Tag: Sign Offs

All things Sign Offs from Broadcast Dialogue, Canada’s broadcast industry publication of record.

Sign-Offs

Gil McCall, 83, on July 29, at Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake, BC. McCall was one of the original on-air personalities on CKCQ Quesnel,...

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REVOLVING DOOR: Claire Anderson has been appointed CRTC commissioner for British Columbia and Yukon, becoming the first Indigenous woman and Yukon resident to sit on...

Sign-offs

John Harada, 65, on July 15. Harada worked at numerous stations over the span of a 35-year career, starting out in radio at his...

The Weekly Briefing

RADIO/AUDIO/PODCAST: CKNW 980 AM Vancouver will air a 75th Anniversary broadcast on Aug. 15, live on location from New Westminster where the station first went...

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,...

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REVOLVING DOOR: Mirko Bibic will assume leadership of Bell and BCE Inc. in January when President and Chief Executive Officer George Cope retires. Cope, 58,...

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RADIO/AUDIO/PODCAST: The CRTC will hold a hearing on Sept. 5 in Gatineau to review repeated instances of non-compliance by McBride Communications-owned stations CHMZ-FM Tofino, CFPV-FM...

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REVOLVING DOOR: Bob McCown signed off for the last time on Friday as host of Prime Time Sports on Sportsnet 590 The FAN (CJCL-AM) Toronto...

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  RADIO/AUDIO/PODCAST: Stingray has introduced a new, live, regional morning show in the B.C. Interior that will be co-hosted by Casey Clarke. Clarke, who is known...

Sign-Offs

Sean McCann, 83, on June 13. Born in Windsor, ON, McCann studied to become a priest at St. Peter’s Seminary in London before deciding...