THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 25th
IT WAS AUG. 25th .. when ‘Father Knows Best’ starring Robert Young began its 4-year run on NBC Radio…
When the TV game show “Concentration” with Hugh Downs (pictured) aired for the first time on NBC…
When the 43rd Emmy Awards gave their top trophies to LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley and Patricia Wettig…
..and when the CRTC approved CHUB Nanaimo to move from 1570 KHz to 102.3 MHz, CHPQ Parksville from 1370 KHz to 99.9 MHz, and CKEG Nanaimo from 1350 KHz to 1570 KHz.
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WEDNESDAY in Broadcast History .. Aug. 24th
IT WAS AUG. 24th .. when the CBC’s CBX AM1010 signed on with 50,000 watts at Lacombe Alberta, in an ultimately failed attempt to serve both Edmonton and Calgary with one transmitter …
When Montreal-born William Shatner appeared for the first time on the cover of TV Guide, with fellow Star Trek actors Deforest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy …
When a spinoff of the sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” “The Facts of Life” debuted on NBC-TV, starting a nine year run….
..and when NBC TV’s Jay Leno was the host as Microsoft officially rolled out their Windows 95 operating system in the Seattle suburb of Redmond.
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Elizabeth May: Just Another Self-Serving Politician, by Harvey Oberfeld
May has announced … despite the Green Party’s lurch to the extreme far left and it’s deliberate new policy singling out of the only democracy in the Middle East … Israel … for a hateful discriminatory total boycott of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE emanating from that nation … that she will stay on as Leader.
RIP Law & Order Actor Steven Hill, 94, ‘One of the Most Intelligent People’
Starting with the show's debut on NBC in 1990, the Seattle-born Hill anchored the legal side of the long-running procedural for its first 10 seasons.
Former Fox News Host Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit, Names Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Bill...
"Behind the scenes, Fox News operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny,” suit says
Is your show funny? by Paul Kaye
Fun means enjoyment or light hearted pleasure whilst being funny means causing laughter. Fun creates the environment and being funny creates an action. Fun creates a satisfying feeling but being funny actually causes an audience to react to what is unfolding in front of them. Funny is – and always will be - more important than fun, despite what any programmer or consultant may tell you.










