Puget Sound Radio

The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Limited Partnership (Pattison) and Fabmar Investments Ltd. (Fabmar) today jointly announced Pattison’s acquisition of Fabmar Communications Ltd. and it’s four radio station licences (and related assets) located in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, subject to CRTC approval

Fager, the executive producer of the venerable CBS newsmagazine, has returned to work as a corporate investigation into the culture of the parent company and its news division continues.

IT WAS AUG. 14th … when Garry Moore (pictured) joined NBC radio with a new morning show in an attempt to knock off the dominant Arthur Godfrey on CBS … When the end of WWII was marked on the CBS radio series, “Columbia Presents Corwin,” as Orson Welles did a special reading about the fall of Japan titled, “Fourteen August”… When five UK pirate radio stations shut down, leaving only Radio Caroline to rock out for another nine months… ..and when radio’s “Ma Perkins” began its 27 year run on the air as a local production of WLW Cincinnati. ALL the milestones for Aug. 14th INSIDE.

Killeen anchored the CTV News at Six with Tamara Taggart from 2011 until they were released in April.

It’s a warmhearted animal-centric show filmed at and near Calgary Alberta, and is aimed at a family audience.

Showbiz411’s Roger Friedman, who first reported the news on Sunday, said the Queen of Soul's family is “asking for prayers and privacy.”

Many of us from the Great White North are shocked and disappointed at the depth to which our friends in US radio are allowing the degradation of those (mostly) shared beliefs and values, and the speed at which this disassembly process of our industry is occurring.