Puget Sound Radio

PSR presents 'On Air Talent' by Paul Kaye (Pictured)

IT WAS APRIL 6th .. when the comic strip 'Little Orphan Annie' came to life for the first time on NBC radio ... When 'This is Your FBI' debuted as a weekly 30-minute drama on ABC radio .. When Swanson & sons introduced their frozen 'TV Dinner'... When Bob Hope (pictured) hosted the 31st Annual Academy Awards that named 'Gigi' best picture... and when singers Peggy Lee & Tony Bennett, and comics Rodney Dangerfield & Joan Rivers headlined the Easter Sunday edition of CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show. ALL the milestones for the date, including Rudy Hartman's 99th birthday ... INSIDE.

630 CHED's morning talk show host Ryan Jespersen (Pictured) welcomed Canada's Prime Minister into his studio last week...

IT WAS APRIL 5th … when less than five months after the first NBC network broadcast from New York, the Pacific Coast-based NBC ‘Orange’ network aired its first programmming from temporary studios in San Francisco…. When 19-year old Barbra Streisand (pictured) made her first network television appearance on NBC’s late night “Jack Paar Show” with guest host Orson Bean… When the final episode of the original ‘Hawaii Five-0’ aired on CBS-TV… and when the FOX Broadcasting Company debuted coast-to-coast in the US with two Sunday night comedy shows, Married..With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Ronn Owens to remain at KGO.... much more inside

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.