Puget Sound Radio

Bill Stovold has accepted an excellent opportunity to lead our Group’s Engineering Division as our new Director of Information Technology & Engineering

Broadcast Dialogue details the names, big and small, who were dismissed this week at Bell operations from Ottawa and Quebec to Vancouver Island.

Laurie Graham has been appointed Acting Ottawa Bureau Chief for CTV News, effective January 1, as current Bureau Chief Robert Fife assumes a new role at the Globe and Mail. Fife remains at CTV as host of Question Period.

Happy Birthday to Larry King, Dick Cavett, Ted Turner, Alan Young, Allison Janney, Meg Ryan and Jodie Foster. On this date the first mass market transistor pocket radio was introduced; the cartoon series ‘Rocky & his Friends’ debuted on ABC-TV; Linda Ronstadt appeared as herself on FOX-TV’s ‘The Simpsons’; a six-hour Beatles Anthology began airing on North American radio; NBC aired the 100th episode of their hit drama ‘ER’; Vancouvers X-FM 104.9 switched to All Christmas music, and a year later Victoria’s CHBE107.3 did the same. Ending their stay with us Nov. 19th were US sportscaster Bill Stern, songwriter Bobby Russell, producer Terry Melcher, Dick Wilson of Charmin toilet tissue ad fame, and Toronto-based classical actor John Neville. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

It is unclear how many jobs in total were cut in Tuesday’s layoffs, which focused on the studios in Agincourt, Ont., where TSN and CTV News are based.

Before Newcaps purchase of K96-3, Gray (Pictured) was instrumental in the launch of the Classic Rock station in Kelowna