International Radio Report
Program summary
Sunday, June 8, 2003
Hosts: Sheldon Harvey & Bill Westenhaver
- Air Canada Grand Prix is next weekend
> Has used 104.7 FM for on-track broadcasting
> Good event for scanner enthusiasts; also, no more encrypted communications
- Jazz festival starts at end of the month
> Radio Jazz is confirmed: CISM 89.3 FM will carry it most of the day
(noon until 7 a.m. the next day)
- Another CFRB Toronto program showing up on CJAD:
> 3-hour phone-in called People Helping People, 12:01 a.m. Sunday
- Haitian FM sub-carrier station (CKOO FM) seems to have disappeared
> New one has take its place, language unidentified
- Radio-Canada radio (Première chaîne) fine tuning:
> Pierre Maisonneuve (from RDI television) will host La Tribune du Québec
> Claude Rajotte (from CHOM and Musique Plus) will host new world beat
show on Saturday
> Valerie Letard will host 275-Allô youth phone-in show
- Ottawa radio station dramatic format change: Ottawa Citizen
> 93.9 Bob FM
- Toronto's KISS-FM 92.5 becomes Jack FM: TOronto Star
> Jack FM also being launched in Calgary
- FCC has relaxed ownership regulations in the United States
> See Yahoo! Full Coverage > World > Media Matters
- June 16 is the official kick-off of Digital Radio Mondiale
> RCI will provide daily DRM broadcasts from Sackville, including:
0700-1000 to Europe on 11685 kHz
1955-0000 to NE America on 9795 kHz
> Media Network section of Radio Netherlands has list of DRM broadcasts
(special and regular)
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