REMEMBRANCE DAY in Broadcast History .. Fri. Nov. 11th
Happy Birthday to Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart and Adam Beach. Also born Nov. 11th were Jonathan Winters, LaVern Baker and Robert Ryan.
This was the day that radio star Kate Smith first sang ‘God Bless America’; the juvenile adventure ‘Mandrake the Magician’ debuted on New York’s WOR Radio; NBC-TV aired the first movie with an AIDS theme, ‘An Early Frost’; the first video recorder was demonstrated in Los Angeles and Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees guested on NBC-TV’s ‘Boy Meets World’.
‘Rocky and his Friends’ debuted as a TV cartoon show, and Courtenay’s CFCP Radio flipped to FM to become ‘Magic FM.’
Obits include Shirley Mitchell, Jane Ace, Dayton Allen, and the voice of the Cleveland Indians Herb Score.
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Canadian Poet and Songwriter Leonard Cohen Dead at 82
Cohen released his last album just last month, on October 16. Titled You Want It Darker, it was his 14th full-length recording.
K-97’s Terry Evans joins Matt Cundill on the ‘Sound Off’ Podcast
He tells us about Terry Evans, who is 6’5” and Intimidating." There’s also a mention of Puget Sound in the first 30 seconds of the show. As a BONUS Blog, Matt weighs in on the U.S. election results....
Mainstream Media vs. President Elect Trump. Michael Rivero
The day after the election, Michael Rivero joins Talk Digital Networks Jim Goddard on the Goddard Report
THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Nov. 10th
It’s the day of birth for Miranda Lambert, Tracy Morgan, Mackenzie Phillips, sportscaster J. Paul McConnell, plus the late Richard Burton, Jane Froman, and (pictured) announcer George Fenneman.
‘The Magnificent Montague’ debuted on NBC as the last original sitcom of the network radio era; Canada’s Board of Broadcast Governors was created to replace the CBC as the industry regulator; ‘Sesame Street’ debuted on the predecessor to PBS in the US; Canada’s national 10-station radio news network CKO closed down, bankrupt; and singer Jose Feliciano appeared in a dramatic role on NBC-TV’s ‘MacMillan and Wife.’
Leaving this mortal coil were Seattle’s revered voice of baseball Dave Niehaus , actors Jack Palance, Laraine Day and Chuck Connors, and BC broadcaster and station owner Joe Chesney,
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Here’s to the return of the journalist as malcontent
Its inability to understand Donald Trump’s rise over the last year, ending in his victory Tuesday night, clearly stand among journalism’s great failures, certainly in a generation and probably in modern times.
Hannity: Election About “The Forgotten Man”
FOX News Channel personality Sean Hannity sounded pretty darn happy as he opened his national radio show today.









