International Radio Report
Program summary Sunday, April 4, 2004
- Most North Americans, did you remember to set your clocks ahead last night?
- This is still funding drive: (514) 398-8991 to make your pledge.
> And for long-distance listeners, something new:
> CALL TOLL FREE 1-866-763-4136
> Also pledge online @ www.ckut.ca
> SUPER EARLY BIRD DRAW (early April): Trip for two to resort in Cuba
($25 or more)
> EARLY BIRD DRAW (early May): One of the following: $100 gift certificate
to bookstore, DJ equipment, YMCA membership, DVD player
> GRAND PRIZE DRAW (early June): One of the following: $1,000 shopping
spree at Athlete's World, Beer for a Year (MacAuslan), concert tickets, etc.
- Corus has arranged to buy radio stations from Astral
> CKAC, out-of-town FM purchased
> May be converted to all-sports
> CKAC CEO resigns because of his unhappiness over deal
> Effect on stations already owned by Corus? (Info 690, 940 News, 98.5
FM, CKOI)
- Steve found 1570 CFAV transmitter site along Highway 148
- Radio-Canada employees chartered small plane Monday
> Flew banner to press demands for contract negotiations
- Hal Turner abandons show on WBCQ
> Racist, hate-monger, white supremacist
> www.rfma.net
- Lots of press about NPR's decision to drop Bob Edwards from Morning Edition
> 17,000 e-mails sent to NPR
> 3,000-plus petition on fan website
> Really bad timing: this is pledge drive season for many stations
- Wednesday at 8 p.m. on History Television:
> The Rise and Fall of the Big 8 (CKLW Windsor, Ont.)
> Was Number 1 in Detroit, Toledo, etc...
- Alistair Cooke, dead at age 95
> Hosted Letters from America since 1948
> All kinds of tributes: BBC World Service, The Guardian
> www.bbc.co.uk, media.guardian.co.uk
- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal:
> Listener sent radio back for repairs, not knowing a new station had
muscled in on his favourite polka station station
- Roumanian DJ threatened to jump off building, locked himself in station
for salary -30-
