International
Radio
Report Program summary Sunday, September 19, 2004
SUMMER BBM RATINGS RELEASED
-- In French:
> CITE Rock Détente leading the way with 10.8 share
> Rythme FM in second with 10.6 share
-- In English:
> Q92 leads way in English with 7.4 share
> CHOM follows with 5.9
> Mix 96, 5.6
> CJAD, 4.9
> CBC Radio One, 1.8
> CBC Radio Two, 1.3
> 940 News, 0.8
> Team 990, 0.5
-- Other highlights:
> Hybrid music-talk 98.5 eroding numbers at CKAC 730
> Info 690 listenership sliding
> Q92 gained a lot of male listeners
> CBF, CKMF holding their ground
-- In Toronto and Ottawa:
> Light rock format also lead, with vastly female audience
> Males gravitate to hard rock
- Tropospheric ducting reported
> Bill Hepburn provides tropo maps online:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~dxinfo/tropo.html
> Charles Gauthier reports extraordinary: log includes WLKK 107.7
The Lake, more than 300 miles away
> Intense tropo predicted for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
- WKOK 1070 in Sunbury, Pa., (between Philadelphia and Harrisburg)
operating on emergency power last night
> 10,000 watts, non-directional, announced on-air
> Major flooding caused by remnants of Hurricane Ivan
- CHOI-FM in Quebec City told to stop intimidating businesses
advertising on rival CJMF-FM
> Temporary injunction granted, hearing on permanent injunction
forthcoming
- Radio pastor in Haiti shot to death while driving to work
> Driver being questioned
- REMINDER: Ontario DX Association festival Sept. 24 to 26
