International
Radio
Report Program summary Sunday, December 12, 2004
- Oldies on AM is dying
> WSAI 1530 AM switching to Air America
- Winter E-skip season starting up
- Meteor-skip also reported (currently the peak of the Gemenids)
> Calif. station on 90.9 MHz reported in Detroit
- HOT 89.9 in Ottawa offers listeners their "Breast Christmas Ever"
> Offers breast augmentation as a prize for a contest
- ClearChannel has been restricting AM bandwidth to 5 kHz
> Sideband splatter reduced on WLIB 1190 from WHAM 1180
> Some people upset at the change, but most receivers don't have
wideband AM
> Engineers able to pump up modulation instead of wasting power on
the sidebands
- DXTuners (aka Java Radio) has new sites:
> Indonesia, Hungary, New Orleans, FM DX locations
> Looks like a receiver control panel right on your screen
> www.dxtuners.com
- Montreal Amateur Radio Club ham radio course begins on Jan. 15
> Sign up before Dec. 18
> Cost: $100; Exam is April 2, supplemental April 19
> ve2@rac.ca -- (514) 697-7205
- Ex-Monkee Micky Dolenz new morning host of WCBS FM
> Listeners raved about his guest appearance in October
- Molly McNeill leaving 940 News, heading off to non-broadcast job in
Ottawa
- BBC cutting almost 3,000 jobs over the next few years
> That'S 10 per cent of workforce
- Arizona radio host Ian P. Martin arrested for beating of cab driver
> Works for KNML 610 "Sports Animal"
