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10/17/21 - Long
time Vancouver radio personality Pam Stevens has announced she has quit
her current job over a disagreement with her boss. She left her last
radio gig in 2015 to become a tour leader with Adventures Abroad after several local radio positions beginning as a traffic reporter in 1989. Twitter Announcement
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10/15/21 - Veteran Vancouver broadcaster Jody Vance
says she wants to promote public discussion, as journalists are being
hit with an intensifying wave of hate on politically polarized online
platforms. She feels relief after the arrest of a suspect, following
years of online harassment. Mike Hager, The Globe and Mail
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10/15/21 - FOX13 KCPQ-TV Seattle morning news anchor Travis Mayfield
is leaving the station at the end of the month. He has been with KCPQ
since 2014. He is opposed to a new role offered by management as his
contract is expiring. FTVLive
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10/14/21 - Vancouver born Mike Everett is the newest member of the KING 5
Seattle team, as he joins as a meteorologist. He has most recently been
the Chief Meteorologist at the NBC affiliates in Palm Springs and the
Coachella Valley. YouTube Video
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10/14/21 - Espe Currie rejoins Rogers Sports & Media as CityNews Vancouver’s Supervising Producer. She has most recently been an associate producer with CTV Vancouver and was previously a web editor and reporter for News 1130 CKWX Vancouver.
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10/13/21 - Jake Wiederrich has been promoted to VP and News Director at FOX 13 KCPQ-TV and FOX 13+
KZJO-TV Seattle, effective immediately. He will oversee all editorial,
business and administrative functions for the Fox owned stations.
Wiederrich has been Assistant News Director since July after moving from
an executive producer role in the San Francisco Bay area. TVNewsCheck
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10/13/21 - Vancouver broadcaster Ryan Sullivan, digital host, content creator and announcer at JACK CJAX-FM 96.9 Vancouver is headed to Halifax. He's joining Surge 105.1 CKHY-FM. Sullivan has been part of Vancouver's media since earning a broadcast journalism diploma from BCIT in 2010. Twitter Announcement
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10/11/21 - KIRO 7 Seattle morning news anchor Tracey Leong appears to be gone and her bio has been removed from the station's website. She's been at KIRO-TV since October 2019. Previous clips by her are still on the site. Twitter Page
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10/10/21 - Long-time Vancouver sports broadcaster Rob Fai is leaving his latest gig with The Nation to focus on NEW Wrestling. He lost his position as a talk show host at TSN 1040 CKST when it dropped its sports format in February. Twitter Announcement
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10/10/21 - CBC has added HD Radio to Radio One CBU-2-FM 88.1 Vancouver. Another recent addition is Connect FM CJCN-FM 91.5 Surrey. At this time both are only operating with HD1.
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10/08/21 - The BC Sports Hall of Fame
is paying tribute to six winners of the annual Eric Whitehead Inspired
Service Awards, including popular radio and television broadcaster Barry Macdonald.
The awards are named after former Vancouver Province sports editor,
founder and first curator of the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1966.
Macdonald formerly worked for CBC-TV, CKVU-TV's Sports Page and TSN 1040. BC Sports HOF Release
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10/08/21 - Campus-community radio station CHLY-FM 101.7
Nanaimo is celebrating with a 20th Anniversary Concert on October 15th.
The concert, in celebration of CHLY's 20 years on the airwaves, will
feature six local acts. CHLY Release
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10/08/21 - Veteran CBC Vancouver sports broadcaster, two-time World Champion synchronized swimmer and former Olympian Karin Larsen is being inducted into the media category of the B.C Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2021. She is recognized for being among the earliest women working in sports broadcasting in Canada. Michelle Gomez, CBC News
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10/06/21 - CKNW AM 980 Vancouver has announced a newly refreshed weekend morning show lineup including Weekend Mornings with Stirling Faux on Saturdays from 6 to 9 a.m. starting October 9, followed by A Word in Edgewise hosted by veteran radio personality Jon McComb at 9 a.m. Weekend Mornings with Raji Sohal airs Sundays from 6 to 9 a.m., effective October 10. News Release
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10/06/21 - A Tegna spokesperson said Tuesday evening that it began alerting Dish Network subscribers that they may lose access to their local Tegna-owned broadcast stations (KING-TV
and KONG-TV Seattle) at 9 p.m. ET on Oct. 6 “due to Dish’s refusal to
reach a fair, market-based agreement to continue carriage of those
stations. TVNewsCheck
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10/06/21 - Olympia market daytimer KBRD AM 680
Lacey is now heard 24 hours a day on a translator at 101.1 MHz. The
listing appears on the station's website, but not yet on the FCC
site. FCC Data Puget Sound Media
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10/06/21 - Osiris Media and Audacy are set to release the first season of their joint production Breaking Waves
series, focusing on the Seattle grunge scene. The series begins October
12 and will feature content dating to the late 1980s and '90s
from KISW-FM 99.9 and The End KNDD-FM 107.7 Seattle. Inside Radio
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10/04/21 - The FCC
has cancelled an application for a Construction Permit by Jodesha
Broadcasting, Inc. for a new station to operate on 1140 kHz in Aberdeen.
FCC Notice
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10/02/21 - After nearly 21 years as a news anchor at News 1130 CKWX Vancouver, Ben Wilson
has announced his departure "to do other things". The 2001 BCIT
Broadcast Program graduate's last day is Friday, October 15. Twitter Announcement
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10/02/21 - The October 2021 edition of Clay's Corner, prepared by veteran RF Systems Engineer Clay Freinwald for the Seattle Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers
newsletter The Waveguide, is now available. In this edition Clay
discusses the NAB Show cancellation, more about COVID's connection to
broadcasting, cancellation of this year's Spokane HAMFEST and much
more. October Clay's Corner
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10/02/21 - Long time Vancouver sports radio commentator and newspaper columnist Greg Douglas has joined The Orca
with biweekly columns. In his debut, he comments on the state of local
broadcasting. The Orca is a new independent multimedia publication for
B.C. politics, business, and history. Broadcasters Jody Vance and George Affleck are also new contributors. Dr. Sport Column
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10/01/21 - Following the announcement last month that FOX 13 KCPQ-TV Seattle news anchor Matt Lorch was leaving after ten years, a farewell video has been released by the station. FOX 13 Video
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10/01/21 -
Vancouver accordionist Len Holland died in Burnaby September 25 at age
96. He played on the stages of Vancouver's vaudeville circuit, making
his radio debut on CKWX in 1932 at age 7. In 1949 Holland was the first
Canadian accordionist to give a full, formal, classical, concert and had
a weekly radio program in the 1950s. Sun/ Province Obituary
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