International Radio Report
Program summary Sunday, May 16, 2004
- George Balcon Memorial service
> May 26 at St. James United Church, 7 p.m.
> Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir will perform
- Best wishes to Jack Finnegan, who's been ill for the last few weeks
- Dayton Ham-vention, Mecca of all hamfests in Dayton, Ohio., this weekend
> Acres and acres of vendors and exhibitors for radio and everything in
between
- Coming soon:
> May 29, N.B. Spring hamfest
www.qsl.net/ve91c
> Tracy, Quebec Hamfest on May 30, Tracy Civic Centre, contact Denis Chouinard
ve2dsh at 450-746-0814 or on the Web
www.ve2cbs.qc.ca
> June 12 in Ontario
www.hamfest.on.ca
- Nicholas Berg, U.S. civilian beheaded by terrorists in Iraq, had a radio
tower building and repair company
> Last job in U.S. was WHWK in Binghamton, N.Y.
> Had built towers for LPFM and for radio in Africa
- In Florida, new legislation to make pirate broadcasters a felony
> To organize and participate in such activities
- Air America fires sales staff in L.A. and Chicago
> Were knocked off air in those cities
> Have already lost 5 of their executives
> Hear it on 1070 AM Plattsburgh during the day; 1190 AM New York at night
- Sirius satellite radio has reached 400,000 subscriber mark
- Censorship on radio in the U.S.
> PBS Masterpiece Theatre chose to censor Prime Suspect
> Indiana radio ban words like orgy
> Radio stations edit playlists
- University of Rochester WRUR will have no more live broadcasts
> Recorded in advance by two weeks so programs can be reviewed by managers
- Prime example of tropo propagation last night
> Montreal stations heard 140 miles away
- Radio St. Helena's final broadcast on Oct. 23, 1999
> Finally getting around to sending out QSL cards
- U.S. man tries to electrocute wife by thorwing radio in bathtub -30-
