Norm Grohman & Bill Reiter
SOUNDATHON 08:
VANCOUVER'S NEWEST RADIO STATIONhttp://www.thepeakfm and go the top right corner and CLICK LISTEN LIVE!!
THE PEAK FM 100.5 will continue on SOUNDATHON 08 until NOV. 23 AFTER 8 PM.
*Local radio & TV history.
*Songs that reached #1 for 8 weeks or more on any music chart.
*Albums that reached #1 for 14 weeks or more on any album chart.
*Launch date for Radio & TV shows that have survived at least 25 years on the air.
*Launch date of various radio & TV stations.
*Birth dates of Canadian TV & movie personalities.
*Songs that appeared on B.C. "Top 40" music charts that leaped from #16-40 to #1 or NEW at #17 or higher or stayed 8 weeks or more at #1.
Nov. 21, 1902: Canada's original play-by-play voice of hockey, Foster Hewitt was born in Toronto. He passed away on April 21, 1985 (82)
Nov. 21, 1947: After a brief test period, Vancouver's first FM station CBR FM 105.7 went on the air. It was a simulcast of CBR, then CBU until 1965. It was known as VE9FG.
Nov. 21, 1965: CKCR 1340 Revelstoke, B.C. signed on the air as a rebroadcaster of its Salmon Arm station.
Nov. 21, 1967: CFNL 590 Fort Nelson B.C. signed on the air as a semi-satellite of CKNL Fort St. John.
Nov. 21, 1977: CKO FM signs on its Vancouver station. CKO was a national news service broadcasting from 6 am-midnight local time. CKO had stations in Toronto, London, Ottawa, and Montreal. In the next 8 years the network would add stations in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Halifax and St. John’s, Nfld. Power was 66,000 watts. Transmittter was on Grouse Mountain. Studios were at 2780 E. Broadway.
Nov. 21, 1981: "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John begins a 10-week run at #1 on the Billboard Top 100 and a 9-week run at #1 on Record World's Singles chart.
Nov. 21, 1995: Canadian TV actor Bruno Gerrussi passed away in West Vancouver, B.C. (76)
Nov. 22, 1963: TV networks across Canada and the United States broadcast the aftermath of the shooting and death of President Kennedy. TV news came of age.
Nov. 23, 1963 at 5:15 pm GMT, the BBC launches "Doctor Who" which stayed on British TV for 26 years and was revived again in 2005.
Nov. 23, 1963: "Shindig" by the Shadows debuts at #17 on the CFUNtastic 50.
Nov. 23, 1993: "The Food Network" launches in the United States.
My name is Brian
Walks.
This website
is dedicated to the history of radio and
television surrounding Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This
includes the Lower Mainland area from Hope to Powell River and Whistler
BC, all of Vancouver Island and stations in Blaine, Bellingham and
Lynden, Washington, USA. This website is not meant in any way to
compete with any individual websites or radio or TV websites that
service this area. In fact, I welcome your input. You can e-mail me at my HOTMAIL
account and
title each correspondence "Vancouver Radio Museum".
brianwalks@hotmail.com or try my new
e-mail address: brian.walks@gmail.com.
Featured in the Vancouver Radio Museum:
The Time Tunnel:
The Time Tunnel is a chronological history of radio and television
in the Greater Vancouver area.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2008 (2008)
RADIO
STATION GALLERIES:
CJOR Updated: June 18, 2006
CISL Updated: Nov. 7,
2005.
CBU AM
Updated Sept. 8, 2008
CKLG Updated: Oct. 21, 2008
Fraser Valley Radio Updated
Oct. 21, 2008
CJVI
Updated Oct. 22, 2008
CKNW Updated:
Sept. 4, 2008
CFAX Updated Oct. 21, 2008
CKWX Updated:
Feb. 22,
2006
CKDA Updated Oct. 22, 2008
CHQM
Updated: Oct. 7, 2008
CFUN Updated: Sept. 3, 2008
CFMS-CIOC Updated
Nov. 4, 2005
CFOX Updated:
Dec. 3,
2005
CFMI
Updated: Oct. 21,
2008
CBU FM
Updated: Dec. 1, 2005.
Record-Breaking Records
Each
week from Oct. 11-Dec. 19 we will feature one of the #1 songs on CFMI's
B.C. 500 or 1001 etc.
NOV.
21-28. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN by LED
ZEPPELIN. (7:55) (The biggest classic rock song of
all
time on
most classic rock countdowns.)
--It was the last song that CHRX 600 Vancouver played at
5:53 pm on Jan. 7, 1994.
--
WKRL FM 97.9 St. Petersburgh, stunted from Jan. 1-18, 1990 with an
all-Led Zeppelin format playing “Stairway
to Heaven” for 24 hours
straight on New Year’s Day.
The Pioneer Years now has its own
page with 34 photos from
Vancouver Radio's early years 1922-1950.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2005.
A big thank you to Gord
Lansdell, Chuck Davis
and Christopher Walks
for their support and encouragement in launching this website. Also
thanks for contributions to Jack
Bennest, Alan Newberry, Joseph Planta, Wilf Ray and
Major Pash for their
contributions.
VANCOUVER CLASSIC TV FEATURE
THE VANCOUVER HISTORIC CLASSIC TV GRIDS from Dec. 1, 1956-May 2, 1986.
For the next 9 weeks, a look at how local television celebrated Christmas and New Year's. The classic TV grids will feature Christmas Eve/Day, then New Year's Eve/Day updated each week until New Year's Day, 1986.
Local programs:
Dec. 31, 1981
9:00 (6,8) Webster
10:30 (6) Body Moves
11:00 (6) At Eleven
12:00 (6,8) local newscasts from CHEK & BCTV
2:00 (2) Wok with Yan
3:30 (12) Funorama
4:30 (2) Beachcombers
5:00 (21) CKVU First News
5:30 (6) Van. Isl. News Hour
6:00 (2) CBC Evening News (on cable 10 closed captioning for the deaf)
(6,8) News Hour
7:00 (21) Vancouver
7:30 (8) Littlest Hobo
10:30 (12) News
11:20 (2) Night Final
(6,8) News Hour Final (from Victoria and Vancouver)
12:05 (6) Webster (repeat)
NEW YEAR'S DAY 1982
5:00 (21) CKVU First News
5:30 (6) Van. Isl. News Hour
6:00 (2) CBC Evening News (cable 10 CC)
7:00 (2) BUNDOLO SHOW
7:00 (21) Vancouver
8:30 (6) Littlest Hobo
10:30 (12) News
11:20 (6,8) News Hour Final (from Victoria & Vancouver)
11:26 (2) Premier's Christmas Message
12:05 (6) Webster (repeat)
KNOWLEDGE NETWORK HAD NO PROGRAMMING NEW YEAR'S DAY
