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- 01/23/12 - Long-time CHNL AM 610 Kamloops Morning Mayor Peter Olsen
has taken a few weeks off for prostate cancer treatment, but plans to be back on air by
March. Radio NL info
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- 01/19/12 - Former Merritt and Castlegar radio
personality Jamie Trevor McDerment is expected to return to court in Kamloops for
sentencing Friday afternoon after pleading guilty to a string of charges involving child
pornography and voyeurism. Tim Petruk, Kamloops This Week
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- 12/14/11 - Marion Bews,
former corporate secretary to the Browne family at CKOV Kelowna, died December 8 at age
93. She served with the station from 1943 until retirment in the late 1970s. A
Memorial Service to be held Saturday, January 21 at 1:00 pm at Springfield Funeral home,
2020 Springfield Road, Kelowna. Castanet obituary
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- 11/13/11 - Don Shafer, Kelowna-based vice-president
and regional manager for Astral Media says the
recent shut-down of the newsroom at Sun FM CICF-FM 105.7 Vernon is an unfortunate change
reflecting the times. He says there will still be a morning news run using existing
Vernon announcers. News director Betty Selin and reporter Kate Bouey were displaced
by the change. Vernon
Morning Star
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- 11/09/11 - Puget Sound Radio
reports that three veteran broadcast journalists and six others have been released from
news postions by Astral Media in the BC Interior. Puget Sound
Radio
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- 10/31/11 - CFJC-TV Kamloops video journalist Andrew Hopkins has been hired as a new
evening/weekend reporter at News1130 CKWX AM
Vancouver. He's a 2005 BCIT Broadcast Journalism program graduate, has worked in
radio in Williams Lake, Kamloops and Fort St. John and is a 2009 Jack Webster Foundation
Fellowship Award recipient.
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- 10/27/11 - Another addition to The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna, as Gary Long moves from his
position as PD at 94X CIRX-FM 94.3 Prince
George to assume the duties of morning anchor, music director and assistant program
director.
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- 10/26/11 - The CRTC has approved an application by
CBC to add a new FM transmitter in Lillooet to rebroadcast the programming of CBTK-FM 88.9 Kelowna. It will operate at 92.7 MHz
with an ERP of 90 watts non-directional at -816.5 metres HAAT, and will replace the
current AM rebroadcast transmitter. CRTC decision
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- 10/24/11 - Montreal and Calgary broadcaster Steve
Shannon has submitted an application to the CRTC for a new community station in Barriere.
If approved, he hopes to be up and running by next summer. Jill
Hayward - Barriere Star Journal
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- 10/20/11 - Vancouver native Erin Chase starts next
month as evening host and marketing director at The Juice CJUI-FM 103.9 Kelowna. She was most recently
part of the morning team at Jack CJAQ-FM
96.9 Calgary.
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- 08/28/11 - Kiss-FM CKIZ-FM 107.5 Vernon relaunched on the B.C. Day long
weekend as Vernon's best music featurning "the best of the best from the ‘60s to
today". bclocalnews.com
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- 07/08/11 - Former SILK FM owner Nick
Frost's Castanet is billing $3 million annually.
Castanet was developed in November 2000 as Kelowna’s home page. Sean Luce, Radio Ink
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- 07/06/11 - The hour-long CHBC News @ 5 will return
Monday, July 11 on CHBC-TV. Also returning is
the station's live news reporting capability from Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton.
Shaw Cable adds the signal in HD beginning today. Broadcaster
Magazine
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- 05/31/11 - CBC Radio personalities in Kelowna show
their enthusiasm for the Corporation's announced expansion of local content in the B.C.
Interior. Jennifer
Smith, Kelowna Capital News
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- 05/26/11 - CBC has announced
the first details of an initiative with an increased local focus. All-new
radio and online services will be established in Kamloops, and CBC Kelowna will expand its
current service to include a new afternoon radio program focused on serving the B.C.
interior. New programming will begin this fall. Broadcaster
Magazine Kamloops
Daily News
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- 03/14/11 - The 29th Annual Canadian Music &
Broadcast Industry Awards have been presented, with Sunfm CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna winning Station of the Year -
Small Market and Mark Burley at Sunfm winning Program Director of the Year -
Small Market. CMW
details
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- 03/02/11 - Earl Seitz
of CFJC-TV Kamloop and Dave Biro, assignment editor
at /A\ CIVI-TV Victoria have been named
to receive RTNDA Canada Lifetime
Achievement Awards in the BC Region. RTNDA release
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- 01/31/11 - Virgin Radio CKZZ-FM 95.3 Vancouver p.m drive host Kevin Lim returns to Sunfm
CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna to take over a.m. drive duties,
replacing Tarzan Dan
Freeman who moves to afternoon drive at fun FM CFUN-FM 104.9 Vancouver beginning in late
March. Kevin, who hosted p.m. drive at Sunfm Kelowna from 2005-09, pairs
with current midday personality Sonia Sidhu, as Susan Knight moves to middays.
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- 01/20/11 - Prof.
Anne MacLennan of the Remembering
Radio Project is conducting a national study on Canadian radio during the 1930s.
Her research group is currently looking for people 78 years and older who lived in B.C.
during the 1930s to conduct phone interviews (usually 15 to 30 minutes) about their
memories of early radio. Further
information
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- 01/20/11 - Airchecker reports that Tarzan
Dan Freeman will be the new afternoon drive host at fun FM CFUN-FM 104.9 Vancouver beginning in late March.
He is currently hosting mornings at Sunfm CHSU-FM
99.9 Kelowna, and worked the Vancouver market at CKXY AM 1040 from 1988-90. Airchecker
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- 01/19/11 - Tarzan Dan Freeman
has announced that he is leaving his morning slot at Sun FM CHSU-FM 99.9 Kelowna and moving to a major market
station. An announcement regarding where and when will be released shortly.
He's been at Sun FM since 2005.
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- 01/01/11 - Silk FM CILK-FM 101.5 Kelowna became EZ Rock 101.5
early this afternoon.
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