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- 03/09/10 - CBC Vancouver
archivist Colin Preston will introduce a 90 minute presentation of Do Not Adjust Your
Set: CBC Vancouver TV 1960 at the Vancity Theatre for two showings March 28.
The program includes the popular music series Meet Lorraine, The 7
O'Clock Show, Here and There, children's programming, and a news bulletin.
Vancity
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- 03/08/10 - Former Vancouver
market CKNW engineer Doug Court died in hospital March 5. A memorial service is
scheduled for 1 p.m. March 19th at Forest Lawn Cemetary in Burnaby. An official
obituary is expected in the next few days.
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- 03/06/10 - Former CKLG North
Vancouver and syndicated TV travel show host, Horst Koehler died March 2 at age 92.
He was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 1980. Vancouver
Sun obituary
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- 03/05/10 - The FCC has now granted a low power FM
station license to Dry Creek Community Broadcasting for KAPY-LP
95.5 Port Angeles. It will operate non-directional with an ERP of 93 watts at
-96 meters HAAT. Transmitter testing has begun and official sign on will come within
the next week. FCC
authorization
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- 03/04/10 - Citytv CKVU-DT Vancouver signed on yesterday.
The CRTC gave its authorization last week to operate on channel 47 with a maximum
ERP of 8,300 watts at 670 metres HAAT from Mt. Seymour.
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- 03/02/10 - Seattle-based Fisher Communications, Inc. will report its fourth quarter 2009
and full year 2009 financial results before the market opens on March 11. A
quarterly conference call to discuss the results is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. that day.
Fisher
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- 03/02/10 - Dylan Perry, program manager at CHLY-FM 101.7 Nanaimo, says community radio allows
people to become part of the media they consume. Meanwhile, the Gabriola Radio
Society still awaits a ruling from the CRTC to provide local service to the island. Rachel
Stern - Nanaimo News Bulletin
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- 02/27/10 - Jason Manning has
confirmed that he is now in Victoria as PD of Rogers Radio stations The Ocean
CIOC-FM 98.5 and JACK CHTT-FM 103.1. He was most recently PD/p.m.
drive at Rock 105.3 CKMH-FM Medicine Hat,
AB.
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- 02/25/10 - An advance copy of
the March 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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- 02/25/10 - The Truth KTTH AM 770 Seattle will begin airing Fox News Radio at the top of each hour beginning
in May. It will also add Gibson on Fox and Fox Business Reports.
Radio
Online
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- 02/25/10 - The FCC has granted
a minor modification of construction permit to Dry Creek Community Broadcasting for KAPY-LP 95.5 Port Angeles. It will operate with
100 watts non-directional at minus 95.5 meters HAAT at 48-06-45
123-32-5. It is expected to sign on shortly with a Traditional Country format
and community supported programming. FCC
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- 02/24/10 - Vancouver
broadcaster Tom Mark is one of two to receive 2010 RTNDA
Lifetime Achievement Awards in the British Columbia Region. He was one of the
architects of the all news format at News1130 CKWX
Vancouver and currently anchors the Early Morning News with Tom Mark on CKNW AM 980. The awards will be presented at the
RTNDA BC Regional Awards Banquet in Vancouver on June 5. Broadcaster
Magazine
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- 02/23/10 - The FCC has granted
a construction permit to Brian Butler for a new AM station at Yelm. It will operate
at 1120 kHz with 10 kW day/6 kW night from a three tower directional array at 46-53-46
122-31-32. FCC
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- 02/23/10 - The CRTC has
amended the license for CKVU-TV/10
Vancouver in order to add a digital transmitter. It will operate on channel 47
with a maximum ERP of 8,300 watts at 670 metres HAAT. The new digital
transmitter will be located on Mt. Seymour, whereas the analog one operates on Salt Spring
Island. CRTC decision
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- 02/21/10 - Writer,
historian and former Vancouver broadcaster Chuck Davis has
been compiling the history of Vancouver
since the mid 1970s. He has worked in radio and TV in Victoria, Prince Rupert and
Vancouver, and helped NBC add local flavor to Olympics broadcasts. Dan Rowe, Vancouver Sun
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- 02/19/10 - The Superior
Court of Ontario has given the nod to Shaw
Communications to
take control of Canwest Global
Communications. Shaw revealed that its investment amounts to a minimum of
$95-million in exchange for 20 per cent of the equity and an 80-per-cent voting interest
in the restructured company. A competing bid from private equity firm Catalyst
Capital Group was set aside. Globe
and Mail Vancouver
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- 02/18/10 - The Canadian Association of Broadcasters
is planning to shut down this June after reaching an impasse with some of its members.
Chairman Elmer Hildebrand says the CAB, which represents Canadian radio and
television broadcasters, hopes to form a new organization in the future that solely
represents radio broadcasters. It was established by Canadian broadcasting pioneers
in 1926. Broadcaster
Magazine CCF
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- 02/18/10 - The KOMO-TV Seattle analog antenna atop its tower has now
been replaced with a new digital one. Chief Engineer John Barrett says the signal
will increase to a million watts and the tower will be the first to have specialized
vertical polarization needed for handheld devices. Crews will continue to climb the
tower for the next few weeks with all work expected to be completed about March 1st.
KOMO
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- 02/17/10 - KAPY-LP 95.5 Port Angeles will launch shortly with a
Traditional Country format along with community supported programming. FCC
records show it will operate with 100 watts non-directional at -102.1 meters HAAT at 48-06-45
123-31-50. There has been a corporation board change and amendment of name from
Calvary Chapel of Port Angeles to Dry Creek Community Broadcasting. The station will
move to another frequency at a future time.
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- 02/16/10 - A pirate
station operating at 91.5 from VIVO Media Arts
in Vancouver for the last few days has been shut down by Industry Canada. IC
officers dressed in Olympics clothing advised the operators that they faced a significant
daily fine if transmissions continued. Kevin Murray, The
Hook
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- 02/15/10 - Chris King, KJR AM 950 Seattle weekly high school sports reporter for
the past five years, is returning to the Wenatchee AppleSox
to work in sponsor sales, as communications director and the team’s radio voice on KPQ AM 560. King has announced over 140 high school
football, basketball, and volleyball games for Comcast Varsity Sports in Western
Washington and Spokane over the last four years and was the AppleSox announcer during the
2008 season.
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- 02/12/10 - The CRTC has approved an application
by Rogers Broadcasting to increase the maximum ERP of CHNM-DT/20
Vancouver from 1,354 to 8,300 watts. HAAT increases from 615 to 670 meters. CRTC release
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- 02/11/10 - Powell River Community Radio Society
has applied to the CRTC to acquire the assets of CJMP-FM 90.1 Powell River from
Powell River Model Community Project for Persons with Disabilities (PRMCP) for $5000.
CRTC info
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- 02/09/10 - UCFV Campus and Community Radio
Society has applied to the CRTC for a third time limit extension to September 6, 2010 to
get CIVL-FM Abbotsford on the air, due to a frequency
exchange with the CBC. CRTC info
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- 02/08/10 - The FCC has approved a community of
license swap between KANY-FM 93.7 Ocean Shores
and KSWW-FM 102.1 Elma. The Commission moved
a vacant allocation at Port Angeles to a new frequency to enable the moves. FCC
data: KSWW
KANY
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- 02/08/10 - Former KBSG personality Mark Christopher has resurfaced at the new
Seattle market KMCQ-FM 104.5 Covington,
with 104.5 KMCQ- All songs from the 60's and 70's imaging. The station
moved to its new transmitter location on Cougar Mountain last month following the
frequency swap between KAFE-FM 104.1 Bellingham and CHHR-FM 104.3 Vancouver. Applications to move
KMCQ from The Dalles OR first became public back in 2004.
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- 02/06/10 - Former CHEK-TV Victoria GM Frank Bond
died February 1. He was 93. A service of remembrance will be held at 2:00 p.m.
Friday, February 12th at Cedar Shores condominiums, 77 Gorge Road West. Times
Colonist obituary
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- 02/04/10 - Vancouver market CISL AM 650, teamed
with Russia's Autoradio,
will program music, and interviews with athletes, Olympic Committee members, locals, and
international guests during the duration of the Games. To meet content regulations,
Canadian music will also be broadcast during the Russian airtime. Station owner Astral Media estimates its Russian programming will
serve about 60,000 people in Vancouver and millions more in Russia. Susan
Krashinsky, Globe and Mail
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- 02/03/10 - The broadcast schedule for CTV Olympic
Games coverage on CTV British Columbia CIVT-TV/32
Vancouver beginning Friday, February 12 can be viewed here. Much of
CTV's regular network programming will be moving to A CIVI-TV/53/17 Victoria/Vancouver for
the duration of the games.
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- 02/02/10 - Well known
Vancouver photographer Franz Lindner died January 5 at age 90. His work with the CBC
spanned almost 20 years, covering studio productions such as Drop In, Front
Page Challenge and the Irish Rovers at the
original Georgia Street studios, to location work on series such as Littlest Hobo and Beachcombers. A celebration of life is
scheduled in May. Sun/Province
obituary
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