SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. July 16th
IT WAS JULY 16th … when Diana Ross & the Supremes guest hosted NBC-TV’s Tonight Show, while at the same hour Janis Joplin was the sole guest on ABC-TV’s Dick Cavett Show….
When Los Angeles disc jockey Rick Dees (pictured) debuted his late night TV show “Into The Night with Rick Dees” on ABC-TV…
When the Beach Boys appeared on NBC-TV’s Today Show, on the 37th anniversary of their signing by Capitol Records…
..and when the domestic TV diva Martha Stewart was sentenced to 5 months in prison,
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Trump’s VP Pick was Once a Radio Talk Show Host
The Mike Pence (pictured) Show was syndicated by Network Indiana on 19 stations statewide, the largest of which was WIBC/Indianapolis
FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. July 15th
IT WAS JULY 15th … when “Music and the Spoken Word” debuted on KSL Salt Lake City. It is still heard today on 2,000 radio & TV stations worldwide…
When radio station CKLN 1420 first went on the air in Nelson, B.C….
When 24-year old singer Patti Page made her TV debut in a summer replacement series for Perry Como..
..and when cable news network MSNBC began operations in Secaucus, New Jersey, a joint project of Microsoft & NBC TV.
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Radio Daze from Kamloops, and the JC 55 on air crew
We've identified a few of this early 1980's photo of the band Harlequin, and few friendly JC 55 jocks you may know....
This is why your radio ad isn’t working, by Ryan Ghidoni
“The answer is simple…because it’s bullshit.”
THURSDAY in Broadcast History .. July 14th
IT WAS JULY 14th … when satirist Stan Freberg (pictured) debuted a weekly sketch comedy series on CBS Radio; it ran for 15 unsponsored weeks….
When one of the shock jock’s early forays into TV, “The Howard Stern Summer Show” premiered on WWOR-TV in New York City…
When TV trash-talk show host Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio…
..and when two distinguished network news anchors, CBS’s Douglas Edwards and NBC’s John Chancellor, were born.
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Are Roger Ailes Defenders Acting in Their Own Self-Interest?
Most executives have to donate enough money to merit one of those humanitarian-award tribute dinners to hear the kind of accolades now being heaped upon Ailes. And all he had to do was get accused of sexual harassment.
