Puget Sound Radio

Victoria’s first radio station, then known as CFCT 1450, upped its power to 500 watts. Lloyd Bridges starred for the first time in his syndicated TV action hit “Sea Hunt.” 16 years later on this date, ‘Love American Style’ aired for the final time on ABC-TV. And 8 years later, CBC Television moved the National News up an hour to 10 pm, followed by ‘The Journal’ hosted by the incredible Barbara Frum (pictured). ALL the milestones for Jan. 11th INSIDE.

Seattle and Portage La Prairie are among the locales affected.

Peart died on January 7 in Santa Monica, California after a years-long battle with brain cancer.

On 77 Sunset Strip, Kookie parked cars at Dino's Lodge, a Hollywood nightclub owned by Dean Martin, which was next door to the private detective agency run by suave characters played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith.

He won a Primetime Emmy Award for writing the “Ship of Spies” episodes of “Get Smart.' The writer memorably hosted “Saturday Night Live” a then-record 10 times.

Steve is best known for being part of the duo with Eydie Gorme. In 1961 he had a hit with Portrait Of My Love

NBC-TV aired the pilot for a US version of a hit BBC satirical news show, ‘That Was the Week that Was,’ with David Frost hosting as he had in the UK. It quickly became a weekly series. Canada’s comedy team Wayne & Schuster guest-hosted on CBS-TV’s ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ and performed a Professor Von Gartner skit. The ethnic radio soap opera, ‘The Goldbergs,’ for 20 years a hit daytime strip, became a 30-minute weekly primetime TV show on CBS. And the first-ever episode of ‘Masterpiece Theatre’ aired on PBS, with Alistair Cooke (pictured) as on-screen host. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.