Us and Them premieres on CHEK

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CHEK is donating the airtime and studio time and using sponsorship from the Victoria Foundation and Island Health to cover the license fee and to advertise widely the showing of the film. Victoria is dealing with a housing crisis and an opioid epidemic. This film and the panel discussion aim to help the community understand those problems better and to aid in the search for solutions.

Chuck’s Classics, featuring Caterina Valente

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She is a French born Italian multilingual artist, guitarist, dancer and actress. Speaks 6 languages and sings in 11. She now is a resident of Switzerland and has been in the business since 1953. This hit from 1955

FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. Feb. 15th

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On this date ‘My True Story’ began its daily, almost 19-year run on ABC Radio. “The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show,” a musical variety half-hour, debuted on ABC-TV. Vancouver’s CFBT-FM (The Beat, now Virgin Radio)) first began testing its transmitter on 94.5 KHz. The 'Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special' aired on NBC-TV. And one of the stars of the CBS- TV sitcom M*A*S*H, McLean Stevenson (pictured), suffered a fatal heart attack at age 68. ALL the milestones for Feb. 15th INSIDE.

Broadcast Journalist George Orr wins Green Nomination for 2019 Fed Election

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North Vancouver Green Party members have picked veteran broadcast journalist George Orr to lead them into the federal election. Local party members voted 57 per cent for Orr on Saturday.

The deeper reason for drug ads on television, by Jon Rappoport

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Television viewers are inundated with drug ads from Big Pharma.  It’s a flood

New Content Manager for Vista Radio’s Vancouver Island stations

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Kent Schumaker takes over as of March 4th.

Chuck’s Classics, featuring The Mills Brothers

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Originally known as the Four Kings of Harmony. They were active from 1928 to 1982. They made more than 2,000 recordings, sold about 50 million copies and achieved at least a dozen gold records. Get A Job is one of them from 1958