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09/18/17 - Lori Heeren, former Seattle market KBKS-FM 106.1 General Sales Manager during the 1990s, has joined Alpha Media as Market Manager for its San Jose stations, Classic Hits Bay FM KBAY-FM 94.5 and Hot AC MIX 106 KEZR-FM 106.5. She has most recently been a marketing consultant in Las Vegas. All Access Music Group
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09/18/17 - The
body of independent BC documentary filmmaker and underwater
cinematographer Twyla Roscovich was found Friday near Fisherman's Wharf
in Campbell River. Close friend, scientist and activist Alexandra Morton appeared today on CBC Vancouver's The Early Edition to discuss her passing. The 38-year-old Roscovich vanished on September 7, triggering a widespread search by the RCMP and coast guard. No foul play is suspected. She had worked as a director and cinematographer for the BBC Natural History Unit, A&E, and Discovery Channel, and then was writing, shooting, editing and narrating her own productions. CBC audio CBC News |
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09/17/17 - Puget Sound Radio reports Q103 CKQQ-FM 103.1 Kelowna Program Director Susan Knight returning to Victoria as the new PD and p.m. drive host at Ocean CIOC-FM 98.5. Her start date is October 2. She has been morning show host at Q103 since June 2014 and PD since May of this year. Current Ocean PD Rob Michaels becomes PD and afternoon host of Star FM CKSR-FM 98.3 Chilliwack and will continue to oversee programming on Mountain FM CISQ/CISW Squamish 107.1/Whistler 102.1 effective October 10. He's been PD at Ocean since September 2013. PSR news
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09/17/17 - Jack
Card, legendary Vancouver choreographer, impresario, costume designer
and co-owner of Vancouver's two major night clubs, died July 13 at age
81. He choreographed and produced shows all over the world,
including Las Vegas, London and Tokyo. Among his TV shows, he
choreographed the Vancouver series Nice 'n Easy. Sun/Province obituary 1988 Terry Cavid Mulligan/Lynne McNamara CBC Vancouver interview
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09/16/17 - Meteorologist and award winning journalist Katie Boer returns to the Seattle area to join Q13 KCPQ-TV as weather anchor/reporter. She has most recently been a meteorologist/reporter at KLAS-TV Las Vegas. She's a former ball girl for the Seattle Mariners and an avid sports fan.
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09/15/17 - After 52 years on the air, Gardening in America, hosted by Ed Hume, aired its last episode on KONG-TV Seattle August 26th. in 1965 Hume took over a gardening show on KIRO-TV after the host left. In 1969, the show was moved to KING-TV and it later continued to air on KONG. Hume was inducted into the Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame in 1974. Allison Needles, The News Tribune
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09/14/17 - CBC Vancouver personalities Gloria Macarenko, host of BC Almanac, and Stephen Quinn, host of On The Coast, take on emcee duties for the 2017 Jack Webster Awards.
The 31st annual Jack Webster Awards dinner will be held October 12 at
the Hyatt Regency Vancouver with CBC’s Washington Correspondent Paul Hunter as the featured speaker. Jack Webster release
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09/14/17 - The FCC
has dismissed an application for minor change to a licensed facility by
Chehalis Valley Educational Foundation for KACS-FM 90.5 Chehalis. FCC data
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09/14/17 - Jody Vance said goodbye to her role at CKNW AM 980 Vancouver yesterday and will be the new midday host at Roundhouse Radio CIRH-FM 98.3
September 25th. She has had her own national sports program and
has been a news anchor and host of Breakfast Television. Roundhouse release
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09/13/17 - Former CKNW AM 980
Vancouver news reporter Jack Bennest is resigning from his position as
Councillor for the Town of Oliver, saying the fun seems to have gone out
of local politics.
Prior to CKNW, where he worked from 1974-83, he was on air at CKOK
Penticton, CHWK Chilliwack and CJOR Vancouver. Bennest has been
the longest-serving municipal politician in the South Okanagan, having
served the Town of Oliver for 17 years in total, from 1988-93 and again
from 2005 to now. James Miller, Penticton Herald
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09/13/17 - Roundhouse Radio CIRH-FM 98.3 Vancouver is enhancing its weekday programming with the addition of award winning broadcaster Eugene (Gene) Valaitis taking on the role as morning show host
beginning Monday, September 18th. He is an award winning Canadian
broadcaster/performer who may be best known to radio listeners for his
work at CFRB, CKEY and Q107 FM Toronto. Roundhouse release
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09/13/17 - After 43 years on the job and 18 more retired, former CKNW AM 980 Vancouver news reporter George Garrett
keeps on going and going and going.
He's finishing up his autobiography, researching a book on Black Bond
Books founder Madeline Neill, raising money for the Volunteer Cancer
Drivers Society and driving patients himself. The 82-year-old was
with CKNW for most of the years between 1955 and '99 and was beaten up
during his coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Garrett
received a Radio-Television News Directors Association Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2004. Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun
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09/13/17 - The CRTC has approved an application by Powell River Community Radio Society to change the authorized contours of CJMP-FM 90.1
Powell River by changing the transmitter site, increasing ERP from 3.6
to 10 watts and increasing HAAT from -28.3 to 194.8 meters. CRTC release CJMP release
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09/12/17 - Long time Vancouver broadcaster Bill Reiter,
who has produced or voiced thousands of radio and TV commercials heard
on both sides of the border, returns to the airwaves. He was
featured on the Nardwuar The Human Serviette program on CITR-FM 101.9 Vancouver last Friday, but the show can be heard here. Meanwhile, the CITR program is turning 30 and a special celebration is planned for September 23rd. CITR release
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09/10/17 - News1130 CKWX AM
Vancouver is reporting, "...transmitter issues and we have engineers
working on it to get things back to normal as soon as possible." A
number of listeners reported this morning that there had been either no OTA signal or a very weak one. News1130 release
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09/08/17 - The FCC has granted a Minor Modification to a Construction Permit to Hollow Earth Radio for KHUH-LP 104.9 Seattle. ERP will be 15 watts non-directional at 78 meters HAAT at 47° 36' 48.00" 122° 18' 14.00". FCC data
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09/08/17 - KIRO-TV Seattle will launch the market’s second 7 p.m. newscast on Monday. KIRO 7 at Seven will be anchored by Steve Raible, Monique Ming Laven, Jesse Jones and Morgan Palmer. It replaces The Insider, which is ending its 13-year syndicated run. The 7 p.m. newscast will air against a 7 p.m. news show on KING-TV. Chris Ariens, TVSpy
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09/07/17 - David Bray of Bray and Partners Communications breaks down the most recent Numeris PPM ratings for Vancouver and the other four Canadian PPM markets. Broadcast Dialogue
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09/07/17 - Numeris Vancouver market PPM ratings have been released for the period May 29 - August 27, 2017. CBC Radio One CBU-FM 88.1/AM 690 continues its lead with a 14.3 share. News/Talk CKNW AM 980 is second with 10.2. QM/FM CHQM-FM 103.5 is in third place with 9.5. Numeris ratings |
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09/07/17 - Global BC News Director Jill Krop has responded to criticisms by Osoyoos Councillor CJ Rhodes
about the station's coverage of
fires in the Okanagan. Rhodes said that there is an apparent lack
of understanding about Okanagan geography in Global’s Vancouver
newsroom. He was specifically pointing to news items that
mentioned smoke in the entire Okanagan, when it was clear in the
southern portions where Osoyoos is located, possibly impacting tourism
in that region. Osoyoos Today
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09/07/17 - The Ratings Experts at Research Director, Inc.
provide exclusive August PPM analysis for Seattle-Tacoma
and four other radio markets. All Access Music Group |
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09/06/17 - NPR KUOW-FM 94.9 moves up into first place with a 6.2 share in the Nielsen Audio Seattle-Tacoma August 2017 PPM. AC KRWM-FM 106.9 continues in second place with 6.1. CHR KQMV-FM 92.5 slips to third with a 5.4 share. Radio Online |
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09/06/17 (Updated)
- Former Vancouver and Okanagan broadcaster Cal George died in Penticton July 23 at age
96. He started his career at CHWK Chilliwack in 1942, moving to
CKWX Vancouver the same year, first as an operator and then
announcer. He stayed until 1967, much of the time hosting
middays. George moved to CKOK Penticton that year, where he was
on-air until retirement in 1985. At the time, he was one of
British Columbia's best known and respected radio voices. Red Robinson news
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09/05/17 - Entercom has announced the launch of the I'm Listening
campaign for mental health awareness and suicide prevention. The
campaign includes a two-hour commercial-free broadcast live from Seattle
on World Suicide Prevention Day, Sunday, September 10 at 7 a.m. PT across all Entercom platforms. The conversation will be led by BJ Shea from KISW-FM 99.9 Seattle. KISW release
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09/05/17 - KISW-FM 99.9 Seattle ended in 12th place in an online poll of readers conducted by Radio Ink for the Greatest AOR Stations of All Time. However, the station is listed as #6 and #7 respectively in rankings by John Sebastian and Lee Abrams. Radio Ink poll
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09/05/17 - KING5 Seattle meteorologist Jim Guy
is leaving after eight years with the station to spend more time with
family in Florida. He won an Emmy for his work in 2001 and was
nominated for another in 2007. Puget Sound Media
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09/03/17 - Sportsnet 650
Vancouver continues to build its air team as it readies for official
launch at 5:30 Monday morning. Several sports reporters/anchors
will either move from sister station News1130 CKWX AM or do double duty. Airchecker reports that up to thirty staffers have been hired by Rogers Sportsnet. Airchecker news
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09/03/17 - KJR AM 950 Seattle morning host Mitch Levy
is among 110 people arrested in a large-scale undercover police
operation to arrest sex buyers as part of an ongoing effort to curb the
demand for prostitution. Levy is charged with misdemeanor patronizing
a prostitute. The arrests were made as part of a joint operation
involving the Bellevue police, King County sheriff’s deputies, NOCROM
911, the Washington State Fusion Center, and the City of Bellevue
Prosecutor’s Office. Q13 FOX Barrett Sports Media
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09/02/17 - Long-time traffic reporter Tracy Taylor is now the permanent afternoon traffic anchor at KIRO-FM 97.3 Seattle. Candy Harper becomes the producer of the p.m. drive Ron & Don Show. Puget Sound Media
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09/02/17 - In time for its official launch at 5:30 a.m. Monday, September 4 Sportsnet 650 has been added as HD3 to sister station JACK CJAX-FM 96.9 Vancouver.
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09/02/17 - Former Mount Vernon, Bellingham and Seattle broadcaster Glenn Beck has laid off 20 percent of his staff. His political network, TheBlaze, continues to struggle and shed jobs. Reports indicate the number of employees affected is around 50. He launched TheBlaze in 2011 after leaving Fox News. His talk show is still heard on numerous stations, including KEDO AM 1400 Longview. Glenn Beck release The Hollywood Reporter
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09/01/17 - The End KNDD-FM 107.7 Seattle PD Leslie Scott has been selected as the inaugural mentee for the Mentoring & Inspiring Women (MIW)-Nielsen Music Mentoring Program
to help increase the number of women in programming positions.
She was chosen for the one-year mentorship from a field of 40
candidates. Scott will be officially introduced at the MIW Group’s
Radio Show dinner in Austin next week. She has been PD at The End since August 2015. All Access Music Group
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09/01/17 - Incumbent TSN 1040 CKST AM Vancouver gets set to compete with the new Sportsnet 650
CISL AM, when it officially launches Monday morning. Sports talk
listeners will have much choose from as the two stations go head to
head. Steve Ewen, The Province
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09/01/17 - Seattle Times management has banned their sports writers from doing appearances on KJR AM 950
saying, "We are not comfortable associating our brand with some of the
off-color, sexist commentary on that station." However, Seattle Sports Net
speculates that the move could be in retaliation for KJR hosts’
critiques of how the paper has covered competing stadium deals. Michael Rietmulder, Seattle Magazine
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