The high winds of the Easter weekend brought trees crashing down in Vancouver’s parks and across roadways. In addition to appreciating the wrath of Mother Nature, you may have become more aware of our city’s trees. This week Rod MacNeill takes a look a Vancouver’s urban forest. Listen to his report below.
CKNW 980 captures top market share in Vancouver—again! Radio audience statistics released in early March show that 14 percent of Vancouver listeners tune-in to news/talk radio . Soft-rock station , its closest competitor, came in at 9.7 percent. Data is gathered by the (BBM), an industry owned organization that collects data on audience listening habits. [...]
Coralville, Iowa has a population of close to 19,000, two high schools, and its largest employer has a staff of 438. But Coralville is also the home of , a pioneer in AM radio technology. On Friday, February 26, 2010 The made history—or perhaps more appropriately, it revisited the chronicles of narnia: the voyage of [...]
I never heard stereo sound from a radio until I was 12. It’s not that I was deprived, but stereophonic sound didn’t show-up at our house until the early ’60s. Even then it was only on records. If you were lucky enough to have a radio in your car, it was AM and monaural– that [...]
Just as late night partiers began to tumble out of downtown Vancouver pubs, I was getting up. It was my first day as an intern for a local talk-radio station and so I drove across the Lower Mainland to arrive at the off-site broadcast location for a 4 AM start. It’s a different world out [...]
Flight training schools in Vancouver are angry at being grounded due to a no-fly zone to be introduced as part of security precautions for the forthcoming Winter Olympics. They say it is going to cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue while still having to pay salaries, rent, insurance and utilities. Instructors [...]
You know the drill. Place your carry-on luggage and jacket in the bin to be scanned. Take any metal objects out of your pockets and walk through the detector. Arms out to your sides. And security wants to look through your laptop bag. You’ve repeated it every time you’ve boarded a flight for as long [...]
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