Category: Red Around Town
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Red Around Town: October 28
I just returned from two marvelous weeks in Palm Springs where the temperatures were in the high 90s. Carole and I were visited by good friends from California — Darwin Lamm and his lovely wife Mimi. We all took to the hot springs downtown, which are the original springs discovered by the Native Americans centuries…
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Red Around Town: October 14
The latest BBM Radio survey is out for the past summer. QMFM is down considerably from an 8.3 share to a 7.0. The Beat goes on and on with a great increase from 7.0 to 9.8. CKNW stayed almost even, going from a 11.4 to 10.8 . JR Country has slipped slightly going from a…
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Red Around Town: October 4
Some notable passings: Actor Paul Newman has died from cancer at the age of 83. One of his quotes: “It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career…” Newman is survived by his wife Joanne Woodward and five children. He was an amazing actor and his movies…
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Red Around Town: September 13
No sooner had I hung up my typing fingers working for TVWeek than tons of news breaks out. Crave FM and Superhits 650 CISL have just hired a Program Director to replace the departed Eric Samuels. New PD Ronnie Stanton is from Australia and will make sure that the ratings aren’t way “down under”… Another…
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Red Around Town Online: September 7
I was saddened to learn of the death of Jerry Reed at age 71. His big hits on RCA were When You’re Hot You’re Hot, Amos Moses and East Bound and Down. Jerry appeared in the Smokey and the Bandit movie series with Burt Reynolds. He was also a very good actor and carried his…
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Red Around Town semi-retires, stays online
After 20 years and almost a thousand columns covering radio, television, theatre, concerts and Vancouver media in general, I’m lightening my workload. Red Around Town is “retiring” from TVWeek magazine. It has been an honor to write each week. My replacement at TVWeek is Fred Lee, who among his many assignments, is the society editor of…
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Red Around Town: August 30
It is difficult to believe that 20 years have passed since I began writing this column for TVWeek Magazine. I inherited the column upon the passing of CKNW announcer Earle Bradford, who wrote under the byline Earle’s Court. It was many months after his death from cancer that I took over the reins, out of…
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Red Around Town: August 23
The weather was perfect for the huge B.C. Day celebration in Victoria. Singer Feist, who won 9 Juno Awards this past year, was just one part of the amazing performances in celebration of the province’s 150th Birthday. Also on stage Sarah McLachlan, Burton Cummings, and legendary bandleader Dal Richards. But there’s more, Jim Byrnes, blues…
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Red Around Town: August 16
In the summer of 1960 I was working as the afternoon deejay on KGW in Portland, Oregon. In two weeks I was to be shipped off to Fort Ord, California for basic military training as I was a resident of the U.S. It’s a long story but two weeks prior to leaving town I recorded…
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Red Around Town: August 9
Are we enjoying too much of a good thing? This year has been a benchmark year for the number of festivals and concerts in the Lower Mainland. I cannot remember a period where there was so much entertainment to choose from. But, like the kid in the candy store maybe too much is too much.…