In the '70s and '80s, Winnipeg record label K-Tel was the master of compilation albums and infomercials. We speak with Samantha Kives, daughter of K-Tel's founder Philip Kives, about the company's ...

The compilation albums helped K-Tel thrive until the 1980s, at which point Kives made a series of self-admitted lousy business decisions.

Just heard the sad news that Phil Kives, the founder of Winnipeg-based K-Tel International, had died yesterday at the age of 87. I never knew Kives personally, but back in the '70s I sure knew his ...