WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept. 12th
IT WAS SEPT. 12th … when a raft of TV series debuted, including Lassie, Family Affair and Maude on CBS; Bonanza, The Monkees and Punky Brewster on NBC; and Taxi (pictured), Lois & Clark, and the Jeff Foxworthy Show began on ABC. Party of Five was seen for the first time on Fox.
The 10th season of Murder She Wrote began on CBS-TV, and Vancouver radio station AM 1040 signed on with an adult contemporary music format… years before any all-sports format!
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‘Tonight Show’ Cancels Canadian Comic Norm Macdonald Over ‘Controversial Comments’
Macdonald drew criticism for saying he was "happy the #MeToo movement has slowed down a little bit," and speaking about friends and fellow comics Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K.
Broadcaster Larry Gifford, a victim of Parkinson’s, to host Podcast
What happens When Life Gives You Parkinson’s? That’s the question Larry Gifford (pictured) is working to answer in a new podcast venture with Corus Entertainment’s CuriousCast and Parkinson Canada
JJ-365 Salutes Garth Buchko
Welcome to JJ-365 Salutes. Over 2018, we pay tribute daily to one of “The Good Ones”. Today we are shining the light on Birthday Boy, Garth Buchko
TUESDAY in Broadcast History .. Sept. 11th
IT WAS SEPT. 11th .. when the Miss America Pageant was televised coast-to-coast for the first time. Future TV star Lee Meriwether won the crown …
When the last of Gillette’s Friday Night Fights was seen on free, home TV. Veteran Don Dunphy handled the blow-by-blow as he had on radio & TV for 23 years…
When the Canadian newsmagazine “W-5” launched on CTV…
..and when the Carol Burnett Show premiered on CBS, with the first of 278 episodes over the next 10-and-a-half years.
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Meet KRKO’s New Morning Man: Tim Hunter
Tim was a Northwest radio fixture for decades, producing for Larry Nelson and the KOMO Radio Morning show, along with his 19-year run at 92.5-KLSY, where he was the funny middle-man of the Murdock, Hunter & Alice morning show.
New Christian radio station coming to Regina
The CRTC has approved another FM radio station for Regina. The new station will offer a specialty Christian music format