Puget Sound Radio

Vancouver: CBC Radio One grabs the #1 spot for A12+ with an 11.7% share of hours tuned (down from 13.6% last time out). Taking the top spot for F25-54 was QM-FM, posting a 13.0% share (down from 16.5% last time out). Edmonton: 102.3 NOW Radio rules the roost for A12+ posting a 13.2% share of hours tuned (up from 11.8%). NOW! Calgary: NewsTalk 770 leads the way for A12+ with a 9.0% (up from 8.2%). Country105 is popular with the ladies, taking #1 spot for F25-54 delivering a 12.1% share (up from 10.4%). Read Much More Inside, including link to the David Bray website...

CKNW has been regaining, but the big news is LG 104, which is now in 6th place. Still not much life with KiSS !

Another Corus News Talker, QR 77 regains its strength, followed by Country 105. So much for Pattison's new WILD FM, which is in the basement.

NOW continues to lead the pack, followed by CISN. Virgin has dropped again, with the same percentage of Share as HOT, 2.7

After working at NOW for the last 3 years, Mark D is heading to the west coast

IT WAS SEPT. 9th .. when the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was formed as a broadcasting service of the Radio Corporation of America, with partners General Electric & Westinghouse. 26 stations made up the US’s first national radio network … When the 1st broadcast of the long-running TV soap “Love of Life” aired on CBS… When 54 million viewers (82.6 percent of the U.S. television audience) turned their TV dials to the ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ on CBS to see 21-year-old Elvis “The Pelvis” Presley … .. and when NBC-TV’s “Huntley-Brinkley Report” (pictured), their evening newscast, expanded from 15 to 30 minutes, as had the CBS News (with Walter Cronkite) a week earlier. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!

Robinson’s vast career highlights are remarkable, from introducing The Beatles to the stage, ushering Randy Bachman to the status of superstardom, and as part of EXPO ’86, presenting The Legends of Rock’n’Roll featuring Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Righteous Brothers. Red Robinson recalls the highs, hurdles and triumphs of a celebrated time in rock-and-roll history, presented by the man who dug into the guts, glory and glitz that only a champion of the frontlines of music really can.