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- 09/02/10 - Long time CBC
Television Vancouver audio department staff member Larry Watson died August 22 at age 79.
He was with CBC from 1965 until retirement. A celebration of life for friends
and family will be held at a future date. Sun/Province
obituary
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- 08/31/10 - An advance copy of the September 2010 edition of Clay's Corner, prepared by Clay Freinwald for the
Seattle Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers
newsletter The Waveguide is offered here
as a courtesy to our readers.
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- 08/30/10 - After 43 years in the business, Vancouver
broadcaster Tom Jeffries is leaving radio. His final Talk to the Experts
program will air Saturday (09/04) at 2 p.m. on CKNW AM 980.
During his career, Tom has entertained at such notable stations as CFAX Victoria,
CFUN and CKKS-FM Vancouver, CFRA Ottawa, CJCH Halifax and CFTR Toronto, and was morning
host at 600 AM CKBD Vancouver from 2001-03. He will be joining award
winning television director Lawrence McDonald
at Urban Media.
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- 08/30/10 - Update: Radio India KVRI AM 1600 Blaine owner Maninder Gill
has been charged in the shooting of Surrey contractor Harjit Singh Atwal on Saturday.
He is due back in court Wednesday for a bail hearing. Radio India
studios are located across the border in Surrey. Kim
Bolan, Vancouver Sun
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- 08/30/10 - Former KVOS-TV Bellingham
anchor/reporter/weatherman Joe
Bates was killed Saturday (08/28) when he fell from a ladder at his home and struck
his head on the ground. He was 60 and currently working as Whatcom County’s
information and communications coordinator. He worked at KNWR-FM (now KAFE) in
Bellingham in the early 1970s and more recently hosted weekend shifts on Praise
KWPZ-FM Lynden. Isabelle
Dills, The Bellingham Herald
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- 08/27/10 - Tribune
Company has announced an increase of 44% in consolidated operating cash flow for the
first seven months of this year compared to last. Chapter 11 reorganization began in
late 2008. Tribune owns newspapers, a Chicago radio station and TV stations
including Seattle market KCPQ-TV and KMYQ-TV. Radio Ink All
Access Music Group
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- 08/26/10 - The FCC has granted a modification of
construction permit to Educational Media Foundation to increase power of KLWA-FM 101.3
Westport from 1.2 kW non-directional at -6 meters HAAT to 5 kW non-directional at 49
meters HAAT at its current transmitter location. FCC
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- 08/25/10 - Former CFUN Vancouver general manager Ron
Carabine died August 17 following a lengthy illness. He was 86. Carabine was
at the helm of CFUN when it changed call letters to CKVN in 1969, following an ownership
change the previous year. There will be a private family funeral. Sun/Province
obituary
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- 08/24/10 - The CRTC has granted a short-term renewal
for the Aboriginal Voices Radio licenses
for a two year period, following its failure to comply with a minimum 25% local
programming. AVR indicated that it plans to build a studio in Vancouver this year
and increase staffing levels. It operates CKAV-FM-2 106.3 Vancouver, along with
stations in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton. CRTC decision
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- 08/20/10 - 1960's KJR Seattle jock Jimmy Darren
climbed the radio ladder quickly to eventually own a number of stations in the southern
U.S. BlatherWatch
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- 08/19/10 - CKNW AM
980 Vancouver news reporter Nafeesa Karim is leaving the station to join CTV
British Columbia CIVT-TV in mid September.
She was involved in the planning and execution of Olympic coverage and had been
with 'NW since 2006.
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- 08/19/10 - Global
National news anchor Kevin
Newman will host his final newscast Friday evening. He announced in April that
he would be stepping down and making a career change. He has been executive editor
and anchor of the national suppertime newscast since 2001. It was broadcast from the
Global BC CHAN-TV Vancouver studios
until 2008, when it was relocated to Ottawa. It returns to Vancouver with new host Dawna Friesen next month. Gayle
MacDonald, The Globe and Mail
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- 08/19/10 - Reports have been received that Steve
Parsons is out as program director at Vancouver market Rock 101 CFMI-FM 101.1 with CFOX-FM
99.3 PD Chris "Dunner" Duncombe assuming PD responsibility for both Corus
stations. Parsons had been with Rock 101 since 2005.
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- 08/17/10 - KRKO AM
1380 Everett replaced two of the four towers needed to broadcast its nighttime signal
yesterday and today. The 349 foot and 199 foot towers were destroyed by vandals last
September. Antenna testing is scheduled to begin in October. Photos courtesy KRKO. Meanwhile, investigators
now say that the towers could have been destroyed by an upset neighbor rather than as a
act of eco-terrorism. KIRO-TV
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- 08/17/10 - Former KVI
AM 570 Seattle morning host Kirby Wilbur has
returned to local airwaves Mondays on KTTH AM 770
for a segment entitled Four O'clock Freedom Shot, which airs during the David Boze Show. He was released from
KVI last November.
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- 08/17/10 - The CRTC has approved an application by
Hornby Community Radio Society to operate a very low power developmental community FM
station on Hornby Island. It will operate on 96.5 MHz with an ERP of 5 watts
non-directional at 30 meters HAAT. A similar application was approved in 2007, but
wasn't implemented. CRTC
release
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- 08/16/10 - The Vancouver Giants have named Dan Elliott their
new media relations director and play-by-play announcer on Vancouver market AM650 CISL. He was formerly with Sports
Page and is currently a fill-in sports anchor at Global BC CHAN-TV Vancouver. Our Sports Central
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- 08/15/10 - From his beginings in radio at CKMO
Vancouver in 1944, through a lengthy real estate career, and his CJOR radio shows now
being rebroadcast on his website, Wilf Ray is still
going strong at age 83. Katherine
Fawcett, REM Online
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- 08/14/10 - Two KRKO
AM 1380 Everett transmission towers, which were toppled by vandals last September,
will be re-installed on Monday, allowing the station to return to full power. A
$25,000 reward still stands for the capture of those responsible. Alejandro Dominguez,
HeraldNet
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- 08/14/10 - Canada’s Competition Bureau has
ruled that the $2-billion purchase of Canwest
Global Communications' broadcast arm by Shaw
Communications will not substantially reduce or prevent competition in the sector.
The CRTC has set a September 20 hearing date for the deal which would give Shaw the
Canwest OTA TV stations, such as Global Television (locally CHAN-TV Vancouver), as well as specialty channels.
Susan
Taylor, Reuters
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- 08/13/10 - Former CTV British Columbia CIVT-TV Vancouver news anchor Bridgitte Anderson, who
served as B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's press secretary since April 2008, has landed a
new position as director of marketing and communications at Crofton House School. Prior to CTV, she was
the legislative reporter for CKWX and CKVU-TV Vancouver. Alex
Tsakumis
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- 08/11/10 - CBC-TV is
airing Queen Elizabeth in 3-D, the first Canadian-shot and Canadian-produced 3-D
program to be transmitted nationally (locally on CBUT
Vancouver) on September 20 at 7 p.m. It requires 3-D glasses, available from Canada
Post outlets, but no special TV set. CBC News
Broadcaster
Magazine
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- 08/10/10 - A celebration of life has been announced
for family and friends of former BCTV news anchor Robert Malcolm, who died at Royal
Columbian Hospital in New Westminster on August 4 at age 69. It will be held at 1
p.m. August 12 at Meadowlands Golf and Country Club in Chilliwack. Sun/Province
obituary
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- 08/08/10 - British Columbia's top rated newscasts on
Global BC CHAN-DT (channel 22, virtual
8.1) will begin in high definition next month. Studios are currently under
construction with dress rehearsals scheduled for the end of this month.
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- 08/07/10 - Freelance videographer Jud Morris has
been arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property, including two $30,000 video
cameras from Seattle market Q13 KCPQ-TV.
He was booked into Pierce County Jail and later released after posting bail. Sara
Jean Green, Seattle Times Q13
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- 08/07/10 - KRIZ AM
1420 Renton is expected to return to the air shortly after recently losing its tower
site. According to FCC records, it will transmit from the same site as sister
station KYIZ AM 1620. FCC
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- 08/06/10 - CBC has
filed a request to the CRTC to allow a temporary extension of analog television service in
markets not slated for transition until after the August 31, 2011 deadline. French
language CBUFT/26
Vancouver is one of the stations included in the CRTC filing, requesting extension to
August 31, 2012. CBUFT will remain on channel 26 post-transition. Canadian
Business CBC
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- 08/06/10 - Vancouver market BBM PPM has been
released for the period April 26 to July 25. News/Talk CKNW AM 980 continues its lead with a 13.5 share, AC CHQM-FM 103.5 is second with 9.0 and JACK CKLG-FM 96.9 is third with 7.8. Daily average Cume
numbers, expressed in thousands, put The Beat CFBT-FM
94.5 first with 367.8, CHQM-FM second with 366.8 and CKLG-FM third with 267.2. BBM
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- 08/06/10 - Former BCTV (now Global BC)
CHAN-TV/8 Vancouver news anchor Robert Malcolm
died Wednesday, August 4 following a heart attack. Malcolm was a 30-year news
veteran, anchoring for 19 years at BCTV from 1972-91 before being replaced
following a ratings decline. He was 69. He had suffered a previous heart
attack in the BCTV newsroom in the early 1990s. He was most recently a
realtor in the Cultus Lake area. BC Radio
History biographical
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- 08/05/10 - The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has
concluded that two news reports which aired on CTV British Columbia CIVT-TV/32 Vancouver during its late evening newscast
on May 7, 2009 did not contain any inaccurate, unfair or biased information. A
viewer had complained that the reports were inaccurate. CBSC release
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- 08/03/10 - Snohomish County hearing examiner Barbara
Dykes, who had been criticized by the development community for her rulings on planning
and development issues, is leaving her position. Her biggest decision was denying an
application in 2008 by KRKO AM 1380 Everett to build
radio towers outside Snohomish, citing health concerns for nearby residents. The
County Council overturned her ruling and a Superior Court judge backed the council's
decision. Noah
Haglund, HeraldNet
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