Rogers Layoffs Close Several Canadian Radio Stations
July 7, 2026
230 job cuts – Vancouver among cities affected… Rogers Sports and Media is shutting down its Sportsnet 650 radio station in Vancouver and Sportsnet 960 station in Calgary, as well as four other stations. Calgary’s 660 NewsRadio is also being closed, along with Vancouver’s 1130 AM, Halifax’s 95.7 NewsRadio, and Kitchener’s 570 NewsRadio. The company said the station closures will result in 80 employees losing their jobs. Those are among 230 total job losses at Rogers Sports and Media from these and other organizational changes...
Mr. Wizard - He answers questions for young scientists
April 6, 2026
The Province, March 31, 1956 -- “Mr. Wizard,” Don Herbert’s award-winning science show for children, which began with a 14-station network in March, 1951, at the NBC studios in Chicago, is celebrating its fifth year with a 140-station network. Saturday at 12 on 4. THE PROGRAM — now originating in New York every Saturday — has an estimated viewing audience of 3,000,000 children. The attraction is a 38-year-old former teacher-actor who has the ability to bring the magic of science in everyday living to the...
The Road to Top 40: Pacific NW Radio - PT. 1
December 11, 2023
When baby boomers speak of the first "rock 'n' roll" radio station in town, usually a station that began playing pop and rock music in the late-1950s to the early-'60s, they are in fact describing the first "Top 40" radio station in town. The birth of actual "rock" radio trailed behind Top 40, arriving in the late-'60s and early-'70s. This article began in 2022 when I contributed material for the book Sock Hops and Snowball Dances: A Look Back at Whatcom County Rock and Roll...
Dick Curtis: Sinatra Stories-1
March 28, 2026
Seattle radio icon Dick Curtis discusses the stars and promotions of Concerts West, a company Curtis formed with Pat O'Day, and the management of bands in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. Dick opens with the story about his time as Frank Sinatra‘s road manager. Sinatra Stories-1 --Copyright © 2006 by Dick Curtis Assigned to handle Frank Sinatra’s tours was unnerving to say the least. I had no idea what to expect. I was flown to New York City for the entertainers return to the stage...
The murder of KIRO 7 reporter, Larry Sturholm
March 31, 2026
Larry Sturholm, a 46-year-old Emmy award-winning features reporter for KIRO-TV 7, was murdered on the evening of July 31, 1989, in a brutal double stabbing that also claimed the life of 35-year-old emergency-room nurse Debra Sweiger. Sturholm and Sweiger were killed in Sweiger’s home near Issaquah. The perpetrator, William J. Pawlyk (then about 50), a former Richland businessman, Naval Academy graduate, and Naval Reserve officer, ambushed them. He apparently believed he was part of a love triangle and acted out of jealousy after learning that...
IMUS Over & Out After 50
March 29, 2018
DON IMUS ended a 50 year radio career, Thursday 3/29 -- on his 77 WABC morning show, Imus wrapped up the show with a final goodbye:
