Puget Sound Radio

IT WAS APRIL 19th … when the Chicago Barn Dance first aired on WLS. In a few short years it became the National Barn Dance on NBC radio… When the ABC Television Network began operations, only in Philadelphia and Washington at first… When New York AM station WINS became the world’s first all-news radio outlet… and when our TV screens were filled with images of destruction from Oklahoma City, after a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Morning host Tim Leary has rejected his suggested move to afternoons and will instead exit the station to pursue other opportunities.

Gary Lewis, son of comedian Jerry Lewis, formed this popular band. This Diamond Ring hit the harts in 1965. 1965

IT WAS APRIL 18th … when future late night TV host Johnny Carson played a bored New Jersey husband with a gift for picking horse-racing winners, in a Playhouse 90 production on CBS-TV… When the reality TV show “Real People” debuted, featuring John Barbour, Sarah Purcell, Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, and Bill Rafferty… When the TV movie “Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys” aired on ABC… and when Arsenio Hall (pictured)l announced (for the first time) he would end his five-year-old late-night TV talk show the following month… ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Movin' 92.5 (KQMV) dominates the demographic breakouts.

The first-quarter surge left Netflix with nearly 149 million subscribers worldwide through March.

Neil a good composer, entertainer and singer with such a hit as Cracklin’ Rose from 1970