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03/03/15 - Keith Cunningham has been named PD and Format Captian for KLOS-FM 95.5 Los Angeles. He has been VP of Programming for the iHeartMedia Seattle cluster since May 2013. All Access Music Group
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03/03/15 - 710 ESPN KIRO AM Seattle revamps its weekday lineup. Justin Myers teams with Gee Scott for the Justin & Gee Show
at 10 a.m. Tom Wassell moves from nights to join Bob Stelton and
Dave "The Groz" Grosby for middays. Scott will continue to host The Barbershop with former Seahawk Marcus Trufant and ex-Husky running back Terry Hollimon in its new timeslot at 7 p.m. Radio Ink
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03/03/15 - Virgin Radio CFMG-FM 104.9 Edmonton midday host Kelsey Lehman has announced on her Facebook page that she is headed to KISS CFUN-FM 104.9 Vancouver. She's held several positions at Virgin Radio Edmonton since July 2012.
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03/02/15 - The FCC has granted a CP for a daytime power increase from 5 kw to 20 kw to Inspiration Media, Inc. (Salem Media Group) for KLFE AM 1590 Seattle. Nighttime power will remain at 5 kw. FCC data
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03/02/15 - Former The End KNDD-FM 107.7 Seattle midday host and APD/MD Andrew Harms is appointed APD/MD/afternoons at Alt 98.7 KYSR-FM Los Angeles effective March 16. He had a run of nearly 14 years at The End before leaving for LA in 2012. All Access Music Group
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03/02/15 - KING-TV Seattle weekend morning anchor/reporter Meg Coyle is leaving to work for Amazon. She started at KING5 in October 2000 after working at NWCN and CNN International. Kevin Eck, TVSpy Twitter info
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03/02/15 - Mike Walker, anchor, reporter & producer at CHEK-TV Victoria, leaves after 4 -1/2 years. He's also been a color commentator for Victoria Royals WHL Hockey on The Zone CJZN-FM 91.3. Walker is now concentrating his talents as Executive Producer at Roll.Focus. Productions. CHEK-TV video
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02/27/15 - According to FCC records the price paid by Educational Media Foundation for Seattle market Q104.5 KMCQ-FM is $7 million. The deal was announced yesterday at an
undisclosed price. As it does whenever it acquires a commercial
station, EMF will apply to convert it to non-commercial status with a
main studio waiver. All Access Music Group Radio Insight Radio Insight backgrounder
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02/26/15 - Educational Media Foundation has announced the purchase of Seattle market Q104.5 KMCQ-FM
Covington from Queen Cities Broadcasting for an undisclosed
price. KMCQ moved to Covington from The Dalles, OR in 2008 and
increased coverage into the Seattle market in 2010 with a transmitter
move to Cougar Mountain involving the frequency swap of CHHR-FM 104.1
Vancouver and KAFE-FM 104.3 Bellingham. Radio Insight
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02/26/15 - Program Director/Department Head/Instructor at Columbia Academy at VanArts A.J. Junop has been appointed Senior Creative Copywriter at Vista Radio Ltd.
(Vista Ideas Group) in Vancouver. He was Senior Creative
Copywriter at Standard Broadcasting (99.9 Sun FM/AM1150) Kelowna from
2003-06.
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02/26/15 - MOViN KQMV-FM 92.5 Seattle night host Justin Barnes moves to middays and Social Media Director. Additionally, weekend and overnight host Kel Walker takes over the night-host position. All Access Music Group
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02/26/15 - The FCC has granted an original construction permit to Northwest Leadership Foundation
for a new low power FM station to serve Tacoma. It will operate
at 92.9 MHz non-directional with an ERP of 19 watts at 69 meters HAAT at
47° 12' 8.20 " 122° 22' 14.90". FCC data
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02/25/15 - Conservative Talk K-USA KBBO AM 1390 Yakima moves to sports as 1390 The Fan featuring a simulcast of 710 ESPN KIRO AM Seattle from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. KBBO will remain the local affiliate for Seattle Mariners baseball. KBBO becomes the third affiliate of KIRO in Washington state. Radio Insight Yakima Herald
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02/24/15 - Valentine's Day has passed, but the kisses keep coming, with the second local branding change to KISS in as many days. JACK CHTT-FM 103.1 Victoria, owned by Rogers Media, changed to KISS Victoria’s #1 Hit Music Station at 4 p.m. today. Mike Devlin, Times Colonist
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02/23/15 - The March 2015 edition of Clay's Corner, prepared by Clay Freinwald for the Seattle Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers newsletter The Waveguide, is now available. This month Clay discusses upcoming events, the end of winter, 4K television and much more. March Clay's Corner |
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02/23/15 - Another Vancouver station has changed its branding. Sonic Nation CFUN-FM 104.9 Vancouver (also Chilliwack 107.5 and Abbotsford 92.5) has become KiSS RADIO.
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02/21/15 - Suga Rae joins HOT 103.7 KHTP-FM Seattle 7-11 p.m. weeknights. She was most recently middays at 96.3 RnB KKMJ HD3 Austin TX. Radio Ink
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02/21/15 - The B.C. Lions broadcast contract with TSN 1040 CKST AM
Vancouver expired at the end of the 2014 season. However, owner
David Braley says “everything’s on the table” as far as the team’s radio
broadcast rights go in the local market. Greg Douglas, The Sun
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02/20/15 - Traffic reporter Shanyn Maguire is flying high as she reports for Canadian Traffic Network
on a number of Vancouver area stations. When she started in the
position, she spent five months studying Google Maps to get a full
understanding of the different highways and arteries of the Fraser
Valley that connect the outlying areas to Vancouver. Russell Purcell, Driving
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02/20/15 - Bell Media has announced the re-branding of The Beat CFBT-FM 94.5 Vancouver to 94.5 Virgin Radio...The Beat of Vancouver.
The change will take place at 8:55 a.m. Thursday, March 5. "The
only thing that will change is the name, the same awesome music and
personalities will remain." Bell acquired the rights to the Virgin brand in Canada when it purchased Astral Media in 2013. Bell Media backgrounder
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02/19/15 - The Ratings Experts at Research Director, Inc. provide exclusive January PPM analysis for Seattle-Tacoma and four other radio markets. All Access Music Group
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02/19/15 - Former CBC Vancouver B.C. Almanac host Mark Forsythe, now retired, and former CBC Radio and Television Journalist and Producer Greg Dickson,
have co-authored a compelling book about the British Columbians who
served during World War One and the battles they fought. Forsythe
and Dickson will appear at the White Rock Library at 7 p.m. on February
23rd and at the Murrayville Library in Langley Township at 7 p.m. on
February 26th to talk about From the West Coast to the Western Front.
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02/19/15 - Former KIRO-FM 97.3 producer and ESPN KIRO AM 710 Seattle Program Director Owen Murphy leaves his PD position at The Beast KFWB AM 980 Los angeles to concentrate on his Sports Radio Coach and Consulting back in Seattle. He was PD at 710 ESPN from January 2009 to September 2010 and producer at KIRO Radio from August 2011 to January 2014. All Access Music Group
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02/19/15 - The two top Hubbard Radio stations continue in the one-two positions in the Nielsen Audio January 2015 Seattle-Tacoma PPM. CHR MOViN KQMV-FM 92.5 is back in first place with a 5.8 share. Warm KRWM-FM 106.9 moves to second with a 5.6 share. News/Talk KIRO-FM 97.3 gets a boost up into third with 5.3. Radio Online |
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02/19/15 - Seattle sports stations got a bump in the ratings due to the Seahawks run for the Super Bowl. KIRO AM 710 had its best performance since July 2010. Seahawks games are simulcast on news/talk sister KIRO-FM 97.3, which likely helped it improve. KJR AM 950 had its best since one year ago in the run-up to the Seahawks Super Bowl 48 victory. Inside Radio
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02/17/15 - Seattle Sports Radio KJR AM 950 10 a.m. to noon host Jerry Brewer
has announced that he is leaving the show effective February 20.
He says it is his decision, he will do part-time and stay on as a sports columnist at the The SeattleTimes.
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02/16/15 - Vancouver market CKNW AM 980 has announced the launch of a new weekend program The Moth Radio Hour,
beginning February 21. The program, produced at Atlantic Public
Media, is heard on more than 200 stations in the U.S.
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02/14/15 - BC Lions broadcast rights with Bell Media-owned TSN 1040 CKST AM
Vancouver expired at the end of the 2014 season. Industry
insiders are suggesting it might be more advantageous financially in the
long-term for Lions' owner David Braley to buy his way onto the airwaves in a potential partnership capacity. Greg Douglas, The Sun
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02/13/15 - KIRO-FM 97.3 Seattle will carry all Sounders FC
home and away matches throughout 2015. KIRO will also air pre-
and post-match shows surrounding all Sounders FC contests.
Additionally, a 60-minute Sounders FC-focused show will air at 9:00 p.m.
every Thursday evening throughout the season during the Jason Rantz Show. MyNorthwest.com Additionally, the club has extended its relationship with Q13 FOX KCPQ-TV and JOEtv KZJO-TV
to continue as its regional television home. Highlights of the
new multi-year agreement include a 30-minute pre-match show, a new and
expanded 30-minute post-match wrap-up following each contest, two
30-minute Sounders FC specials during 2015 and a weekly segment during
Friday’s “Q It Up” sportscast throughout the season. Eight 2015
Sounders FC matches are being carried by Q13 FOX, with the remaining regional fixtures slated for JOEtv. Sounders release
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02/13/15 - Seattle market Q13 FOX KCPQ-TV has announced that Brandi Kruse will join the news team. She most recently served as a reporter for KIRO-FM 97.3
and has been honored with four Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence
in journalism and has contributed to three additional Edward R. Murrow
Awards for team coverage of breaking news. She makes the move at the end of the month. KCPQ release Kevin Eck, TVSpy
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02/13/15 - British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
is holding its 50th Broadcast and Media Communications Reunion on
Friday, May 8. It will be held from 7 - 10 p.m. at the Hilton
Metrotown, 6083 McKay Ave, Burnaby. BCIT release Facebook
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02/13/15 - Harvey Oberfeld
pays tribute to BCTV camera/microwave truck operator Geoff Fisher, who was killed on
the job on this day in 1999. He was setting up microwave
truck outside Delta Secondary School when the mast accidentally
contacted a 14.4 kV Hydro line above and he was electrocuted. Harvey Oberfeld blog
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02/12/15 - The Oregonian reports that Justin Myers and Andy Bunker, who have been hosting evenings at 710ESPN KIRO AM Seattle since August, will begin weekday mornings on Rip City Radio KPOJ AM 620 Portland.
It will be the Portland market's only locally-produced morning
show. An official announcement is expected in the next week.
Mike Tokito, The Oregonian
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02/11/15 - Former CJOB AM 680 Winnipeg reporter/anchor John Copsey joins News1130 CKWX AM
Vancouver as weekend morning anchor while Brian Brenn recovers from
some recent health issues. Copsey worked at CJOB from 2007-13.
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02/10/15 - Non-commercial KXOT-FM 91.7 Tacoma-Seattle has been off air since last week's announcement that it is being sold by PRC Tacoma -- I LLC to Bible Broadcasting Network, Inc.
for $2.4 million. KXOT had been simulcasting the audio of
Washington State's public affairs government television channel TVW since January of last year. The sale is subject to FCC approval.
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02/09/15 - Harvey Oberfeld reports CTV Vancouver News at 6 edging ever closer in ratings to perennial winner Global News Hour with a 2.6 score February 1 compared to 3.3 for Global. Keeping it Real, Harvey Oberfeld
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02/06/15 - Three retired Vancouver media giants who covered Gino Odjick through his NHL career, Jim Robson, Steve Armitage and Jim Taylor, accepted lifetime achievement awards as part of the Paul Carson Broadcast and Media Awards held Friday at The Lamplighter Pub in Vancouver's Gastown. The awards, which started in 2012, are named in honor of Vancouver broadcaster Paul Carson, who passed away in December 2010. He was best-known for his work in sports television as one of the hosts of Sports Page on CKVU-TV. He also was co-founder of TEAM 1040 sports radio in Vancouver. Greg Douglas, Vancouver Sun
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02/05/15 - Broadcast Dialogue reports Al Ford will become GM for Rogers Radio in BC effective March 1. He replaces retiring Jim Blundell. Ford moved from Edmonton to become JACK fm CJAX-FM 96.9 Vancouver PD just this past Monday. In 2013 Ford was named Program Director of the Year by the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards for the third straight year.
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02/05/15 - Bill Dean has announced on his Facebook Page that he will be taking over the morning show full time on The Lounge CHPQ-FM 99.9 Parksville. He has filled in for years for former morning host Patrick Nicholson, who passed away in December at age 67. |
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02/05/15 - Non-commercial KXOT-FM 91.7 Tacoma is being sold by PRC Tacoma -- I LLC to Bible Broadcasting Network, Inc. for $2.4 million. The station, once a simulcast of KEXP-FM 90.3 Seattle and then KUOW-FM 94.9 Seattle, has been simulcasting the audio of Washington State's public affairs government television channel TVW since January of last year. All Access Music Group
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02/03/15 - Numerous broadcast and entertainment dignitaries gather at the new home of KEXP-FM 90.3 at the Seattle Center. The target date for the move to the new digs is December 2. Nicole Brodeur, Seattle Times
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02/03/15 - Call letters CIRH-FM have been assigned to Roundhouse Radio,
Vancouver's newest station, scheduled to sign on in the Spring.
Last August the CRTC approved the new station, offering niche spoken
word programming targeting adults aged 25 to 64 living in downtown
Vancouver, to operate at 98.3 MHz.
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02/01/15 - KING-TV Seattle has changed its programming on subchannel 5.2 from Living Well to Justice Network. The recently launched channel features acclaimed crime fighter and human and victim rights advocate John Walsh and broadcasts crime and investigation programming 24/7, aiming to make communities safer. KING5 release
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