International Radio Report
Program
summary
Sunday, January 18, 2004
Hosts: Sheldon Harvey
and Bill Westenhaver
- Scott Saxon, who worked with Mitch Melnick on No Limits on CIQC, is back
in Montreal
> Replacing Marc Aflalo at Team 990
- French talk station has Bernard Brissé as program director: La
Presse
> Target audience is 25 to 54
> Station still has lots of music because they haven't changed their
CRTC licence
- Jim Duff (ex-CJAD personality, now on Team 990) fesses up on air: said
he's a regular marijuana user
> Promised family, others he's kick the habit this year
- Augusta LaPaix, ex-CBC Radio personality, now runs a B&B: The Gazette
- Victor Nuremberg, ex-CJAD announcer, now at Radio Canada International
> On air and behind the scenes
- Radio in Montreal Yahoo! Group rumour mill is very active
> Blair Bartrem, ex-CJAD who was traded to CFRB, is said to be very unhappy
> Team 990
- DXing group in Finland calls engineers in charge of CFAV 1570 kHz testing
> Max power is 10 kW day and night
> Directional lobe at 65 degrees, pattern changes day vs. night
> Transmitter site currently has no hydro, recent tests were done with
generator
> Industry Canada inspectors haven't shown up either
> Wants to be on the ar by the end of January/early February
> Music format aimed at 40+ years old
- Sook Yin Lee of CBC Radio One offered sexually-explicit role in U.S. film
> CBC managers got cold feet about her participation until people like
Yoko Ono and Francis Ford Coppola rallied to her defence
- CSBC complaints for satire at Calgary radio station (one upheld, two rejected)
> www.cbsc.ca
- Boston: "Local anchor feels our pain... from afar"
> WBZ 1030 radio host was broadcasting from northern Florida, didn't
tell listeners
- Seattle's KNDD dumped rap, rock and modern metal
> Picks up classic (i.e. 1990s) alternatives
> Seattle's KYPT dumped pop and rock from 80s, going to classic alternatives
too
