Chuck’s Classics, featuring Ray Charles
Ray continued to have hits from his big album of Country & Western songs like I Can’t Stop Loving You in 1962.
WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. Jan. 8th
Edmonton’s adopted son Robert Goulet (pictured) made his US TV debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on CBS, singing “If Ever I Would Leave You.”
The PBS children’s show headliner Mister Rogers was honored with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
And the NBC-TV drama series Providence, which introduced Melina Kanakaredes in her first TV lead role, made its debut.
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CNN settles $275M Defamation suit with Kentucky Catholic student Nick Sandmann
The teen’s family filed lawsuits against CNN, NBCUniversal and the Washington Post over reporting on the January 2019 incident in which Nicholas Sandmann was filmed standing face-to-face with Native American elder Nathan Phillips as he played a drum on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Seattle Seahawks Win in Philly Draws Most TV Eyeballs Since Super Bowl
The Seahawks’ 17-9 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in Sunday’s game on NBC & CTV is TV’s most-watched show since Super Bowl LIII (Feburary 3, 2019), with a Total Audience Delivery of 35.8 million viewers.
Vancouver weekly ‘Georgia Straight’ sold to Media Central Corp. for $1.25M
"We have had problems with trying to stay running," founder Dan McLeod told CBC in an interview Monday. He acknowledged that weeklies have been hit by the same decline in advertising that has affected most other print publications since the rise in digital alternatives.
Chuck’s Classics, featuring Ella Fitzgerald
Somethings Gotta Give
Referred to as “The First Lady of Song”. Did some “scat” singing as only she could. Somethings Gotta Give hit the airwaves in 1964.Ella one of the classy ladies of pop, jazz, blues & swing. Died June 1996 at age 79.
TUESDAY in Broadcast History .. Jan. 7th
Red Skelton got his first weekly starring vehicle on the NBC Red radio network.
The well-remembered OTR ‘squeaky door’ show ‘Inner Sanctum Mysteries’ debuted on NBC Blue.
For the first time TV cameras were allowed inside the House of Commons in Ottawa.
The Peoples Choice Awards named ‘Deal or No Deal’ with Canada’s Howie Mandel (pictured) as favorite game show.
And ‘Midday’ with Valerie Pringle and Bill Cameron debuted on CBC Television as a daytime version of ‘The Journal.’
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