Former Winnipeg broadcaster gets prison time after admitting to bank holdups
A former Winnipeg television sports anchor has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to a string of bank robberies in Saskatchewan. (Photo: Stephen Vogelsang)
Times Colonist Publisher Buys Okanagan’s Castanet News & Radio Station
Glacier Media has acquired Castanet Media, a leading source of local media and related information in the Okanagan region of British Columbia.
Hallmark Channel and News Networks Reverse US Basic Cable’s Slide
Fewer and fewer Americans are watching cable entertainment programming on a live-plus-same-day basis these days, a fact which maims their Nielsen ratings.
Brandi Olson graduated from WABC, now works @ Regina’s The Wolf 104.9
Lots of smiles over the airwaves from Western Academy Broadcasting College's BRANDI OLSON powering up the hits at "The Wolf 104.9fm".
Chuck’s Classics, featuring Eddie Cochran
Eddie performed rockabilly music like Summertime Blues in 1958. At age 21 Eddie died in Britain as a result of a car accident.
FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. April 5th
IT WAS APRIL 5th … when less than five months after the first NBC network broadcast from New York, the Pacific Coast-based NBC ‘Orange’ network aired its first programmming from temporary studios in San Francisco….
When 19-year old Barbra Streisand (pictured) made her first network television appearance on NBC’s late night “Jack Paar Show” with guest host Orson Bean…
When the final episode of the original ‘Hawaii Five-0’ aired on CBS-TV…
and when the FOX Broadcasting Company debuted coast-to-coast in the US with two Sunday night comedy shows, Married..With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show.
ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.
RIP Calgary broadcaster John Clark, 67
John started in broadcasting at CHNL Kamloops before moving to CKXL in 1974. and CJAY in the '80's.
