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8/14/20 - Rob Fai, Director of Communications and broadcaster for the Vancouver Canadians
Baseball Club has announced he is stepping down from his position. Fai
has broadcast games on TSN1040, Sportsnet 650 and Sportsnet Pacific TV
since 2007. Twitter Announcement/ Video
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8/14/20 - Former Joytv Surrey Videographer/ Assistant Producer Kier Junos has joined Citytv Vancouver as a videojournalist. He held several positions at Joytv since October 2017.
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8/14/20 - CKSP AM 600 Vancouver has begun on-air testing with south Asian music and periodic station ID's. The station
is co-siting with CKNW AM 980 at its Cloverdale transmitter site with 50,000 watts day 20,000 watts night. CRTC Info
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8/13/20 - Virgin Radio CFMG-FM 104.9 Edmonton will start airing morning show Brooke & Jeffrey Monday August 17.
Hosted by Brooke Fox and Jeffrey Dubow, the show originates out of
Seattle and is syndicated by Premiere Networks. Brooke & Jeffrey
will replace the previous morning show trio featuring David Cruise, Britt Jones and Katie Stanners, who had been together less than a year. Cruise was co-host of the Ruby and Cruise morning show at Z95.3 CKZZ-FM Vancouver from 2014-17. Connie Thiessen, Broadcast Dialogue
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8/13/20 - Bonneville International Corporation Senior Vice President and San Francisco Market Manager Carl Gardner
will retire at the end of this month. He was Vice President and Seattle
Market Manager for the company from 2008-17 before transferring to San
Francisco when te company re-entered that market. Radio Ink
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8/11/20 - After only 14 months, KIRO 7 Seattle News Director John LaPorte
has tendered his resignation and will be relocating back to Wisconsin
in early September. He has accepted a new position as Assistant News
Director of WDJT-TV Milwaukee. FTV Live
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8/07/20 - Following the announced departure of CKNW AM 980 Vancouver Radio News Manager Terry Schintz yesterday, the news radio team will be reporting to Digital Managing Editor Laura Baziuk, who is a former anchor/ reporter. She left 'NW in February 2016, but returned this March in her new role.
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8/07/20 - Mara Soriano was reunited with the Build-A-Bear containing a voice message from her late mother last week. The Peak CKPK-FM 102.7
Vancouver morning hosts Tyler Middleton and Chris Lynch got wind of the
story and offered to make backup copies of the audio from the bear. Now
Soriano has multiple copies in case anything happens to the bear.
Josh Duncan, Kelowna Now The Peak News
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8/07/20 - Sitcom dad Alan Thicke
is being recognized by the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame for a trio
of popular theme songs he helped create. He will be celebrated as
co-writer of the catchy opening numbers for prime time classics The Facts of Life, Diff'rent Strokes, and the game show Wheel of Fortune. Thicke hosted the Alan Thicke Show on BCTV Vancouver and the CTV Network from 1980-83. He died of a heart attack in 2016 at age 69. David Friend, The Canadian Press
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8/07/20 - KNKX-FM 88.5 Seattle has announced the segment Weather with Cliff Mass
will no longer air, effective immediately. The station says his post on
his personal blog on recent events in Seattle were sensationalized and
misleading and not reflecting "who we are and what we stand for at
KNKX." Mass has had the 5-10 minute segment on KNKX/ KUOW for over 15 years. KNKX Announcement Cliff Mass Blog
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8/06/20
- Former CHLY-FM 101.7 Nanaimo Station Manager Bob Simpson died July 10
from stomach cancer in a private hospital room in Calgary. He was 75.
Simpson was in broadcasting for five decades at stations in Alberta,
Saskatchewan, CKST Langley/ Vancouver, CKDA Victoria, Central Island
Broadcasting in Nanaimo, CIVL-FM Abbotsford and CHLY. He retired in May
2017. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date in
Nanaimo. BC Local News Obituary Aaron Levy, CIVL
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8/06/20 - Dave Graham signed off from The Beach CIBH-FM 88.5 Parksville
last Friday morning. He started in radio as a high school student in
1977, making stops in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Terrace and Courtenay
before joining The Beach in 2003. Alex Rawnsley, NanaimoNewsNOW
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8/06/20
- Peter Rakobowchuk, known on air as Peter Ray, has died at age 71. He
reported news for CKO-FM Vancouver in 1978 and was a long time
journalist with Broadcast News, a subsidiary of The Canadian Press. Due
to COVID-19 restrictions, the family will be holding a private service
August 12 at Collins Clarke MacGillivray White Funeral Home in
Pointe-Claire, QC. Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press
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8/05/20 -
Legendary Seattle DJ, concert promoter and Seafair race announcer Pat
O’Day died Tuesday at his home in the San Juan Islands. He was 85. He
was Seattle's highest-profile DJ of the 1960s and the area's dominant
dance promoter. O'Day is probably best remembered as the afternoon drive
personality at KJR, where he would eventually become program director
and general manager. He owned KYYX-FM in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. KOMO News KIRO7 News Feliks Banel, MyNorthwest
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8/04/20 - News/ Talk KIRO-FM 97.3 continues its position in first place in the Nielsen Audio Seattle-Tacoma July 2020
Portable People Meter 6+ ratings with a 7.1 share. Classic Rock KZOK-FM 102.5 continues in second place with a 6.3 share. Classic Hits KJR-FM 95.7 moves up to third with 5.5. Radio Online
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8/04/20 - Work
resumes today on the transmitter site to get the new CKSP AM 600
Vancouver on the air. Work had been delayed due to COVID 19. The station
is co-siting with CKNW AM 980 at its Cloverdale transmitter site.
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8/04/20 - Former
CBC Vancouver broadcaster Carole Taylor, who was the BC Minister of
Finance from 2005-08, has been named to the Order of British Columbia
along with crooner Michael Buble and 11 others. Taylor hosted several
series including Pacific Report, Authors, Scene from Here, and Vancouver Life on CBC-TV Vancouver from 1976-86. CTV News BC Government Release
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8/03/20 - KISSFM KBKS-FM 106.1 Seattle has begun the process of rebranding following the announcement of the upcoming debut of Jubal Fresh. It's now branding as Jubal 106.1 with most imaging teasing the coming debut of Fresh and additional changes built around the launch of the show. Lance Venta, Radio Insight
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8/02/20 - Seattle film maker and TV producer Lynn Shelton
has received a posthumous Emmy Award nomination. She died May 16 in Los
Angeles at age 54. Most of her feature films were made in Washington
state with local film crews. Chris Talbott, Seattle Times
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8/02/20 - Pat Jacura, longtime receptionist at CKNW Vancouver in the 60s and 70s, died June 20 at age 88.
She was the smiling voice who greeted callers and visitors to the 227
Columbia and 815 McBride Plaza studios for many years. A service will be
announced at a later date. Sun/ Province Obituary
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8/01/20 - KEXP-FM 90.3 Seattle this week implemented changes to its DJ and programming lineup as part of its effort to become 'an
anti-racist organization'. The changes were first reported here on July
16th. The world-renowned nonprofit station has increased its on-air and musical diversity. Chris Talbott, Seattle Times
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