WEBSITE UPDATE: Tue. Feb. 9 7:15 am.
Feb. 9, 1936: Stompin' Tom Connors best known for "The Hockey Song" was born in Saint John, NB.
Feb, 9, 1976: Canadian born band and orchestra leader Percy Faith died in Encino, California. (67)
Feb. 9, 1994: On Chinese New Year’s Eve at 9 pm MEMORY MUSIC CHQM 1320 ends its over 34 years of nostalgic and easy listening music with Bob Hope’s “Thanks for the Memories.” After a brief pause CHMB 1320 signs on with an all night Chinese program. This new multilingual format continues for about 7 months before becoming ALL Chinese Monday-Saturday. CJVB 1470 would follow suit. ,
Feb. 9, 2004 5 am: MOJO RADIO AM 730 drops its "Talk Radio for Guys" to become Vancouver's 2nd all-sports radio station with the slogan "Just Sports". For the next 6 months most of its programming originated from ESPN Sports Radio.
Program Changes for the "winter event":
Wed. Feb. 10 8 pm-5 am nightly until March 1 5 am: AM 650 AutoRadio, the popular Russian-language radio service from Russia is broadcasting LIVE from the Russian Pavilion at Science World.
Fri. Feb. 12:
10 am INDIVIDUAL SKI JUMPING: OLN/Daytime package on CTV.
2 pm MOD on Demand Live from Whistler Much Music (daily)
4 pm OPENING CEREMONIES
CTV, Rogers Sportsnet, TSN & OLN
In French on RDS & V
In Cantonese & Mandarin on OMNI
In Punjabi on ATN
In aboriginal languages on APTN
Radio coverage: CKWX 1130
7 pm: 3 hours delay on NBC on the west coast.
All CTV prime-time programming and "Regis & Kelly" move to "A Channel" until Feb. 28.
11 pm nightly: Bill Good and Pamela Martin host a national CTV newscast from Vancouver.
Sat. Feb. 13:
Daily or hourly Olympic bulletins on CKLG (JACK FM) Vancouver, CHTT (JACK FM) Victoria, CIOC FM 98.5 Victoria, STAR FM 98.3 Chilliwack/FM 100.5 Hope, Country FM 107.1 Abbotsford, SUN FM 89.7 Duncan, CILK FM 101.5/SUN FM 99.9/CKFR AM 1150 Kelowna, CJOR AM 1240 Osoyoos, Summerland CHOR AM 1450,Vernon CICF FM 105.7 and the host stations CKWX 1130 Vancouver & Mountain FM in Squamish & Whistler.
Please refer to Channel Canada.com for up-to-date listings. They are too numerous to list here.
**All men's and women's hockey games involving TEAM CANADA will be broadcast LIVE on CFUN-FM 104.9 Vancouver/FM 107.5 Chilliwack.
Play-by-play for the Men's games will be by Peter Maher, current voice of the Calgary Flames with colour by John Garrett, from the Vancouver Canucks telecasts on Rogers Sportsnet.
Olympic hockey games:
Sat. Feb. 13 5 pm Women: Canada vs. Slovakia
Mon. Feb. 15 2:30 pm Women: Canada vs. Switzerland
Tue. Feb. 16 4:30 pm Men: Canada vs. Norway
Wed. Feb. 17 2:30 pm Women: Canada vs. Sweden
Thu. Feb. 18 4:30 pm Men: Canada vs. Switzerland
Sun. Feb. 21 4:40 pm Men: Canada vs. US
Playoffs for Men and Women follow
Thu. Feb. 25 3:30 pm Women's Gold Medal Game
Fri. Feb. 26 12:00 & 6:30 Men’s Semi Final Games
Sat. Feb. 27 7 pm Men’s Bronze Medal Game
Sun. Feb. 28 12:15 pm Men’s Gold Medal Game (A note to Red Robinson, the Diner will close 2 hours early)
POSTER OF THE DAY:
CKWX 1958:
"RECORD RECORDS" Most of these albums have had some sort of record chart achievement on various music charts from Billboard as well as others from all around the world. Others may have been pioneers in their particular genre. A different album every day. Keep checking back. From Feb. 6-13, we are looking at some of those early Broadway musicals and movie soundtracks which spent many years on the Pop Album charts.
Featured song: Tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_QffCZs-bg
TODAY: WEST SIDE STORY SOUNDTRACK (1962)
#1 for 27 weeks on the Billboard Album chart. Some sources say its 54 weeks, but that is 27 for mono and 27 for stereo charts which were added together.
Billboard Top 40 Album chart for longevity of 144 weeks.
Billboard Top 200 Album chart for longevity of 198 weeks.
UK chart of longevity of 175 weeks.
#1 for 27 weeks on the Cashbox Album chart.
Cashbox Top 40 Album chart of longevity of 162 weeks
SOUNDATHON 2010
Feb. 8 6 am-Feb. 12 4 pm: A special pre-Olympic schedule this week:
6 am: ALL TRAFFIC AM 730. Information about all those road closures and detours. LISTEN LIVE!!
9:00 CARIBBEAN EXPRESS A daily two-hour program of Caribbean music mostly soca and reggae with Mr. Sunshine--Wayne Vernon. LIVE @ FM 96.1
11:00 VANCOUVER TOURIST RADIO FM 89.3
Welcome all 250,000 of you and find out what is going on!! LISTEN LIVE!!
3:00 ALL TRAFFIC AM 730. (see 6 am)
7:30 LG73.com A continuation of last week's variety of programming from this tribute internet station to the original CKLG 73.
Wed. 8-10 pm AM 650.com. Introduction to the all-Russian Auto Radio beginning with the hourly news. I don't understand Russian, but I am going to check it out anyway. LISTEN LIVE!!
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:
Jan. 15, 2010 (2005.html)
RADIO
STATION GALLERIES:
CJOR Updated: Feb. 8, 2010
CISL Updated: Jan. 6,
2010
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. 8, 2010
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: Feb. 26,
2009
CBU FM
Updated: Dec. 1, 2005.
TV STATION GALLERIES:
CHEK TV Updated: Aug. 21, 2009
CHAN/BCTV Updated:
Aug. 8, 2009
CKVU TV Updated Oct.
21, 2009
The
Pioneer Years now has
its own
page with 34 photos from
Vancouver Radio's early years 1922-1950.
Updated: Feb. 8,
2010
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 RADIO GRIDS: Updated: Saturday mornings.
Feb. 6-13: The first 2 days of CKLG 1070 Vancouver from Feb. 2 & 3, 1955. See how many programs that you recognize!!
