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04/15/18
- Former Vancouver multicultural radio
executive Ed Ylanen died at Toronto
General Hospital April 9 after a brief
illness. He was 55. Ylanen
had worked at several radio stations
across Canada and was President of CJVB
AM 1470 Vancouver during the
1990s. There will be no service
per his request. Welland
Tribune Obituary
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04/13/18
- News
1130 CKWX Vancouver taps Adam Cooper
as its newest overnight anchor.
He has several years of news and
sports experience in New Zealand at Newstalk
ZB and Radio
Sport Network. He's
scheduled to begin May 1.
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04/12/18
- Long time Seattle broadcast engineer Clay
Freinwald has returned home with
his National
Association of Broadcasters 2018
Service to Broadcast Engineering
Award. Freinwald was presented his
award at the “We Are Broadcasters”
Celebration at the NAB Show in Las
Vegas. He began his broadcast
engineering career in 1961 while
studying at Clover Park Technical
College in Tacoma, where he earned an
Associate's degree in Radio and
Television Engineering and
Production. The NAB’s Engineering
Achievement Awards have been presented
since 1959 and recognize a person on the
basis of a single significant
contribution or contributions made over
a period of time that, taken together,
have significantly advanced the state of
the art of broadcast engineering.
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04/12/18
- An obituary has been published for
well known radio personality and
politician Barrie Clark, who passed away
March 16 at age 85. The open-liner
began his career in radio in 1949 and
went on to become a councillor for the
District of North Vancouver in 1963, an
MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour district
in 1966, Rentalsman for the Attorney
General in 1973, and Kelowna City
councillor in 1999. Sun/Province
obituary
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04/12/18
- KEXP-FM
90.3 Seattle is revamping its
Friday and Sunday night lineup to focus
more on dance, R&B, hip-hop and
rock. The station is retiring its
long-running rockabilly program, Shake
the Shack, and looking for a new
DJ to host its new Soul Sounds on
Sunday. Other adjustments
are in the works. Jeff
Albertson, Seattle Times
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04/12/18
- An outpouring of support has gone out
to Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart, who
were fired by CTV Vancouver last week
from their lead anchor positions on the
suppertime news. There is still no
announcement on who will replace them
and neither has hinted on what may be
next. Harrison
Mooney, Vancouver Sun
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04/11/18
- The CRTC has rejected a complaint by Unifor
against Rogers
move to contract out its OMNI
Regional Chinese language newscasts to
competitor Fairchild
TV. Unifor locals 723M and
830M, which represent employees at OMNI
in Vancouver and Toronto, along with The
Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal
Clinic, and Urban Alliance on Race
Relations argued contracting out the
newscasts violated Rogers condition of
license. The CRTC ruled Rogers
condition of license to “produce the
news” does not prevent it from
subcontracting to a rival
licensee. Unifor
release
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04/10/18
- KING
5 Seattle photojournalists have
been honored with multiple National Best
of Photojournalism awards. The
awards were judged by the National
Press Photographers Association at
Michigan State University. KING 5
was recognized in ten different video
categories, collecting four 1st place
awards. NPPA
Winners List
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04/10/18
- Corus
Radio Vancouver AM station Senior
PD Larry
Gifford has revealed that he was
diagnosed with Parkinson's
Disease last August. With
April being Parkinson's
Awareness Month and April 11th
being World Parkinson's Day, he talks
about it on his Radio
Stuff podcast and on CKNW,
Global
BC television and globalnews.ca
to raise awareness about the disease,
which affects over six million people
worldwide and typically in one percent
of people over the age of 60. All
Access Music Group
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04/10/18
- Former Vancouver radio and TV staffer
Christopher Cunnington died March 23 in
his 42nd year. He never fully
recovered from a stroke in March
2016. The BCIT Journalism School
graduate had a successful career which
included time with CKVU and CTV and
reporting at CKWX. Sun/Province
Obituary
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04/09/18
- RTDNA
Canada has announced recognition
of three broadcasters in the West region
who have distinguished themselves
through outstanding service and
continued excellence during the course
of their careers in journalism and news
management. They are CBC Radio
One Vancouver morning host Rick
Cluff, former long-time Victoria
news anchor Hudson
Mack and recently retired Senior
Director of News Programming for CBC
British Columbia Wayne
Williams. They will be
presented with their RTDNA Canada
Lifetime Achievement Awards during the
West Regional Meeting at the Pan Pacific
Hotel in Vancouver on April 21. RTDNA
Canada Release
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04/09/18
- Longtime CTV
Vancouver supper hour
news anchors Mike
Killeen and Tamara
Taggart have been released from
their positions, as CTV announces a
"top-to-tail refresh of the station’s
locally focused newscasts, including new
set designs and updated on-set
technology". Segments such as McLaughlin
on Your Side and The Last Word
with Mike McCardell will
remain part of the daily
newscasts. Further details will be
released over the next few weeks.
CTV
News Release Scott
Brown, Vancouver Sun
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04/09/18
- Former Global
Vancouver and Global
Okanagan meteorologist Wesla
Wong is joining the team at Silver
Star Mountain Resort near
Vernon. She will be building sales
relationships in Kelowna, planning tours
and representing Silver Star at various
Okanagan events. Pete
McIntyre, Beach Radio
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04/08/18
- Everyone knew KOMO Seattle was for
sale in 2013, but there had been some
hope it would go unsold, as it had once
before. The staff was nervous and things
were not perfect under Fisher
management. Existing issues were
largely viewed as the same realities
facing all media and there was comfort
in Fisher’s local roots.
Prospective buyer Sinclair Broadcast
Group was seen as a departure from the
local connection KOMO was proud
of. David
Kroman, Crosscut
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04/06/18
- Following a firestorm of recent media
criticism leveled at Sinclair Broadcast
Group, owner of KOMO-TV
Seattle, staff at Sinclair-owned
stations insisted the company's
conservative bent didn't affect local
news coverage, but a recent study and
former employees say otherwise. Stephen
Cohen, Seattle PI
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04/06/18
- KUOW-FM
94.9 Seattle is eliminating seven
employees’ positions while creating
seven new ones. The change comes
as station leadership restructures
KUOW’s morning and afternoon “drive
time” shows. Staff were informed
that they will be invited to apply for
the new spots, but were also warned that
not all will find a good fit. The
move comes less than two months after
the KUOW newsroom elected to unionize,
but before employees bargained a new
contract agreement with
management. The affected staff are
Emily Fox, Kim Malcolm, Lisa Brooks,
Jamala Henderson, Rob Wood, Stephen
Gomes and Tami Kosch. Christine
Clarridge, Seattle Times
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04/05/18
- Ruby
Carr of Newcap Vancouver is this
year’s Allan Waters Young Broadcaster of
the Year. She is part of the Ruby,
Leslie and Scooter morning show on
Z-95 CKZZ-FM
95.3. Carr moved to
Vancouver from Halifax in 2014 and
devotes personal time to charitable
endeavors in support of mental health
initiatives at BC Women’s Hospital, the
Starlight Children’s Foundation, and the
BCSPCA. She will be recognized
during the Industry Award dinner on May
10. Broadcast
Dialogue
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04/05/18
- Allied
Progress, a left-leaning watchdog
group, has produced an ad calling on
viewers to call the FCC and urge a stop
to the proposed $3.9 billion acquisition
of Tribune Media by Sinclair Broadcast
Group. Allied Progress says the
one-week buy begins Friday on four
Sinclair-owned stations including KOMO-TV
Seattle. Chris
Ariens, TVSpy Allied
Progress release
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04/05/18
- Former Vancouver broadcaster and
B.C.'s first environment minister Jim
Nielsen died early yesterday in
New Westminster at age 79. Before
joining the political arena in 1975, he
was a news anchor/talk show host at CJVI
Victoria, CJOR and CFUN Vancouver, News
Director at CFAX Victoria and then News
Director/Operations Manager back at
CJOR. Liam
Britten, CBC News Charlie
Smith, The Georgia Straight
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04/05/18
- Corey
Dillon fills out the full-time
roster at The Bull KNUC-FM
98.9 Seattle as he is added for
afternoons. He spent the last 14
months doing nights at The Bull
KILT-FM
100.3 Houston. Dillon
completes a line-up that includes Tim
Leary, Karen “Red” Daiss and Claire
Beverly in mornings, Seth Hughes in
middays and Michael Kraig Mason at
night. Radio
and Music Pros
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04/03/18
- Retired CBC Vancouver Senior
Maintenance Technician Ray Renning
passed away in Maple Ridge March 28 at
age 82. He used his electrical
engineering skills to start his own
electronics/television design company
and also was a leading Video Electronics
Design Engineer for Viscount Video
Systems. A celebration of life
will be held at 12:30 p.m. Friday April
6 at Oliveira Funeral Home, 2657
Shaughnessy Street, Port
Coquitlam. Sun/Province
obituary
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04/03/18
- Jim
JJ Johnston, President, CEO, and
Media/Executive Coach at JJIMS
Inc. JJ International Media and
Management Solutions, salutes former
Vancouver broadcaster Phil
Evans. Evans' radio career
started in Ontario, but he held on-air
and management positions at a number
of Vancouver stations, most recently
as marketing and promotion director
for the Rogers Radio group from
2009-16. It's the latest in his JJ-365
Salutes series. JJ-365
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04/03/18
- As the controversial Sinclair "must
read" scripts become more well known,
several journalists at KOMO News
describe a newsroom in turmoil.
Some staffers have reached a breaking
point and have discussed protesting
their corporate bosses, or plan to leave
as soon as they can. Concerned
journalists at KOMO face a quandary to
quit now, which could result in huge
financial penalties for breaking their
contracts, or make plans to move on as
soon as their deals end. Mike
Rosenberg, Seattle Times
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04/03/18
- Country KNUC-FM 98.9 Seattle has
re-branded as The Bull,
with a new web address. This
follows its format change from Rock last
December and call letter change from
KVRQ in February. All
Access Music Group
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04/03/18
- 21-year KOMO-TV
Seattle veteran Molly
Shen has also expressed her views
about the Sinclair Broadcast Group's
"must read" script after she received an
overwhelming number of messages on
Twitter and Facebook. Molly
Shen, Facebook
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04/03/18
- KOMO-TV
Seattle anchor Mary
Nam has criticized President
Donald Trump’s defense of conservative
media owner Sinclair
Broadcast Group. The company
is in the process of purchasing Tribune
Media, which would give it control over
42 more stations, thereby allowing it to
reach 72 percent of TV households in
America. Nam asked Trump if his
administration was going to allow the
purchase to go through. Rebecca
Shapiro, HuffPost Stephen
Cohen, Seattle PI
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04/02/18
- Former Corus
Radio Vancouver Senior Brand
Director Chris
"Dunner" Duncombe has been named
to the newly created position of
Director, Streaming and
Podcasting. In his new role, he
will lead a new team working to turn
existing radio and news content into
podcasts, creating original shows, and
monetizing products with digital ad
insertions. He has most recently
been Director of Digital for Corus Radio
Canada. FYI
Music News
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04/01/18
- Sinclair
Broadcast Group "must-run" promos,
which recently began airing on KOMO-TV
Seattle, are part of a Sinclair campaign
that forces local anchors to read
Sinclair-written scripts warning of the
dangers of "one-sided news stories
plaguing our country." The largest
owner of television stations in the
U.S., employs a well-known practice of
producing conservative commentary
segments that each Sinclair-owned
station is required to air. One
KOMO newsroom employee says they are not
happy about it, but another says, "Our
day-to-day news judgement and coverage
isn't affected at all." Stephen
Cohen, Seattle PI
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