SATURDAY in Broadcast History .. Feb. 13th

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Jack Webb’s (pictured) first popular radio series, ‘Pat Novack for Hire,’ went national on ABC, following a successful West Coast run. The pre-school children’s show ‘Mr. Dressup’ with Ernie Coombs began a nearly 30 year run on CBC-TV. ABC-TV announced it had renewed ‘NYPD Blue’ for a tenth seaason. And campus radio station CJSF FM 90.1 signed-on from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby. ALL the milestones for Feb. 13th INSIDE.

Sirius XM Canada Looking at a Purchase Offer

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Shares of Sirius XM Canada Holdings, which owns Sirius XM Canada Inc, rose 16 percent to C$4.26 in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

X-Files Smoking Man talks with Martin Strong of Roundhouse Radio

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Roundhouse Radio's Martin Strong interviews William B. Davis aka The Smoking Man from The X Files

New Voices for Seattle Sounders TV & Radio

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FOX Sports’ Keith Costigan is the Sounders play-by-play broadcaster for TV, and longtime pre-match radio host Matt Johnson will do play by play on the radio

KING-TV to Debut New Studio Tomorrow

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The new building is at the Home Plate Center in the South of Downtown neighborhood. KING’s first broadcast from its new home will be Saturday at 7 a.m

FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. Feb. 12th

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It’s the date that Calvin Coolidge made the first US presidential political speech on radio. When Winnipeg’s CKY moved up the dial from 910 KHz to 780. When Vancouver’s CKWX was authorized to increase power from 100 watts to a whopping 1,000 watts. When the comic strip superhero ‘Superman’ made his first appearance on radio via New York’s WOR. And when actor Nicholas Colasanto (pictured), who played Coach on NBC-TV’s Cheers, died of a heart ailment partway through the the third season of the sitcom at age 61. Details and ALL the milestones for Feb. 12th INSIDE.

Matthew McBride’s Van. Island Stations are on the CRTC’s ‘Naughty List’

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The stations have not filed a pile of required paperwork, e.g. annual returns, submission of radio monitoring material, response to requests for information and Canadian content.