Sunday in Broadcast History .. August 4th
IT WAS AUG. 4th … when the first tennis match on radio was aired on Pittsburgh’s KDKA, the first US commercial station…
When the CBC carried out Canada’s first television transmission from a helicopter…
When the Everly Bros. sang ‘Wake Up Little Susie’ on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show …
When the Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to rescind the so-called ‘Fairness Doctrine’…
..and when two on-camera stars of Vancouver's BCTV, Ron Morrier and Robert Malcolm (pictured), signed off forever.
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Radio Mans fave with Sly and the Family Stone
Sly and the Family Stone was an American band originating from San Francisco, California
Saturday in Broadcast History .. August 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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PSR’s 6pm Friday Night News with the News You Should Know…
[DS] Sleepers [Pro] Shift To [Nay], FBI,CISA Warn Of DDos Attacks During Election – X22 Report
Radio Mans fave with The Searchers
The Searchers are an English Merseybeat group who emerged during the British Invasion of the 1960s
Friday in Broadcast History .. August 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. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.










