Tuesday in Broadcast History .. January 18th

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This was the date that Canadian content music quotas first came into effect for AM radio stations. Victoria’s second radio station CKDA started broadcasting, some 27 years after the first station debuted. Lee Majors’ starring vehicle, ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ premiered on ABC-TV. CBS-TV aired the 100th episodes of both the sitcom ‘Good Times’ and ‘Northern Exposure,’ 17 years apart. And prolific producer Norman Lear scored yet another sitcom spinoff as ‘The Jeffersons’ (as pictured) debuted on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for Jan. 18th INSIDE.

Fox 13 Seattle launches New Nightly Newscast

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FOX 13 KCPQ-TV Seattle is launching a 6 p.m. weeknight newscast, branded FOX 13 News at 6 p.m. starting Monday.

Chicago sports broadcasting legend Les Grobstein passes away at 69

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(670 The Score) Chicago sports broadcasting icon and 670 The Score overnight host Les Grobstein passed away suddenly in his home Sunday at the age of 69.

Radio Mans fave with Bobby Gentry

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Gentry rose to international fame in 1967 with her Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe".[4] The track spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was third in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967

Monday in Broadcast History .. January 17th

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On this day in 1959, Vancouver radio station C-FUN 1410 AM took out a full page ad heralding it’s spanking new studio facilities at 1900 West 4th Avenue. Rock Hudson was born this day in 1925. Vancouver former sportscaster Jim Robson (picture) is 88 today..

Canadian Football Hall of Fame broadcaster Mal Isaac passes away at 84

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The Canadian media landscape has lost a legend, as Regina area broadcaster Mal Isaac passed away on Saturday

Ralph Emery, TV Host Known as ‘the Johnny Carson of Country Music,’ Dies at...

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Ralph Emery, a radio and TV host who became as famous in the country world as most of the stars he interviewed over the decades, died Saturday at Tristar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville