THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 3rd
IT WAS AUG. 3rd … when 36-year-old announcer Frank Blair (pictured) became news anchor of the NBC-TV Today Show, a job he would keep for the next 22 years!…
When CBS-TV war correspondent Morley Safer sent out a Vietnam report showing American troops using their Zippo lighters to set fire to thatched huts in a Vietnamese village …
When ‘Tonight Show’ host Johnny Carson graced the cover of the Burbank telephone directory…
..and when the ABC-TV news magazine Primetime Live debuted, with Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer headlining.
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Global Regina’s Mitch Bozak Retiring
After 30 years of admirable service, it is with mixed emotions we announce that Global Regina Station Manager and Saskatchewan General Sales Manager, Mitch Bozak is retiring
Why the NFL Will Air Fewer Ad Breaks This Fall
The solution is to decrease the number of breaks to four per quarter, down from the previous 5-6-5-5 pattern.
What Will Top 40 Radio be Playing in 2018?
Why will 2018's music cycle be like 1988 (and 2001 as well)? It's the Extremes of the Music Cycle. The Music Cycle is composed of three phases that have repeated every 10 years since 1956.
Dahlia Kurtz joins Matt Cundill on the ‘Sound Off’ Podcast
https://soundcloud.com/mattcundill/episode-58-dahlia-kurtz-is-unorthodox-and-unconventional
Dahlia Kurtz does not do things conventionally. She has worked in radio, written a national newspaper column, nearly went to the Olympics, and spent her first day in radio under water. And she lived...
WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 2nd
IT WAS AUG. 2nd .. when the TV station now known as KCPQ (FOX 13) in Tacoma-Seattle, began broadcasting as KMO-TV Tacoma…
When Canadian-born CBS correspondent Morley Safer (pictured) sent the first TV report from Vietnam indicating the US was losing the war…
When CHUM-owned TV stations in Victoria, London, Barrie, Wingham, Windsor and Ottawa became A-Channels…
…and when radio station WHTZ-FM, Newark, New Jersey (serving New York City and environs) – signed on as “Z100” with Scott Shannon and the “Morning Zoo”. It went from “worst to first” in just a few months.
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Newsman Kerry Marshall Out at Roundhouse Radio
Kerry Marshall has confirmed that he is no longer with Vancouver's Roundhouse Radio.. He has been News and Content Director since June 2015.










