International Radio Report
Program summary
Sunday, Nov. 24, 2002
Host: Sheldon Harvey & Bill Westenhaver
- CKUT's RealAudio problems persist... If you continue to have trouble,
please send a message to Internet service provider CAM (support@cam.org)
and CC: to CKUT (admin@ckut.ca)
- Focus week coming up to celebrate CKUT's 15th anniversary
- Grey Cup today in Edmonton, AB:
> CJAD 800 has rights to normal Alouettes game, but the Team 990 has rights
to the final
> Team 990 has been exercising its bragging rights
> Team 990 also holding tailgate party at Bourbon St. West
- CBC Daybreak loses 30 min., shuffles features to make room for The Current
at 8:30 a.m.
> Commentary @ 6:25
> Today in History @ 5:40
> Online press review after 8:00
> Local news, traffic and weather at 8:30 precedes The Current
- Globe and Mail's Michael Posner (Thursday) thinks The Current is a little
heavy
- Fall ratings coming up in the first week of December
- Ontario Securities Commission continues investigation into Brian Costello,
former radio host and financial adviser type
> Globe and Mail and Toronto Star websites have excellent coverage
- CKUA Alberta, Canada's 1st public broadcaster, celebrates its 75th anniversary
> UA in call letters stands for University of Alberta
- Chicago Sun-Times: WLS hangs up on callers who sound like they're over
age 54
- The New Scientist: new 2-way emergency radio system may interfere with
life-saving medical devices
> Operates around 400 mHz, pulse rate around 17 per sec.
- Milwaukee: WTMJ 620 AM put in ad for verility drug during the broadcast
of the installation of new Roman Catholic archbishop
> Ad yanked after first airing
- Sacramento Bee: complaints about radio coverage are about station that
got most coverage...
- Left vs. right: Former U.S. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle complains
right-wing talk shows are turning politics into entertainment
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