Puget Sound Radio

Lots of industry buzz in the aftermath of yesterday’s (3/31) seismic shake-up and significant layoffs at Cumulus Media/San Francisco and KGO in now Stunting ...

Corus cuts in management include Mario Cecchini and Christine Shipton, as well as GM's across the country in the Corus Radio Division, Mark Dickie (Ottawa), Dave McCutcheon (Peterborough, Kingston, Oshawa), Garry McKenzie (Calgary) and Scott Armstrong (Winnipeg)

The entertainer had been suffering from ill-health for some time and had been in hospital in 2014 with gall bladder problems.

On APRIL FIRST .. Victoria’s first radio station CFCL went on the air for the first time, broadcasting the Easter Sunday sunrise service from the top of Mt. Tolmie. The same day the predecessor to Vancouver’s CKWX went on the air in Nanaimo .. with a whopping 10 watts of power, 23 years later on April 1st, Port Alberni got its own 250 watter, CJAV AM 1240. It was April 1st when Chet Huntley (pictured) began his career with NBC News.. and when ‘General Hospital’ began its record-setting run (53 years so far) as a key part of the ABC-TV daytime schedule. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

NTS MediaOnline Today has learned that a number of pink-slips — primarily in the KGO News department and at sister station KFOG-FM — have been handed out today as part of a repositioning plan for both stations