Tag: Obituary

Broadcasters We Lost in 2021

Remembered for their contributions to the broadcast industry *Printed here in order of their publication in Broadcast Dialogue's Weekly Briefing and including notices from Dec....

Sign Offs

Russ Peake, 80, on Apr. 27 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Peake was in broadcasting for nearly five decades, starting in radio in...

Shaw Communications founder JR Shaw dies at age 85

JR Shaw, the founder and Executive Chair of Shaw Communications, has died. He was 85. In a release, the company said Shaw passed away peacefully...

Independent radio pioneer Bill Evanov dead at 77

Bill Evanov, President and CEO of the Evanov Radio Group and Dufferin Communications, died on Friday. He was 77. The son of Bulgarian immigrants, Evanov's...

Radio veteran John Harada passes away

Radio veteran John Harada, who had been helming the morning show at The New SRQ (WSRQ-AM) in Sarasota, Florida for the last eight months,...

Canadian music champion Deane Cameron dead at 65

Deane Cameron, the longtime president and CEO of EMI Music Canada, died Thursday of a sudden heart attack. He was 65. Cameron made history in...

Lise Payette, Quebec media personality and former cabinet minister, dead at...

Lise Payette, Quebec radio and television personality, provincial cabinet minister and feminist trailblazer died peacefully at her home Wednesday evening. She was 87. Born in Verdun,...