East Coast Radio Strike Ends: Stalemate for 7 Continues
The bizarre nearly-two-year strike by seven New Brunswick broadcasters has ended, but not because the Canadian Media Guild has been successful. When the Saint John-based Maritime Broadcasting System was notified that the strike was being...
Chris Scheetz 25 years later…
Our facebook friend Chris Scheetz is also celebrating a milestone....
25 years ago today I won a lottery..A job lottery. I got a job thanks to Deb McCurdy working in the CISN COUNTRY promotions department....
Grant Berg to Free FM as GM
Grant Berg is the new GM at Vista Radio’s 104.7 FREE FM in Grande Prairie. He comes from cross town CKXX 93.1 Big Country XX
Milestone for radio man Ted Farr
Congratulations to our friend Ted Farr
He's just celebrated 45 years in the Industry.
Visit Ted's website
http://www.tedfarrmedia.com/
Canadian TV ad revenue drops
May the 9th, 2014
Bad news for people working in Canadian entertainment: TV ad revenue is dropping, and broadcasters are cutting back on original programming.
Canada’s television broadcasters lost money in 2013 amid rapidly shrinking ad...
CJCD “Mix100” Rebrands as “100.1 Moose FM”
Yellowknife's Mix100 has rebranded as Moose FM, The stations owned by Vista has taken on the name used by a few of their Ontario stations.
The station was founded by Charles Dent, Derek Squirell and Reg...
FRIDAY in Broadcast History .. May 9th
ON THIS DAY in 1909,
down East fiddler/leader Don Messer was born at Tweedside, New Brunswick.
In 1929 he started his own radio show on CFBO Saint John. In 1939, he moved to Charlottetown where Don Messer and...
