Every once in a while, meteorologists may produce the exact same forecast, but getting them to wear the exact same clothing is very rare.
Now, according to a report by WNCN-TV in Raleigh, a certain dress has accidentally become a trend and spread across the country on local TV news — at more than 50 TV stations.
In the last few days, female meteorologists all over the country have been spotted on local TV wearing the exact same dress design.
The trend was an accident — the women who bought the dress say they share fashion tips and ideas in a “secret” social media group, said WNCN’s Kristin Ketchell, who wore the dress on Sunday morning for the first time.
“One woman posted the link to the dress in the group, others bought it and posted photos and the dress’ popularity just took off,” Ketchell said.
“The power of social media and word of mouth is incredible,” Ketchell said.
In 1890... French investor Edouard
Branley coins the term (radioconductor"); the first use of the
word "radio".
In 1906...actor Don MacLaughlin was born in Webster, Iowa.
He was the star of ABC Radio’s ‘David Harding, Counterspy’ in the 1940’s, and continued in the role when it moved to NBC Radio and Mutual in the 1950’s. In 1956 he created the role of lawyer Chris Hughes on CBS-TV’s ‘As the World Turns’ and continued to play him over the next 30 years!
Howard Duff
He died at age 79 on May 28 1986.
In 1913...actor Howard Duff was born in Bremerton Wash.
He first hit the bigtime on radio in The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective in the CBS series sponsored by Brylcreem. On TV he starred in the series Felony Squad, Mr. Adams and Eve, Flamingo Road, Knots Landing, and Dallas.
He died following a heart attack July 8, 1990 at age 76.
In 1920...The first radio play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired by Texas A&M University station 5XB, later to be known as WTAW in College Station, Texas. The University of Texas defeated Texas A&M, 7-3. The call letters stood for Watch The Aggies Win. Today, the calls are used by a locally-owned station at 1620 AM.
In 1926...KVI-AM, Seattle, Washington
began broadcasting.
KVI's legacy can be traced back to its debut on November 24, 1926, where it was licensed to Tacoma, Washington at 1280 AM. By the spring of 1928 its signal would be shifted to 1060 AM, followed by a larger shift to 760 AM, in the fall. By September 1932, it had moved to its permanent 570 AM frequency. In 1949, KVI relocated its studios and city of license to Seattle. KVI broadcasts from a single tower on Vashon Island.
In 1959, Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters added KVI to its portfolio. KVI switched to a very successful personality adult contemporary format in 1964. By 1973, KVI had evolved into a middle-of-the-road (MOR) direction. It was during this period that it became established as a dominant player in the market. KVI was the original flagship station for the ill-fated Seattle Pilots in 1969 and for the Seattle Mariners, from their inaugural season of 1977 until 1984.
By 1982, KVI had begun to gradually add more talk programming. In July 1984, KVI switched to oldies. That direction would last less than a decade. By 1992, KVI had a talk-format again. At first, the station used the slogan "the balanced alternative" with a lineup alternating liberal and conservative talk hosts, but in 1993, KVI dropped all its liberal hosts except Mike Siegel. Siegel, formerly a liberal, swung right in his views during this period and remained on the station. By May 1994, the year KVI was sold (along with KPLZ-FM) to Fisher Communications, KVI had an almost entirely conservative-talk format.
KVI returned to a full service format at 4 p.m. on November 7, 2010, with a base music rotation of classic hits along with news and traffic updates.
Due to the failure of the format, which only garnered an average of a 0.5 share of the market, and losing the ratings battle against KJR-FM and KMCQ, KVI began stunting with Christmas music on Thanksgiving Day. On January 3, 2012, the station flipped back to talk, this time as "Smart Talk", with an emphasis on entertainment news, lifestyle and health reports, and local news.
On April 11, 2013, Fisher announced that it would sell its properties, including KVI, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Although Sinclair primarily owns television stations, the company intends to retain KVI, KPLZ-FM, and KOMO. The deal was completed on August 8, 2013.
In 1958…
Jackie Wilson released the
single "Lonely Teardrops," co-written by Berry Gordy, Jr.
Ritchie Valens released
the single "Donna" b/w "La Bamba."
Brenda Lee released the
single "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree."
In 1963…On live national television,
Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald,
President John F. Kennedy's accused assassin, as authorities were
preparing to transfer Oswald by armored car from the police basement
to the nearby county jail. Ruby's 1964 conviction and death sentence
were overturned in 1966 when an appellate court ruled that his motion
for a change of venue before the original trial should have been
granted. In December 1966, before a new trial could be arranged, Ruby
died of pneumonia while suffering from liver, lung, and brain cancer.
In 1974…During his infamous "Lost
Weekend," John Lennon rehearsed with Elton John for Elton's
upcoming Madison Square Garden performance, at which Lennon planned
to make a surprise cameo appearance.
In 1991...Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury died of AIDS-related pneumonia at age 45. Queen’s biggest hits were the No. 1 songs “Another One Bites the Dust,” which sold more than 2 million copies, and the million-selling “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” The group is also well known for the double-sided hit “We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You.”
In 1991...Kiss drummer Eric Carr died of cancer at age 41. Doctors removed a cancerous tumor in Carr’s heart in April but the cancer had already spread to his lungs. He joined Kiss in 1982 when founding drummer Peter Criss left the group.
In 1993...Michael Jackson, embroiled in sex and drug addiction scandals, managed to pull off the biggest deal in music publishing history. Jackson sold his publishing operation, A-T-V Music, to E-M-I Music Publishing, in a deal worth more than 200-million dollars. Sources said Jackson himself received half that amount. Among the four-thousand titles under A-T-V’s control are most of the classic Lennon-McCartney Beatles compositions.
Cumulus Media announces that it has expanded Corporate Program Director/NewsTalk Bill Hess’ role at Cumulus Washington, D.C. to include Operations Manager duties for the D.C. station cluster.
Hess will continue in his role as Program Director for WMAL-FM-AM in Washington, D.C. Hess’ 38-year radio career has spanned positions on-air and in talk programming as Program Director for stations including: WTEM (Sports Talk) in Washington, D.C.; WHJJ in Providence, RI; and WHYN AM and FM in Springfield, MA. He was also Brand Manager for Clear Channel Radio/iHeart Media and served as Senior Vice President/Programming for Air America Radio in New York City. In addition, Hess has programmed music stations including WASH and WBIG in Washington, D.C. and WSNE and WWBB in Providence, RI.
Mike McVay, Senior Vice President, Content and Programming for Cumulus said: “Bill is an exceptional programmer. The growth that WMAL has experienced under his direction is nothing short of astounding. He has excelled as a Corporate PD and will continue in that role. Bill is deserving of this recognition.”
Hess said: “On the heels of our team’s success at WMAL, I’m thrilled to be working with Louie Diaz on the rebirth of Washington’s legendary Mix 107.3. Thanks to Gary Pizzati, Mike McVay, Jake McCann and Beth Cohen for this opportunity.”
Townsquare Media New Jersey announced today Jim Gearhart, morning host for New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW-Trenton), has been on an extended leave of absence as a result of a recent injury.
Sadly, the extent of Gearhart’s injury prevents him from returning to his morning host duties. Gearhart has been with the station for 25 years and contributed greatly to building its market-leading position.
As New Jersey 101.5’s morning host, Gearhart covered the great New Jersey tax revolt of the 1990s, 10 New Jersey governors’ administrations, the 9/11 tragedy, and countless other daily New Jersey headlines. In 2013, Gearhart was inducted into the New Jersey Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. Prior to his time at New Jersey 101.5, his 50-plus-year career spanned working for radio stations in New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Seattle, to name a few.
Bill Spaeda
“All of us at New Jersey 101.5 and Townsquare will miss Jim. Jim Gearhart is an extraordinary broadcaster and we thank him for his 25 years of service to New Jersey 101.5 and the entire New Jersey community,” commented Fred Bennett, Market President of New Jersey 101.5. “Jim is in our thoughts and wish him a quick recovery.”
Townsquare Media New Jersey also announced that Bill Spadea has been named host of New Jersey 101.5’s morning show effective Dec. 1. New Jersey 101.5 listeners are familiar with Spadea from his daily feature “Bill Spadea’s New Jersey” and from his role as a fill-in host for Gearhart, which he has done since 2014. Additionally, Spadea will continue to host “Chasing News,” a television show that broadcasts in the New York and Philadelphia markets.
“I love New Jersey. The opportunity to join other New Jerseyans every morning in a conversation about our state is both exciting and rewarding,” commented Spadea, a longtime New Jersey resident. “The NJ 101.5 team is the best in the business and I’m proud to be a part of this successful family.”
Spadea added, “I’ve always looked up to Jim Gearhart as a legend in New Jersey media. His shoes are too large for me to ever fill completely, but I am honored and humbled and will try my best to live up to his legacy of unequaled radio and service to the people of New Jersey.”
A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation’s elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiarm according to results just-released by the Pew Research Center.
Currently, just 19% say they can trust the government always or most of the time, among the lowest levels in the past half-century. Only 20% would describe government programs as being well-run. And elected officials are held in such low regard that 55% of the public says “ordinary Americans” would do a better job of solving national problems.
Yet at the same time, most Americans have a lengthy to-do list for this object of their frustration: Majorities want the federal government to have a major role in addressing issues ranging from terrorism and disaster response to education and the environment.
And most Americans like the way the federal government handles many of these same issues, though they are broadly critical of its handling of others – especially poverty and immigration.
A new national survey by Pew Research Center, based on more than 6,000 interviews conducted between August 27 and October 4, 2015, finds that public attitudes about government and politics defy easy categorization.
The public expresses mixed opinions about the effect of several major nongovernmental institutions on the country. But in nearly all cases, the influence of these institutions is viewed more positively than that of the federal government – and especially Congress.
Of 10 nongovernmental institutions included in the survey, majorities say four are having a positive effect on the way things are going in the country: small businesses (82% positive), technology companies (71%), colleges and universities (63%) and churches and other religious institutions (61%).
The public is more divided over the impact of three other institutions – the energy industry (48% positive), labor unions (45%) and banks and financial institutions (40%).
And three others are viewed as having decidedly negative influence on the country. Just 33% say large corporations have a positive impact, 32% say that about the entertainment industry, and just 25% say the national news media has a positive effect. Majorities say all three have a negative effect on the way things are going in the U.S.
Majorities of adults, regardless of partisan and ideological affiliation, say the national news media is having a negative effect on how things are going in the country today. However, conservative Republicans and Republican leaners are particularly critical: 82% say the national news media has a negative impact, while just 14% say it has a positive impact.
Republicans are also more critical of the entertainment industry than are Democrats: Majorities of moderate and liberal Republicans and Republican leaners (60%) and their conservative counterparts (65%) say that the entertainment industry has a negative effect on the United States. Half of conservative and moderate Democrats and 44% of the party’s liberals view its impact negatively.
(Reuters) -- British boy band One Direction swept the top honors at Sunday's American Music Awards, while a sorrowful tribute to the victims of the attacks in Paris lent a somber note to a night of otherwise vibrant performances.
One Direction was named artist of the year for a second consecutive year, and also won the best pop/rock album for a third consecutive year, with the album "Made In The A.M."
"It's absolutely incredible to receive this award two years in a row. It's a testament to how incredible our fans are," band member Louis Tomlinson said.
Actor-musician Jared Leto made a moving tribute to the 130 victims of the deadly Nov. 13 attacks across Paris, specifically the 89 who died at the Bataclan concert hall, where he said he and his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, had performed "a beautiful, peaceful" show earlier this year.
"Tonight we honor victims of the unimaginable violence that took place in Paris and around the world," he said. "France matters, Russia matters, Syria matters, Mali matters, the Middle East matters, the United States matters, the entire world matters and peace is possible."
French-Canadian singer Celine Dion sang Edith Piaf's classic French ode "La Vie en Rose" in memory of those lost.
And The Winners Are:
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Luke Bryan
Ariana Grande
Maroon 5
Nicki Minaj One Direction -- WINNER
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
The Weeknd
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Fetty Wap Sam Hunt -- WINNER
Tove Lo
Walk The Moon
The Weeknd
SONG OF THE YEAR
Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth “See You Again”
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!”
Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud” Taylor Swift “Blank Space” -- WINNER
The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My Face”
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR
Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth “See You Again”
Rihanna & Kanye West Featuring Paul McCartney “FourFiveSeconds”
Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” Skrillex & Diplo Featuring Justin Bieber “Where Are Ü Now” -- WINNER
Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar “Bad Blood”
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK
Nick Jonas Ed Sheeran -- WINNER
Sam Smith
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK Ariana Grande -- WINNER
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
FAVORITE DUO OR GROUP – POP/ROCK
Maroon 5 One Direction -- WINNER
Walk The Moon
FAVORITE ALBUM – POP/ROCK
Ed Sheeran x
Sam Smith In The Lonely Hour Taylor Swift 1989 -- WINNER
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – COUNTRY
Jason Aldean Luke Bryan -- WINNER
Sam Hunt
Carrie Underwood (REUTERS/MARIO ANZUONI)
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – COUNTRY
Kelsea Ballerini
Miranda Lambert Carrie Underwood -- WINNER
FAVORITE DUO or GROUP - COUNTRY
Zac Brown Band Florida Georgia Line -- WINNER
Little Big Town
FAVORITE ALBUM - COUNTRY
Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt Florida Georgia Line Anything Goes -- WINNER
Sam Hunt Montevallo
FAVORITE ALBUM – RAP/HIP-HOP
J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Drake If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint -- WINNER
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Chris Brown
Trey Songz The Weeknd -- WINNER
FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – SOUL/R&B
Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige Rihanna -- WINNER
FAVORITE ALBUM – SOUL/R&B
Chris Brown X
D’Angelo and The Vanguard Black Messiah The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness -- WINNER
Fallout Boy (REUTERS/DAVID MCNEW)
FAVORITE ARTIST - ALTERNATIVE ROCK Fall Out Boy -- WINNER
Hozier
Walk The Moon
FAVORITE ARTIST - ADULT CONTEMPORARY
Ed Sheeran Taylor Swift -- WINNER
Meghan Trainor
FAVORITE ARTIST - LATIN Enrique Iglesias -- WINNER
Ricky Martin
Romeo Santos
FAVORITE ARTIST - CONTEMPORARY INSPIRATIONAL Casting Crowns -- WINNER
Hillsong United
MercyMe
FAVORITE ARTIST - ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC (EDM) Calvin Harris -- WINNER
David Guetta
Zedd
TOP SOUNDTRACK
Fifty Shades of Grey
Empire: Original Soundtrack from Season 1 Pitch Perfect 2 -- WINNER
Key winners on the night included Taylor Swift, who went into the night with a leading six nominations and won three awards but did not attend the event.
Nicki Minaj won two awards in the rap/hip hop categories, The Weeknd won two soul/R&B awards, Florida Georgia Line won two country music awards and country artist Sam Hunt was named best new artist.
Unlike the irreverent antics of MTV's Video Music Awards and the industry prestige of the Grammy Awards, the fan-voted AMAs offer up the year's most popular music acts, with a spotlight on performances.
"Star Wars" veteran Harrison Ford introduced five-piece a cappella group Pentatonix, who put their vocals to John Williams' iconic "Star Wars" score, along with a full orchestra on stage. The performance comes ahead of next month's highly-anticipated new "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" film.
Show host Jennifer Lopez danced through a high-octane medley of this year's top pop songs, saying: "Tonight is about the music, and this year's music makes me want to dance."
One of the biggest talking points came courtesy of Meghan Trainor and Charlie Puth, who took audiences by surprise with a steamy kiss after their duet "Marvin Gaye."
Selena Gomez performed a sultry rendition of her latest hit "Same Old Love," country star Carrie Underwood belted her romantic ballad "Heartbeat" and Ariana Grande got the crowd dancing with her upbeat hit "Focus." Justin Bieber sang and danced through a medley of his hits, ending with a shower of rain on stage.
The Weeknd set the stage on real fire for his performance of "The Hills," while Coldplay brought out dancing monkeys on a psychedelic stage for "Adventure of a Lifetime," and Walk The Moon started a dance party with their hit "Shut Up And Dance."
In just one year, WZPL 99.5 FM has raced from ninth to first in the Indianapolis radio market among listeners age 6 and older, which prompted the Indianapolis Business Journal to take a closer look.
In September and October, the Top 40 station earned an 8.7 share, which represents the percentage of radio listeners tuning in. In doing so, the station has opened a considerable margin over its closest competitor—soft rock WYXB 105.7 FM—which scored a 7.3 share in each of the last two months, according to New York-based The Nielsen Co.
For WZPL, the numbers are the highest since the spring of 1992.
“We’re on an incredible run,” said the station’s operations manager, JR Ammons.
WZPL has seen its year-over-year share grow 3.4 points, from 5.3 in October 2014, while many other stations have been fairly flat or, in some cases, on the decline.
As strong as WZPL is overall, it’s even stronger with its primary target audience: women. In certain time slots, nearly one in four women ages 18 to 34 who are listening to radio are tuned to WZPL, according to Nielsen. In the 18-to-49 segment, the station is nearly as strong.
The numbers are significant for revenue.
Among women age 25 to 54—one of the most sought-after segments for ad buyers—WZPL has held the No. 1 spot for seven consecutive months, according to Nielsen.
But WZPL isn’t just for women. The Pennsylvania-based Entercom Communications-owned station has been No. 1 with all listeners age 25 to 54 for four consecutive months, according to Nielsen.
WZPL 99.5 FM (19 Kw) Red=Local Coverage Area
The foundation for the station’s ratings growth was laid in January, Ammons said, when WZPL commissioned a market study. The station received the results in late February and started making programming changes in early March.
“There had been a lot of changes in the market and we wanted to get the lay of the land,” he said. “We wanted to tell the future before it happened.”
In March, WZPL shuffled a couple of on-air personalities and leaned toward music by Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy and Demi Lovato and away from electronic dance music and hip-hop.
The market research also told WZPL officials how much their listeners liked the station’s community events—including Jingle Jam, coming up next month.
The FCC has yet to collect more than $100 million in fines it's announced against companies in the past two years, sparking criticism from members of Congress who say the agency is chasing headlines without following through on enforcement.
Among the outstanding cash: about $100 million in penalties proposed in 2013 against nearly a dozen companies accused of defrauding the FCC's Lifeline low-income phone subsidy program, as well $35 million against a Chinese company for allegedly selling illegal wireless jamming equipment in June 2014, according to a Politico review of agency records.
While the FCC says it's scored important consumer protection wins even without the collection of some penalties, its frequent press releases about enforcement actions — with collection of fines lagging far behind — have irked key lawmakers who oversee the agency. The issue is gathering more attention this year, as FCC officials have unveiled new high-profile actions like a $100 million proposed fine against AT&T in June for slowing down the wireless connections of some unlimited data plan holders.
The FCC enforcement process has never been quick. After the FCC proposes a fine, companies have around 30 days to either pay or challenge it. The fine isn't officially due until the FCC completes its investigation — a process that can take years. Even after that review is complete, the FCC has to rely on the Justice Department to collect the money if a company doesn't agree to pay.
The FCC would not comment on the outstanding Lifeline cases, saying it can't talk about ongoing proceedings. But a spokesperson said the practice of issuing proposed fines — technically called notices of apparent liability, or NALs — is a major tool to protect consumers, even if companies don’t ultimately pay a full penalty.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh believes that the Grand Old Party may to be the arch nemesis of President Barack Obama:
During a rare TV interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday, he declared that:
“Barack Obama’s number one enemy is the Republican party and the conservative movement.
You see he gets animated, he doesn’t need cue cards, he doesn’t need teleprompters when starts ripping into them…”
Limbaugh then compared that to how Obama handles ISIS or Iran, calling his behavior “cautious” and “precise,” in order to avoid offending them.
The popular talk radio host also criticized Obama’s “lack of a strategy” against ISIS with Wallace, telling the “Fox News Sunday” host that the President’s dealings with the international terrorist group are “inept and incompetent and nonexistent.”
After an initial burst of interest spurred by CBS’s big-bucks saturation advertising campaign for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the show’s ratings have tanked and it is now running third in late night behind NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, who rarely has managed second place before.
The reason? According to The NY Post, a survey by the Hollywood Reporter found that conservative viewers are turning off Colbert in droves. Nearly twice as many Republicans are watching Kimmel as Colbert, who has turned “Late Night” into a sort of wannabe MSNBC show.
The pattern is familiar: When a Democrat is the guest, Colbert is Barbara Walters. When a Republican is on, he turns into Tim Russert.
Ratings show that 47% of Colbert’s viewers identify as Democrats, 17% as Republicans. Kimmel’s audience is evenly split — 33% Democrats, 32% Republicans, while Fallon’s is nearly so (36% Democrats, 31% Republicans).
“Colbert Nation is filled with wealthy, socially liberal men who overwhelmingly support legalizing marijuana and want Bernie Sanders to be president,” pollster Jon Penn explained to The Hollywood Reporter. Some 30% of Colbert viewers report that they are atheists, which is the No. 1 “religion category” choice for “Late Show” viewers.
Except in the first week of November, Kimmel not only beat the “Late Show” in total audience, he also beat him in the key 18-49 age group. Colbert isn’t targeting a demo; he’s pandering to a niche.
(Reuters) -- The California rock band that was playing in Paris on the night of the Nov. 13 attacks survived the massacre at their concert, but others died seeking shelter in a dressing room, the group’s lead singer said in an interview with international news channel Vice.
Jesse Hughes of the band Eagles of Death Metal spoke to Vice in an interview that airs on its website next week. A 30-second excerpt was posted on Saturday. It was the first time a member of the band had spoken about the shootings, Vice said.
Bombings and shootings carried out by Islamic State militants in Paris killed 130 people, including 89 who were attending the U.S. band's performance at the Bataclan concert hall.
“Several people hid in our dressing room and the killers were able to get in and killed every one of them – except for a kid who was hiding under my leather jacket,” Hughes said in the interview, as the band’s co-founder, Josh Homme, sat next to him.
“People were playing dead and they were so scared,” Hughes said, his voice quavering. “A great reason why so many were killed is because so many people wouldn’t leave their friends. So many people put themselves in front of people.”
In a statement on its Facebook page earlier this week, the band said those killed that night included Nick Alexander, its merchandising manager, and three record company “comrades” of the band: Thomas Ayad, Marie Mosser and Manu Perez.
The band, which also goes by the acronym EODM, was on stage at the Bataclan when gunmen opened fire with automatic rifles.
When former WABI-TV of Bangor sportscaster and WABI radio morning show host George Hale began his broadcasting career over 60 years ago, he never gave any thought to winning awards.
George Hale
“I didn’t go out looking for those things,” he said.
But, according to Bangor Daily News, awards found him, including the prestigious Gold Circle Honoree that he received from the New England chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Thursday night.
The Gold and Circle Awards honors veteran television professionals who have made noteworthy contributions to their community, the television industry and to individuals for careers in the field of television. The Gold Circle Award is for 50 years of service in the industry.
“You’re always happy when people recognize you. And when it comes from within the industry, it’s nice. I appreciate it very much. It was a fun night,” Hale said Friday.
WVOM 103.9 FM (90 Kw) Red=Local Coverage
The 83-year-old Hale, co-host of the “George Hale Ric Tyler Show” on WVOM 103.9 FM in Bangor, moved to New York City in fourth grade after spending his previous time in Florida, said he developed his interest in broadcasting at age 6.
“My family made me a microphone, and I would go outside and describe traffic jams, ambulances going by along with birds and a few other stupid creatures,” said Hale.
He tried to break into the broadcasting business in New York, but it was overcrowded, so friends suggested he look for a TV/radio gig in another town.
“I found that they had a new TV station in Bangor,” he said.
That was 1956.
He began as the morning newsman on radio with one day a week on television.
He remained a morning disc jockey and eventually became the TV sports anchor. He also added play-by-play man to his resume.
Jim Perry, best known as the host of game shows "Card Sharks" and "$ale of the Century," died Friday in Oregon following a five-year battle with cancer, surrounded by his wife and children.
The Camden, N.J., was a star basketball player while growing up and was nicknamed "Big Jim" at 6-foot-4. He attend the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Special Services, where he worked on Armed Forces Radio during the Korean War.
After his time in the service, Perry teamed with comedian Sid Ceasar, touring as a pair for several years. He served as host of the Miss Canada Pageant, which he emceed from 1967 until 1990; he was the announcer on 1969's syndicated program "That Show" starring Joan Rivers; and from 1969 to 1972, he was a weekend overnight DJ at WABC 770 AM in New York (Aircheck).Johnny Donovan replaced Jim Perry on July 9, 1972.
In 1974, Perry became the host of the CTV game show "Headline Hunters," then began hosting the networks series "Definition," which went on to become the longest-running game show in Canadian television history.
Perry's first major American network hosting job came in 1967 with "It's Your Move." He began hosting NBC's "Card Sharks" in 1978 until 1981. In 1982, NBC named Perry as the host of revamped edition of the beloved series "$ale of the Century," which aired for six years and was spun off into a nightly syndicated version, which saw Perry doing double duty as the host of both shows.
WCCO 830 AM has announced Charlie Boone, whose 37-year partnership with Roger Erickson produced one of radio’s most popular teams in the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s and 90’s died Sunday after a brief illness.
Charlie Boone
He was 88-years-of-age.
Boone & Erickson arrived at WCCO AM-Minneapolis the same year – 1959 – and hosted their own programs featuring music and information. Erickson’s afternoon show aired just before Boone’s and when the two began to chat and share jokes a legendary radio team was born. Erickson retired in 1998 while Boone continued hosting a Saturday morning show until 2010.
Boone began his radio career in Wadena, Minnesota and later worked at stations in Colorado Springs and Fargo before coming to WCCO AM in 1959.
His career highlights:
Was WCCO’s first ‘disc jockey’, playing records on his show instead of introducing a live orchestra.
His show, “Boone in the Afternoon” followed Roger Erickson’s program each day and the two began chatting and sharing jokes on each other’s shows.
1961: The “Boone & Erickson” show was born. Featured were skits poking fun at politicians, giving comic treatment to current events and parodying old radio shows (the most popular of which was “Minnesota Hospital” billed as “the best place to get sick in”.) In addition “B & E” interviewed countless dignitaries and celebrities.
1998: Roger Erickson retires after his 37-year partnership with Charlie Boone
Charlie continues to host a Saturday morning radio show until December 2010, completing a 51-year career at WCCO.
According to WCCO, Boone was the scheduled emcee for an appearance by Buddy Holly in Moorhead and was waiting at the airport when he learned the rock legend was killed in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3rd, 1959. Needing a replacement act, Charlie enlisted a local band – The Shadows – headed by 15 year-old Bobby Velline, thus helping launch the career of ’60s star Bobby Vee.
Boone was a master of voices whose dialects ranging from a New York cop to a bellicose southern senator provided the color for countless comedy routines with Erickson. The two often parodied old radio shows, the most popular of which was “Minnesota Hospital” touted as “the best place to get sick in.”
Payne owned and operated nine radio stations in eastern Oklahoma: KTFX 101.7 FM Warner/Muskogee, KTNT 102.5 FM Eufaula, KITX K95.5 FM Hugo, KTLQ 1350 AM and KEOK 102.1 FM Tahlequah, KQIK 105.9 FM Haileyville, KSTQ 93.5 FM Stuart, and KYOA 93.5 FM Kiowa.
Payne graduated from Oklahoma City University with a degree in electronic engineering. He had been on the radio since 1953 and was a pioneer in FM broadcasting in Oklahoma in 1963, owning one of three FM stations on the air.
Payne began broadcasting live on June 28, 1962, at age 22 from a one-car garage in Edmond. In addition to being the owner, manager, and engineer of his station, KWHP-FM, Payne sold advertising and announced play-by-play sports.
In 1887...Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt in London.
In a 50 year acting career highlighted by four Frankenstein films, he found time to make an impact in horror radio & TV productions. He is still heard today as the narrator of the annual TV cartoon favorite, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
He died at age 81 Feb 2, 1969 from emphysema.
For his contribution to film and television, Boris Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1737 Vine Street for motion pictures, and 6664 Hollywood Boulevard for television.
In 1889…In San Francisco, the Palais Royal Hotel installed
the first coin-operated machine that, by about 1940, was known as a
"jukebox." In the beginning it was a crude slot-machine apparatus
connected to an Edison phonograph which, upon receiving a coin, unlocked the
mechanism, allowing the listener to turn a crank that simultaneously wound the
spring motor and placed the reproducer's stylus in the starting groove. This
was before the time of vacuum tubes, so there was no amplification. The music
was heard via one of four listening tubes. Despite its then-high price of a
nickel a song, the new contraption took in $1000 in its first six months of
operation.
John Dehner
In 1915...actor John Dehner was born in Staten Island NY.
After starting as a Disney animator & radio deejay, he started playing heavies in films & on radio shows such as Gunsmoke, Suspense, Escape and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. He starred in The Hermit’s Cave and Frontier Gentleman on radio, and was Palladin in CBS Radio’s Have Gun Will Travel. TV series credits include Young Maverick, How the West was Won, Temperatures Rising, the Doris Day Show & the Don Knotts Show.
He died of emphysema & diabetes Feb 4 1992 at age 76.
In 1938…Bob Hope and Shirley Ross recorded his future theme
song, "Thanks For The Memory," for the soundtrack of the motion
picture "The Big Broadcast of 1938."
Also on this date in 1996, Hope set a record for the longest continuous contract in the history of radio and television when his last TV special aired. Hope had been with N-B-C for 60 years.
In 1959…Alan Freed was dismissed from his daily television
show, "The Big Beat," over allegations that he accepted money to play
certain records. Freed denied any wrongdoing.
In 1962…The Beatles did a ten-minute audition for BBC
Television at St. James' Church Hall in London. Four days later, Brian Epstein
received a polite rejection letter from the BBC. They eventually made it on the BBC in 1963.
In 1964…The Rolling Stones were late arriving for the BBC
radio shows, "Top Gear" and "Saturday Club" and as a result
were banned by the BBC for "unprofessionalism."
In 1967…San Francisco disc jockey Tom Donahue, inventor of
"classic rock" and "deep cut" radio, told Rolling Stone
magazine, "Top Forty radio, as we know it today and have known it for the
last ten years, is dead, and its rotting corpse is stinking up the
airwaves."
In 1992...country music legend Roy Acuff died of heart failure at age 89.
Considered the most influential figure in the history of country music, Acuff rose to fame in the 1930’s when radio was more important than records, so his chart hits were relatively few. But he made country standards of songs like “The Wabash Cannonball,” “The Great Speckle Bird,” “Fireball Mail” and “Night Train to Memphis.”
In 1993….FCC makes C-QUAM AM stereo standard. WBZ-AM Boston playing Christmas music on Christmas Eve 1993
in C-Quam AM Stereo. This was recorded via skyway 480 miles from Boston in
Lockport, NY, near Buffalo.
In 2004…pioneering sports radio talk show host Pete Franklin
died at age 76. Franklin's stops included Cleveland and New York with his last job
at KNBR, San Francisco.
In 1899…Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America registered in New Jersey
In 1906…the "S-O-S" distress signal was adopted at
the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin.
In 1963…Many U.S. Radio stations suspended regular
programming following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Number One song that week was 'Sugar Shack' by Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs.
More than three hours of KLIF 1190 AM audio from November
22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy's assassination.
Coverage begins at 11:30 AM (Dallas
time) on 11/22/63, with Joe Long of Dallas radio
station KLIF reporting live from LoveFieldAirport
as President Kennedy arrives in "Big D".
Today 1190 AM is the home of KFXR.
Kennedy coverage as heard on WBAP 820 AM Fort Worth:
Also, from WCCO 830 AM Minneapolis/St. Paul:
And From The Big One, WLW 700 AM Cincinnati (then an NBC Affiliate):
This is the initial bulletin heard on the NBC Radio Network
about the shooting of President Kennedy in Dallas. Robert MacNeil reports live from a
telephone located inside the TexasSchoolBookDepositoryBuilding,
which is where the gunshots came from.
This is the line feed from the ABC Radio Network News in the
initial moments of the coverage of the JFK Assasination. Included is the ABC
Log Book notes on what they were airing. Someone in ABC Master Control had to
log literally everything that was broadcast each day. Also included UPI and AP wire copy which you can see the
network anchors are relying on for information.
And Bulletin coverage from KILT 610 AM Houston:
1963…In the UK,
the Parlophone label released the Beatles' second album, "With the
Beatles," and the single, "Roll Over Beethoven." Capitol Records
in Canada
issued the album as "Beatlemania! With the Beatles," which has the
distinction of being the first Beatles album ever released in North
America. Most of the songs from the album were not released in the
United States
until January 20, 1964 when Capitol Records issued "Meet the Beatles!"
In 1980...actress Mae West died at her Hollywood home at age 87 following a stroke.
Famous for her double-entendres she had a sensational if brief radio career, appearing in two risque sketches on the Charlie McCarthy Show on a Sunday in Dec. 1937. The listening audience was so shocked that Ms. West did not appear again on radio for another 31 years.
In 2002...actor Parley Baer died at age 88 after a stroke. He was active in bigtime radio, playing Chester on Gunsmoke, and dozens of supporting roles on The Lux Radio Theater, Escape and Suspense. On TV he was seen in everything from The Andy Griffith Show to Star Trek: Voyager. Six decades of character roles in broadcasting.
Gunsmoke "The Stage Holdup" CBS 1/2/54 Oldtime Radio Drama Western
Matt Dillon: William Conrad...Kitty: Georgia Ellis...Chester Proudfoot: Parley Baer
In 2011…he lead anchor for 25 years at CNN Radio Stan Case was killed in a traffic accident in Birmingham Alabama, as he was driving to Oklahoma for Thanksgiving. He was 59.
