International Radio Report
Program
summary
Sunday, February 15, 2004
Hosts: Sheldon
Harvey and Bill Westenhaver
- It turns out Gabriel Morency is back at normal time slot at Team 990
> Everything's fine, says station manager Lee Hambleton
- Elliot Price will be doing morning stint on Team 990
> Don't know if he's replacing one of the Guys in the Morning
- Kim Rossi now doing news on CHOM mornings, replacing Kathy Coulombe
> Coulombe moved back to CJAD, in afternoon drive
- Mario Langlois named to replace Jean Lapierre on CKAC's afternoon drive
> Will add columnists from newspapers to give added value to programming
- CKAC personnel changes cause station sale to go sour
> $12-million deal dropped; price will likely fall
> Astral now searching for new buyers
- CKOO 98.5 (New FM talker) is the station pulling away lots of the CKAC
talent
> The new station is still waiting for a licence change that allows more
talk, less music
- 630 kHz in Sherbrooke starting local afternoon drive show
> Was carrying Jean Lapierre from CKAC before he quit
- Milkman Unlimited: Vancouver, BC, sports radio shake-up
> Mojo (radio for men) format ended: all staff given pink slips
> Station turned into Just Sports Radio
> It carries ESPN, even though there's a CHUM Team station there
- Battle of the airwaves in Ottawa:
> CHRI 99.1 (Christian) devoted airtime for need for sexual purity
> 89.9 Hit offered Valentine's Day Massacre: free divorce and night on
the town
- Reunion in Ottawa for radio personalities
> Details on Milkman Unlimited
- Cross Country Checkup has Prime Minister Paul Martin as a guest today
> Show is simulcast on CBC Newsworld (cable TV)
- East Coast Music Awards simulcast on CBC Radio One starting at 8 p.m. Eastern
> Visuals on CBC Television
- Richard Sambrook to BBC staff in wake of Hutton:
> What really matters is what happens after the scandal
> There are no grounds for collective loss of confidence or nerve
> Changes coming to increase accountability and openness of BBC News
- Radio France journalists joined by those at Radio France International
in long strike
- Radio Netherlands: Staying Credible, by Kim Elliot
> www.rnw.nl/realradio or www.medianetwork.nl
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