International Radio Report
Program summary
Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002
Host: Sheldon Harvey & Bill Westenhaver
- CJAD, Mix and CHOM off air between midnight and 4 a.m. Sunday
because of fire in electrical cabinet
> The entire 23-storey building had to be evacuated
- Dave Fisher, Mitch Melnick on vacation
- Gabriel Morency starts new show "Sports Rage" on Team 990, weeknights 8
p.m.
- Robert Sapienza and Howard Gontovnick's "Mind Excursions" on CINQ-FM ending
Dec. 14, 2002
- Guy Thibodeau's ski reports return to CJAD
- Ramadan had started, so shortwave stations in Mid-East may be broadcasting
later
> CJRN Niagara Falls 710 AM broadcasts 30 minutes of prayers and readings
daily, starting a half-hour before sunset
> 783 kHz Mauritania running on extended schedule for Ramadan//SW 4845
kHz
> 1521 kHz Saudi Arabia also on extended schedule
- WWKB 1520 kHz Buffalo has had a terrible signal in the last few days
- 840 kHz 4VEH Haiti, heard in Ottawa, ON around 2200 EST
- CBC Overnight block schedule
Weekdays: Netherlands, Sweden/Australia, Channel Africa/BBC, DW/Polonia,
Australia/Prague/DW/VoR
Weekends: Netherlands, Prague/VoR, Sweden/BBC, DW, Australia
- Remebrance Day special 10:57 EST on CBC Radio One
- From Milkman Unlimited: Timmins radio stations collected coats for kids,
handed out to anyone who needed one
> Gave away 2,000 in one day
> 30,000 distributed in 15 years
- Some CBS stations/affiliates simulcasting Letterman's Late Show
> Some already simulcast 60 Minutes
- NY Post: Woman who participated in Opie and Anthony church sex gag has
apologized
- Washington Post: Public radio station WAMU had re-run a talk show from
about a month ago, not realizing that breaking news about Washington sniper
was taped and re-run too
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