Puget Sound Radio

CBC Radio 1 is on top of the heap, CHED has moved back into 2nd place, with Breeze in 3rd Spot Amazing jump and Great book for CFCW, climbing 3.1 points...

News/Talk CKNW extends its lead atop the 12+ book, and JR Country has a great book, jumping into 3rd. QM/FM crashes badly, dropping to 5th.

Daysleeper in 1998 a hit for R.E.M. R.E.M. an alternative rock band formed in 1980. They have sold over 80 million records.

IT WAS JUNE 3rd …when Dragnet (with Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday) was first heard on radio (KFI in Los Angeles), a month before it went nationak on NBC… When Victoria and Vancouver got their first 'local' TV service as Bellingham's KVOS-TV signed on from Mount Constitution ... When the Hollywood Palace on ABC-TV hosted the first North American performance by The Rolling Stones… When the characters of Nancy & Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV’s ‘As the World Turns’, after an absence of 5 years… and when the final episode of the original ‘Star Trek’ series aired on NBC. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Major broadcasters, music streaming companies and more are joining with celebrities and music labels in halting or altering their regular operations Tuesday to express solidarity with U.S. and international protests against the killing of George Floyd in police custody.

To help celebrate the 100th anniversary of radio in Canada we thought it might be fun to share some of the stories that drew many of us closer to the magic of that little box. Whether we were in it or simply listening to its music, news, sports, drama or the many stories that it shared - we all have great moments around the radio.

I met Carrie Doll in the late 90's at CFRN Television in Edmonton. She was a reporter and later a news anchor. She covered the events of 9/11 from the anchor desk in Calgary and learned how to report without a script. The youngest of ten children from Fairview, Alberta, Carrie was a natural when it came to communicating and public speaking.