International Radio Report
Program summary Sunday, April 11, 2004
- CJAD sports director Dino Sisto appears to have been suspended for the
first two games of the Montreal-Boston hockey playoff series
> Rick Moffatt (football announcer) filled in
- CJSO 101.7 in Sorel/Tracy burned down April 7
> Back on the air next day from temporary location
- Singer-songwriter Dan Bigras suing the CHOI announcers
> Had read threat-veiled poem on air last year about war in Iraq
> Bigras lost contract with Canadian Tire because of radio station's announcers
- Paul Arcand has left CKAC
> Will take long vacation, re-appear on 98.5 FM
> Said he hopes CJMS moves to CKAC's 730 frequency and reclaim past glory
- Justin Trudeau will be on CKAC weekends and for Olympic preview reports
> Both sons of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau are very media saavy
- CKDG 105.1 up with full power
- Swiss Radio International ceases English broadcasts as of tomorrow
> Final shows tonight
> Will leave shortwave by October
> www.primetimeshortwave.com is an excellent web resource for frequencies
- WBCQ in Maine wants donations to "go green"
> Wants to purchase wind turbines to reduce dependency on grid, reduce
costs
- Propagation is fairly good, what with a few M-class solar flares recently
- www.dxtuner.com
> Radios in different parts of the world are remote-controlled by Web
> Audio feed transmitted via Net
- Nifty piece of software (shareware)
> GeoClock shows position of sun and greyline
> www.geoclock.home.att.net
- ClearChannel have dropped Howard Stern permanently
> Continues on Infinity
> Stern getting very political vis-à-vis current free-speech/indecency
spat
- Documentary on CKLW 800 kHz Windsor was very enjoyable
- Scott Fybush's features tower of the Week: the towers of Montreal
> www.fybush.com -30-
