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Talk Digital Networks Jim Goddard of The Goddard Report talks with Sharon Noble

Actors Tab Hunter and Sela Ward, announcer Harry Von Zell (pictured)l and Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd were born on July 11th. Elvis had his final Sun Records session, Mac Davis debuted his summer CBS-TV variety show, Rupert Holmes hosted NBC-TV’s Midnight Special, and Frank Sinatra married for the 4th time. Obits this date include Vancouver talk radio host Gary Bannerman, composer George Gershwin, singers Helen Forrest and Frances Langford, actors Laurence Olivier and Ray Collins, and iconic New York Yankee P.A. announcer Bob Sheppard. All the milestones for July 11th are INSIDE.

After revamping The New VI and leading it to success as A-Channel and then CTV, Mack left the station. “Time is right for a change,” he told dismayed viewers, but there’s more to the story, and in Hudson Mack, the broadcast veteran reveals the rest of the truth.

Indeed, if I were hiring a radio talent I would ask them questions like these: How big is your personal audience, the one you have direct relationships with, as measured by social media? How many Twitter followers do you have? How big is your Facebook fan page, and how strong is your engagement? come in and read the rest of Mark's list, plus more...

IT WAS JULY 10th ... when a radio show of international intrigue 'The Man Called X,' debuted on CBS radio, beginning an 8-year run on the networks .... When New York's WINS Radio announced the hiring of pioneer rock deejay Alan Freed to be the host of their "Rock 'n' Roll Party'... When the short-lived "Gladys Knight & the Pips'' Summer Series premiered on NBC-TV... .. and when Victoria's first radio station CJVI AM900 cut costs by dropping its talk shows and went back to playing popular music of the 60s, 70s and 80s. ALL the milestones for July 10th are found INSIDE.

From Al Peterson's NTS Media OnLine Another day, another Voltair story — and another day with still no word from Nielsen about the whole controversy