SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. July 27th
IT WAS JULY 27th .. when Moose Jaw radio station CJRM signed on with 500 watts at 665 KHz. It was later moved to Regina and became CKRM ….
When Okanagan Broadcasters Ltd. was incorporated, as Kelowna’s first radio station (CKOV) was moving from experimental to commercial status….
When Steve Allen (pictured) began a local late-night TV talk show in New York City that the following year went national on NBC-TV as ‘The Tonight Show’ ….
When a summer replacement series “Dean Martin Presents The Bobby Darin Amusement Company” debuted on NBC-TV…
.. and when NBC-TV removed the daily Dinah’s Place from its programming roster. The move brought Dinah Shore’s 23-year association with the Peacock Network to a close.
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.
‘Once Upon a Time’ Vancouver actor Gabe Khouth Dead at 46
Khouth died following a motorcycle crash in Port Moody on Tuesday.
CNN Editor Resigns in Disgrace over Long History of Tirades Against ‘Jewish Pigs’…
editor at CNN has resigned after a series of antisemitic comments
Smalltown Ontario radio station hoping to restore sense of pride in ‘O Canada’
Playing the national anthem preceding the 12 o’clock news is all part of a test pilot that myFM started in mid-June.
Young people in UK abandon TV news ‘almost entirely’
While the average person aged 65 and over watches 33 minutes of TV news a day, this falls to just two minutes among people aged 16-24, according the media regulator’s annual news consumption report.
Chuck’s Classics, featuring Art Mooney
From the 1955 movie “Battle Cry”: Honey Babe by the Art Mooney Orchestra