Puget Sound Radio

Happy Birthday to Kim Kardashian, Judge Judy, Manfred Mann, Carrie Fisher and the Honeymooner’s Joyce Randolph. Also born this date were the late ROBERT CLOTHIER (pictured) of ‘The Beachcombers,’ Dizzy Gillespie and Hy Averbach. The UK’s Cliff Richard appeared on CBS-TV’s ‘Ed Sullivan Show.’ Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Johnny Mathis scored a #1 hit with ‘Chances Are,’ and Chuck Berry topped the charts with ‘My Ding-a-Ling.’ Bob Dylan finished his first album for Columbia, Carl Perkins taped a special for US cable in London, and the new owners of BC radio stations in Powell River and Courtenay changed formats. Passing on this date were BC broadcasters Bob Hall and Daryl Duke, musicians Edmundo Ros and Bill Black, WWII pinup Marie McDonald, Fred Berry of ‘What’s Happening,’ and Canadian patent medicine pitchman Gilbert Templeton. ALL the milestones for Oct. 21 INSIDE.

Trudeau the Elder gave Western Canada the finger: Stephen Harper gave ordinary Canadians across the country the finger ...and his party has now paid for that.

Crafting effective communication takes time. It’s easy to just talk. Anyone can open their mouths and let the sounds fall out. The result is often little more than noise that meanders aimlessly; comparable to a chicken running around with its head cut off – pure chaos

Happy Birthday to Tom Petty, MASH’s William Christopher, ‘The Office’s John Kranski, country music’s Wanda Jackson, plus the late Jerry Ohrbach, Arlene Francis, Grandpa Jones, Dr. Joyce Brothers (pictured) and Will Rogers Jr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his major invention, the electric vacuum radio tube; radio’s ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ debuted on the NBC Red network; ironman news anchor Robert Trout joined CBS radio;’Break the Bank’ debuted on Mutual radio; Walter Cronkite debuted the CBS-TV documentary series, ‘The Twentieth Century’, and Canada’s first private TV station signed on in Sudbury Ontario. Signing off forever were actors Burt Lancaster and Jane Wyatt, plus country music’s Merle Travis. See ALL the milestones for Oct. 20th INSIDE.

Oliver’s seeming desire to fight the re-election of Stephen Harper was apparently so great that he was willing to risk it all, tossing money at the camera and practically daring Canada to arrest him.

Even successful shows have many, many listeners that come to your station only occasionally as a second or third choice.

“Three sources close to @VP telling me he’s expected to announce he is running but the sources are all urging caution on 48-hr timeline,” chief White House correspondent Ed Henry tweeted.