’60 Minutes’ Grills YouTube CEO: Why Aren’t You Censoring More People?
Leslie Stahl of CBS News’ 60 Minutes has released her interview with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
Hill Group Announce Harvard Media
The Hill Group of Companies acquires local marketing
agency Carbon Marketing to form Harvard Media.
Chuck’s Classics, featuring Simon & Garfunkel
The two were very popular with a string of hits like this 1970 Cecilia.
MONDAY in Broadcast History .. Dec. 2nd
Born this date were Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado, Lucy Liu, Cathy Lee Crosby, Ray Walston and Hy Gardner.
‘The Adventures of Charlie Chan’ debuted on radio’s NBC Blue network;
Don Imus brought his shock-jock radio schtick from Cleveland to New York’s WNBC;
Jungle Jay Nelson (pictured) did his first morning show on Toronto’s CHUM radio;
NBC-TV’s ‘This is Your Life’ surprised their subject of the week Bobby Darin;
after nearly half a century the amazing Alan Waters stepped down as head of CHUM broadcasting;
and Brian Williams took over the anchor chair at NBC’s Nightly News.
Celebrity deaths include folksinger Odetta, actors Robert Cummings and Desi Arnaz, jazz star Bob Haggart, actresses Gail Fisher and Roxie Roker, as well as Canada’s Fifi D’Orsay and broadcast magnate Ted Rogers Jr.
Details and ALL the milestones for Dec. 2nd INSIDE.
Marking 100 Years of Radio in Canada
Although many sites list an American station as the first broadcaster, in fact it was a radio station in Canada, XWA that was granted the first broadcast licence on this day December 1st, back in 1919.
Stuart Varney’s Fresh Approach to Business Television
Varney & Co. on Fox Business has trounced CNBC for three consecutive years in the ratings.
Chuck’s Classics, featuring Fine Young Cannibals
Fine Young Cannibals was a British Rock band. Very popular with a number of hits. They disbanded in 1992, but left us with the hit She Drives Me Crazy from 1989
