- 11/20/09 - Movie maker and CBC Vancouver television
producer Bob Gray died Monday, November 16 at age 75. During his career he produced
a host of movies and TV programs, including The
Beachcombers and spent nine years working with Aaron Spelling on the highly successful ABC series
The Love Boat. Vancouver
Sun obituary
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- 11/20/09 - The CRTC has approved an application by
the CBC to change its transmitter in Tahsis from AM to FM on 90.5 MHz with an ERP of
46.5 watts non-directional at minus 209 metres HAAT. The transmitter broadcasts
the Radio One programming of CBCV-FM
90.5 Victoria. CRTC
decision
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- 11/19/09 - CBC
Vancouver is holding an Open House/Food Bank Day at their newly renovated,
state-of-the-art broadcast centre at 700 Hamilton Street 5:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday,
December 4. There will be media archives, vintage gear displays and visitors can
watch both radio and TV live broadcasts, meet staff and on-air personalities and support a
worthy cause by donating to the Food Bank. CBC info
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- 11/18/09 - Buzz
Bishop, who entertained for 16 years at CKZZ-FM
95.3 Vancouver (now Virgin Radio) through a number of the station's
incarnations, has announced that he will be hosting mornings starting next month at AMP
Radio CKMP-FM 90.3 Calgary. Buzz Bishop blog
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- 11/18/09 - Owen Murphy has been elevated from APD to
PD at KIRO AM 710 Seattle. He has been a producer at MLB.com and ESPN Radio. Radio Online
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- 11/17/09 - The flip of CFUN AM 1410 Vancouver to
all-sports as Team 1410 on November 5 came
with further personnel changes, with weekend/fill-in host Stone Phillips moving to
mornings at the station under the new format, and show host Mannie Buzunis to news reader
at sister station QM/FM CHQM-FM 103.5. Radio Real Estate with host Tom Lucas
has moved to 10 a.m. Saturdays on CISL AM 650.
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- 11/17/09 - University of Puget Sound radio KUPS-FM 90.1 Tacoma has won the Radio Woodie as
the top U.S. college radio station for 2009 from MTV’s college television network mtvU. About 300 radio stations were nominated for
the award which recognizes college radio stations for their role in championing
independent artists before they achieve mainstream success. More than three million
votes were cast online. KUPS release
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- 11/14/09 - Ubiquitous Global BC CHAN-TV/8 Vancouver news anchor Tony Parsons'
new book A Life In The
News has been released. The book covers his life from the beginning in
England to his 36+ years on air in Vancouver. With Tony as anchor, the News Hour
has had one of the highest viewerships in North America. Chapters
Indigo
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- 11/14/09 - The movie Pirate Radio opened
yesterday in North America. Local personalities Steve Young (CJVI Victoria) and
Gordon Cruse now living in Victoria, along with Mick Luvzit, who jocked at LG73 CKLG and CKST
Vancouver and more recently hosted mornings at Praise KWPZ-FM 106.5 Lynden, were at Radio Caroline.
Yesterday, Global BC aired an interview
with Gordon Cruse. The clip can be viewed here under the heading News Hour
Final - Nov. 13 Full Newscast at the 7:55 countdown mark. Pirate Radio trailer Pirate Radio Hall of Fame Radio
Caroline pages: Gordon Cruse Mick Luvzit Steve Young
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- 11/13/09 - Phil Evans has been named promotions
director at Rogers Radio Vancouver, which includes JACK CKLG-FM 96.9, Fun-FM CKCL-FM 104.9 and News1130 CKWX AM. He formerly held similar positions at
Astral Media and Corus Entertainment Vancouver clusters.
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- 11/12/09 - KVI AM
570 Seattle morning host Kirby Wilbur has been
pulled from the station's website, leading to speculation that he is yet another victim of
on-air staff reduction in local radio. Reports indicate that today was his last
broadcast. Before joining KVI he was a real estate appraiser. Seattle
Times update Fisher statement
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- 11/12/09 - CKCL-FM
104.9 Vancouver (Chilliwack/Abbotsford) has switched its imaging from The Greatest
Hits of All Time to Vancouver's Greatest Hits, Fun FM. Format
and staff continue basically unchanged. The first new station ID aired just after
midnight. New
logo from Wikipedia
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- 11/11/09 - KIRO-FM 97.3 morning news co-anchor Jane Shannon apparently has
left the building, as she is no longer listed on the station's website. She joined
KIRO's news staff in 1994.
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- 11/10/09 - A second show has been added to a special
fundraiser for Vancouver broadcaster Jennifer Thomson, who was diagnosed with thyroid
cancer this past summer. The Tuesday night stand-up comedy event takes place at Darby's Pub in Vancouver on November 24th. Puget Sound
Radio Vancouver
Province backgrounder
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- 11/10/09 - John Pollard, president and general
manager of CHEK-TV/6
Victoria says the station is exceeding the amount of local content required under its new
mandate with the CRTC and that reports of million dollar a month losses are not accurate.
CHEK has an agreement to run off-island Global
news feeds until next March. Darron
Kloster, Victoria Times Colonist Meanwhile, former CHEK news reporter/anchor Bob
Kendrick recently joined WSYX-TV Columbus OH.
WSYX
info
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- 11/09/09 - The CRTC has approved
the application by 0859291 B.C. Ltd. to acquire the assets of CHEK-TV/6 Victoria and its
transmitters in Sooke, River Jordan, Port Alberni and Campbell River. 0859291 B.C.
Ltd.is a consortium of local investors, 39 employees of CHEK-TV and
Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union locals, which effectively rescued CHEK from
imminent closure in early September. CRTC decision
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- 11/08/09 - The transmitter
relocation of KLOP-FM 88.1 Ocean Park (11/06/09 below) to 46-58-31
123-08-16, southwest of Olympia, will end the operation of translator K201AB
88.1 West Seattle, which provided an excellent signal for KPLU-FM 88.5
into the downtown Seattle area. KLOP's new site is on Capitol Peak, the
same one used by KNBQ-FM 102.9 Centralia.
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- 11/07/09 - Kim Hesketh, VP/GM of
Rogers Radio Victoria (The Ocean CIOC-FM 98.5/Jack
CHTT-FM 103.1) is retiring effective December 31.
In Vancouver, Crosby McWilliam recently moved from his position of promotions
director at Rock 101 CFMI-FM 101.1 to the
same position at Astral Media's CISL AM 650/Virgin
Radio CKZZ-FM 95.3.
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- 11/06/09 - The new all-sports Team
1410 CFUN AM Vancouver will carry all B.C. Lions Canadian Football League games, beginning
with tonight’s regular season finale, whereas it previously ran the games when they
conflicted with Canucks broadcasts on Team 1040 CKST
AM. Team 1410 will carry syndicated sports shows headed by Jim Rome,
Dan Patrick and Bob McCown, and will have play-by-play broadcasts of games from the
National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, English
Premier League soccer, UEFA Champions League and NCAA college football, including major
bowl games. A half-hour roundup show of scores and highlights will be broadcast
weekdays between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. 19 people were displaced by yesterday's format
change and four others were affected. Marke
Andrews, Vancouver Sun Marc Weber,
The Province
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- 11/06/09 - The FCC has granted a
modification of construction permit to Educational
Media Foundation for KLOP-FM 88.1 Ocean Park to relocate its transmitter from 46-41-46
123-46-17 near Raymond to 46-58-31
123-08-16 southwest of Olympia. Power will increase from .55 kW non-directional
to 89 kW directional (original CP 84 kW granted 12/19/08) and HAAT will change from 318.2
to 657 meters. FCC
data
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- 11/05/09 - The CFUN AM 1410 Vancouver format swap to all-sports this
morning comes with the cancellation of all its previous weekday and weekend programming.
Gone are Simi Sara, Nikki Renshaw, Dave Brindle, the producers of all the local
programs, 30-year CFUN veteran PD Stu Ferguson, sales manager John Nicholson and much of
the sales staff, along with syndicated programs Dr. Laura Show, Dr. Joy
Browne Show and Coast to Coast. Reports indicate that former
p.m. drive host Joe Leary will be reassigned to other duties. Meanwhile at sister
station QM/FM CHQM-FM 103.5, David Milne and
Shelley Joyce are gone, as weekender Dale Wolfe picks up more on-air duties.
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- 11/05/09 - A major change at CFUN AM 1410 Vancouver this morning as the former talk
station has become Team 1410. The news release by CHUM Radio Vancouver
states the station, "Will be the new home for world class sports personalities
including Jim Rome, Dan Patrick, Bob McCown and the best of the best ESPN sports
insiders." CFUN joins sister station Team
1040 CKST as the second all-sports station in Vancouver. News release
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- 11/05/09 - Seattle-based Fisher Communications reports net losses for its 3rd
quarter 2009, which includes $2.6 million after-tax loss related to the Fisher Plaza fire
in early July. It expects a significant portion of the fire costs will be covered by
its insurance policies. The company will host a conference call today at 1:00 p.m.
PT. Fisher
release
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- 11/03/09 - Vancouver-based Bohn
and Associates Media has announced that effective January 1, it will merge with SparkNet Communications, owner of the Jack-FM and Playing What We
Want trademarks outside of Canada. The new SparkNet will operate in Canada, the
U.S. and abroad with a head office in Vancouver. Bohn and Associates
release
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- 11/03/09 - On-air moves at Shore
CHHR-FM 104.1 Vancouver have Steve Dunbar moving
from middays to morning drive with local writer/comedian Colleen
Brow co-hosting and reading news. Gord Rutherford progresses from weekends to
middays.
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- 11/03/09 - 25-year programming
veteran Mike Preston has been hired as program director of The Wolf KKWF-FM 100.7 Seattle effective November 9.
He returns from San Francisco to the Seattle market, where he was previously PD at Kiss
KBKS-FM 106.1. He replaces former Wolf
PD Scott Mahalick. Radio Online
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- 11/03/09 - Former CKWX
Vancouver broadcaster Norris McLean, whose career was mostly in Edmonton radio and
television, was known for his warm and tender personality. He died October 4 at age
76. Cigdem Iltan, Edmonton Journal
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