International Radio Report
Program summary Sunday, July 11, 2004
- History-making E-skip openings this past week
> July 6 opening reported maximum useable frequencies well into TV channel
13
> Ontario listeners reported logging stations from Bermudas, Mexico
> www.dxfm.com is a wonderful resource for this kind of stuff
- KE6PZH, FO5GJ Martin Brandeaux was better known as Marlon Brando, who died
last week
- 7265 kHz from Germany going off shortwave
- CRTC will finally have hearings on satellite radio
- Postponed CHMP 98.5 FM hearings
> Station would have morphed into news-talk station
- Voice of America employees seek probe into their management
> Broadcasting Board of Governors accused of dismantling service
- U.S. radio show took joke too far
> Station on-air character made store clerk feel like he was being robbed
> Silent alarm trigerred, host arrested and charged with making a terrorist
threat
