WEBSITE NEWS: Christmas posters are showing up in the radio station galleries. More posters will be showing up until Dec. 6. Check half-way down the home page for updates. All posters will be shown until Jan. 3/09. More added Nov. 30.
All Christmas format: Vancouver, Victoria, the Fraser Valley, Bellingham and Lynden.WA.: FM 106.5 is now All-Christmas Music until Christmas Day. The Christmas format began on Thu. Nov. 27 at 6 pm with the Beach Boys "Little St. Nick."
SOUNDATHON 08 Many commercial radio stations sound the same with “cookie-cutter’ formats, voice-tracking and no personality or a bland identity. SOUNDATHON 08 will focus on radio stations that are different, air original programming and challenge the listener. Not all programming is for everyone. You will hear jazz, classical music, folk music, Global Roots, alternative public affairs programming, early rock, R&B, metal, punk, reggae & lots more including the launch of new formats and radio stations.
If these radio stations signed on before April 1, 1982, then SOUNDATHON will feature them for more than a week depending on the length of time they have been on the air.
Treat your ears and listen to SOUNDATHON 08 and discover:
until
Dec. 5 at noon. LINK HERE TO KPLU FM 88.5 AND CLICK LISTEN LIVE!!
SCHEDULE:
MONDAY-FRIDAY
4 AM Morning Edition
9:00 Midday Jazz with Dick Stein
12:00 Midday Jazz with Robin Lloyd
3:00 All Things Considered
6:30 Fresh Air
7:30 Evening Jazz with Abe Beeson
12:00 Jazz on the Grooveyard
*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.
Dec. 1, 1947: "The Anniversary Song" by Al Jolson
went to #1 for 5 months in Australia.
Dec. 1, 1956: CHEK
TV CHANNEL 6
VICTORIA signs on as B.C.’s first
independently owned TV station. It became Victoria’s CBC
TV
affiliate until 1981. CHEK signed on at 5 pm and had a special opening
night broadcast from 6:30-7 pm. CHEK began with 1800 watts video and
900 watts audio. In Sept. 1963, it would start
broadcasting a mix of CBC TV and CTV programs.
The same day as "Singing the Blues"
by Guy Mitchell
hits #1 for 9 weeks on the Cashbox Singles chart.
Dec. 1, 1967 5 pm:
CBUF FM 97.7 signs on the air
in Vancouver and becomes the first French-language station in B.C.
Power: 100,000
watts. CBUF
FM station history.
Dec.
1, 1995: CKBD 600 plays the longest
Christmas music marathon in
B.C.
radio history until Dec. 26 8 pm. This would continue in 1996 and
in 1997. (see poster in CJOR Gallery).
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. Christmas posters
added Nov. 28/08-Jan. 3/09. (4)
CISL Updated: Nov. 7,
2005.
CBU AM
Updated Sept. 8, 2008
CKLG Updated:
Oct. 21, 2008 Christmas posters added Nov.
28/08-Jan. 3/09 (2). Updated Nov. 29/08 (5) Nov. 30/08 (2) Total (9)
Fraser Valley Radio Updated
Oct. 21, 2008
CJVI
Updated Oct. 22, 2008 Christmas
posters added Nov. 28/08-Jan. 3/09 (6)
CKNW Updated:
Sept. 4, 2008 Christmas posters
added Nov. 28/08-Jan. 3/09 (2)
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 Christmas posters
added Nov. 30/08. Total (2)
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.
28-DEC. 6:
SATISFACTION by the ROLLING STONES
(#1 on many countdowns throughout the years since its release in 1965)
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 8 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:
CHRISTMAS EVE
9:00 (21) Vancouver Morning
10:30 (6) Body Moves
11:00 (6) At Eleven
12:00 (2) Newscentre
12:30 (2) Wok With Yan
3:30 (12) Funorama
5:00 (21) CKVU First News
5:30 (6) Van. Isl. News Hour
6:00 (2) Newscentre
(6,8) News Hour
7:00 (21) Vancouver
10:30 (12) News
11:20 (6) Van. Isl. News Hour Final
(8) News Hour Final
CHRISTMAS DAY
3:30 (12) Funorama
5:00 (21) Western Review
6:00 (6,8) News Hour
(21) Sports Page
11:10 (2) Newscentre
11:20 (6) Van. Isl. News Hour Final
(8) News Hour Final
There may have been other Christmas specials showing up as "Carols at Christmas", "Christmas Music", "Christmas Carols" etc. that were produced locally.
