International Radio Report
Program summary Sunday,
November 30, 2003
Hosts: Sheldon Harvey Bill
Westenhaver
- New "old" voices popping up here and there
> Al Gravelle, Abe Heffner, Sharmin Yarnell have filled in for Dave Fisher
this weekend
- This coming Monday, 8 p.m., first run of Feels Like Christmas
- Anne-Lagacé Dowson (Home Run, CBC Radio One) takes a few months
off for maternity leave
> No word on replacement
- Michel Mathieu: technical problems at CJMS 1040 kHz, sub-harmonic showing
up on 520 kHz
- Weird things happening at CKGM Team 990
> Ross Anber has disappeared from morning show
> Gabriel Morency now popping in all over the place
BIG STORY OF THE WEEK:
- CKOO 98.5 will flip to news-talk, first such private station on FM
> Will be in direct competition with CKAC 730 AM
> Anchor host: Paul Arcand (but he is still under contract at CKAC)
> Other stars: Jacques Demers (ex-hockey coach), Julie Pelletier (sexologist),
Gilles Proulx (talk-show host)
> Most (if not all) staff will be re-assigned
> Will broadcast all 162 Expos regular season, plus 3 pre-season games
(was on CKAC for 32 years)
> Will draw on resources from sister-station, Info 690
> Will play Christmas music all day until Jan. 5, 2004
- Big, popular stations everywhere going to all-Christmas music all the time
for no particular reason
