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2 Thousands tweets by noon, KEXP was mentioned in 808 tweets in the past day — and the station hosted 10,000 live streams, double its normal online listenership.

IT WAS JULY 25th ... when the Canadian Marconi Company made the first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast from Signal Hill, Newfoundland, to the S-S "Victoria" 1200 miles away... When 2XAG in Schenectady, NY (later known as WGY) became the first radio station in the U.S. to broadcast with a 50,000-watt transmitter.... When in pre-WWII New York City TV station W2XBS presented television's first musical comedy.The show was Topsy and Eva .... ..and when NBC-TV's "Midnight Special" featured songs by Neil Sedaka, Janis Ian, Jessi Colter, and Kraftwerk. Hostess for the week was Helen Reddy (pictured). ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

The relatively smooth approval process is in direct contrast with Comcast, whose bid to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion was quashed by regulators earlier this year.

IT WAS JULY 24th .. when U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped in the middle of his 4th 'Fireside Chat' on national radio and asked for a glass of water, which he then sipped... When the melodramatic "Romance of Helen Trent" debuted on midwest regional radio before becoming a CBS network staple three months later, and running daily for the next 27 years!... When NBC correspondent Edwin Newman became news anchor of the TV network's 'Today Show'.... ..and when the independent sales of three BC radio stations.. CJAT Trail. CJAV Port Alberni, and CKAY Duncan .. were approved by the CRTC. ALL the milestones for July 24th INSIDE.

Rose worked at a number of local stations during his career, including host of DX Prowl on CKMO Vancouver in 1945, moving on to CHWK Chilliwack and CKNW New Westminster, then CFUN Vancouver and CJJC Langley.