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IT WAS APRIL 14th .. when Robert Ripley hosted his first ‘Believe It or Not Broadcast’ on NBC, the beginning of an 18 year radio run… When WGN radio carried the first play-by-play broadcast of a regular season Chicago Cub baseball game… When Chilliwack’s CHWK moved up the dial from 1340 to 1230 KHz, enroute to its longtime home at 1270… When piano virtuoso Van Cliburn appeared on US national TV for the first time, as Jack Paar’s guest on NBC-TV’s ‘Tonight Show’… and when CBS-TV aired the Johnny Cash special ‘Spring Fever’ in prime time, with guests Waylon Jennings, June Carter Cash, and Rosanne Cash. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

One month after it was cancelled the NAB Show has been virtually revived as a new digital experience, NAB Show Express, May 13 - 14, 2020.

With advertising vanishing throughout the industry broadcasters will be looking to cut corners and save where they can.

John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine, epidemiology, and population health at Stanford University, says he worries that media outlets are "falling into a trap of sensationalism".

Jay & The Americans were popular in the 1960’s & 1970’s, with the original group. In 1968 they had a hit with This Magic Moment.

IT WAS APRIL 13th .. when the weekly radio crime drama ‘Bulldog Drummond’ began its 8-year run on the Mutual Broadcast System… When the CRTC’s first public hearings on Cable Television were held… When “The Grand Ole Opry,” a Saturday night radio staple from Nashville that holds the longevity record for any live broadcast, came to cable TV (Nashville Network) … and when the cast of “The Andy Griffith Show” reunited for the NBC-TV film “Return To Mayberry.” It attracted the largest audience of any TV-movie that year. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Using the Apple-Google technology, contact-tracing apps would gather a record of other phones with which they came into close proximity. Such data can be used to alert others who might have been infected by known carriers of the novel coronavirus