Puget Sound Radio

Vancouver Island MusicFest executive director Doug Cox is not only a concert promoter, but also a touring musician, as well as a record producer. He is experiencing the effects from all sides.

A country music band out of Miami, Florida. The had a number of hits, including Dolores in 1998. The Mavericks

IT WAS MARCH 22nd when NBC Radio’s “Voice of Firestone”, a 30-minute showcase of semi-classical music, became the first commercial radio program to be carried simultaneously on both AM and FM stations… When Vancouver’s CFMI 101.1 FM signed on with an automated rock/country hybrid format … When Barry Manilow made his first television appearance, performing “Mandy” and “It’s A Miracle” on ABC’s “American Bandstand”… When Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash & Roger Miller guested on an ABC John Denver TV special ... and when two disparate music acts Bob Dylan and Liberace played NBC-TV’s Late Night with David Letterman. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The CBC announced on March 18 that due to the coronavirus pandemic it would be replacing local dinner-hour and late-night newscasts with the national CBC News Network until further notice.

Corporate radio is missing its biggest opportunity in a generation right at this moment.

There's one place that's kinda built for this moment. It's always there, it's free and it does a good job keeping you company. It's the radio.

The radio humorist who acted as a 'Man on the Street,' died earlier in March at age 83. His work appeared in commercials and on NPR's All Things Considered in the 1980s and '90s.