International Radio Report
Program summary Sunday, July 4, 2004
- No radio station dedicated to jazz this year
> No sharing with CISM 89.3 FM
> All-jazz commercial station late getting started
- Howard Stern has decided not to go to satellite radio
> Infinity put on nine news stations
> Also returns to some ClearChannel station from whoch he was booted
- Isle of Man finally gets its own longwave station
> Need to raise 13 million pounds, hope to eventually reach 4 million
listeners
> New type of cross-field antenna
> Years in the making
- Donde esta Commando Solo? Extra flights not materialized
> Cubans in Florida cry foul
> Roving radio/TV propaganda broadcast plane
> $500,000 US per flight, planes cost $90 million each
- New radio formats (Jack, Bob) doing OK in Canadian markets
> Peaked in the fall, now levelling off
> All Things Considered (NPR) had documentary on "neo-radio"
- Calif. radio station, raided by FCC, back on the air
> Risks equipment seizure, arrest
- Travel World radio show makes it onto international satellite feed
> Syndicated program produced in Montreal
- Jim Haye, Vern Ikeda (Montreal Amateur Radio Club members) interviewed
on July 1
> Had display at Pine Beach to promote amateur radio
- Sue City, Iowa: woman shot at KSCJ station building, vehicles after she
got upset at them
> Used .357 handgun, accidentally shot herself in the hand, too
> Police have classified incident as "terrorism"
