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- 05/16/12 - The FCC has
granted license to cover to Chehalis Valley Educational Foundation for
KACW-FM 91.3 South Bend. It operates with an ERP of 225 watts
directional at 271 meters HAAT. FCC data
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- 05/15/12 - KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
has announced that KUOW2 will no longer be broadcast on KXOT-FM 91.7
Tacoma after Friday, June 29, but will continue on KUOW HD–2 and
streamed on KUOW2.org. After six years of broadcasting KUOW2 programming, KXOT'S audience share is only 0.2 percent. KUOW release
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- 05/14/12 - KOMO-TV Seattle anchor Kathi Goertzen,
who has battled a series of debilitating brain tumors requiring nine
surgeries, bonds with her family. The tumors have taken away parts
of her vision, hearing and speech, and the anchor job of nearly 30
years. Sandy Ringer, Seattle Times
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- 05/13/12 - On this day in 1963 Pat Burns'
Hotline debuted on CJOR Vancouver and talk radio was off to the
races. Glen Livingstone tells the story of the gravely-voiced
former BBC and Vancouver Province reporter and CKLG news director who
turned the talk format on its ear. Radio-Info.com
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- 05/12/12 - Shaw Cable is discontinuing its FM radio carriage on Vancouver Island. In
Victoria, the service included local and some Vancouver and Seattle FM
stations. Shaw has announced that removal of FM stations allows
the freeing up of additional bandwidth, for faster Internet delivery speeds, increased HD content and more on-demand programming. Stop the Cap Shaw release Shaw Victoria FM
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- 05/11/12 - Legendary Vancouver broadcaster Red Robinson reminisces with photos taken at CKWX and CFUN after his return from the US Army in the early 1960s. RedRobinson.com
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- 05/09/12 - Roo Phelps, who has been hosting evenings at JRfm CJJR-FM 93.7 Vancouver since 2007, moves to Country 100.7, CIGV-FM 100.7 Penticton next Monday, May 14 as ‘Okanagan Mornings with Troy and Roo’ debuts. She will host with Troy Scott, known for his work at CMT and Jim Pattison Broadcast Group's Kelowna stations.
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- 05/08/12 - Former CHEK-TV and CIVI-TV Victoria reporter/anchor Meribeth Burton, now a corporate spokesperson with B.C. Transit, introduces Transit TV, an online resource highlighting stories of the people behind and services offered by the bus company. Erin McCracken, Victoria News
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- 05/08/12 - Washington State University football and men's basketball are moving from KTTH AM 770 to KIRO AM 710
Seattle this season in the second year of a three-year deal between the
Cougars and station owners. Bob Robertson will continue as the
play-by-play voice but there are other changes. Games will air on
KTTH during scheduling conflicts. All Access Music Group
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- 05/07/12 - Reimagine CBC features a public forum of seasoned professionals, up-and-coming CBC
talent, outside experts, media innovators, and citizens in a
celebratory event to add new energy to the CBC and help articulate a
fresh vision for public media. It runs at 7 p.m. today at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, with a live interactive video stream. Fiona Marrow, The Globe and Mail
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- 05/07/12 - Alan "Al"
MacMillan, longtime operator at CBC Radio Vancouver, died at age 90 at
his retirement home in Nanaimo May 1. He got his start in the
1940s at CJVI Victoria. There will be no service by request.
Times Colonist obituary
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- 05/03/12 - Seattle based Fisher Communications, Inc.
has announced a 10% drop in consolidated revenue with net TV revenue
flat compared to first quarter 2011. There was a 9% increase in
developing media revenue and an 8% increase in retransmission
revenue. Fisher release
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- 05/03/12 - Janene Drafs has been promoted to vice president and station manager at KOMO-TV/KUNS-TV Seattle. She is a 25-year employee of Fisher Communications, most recently vice president and general sales manager of the two Fisher stations. TV Spy
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- 05/03/12 - 30-year veteran KING TV Seattle photographer Richard Departee was roughed up while covering the May Day march in downtown Seattle on Tuesday. TV Spy
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- 05/02/12 - JACK FM CHTT-FM 103.1
Victoria has severed ties with morning host Tarzan Dan Freeman, who was
hosting the show from Rogers' Vancouver studios after being displaced
from CFUN-FM 104.9 when it changed format last August. Puget Sound Radio
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- 05/02/12 - Former
Vancouver broadcaster Chris Olsen, who was fired February 13 after less
than a year as press secretary for British Columbia Premier Christy Clark,
was awarded $67,298 in severance. Olsen held a number of radio
and TV positions in Vancouver and was most recently host of Olsen on Your Side from 2001-11 on CTV British Columbia. Jonathan Fowlie, Vancouver Sun
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