Radio / Television News

Virgin Radio management bite the Christmas bullet


VANCOUVER – Staff at Virgin Radio in Vancouver received an early present after being told that senior management would cover their Christmas Day shifts this year.VP of BC operations Brad Phillips and Virgin brand director Ronnie Stanton will take to the station’s airwaves from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on December 25th, marking the first time that non-Virgin DJs have hosted on-air programming.“We like doing things different here at Virgin 953 - when we were trying to decide which of the hosts would have to miss Christmas with their family to be on-air we couldn’t do it”, said Stanton, in...