International Radio Report
Program summary Sunday, August 29,
2004
> Sheldon Harvey and Alan Roberts sitting in this week for Janice &
Steve Karlock
- Special event radio station on 100.1 FM for Indy race on Île Notre
Dame
> Low-level audio sometimes heard on the frequency
- CHOI FM in Quebec City gets stay of execution
> Can keep broadcasting while CRTC looks through appeal of licence revocation
> Transmitter will stay on for at least a few months
- Attempt by Corus to take over Radiomédia network raising objections
> Radiomédia stations apparently losing $500,000 a month
> Wants to gut newsroom of flagship station CKAC 730 Montreal
> Also wants to reduce local programming in other areas
> (In French) www.sauvonsradiomedia.com
- Hits 94.7 in Chateaugay, NY, using unusual marketing campaign
> Called the pink-slip promo, making fun of Standard's inability to pay
DJs
> Contest for listeners to guess which Standard employee will be let go
next
> Standard own shares in the company that owns Hits 94.7
- Tropo openings to southern New England on Aug. 26
- Tom Likus (sp?) assaulted outside Seattle bar
> Police looking for suspects
