KUBE/Seattle Promotes Eric Rosado to PD
iHEARTRADIO Top 40/Rhythmic KUBE (KUBE 93.3)/SEATTLE has promoted APD/MD/afternoons ERIC ROSADO to PD, effective immediately.
A Boston radio fixture is off the air after nearly four decades
Loren Owens, of the long-running "Loren & Wally" morning show on 105.7 WROR-FM, signed off last Friday, after failing to agree on a new contract.
Does federal panel threaten net neutrality in Canada?
It will come as no surprise that in the absence of the CRTC’s guiding hand, creativity, innovation, Canadian content (ask Justin Bieber) and investment have flourished like never before. Janet Yale (Pictured) chairs the seven person panel
TV’s Steve Harvey to cover 8 students’ college costs
The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation has worked with Kent State University to provide scholarships of about $23,000 per student.
The Big Story’s First Year – Jordan Heath-Rawlings
It sounds easy. Produce a compelling 15 to 20 minute piece of audio every day about a Canadian news story. And then you find out it isn't easy. For the last year, Jordan Heath-Rawlings has been doing just that with Frequency Network's flagship podcast, The Big Story
Chuck’s Classics, featuring Dolly Parton
Dolly has 25 songs reach #1. Including the one most remembered from 1981: 9 TO 5.
CANADA DAY in Broadcast History .. Mon. July 1st
IT WAS JULY 1st .. when Prime Minister Mackenzie King dedicated Ottawa’s Peace Tower carillon in the first Trans-Canada radio network broadcast hookup over telephone and telegraph lines…
When Hall of Fame sportscaster Jim Robson at age 17 (pictured) broke into radio at CJAV Port Alberni …
When an apparently sanitized Elvis Presley appeared on NBC- TV’s ‘The Steve Allen Show’ in a tuxedo and sang ‘Hound Dog’, to a real live Hound Dog…
When Vancouver’s country music station JR Country 93.7 signed on at 9:37 a.m….
…and when Toronto CTV flagship CFTO-TV transmitted the first colour television in Canada.
ALL the milestones for July 1st INSIDE.
