The Proms Centre. Roger Wright became Controller of the Proms in October 2007, whilst retaining responsibility for BBC Radio 3 and taking up a broader role controlling the BBC's classical music output across all media. The 2008 season ran from 18 July to 13 September 2008. The BBC released details of the season slightly earlier than usual, on 9 April 2008. Composers whose anniversaries were marked include: The celebration of Stockhausen was centred on two large-scale concerts on 2 August 2008, and complementing Vaughan Williams's interest in folk music, the first Sunday was given over to a celebration of various aspects of
The Edge of Night the network was worried that a three-month absence would result in a loss of viewers. Instead, a compromise was struck where CBS would keep "The Edge of Night" on its schedule for the time being, and once ABC found a place for it, which it did when they cancelled "You Don't Say!" in November 1975, the expansion and network change would take place. The last CBS episode of "The Edge of Night" on November 28, 1975, ended with the discovery that Nicole Drake was alive. She had been presumed dead in an explosion eighteen months earlier while on a boating