Puget Sound Radio

IT WAS APRIL 4th .. when Kate Smith began a new daily quarter-hour talk show in the noon hour at CBS radio… When the ill-fated CBC-FM Network signed on, with connected stations only in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal… When Johnny Carson quit The Tonight Show in a salary dispute with NBC. He returned three weeks later with an additional $30,000 a week!… and when, after six years, the final episode of the WWII prison camp sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” aired on CBS TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Several dozen other sponsors have now joined the carmakers in the advertising exodus.

"I would have really liked the first place our audience heard about that is to have been from us. On our show," GREENBERG told THE SPORTING NEWS. "Because it’s been a really special thing."

Neil Macrae has died from cancer at the age of 65. He passed away last Thursday at this home in Palm Springs

IT WAS APRIL 3rd … when two staples of NBC radio made their debuts three years apart, ‘Mr. District Attorney,’ and ‘People Are Funny’… When the comedy team of (Dean) Martin & (Jerry) Lewis (pictured) began their own weekly series on NBC radio … When radio station CKSA Lloydminster had its official grand opening, with 1000 watts at 1450 KHz… and when John Chancellor stepped down as anchor of the The NBC Nightly News, to be succeeded by the team of Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw as coanchors. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

He worked from 1972 to 77 at CKLG, and nearly 20 years later became GM of CKZZ and C-ISL Radio Vancouver from 1996 to 2007.