning show dominance of Arthur Godfrey (CBS) and “Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club” (ABC). In 1958, Elvis Presley‘s mother, Gladys, died at the tender age of 46, from a heart attack brought on by hepatitis Also in 1962, Roy Orbison was in Nashville to record his next single, “Leah” b/w “Workin’ for the Man.”  Both sides made it to the Billboard Top 40 More Stories, Birthdays and hit songs from yesteryear ALL INSIDE

Blaire White joined us on The Counter Signal to talk about her experience filming the music video hit new rap song.

She has worked in a number of positions at CHEK over the years