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Kind of a promotion for those cancer causing items from 1947 with Phil Harris, Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette.

It’s the birthday of actors Jeremy Sisto and Ioan Gruffudd, plus the late Robert Mitchum, Canadian radio inventor Reginald Fessenden, and early Vancouver broadcaster Gerry Wilmot. Both ‘Maxwell House Show Boat’ and the human interest radio show ‘Hobby Lobby’ debuted on NBC, which also introduced Frank Sinatra in his only non-singing series ‘Rocky Fortune.’ The Ed Wynn Show’ became the first regular live TV origination from the West Coast; Pat Boone guested on Rod Serling’s NBC-TV show ‘Night Gallery’; 21-yr old Barbra Streisand guested on CBS-TV’s ‘Judy Garland Show’; ‘Dear John’ starring Judd Hirsch (pictured) debuted on NBC-TV; and Howard Stern announced he would soon be moving to satellite radio. ALL the milestones for Oct. 6th can be found INSIDE.

Top songwriters like Steve Miller, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Drake signed with Global Music Rights, believing the organization would help them secure a better rate from radio stations, restaurants and other groups that pay what’s called a performance royalty.

David Menzies of Rebel News reports: You may have heard that a journalist was thrown out of a Conservative Party campaign event today in Whitby, Ontario. Well, I’m that journalist, and thanks to my own video and footage from others in attendance, you can make up your own mind about what happened here.

Budgets are squeezed as broadcasters attempt to offer original content to traditional TV viewers as well as to today’s streaming audience. Specials “are harder for us in the context of all those competing needs.”

The Turtles are an American rock band, still performing today with such hit as Elenore from 1968