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The legendary reporter George Garrett discusses his new memoir This is George Garrett’s fifth appearance on the program. It was our mutual friend George Orr who said to me four years ago last month, you should talk to Garrett. I said, I admired and grew up listening to him, and Orr told me to contact him. A day or two later, I tweeted that I had just talked to George Garrett about setting up a time to meet, and that if somebody had told me that as a kid, I wouldn’t have believed it. Soon after George sat in front of me for a chat, as he does now, he emailed and said he was thinking of writing a memoir. And four years later that book is out. It’s aptly titled George Garrett: Intrepid Reporter. George wrote this book from memory from an illustrious career covering news in Vancouver and beyond. He was a good reporter, who broke stories big and small, who worked hard, and had the loyalty and trust of the listeners of radio station CKNW

Rick was a rock ’n roll star, musician, singer songwriter and starred in the popular TV series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.” Rick was active in the music business from 1949 to 1985. He died in a plane crash on New Years eve 1985 at the age of 45. His hit from those years included Teenage Idol from 1962.

It was March 4th a decade before radio as we know it got going, when Lee De Forest conducted an experimental broadcast from New York City. It’s the date when Edmonton first heard the signal of CHED radio at 1080KHz … …when Shirley Temple (pictured) starred in the first episode of ‘Junior Miss’ on CBS radio… and when CBS-TV aired the 200th episode of the classic sitcom ‘All in the Family.’ Details and ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The nationwide UK radio station has “quietly dropped the King of Pop’s music from its playlists” due to the shocking allegations in “Leaving Neverland.”

Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have seemingly bottomless wallets and a stranglehold on how a new generation wants to consume television. For the first time, streaming services made more scripted shows than either broadcast or cable networks last year.

Della was a jazz and gospel singer as well as an ordained minister. Her career really took off with this hit in 1959. She charted many singles over the years. And you may remember from the television show “Touched By An Angel” that ran from 1994 to 2003. Della passed on at age 86 in November 2017

It was March 3rd when Detroit was first introduced to radio station WWJ. When Elvis Presley made his TV debut on the syndicated ‘Louisiana Hayride’ (pictured). When Vancouver’s CKWX AM 1130 published its last Top 40 Survey, relinquishing the field to CFUN 1410. When Andy Griffith first introduced the character 'Matlock' on NBC-TV, and four years later the same network aired the 100th episode of 'Alf.' And when ‘Nova’ began its 45 year (so far) run on PBS. Details and many more milestones for March 3rd INSIDE.