He broadcast High School Football in the Puyallup for 40 Years
Carl H Lambert was also a fulltime high school teacher for much of the time he was doing the playbyplay.
Calgary radio personality hosts show from ill grandmother’s bedside
CJAY92's Jesse Modz recently flew home to be near his grandmother, Anne Bradbury, as she battles stage-four lung cancer.
Chuck’s Classics, featuring John Lennon
Lennon on his own, was very successful with a hit like (Just Like) Starting Over in 1980.
SUNDAY in Broadcast History .. March 8th
It was March 8th when ”Transit Through Fire: An Odyssey of 1942,” the first opera commissioned by the CBC, was aired on radio coast-to-coast.
When Vancouver's CKWX adopted a country music format.
When CBS-TV’s General Electric Theatre featured the only joint television appearance by The Marx Brothers in an almost-silent 30-minute episode called “The Incredible Jewel Robbery.”
When the UK’s Dave Clark 5 made their first appearance on CBS TV’s “Ed Sullivan Show,” performing “Glad All Over.”
And when the last original episode of “The Brady Bunch” was televised on ABC.
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Two Firms Vying to Buy KING5’s Corporate Owner
A Reuters report quotes “sources” saying Gray Television has made an $8.5 billion bid to buy Tegna.
The Wall Street Journal then reported Apollo Global Management says it will match a $20 per share offer to buy Tegna.
Chuck’s Classics, featuring Billy Joel
Billy started out in 1965, and still performing today. Nicknamed the “Piano Man”, he had a number of #1 hits like It’s Still Like Rock & Roll To Me in 1980.
SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. March 7th
It was a March 7th when radio station KARI 550 signed on the air from Blaine, Washington with a Christian-spoken word format…
..when the “Beatles” made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio in England.
..when ”Peter Pan”, with Mary Martin and Cyril Richard, was presented as a live TV special on NBC’s Producer’s Showcase.
..when Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin co-hosted the 82nd Academy Awards telecast ..
..and when Vancouver’s CKWX 1130 dropped its adult contemporary music and became a country music station.
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