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NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt says: “Simon knows this format better than anyone and he’s been producing the show with us since the beginning, so we’re thrilled to have him to step in front of the camera and take his rightful place at the head of the judges’ panel."

It’s the date MARIE OSMOND (pictured) fainted during a live telecast of ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’; Alan Freed brought his all-star rock ‘n’ roll show to Portland; and the Kingston Trio guested on NBC-TV’s WWII drama ‘Convoy.’ Tommy Edwards scored his biggest selling #1 ‘It’s All in the Game,’ and ten years later to the day, passed away. The Beach Boys released their next Chart Topper ‘Good Vibrations,’ while Chubby Checker did ‘The Twist’ on the Ed Sullivan Show. Happy Birthday to Vancouver breakfast broadcaster Kim Seale and to Howard Stern's mother, while at the other end, obits for Oct. 22 include Soupy Sales, Cleavon Little, Mary Wickes, Melfort Sask.’s Arthur Hill, sportscaster Red Barber, and CBS Newsman Robert Pierpoint. Details & ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

Ingels appeared on a number of iconic television shows including “I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster,” “Bewitched,” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

Newspaper ad spending jumped 18 percent in September, and was up 16 percent for the quarter.

630 CHED’s Bob Layton is writing a book about the history of the radio station, featuring mostly the zany stuff that happened on the station in the 1970′s Top 40 era — with people like Wes Montgomery, Bob McCord, Eddie Keen, Len Thuesen, Rob Christie and my late father Jerry Forbes on staff