Puget Sound Radio

"I’m very excited. This has been a dream of mine since I was a kid."

The streaming behemoth has signed Shonda Rhimes to a multi-year production deal, ending a 15-year relationship with ABC Studios that yielded hits from “Grey’s Anatomy” to “Scandal.”

Brendan Batchelor and Corey Hirsch form the new play-by-play team when Sportsnet 650 starts broadcasting Vancouver Canucks games next month.

He was co-writer of the Marlo Thomas TV special “Acts of Love and Other Comedies,” and such series as CBS’ “Calucci’s Department,” HBO’s “Bedrooms,” and PBS’ “American Dream Machine.”

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.

A wonderful annual event is our luncheon of former and current radio personalities and record industry stars of the past.

Average minute audiences during prime time on conventional and specialty channels in Canada have been down nine per cent between the end of May through mid-July, compared to the same period last year.