Puget Sound Radio

Retired Broadcast Journalist Dave Biro reflects back with nostalgia about his first job in the biz...

Hudson Mack's career began in 1980 at CFJC (Kamloops) and CKPG (Prince George). In 1985 he moved to Victoria and worked for CHEK TV, The New VI, A-Channel and CTV Vancouver Island

It’s the day when Don McNeill of radio’s ‘Breakfast Club’ and James Gregory of TV’s ‘Barney Miller’ were born. As well it’s Happy Birthday to Harry Shearer, Susan Lucci, Patrick Watson and Eddie Vedder. The BBC began regular daily radio newscasts; NBC began programming its national radio network; the first complete opera (Hansel & Gretel) was televised on WRGB Schenectady; Swift Current got local TV service as CJFB signed on; the daytime soap ‘The Young and the Restless’ premiered on CBS-TV; and the 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' cartoon was televised for the first time. Obits for Dec. 23 include Dragnet’s Jack Webb, Canadian jazzman Oscar Peterson, comic pianist Victor Borge and actor Charlie Ruggles. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Harvard scoops up another one...

Over the last 18 years, I’ve complained about HD Radio and I’ve praised HD Radio (Eric Rhoads – CEO RadioInk)

4K brings viewers even closer to the action with four times the pixels of HD for higher resolution and improved motion video.

Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. filed an application for authority to acquire from L.A. Radio Group Inc. the assets of the English-language commercial radio station CJUV-FM Lacombe