Puget Sound Radio

IT WAS JULY 1st .. when Prime Minister Mackenzie King dedicated Ottawa’s Peace Tower carillon in the first Trans-Canada radio network broadcast hookup over telephone and telegraph lines… When Hall of Fame sportscaster Jim Robson at age 17 (pictured) broke into radio at CJAV Port Alberni … When an apparently sanitized Elvis Presley appeared on NBC- TV’s ‘The Steve Allen Show’ in a tuxedo and sang ‘Hound Dog’, to a real live Hound Dog… When Vancouver’s country music station JR Country 93.7 signed on at 9:37 a.m…. …and when Toronto CTV flagship CFTO-TV transmitted the first colour television in Canada. ALL the milestones for July 1st INSIDE.

Bay Bloor Radio, one of the station’s most prominent supporters, ordered its ads pulled from the Saturday morning show hosted by Ross Porter, who is accused of bullying and sexual harassment. The high-end audio-visual-component retailer recently decided to entirely pause its advertising on the station.

Welcome to JJ-365 Salutes. Over 2018, we pay tribute daily to one of “The Good Ones”. Today we are shining the light on Jeff Brown.

IT WAS JUNE 30th … when CBS-TV debuted “The Guiding Light,” a daytime serial that had been on radio already for 15 years. Over the next 57 years it would become TV’s alltime longest running drama … When CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show featured The Everly Brothers singing their debut hit “Bye Bye Love”… When “The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour,” starring Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber debuted as a 10-week summer replacement series on ABC TV… ..and when Richmond (BC)’s CISL moved up the dial from 940 to 650 KHz. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

After nearly losing it all, Regina broadcaster Rod Pedersen is on the straight and narrow after a long battle with alcoholism.

KRISTIN BRODIE, the KISW "Rock Girl" is accusing JEREMY of groping her & digital penetration at a promotional event at sex shop CASTLE MEGASTORE in TACOMA.

For the second time in a year, NBC News has shelved a story about celebrity sexual harassment. Last summer, it was Ronan Farrow‘s expose on Harvey Wenstein, which was eventually published by the New Yorker, and won Farrow a Pultizer Prize.