CONTINENT OF MEDIA 02-02, produced March 26, 2002 by Glenn Hauser

*The second edition for the year, produced in final week of March;
 a supplement to World of Radio, which appears without fail every week
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*Commentary by former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, advocating
 increased US public diplomacy including international broadcasting
 http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2002/03/19/ncguest1.htm
*Former VOA site at Bethany, Ohio: Veterans push for museum; nearby
 is commercial development named `Voice of America Center`, parks
 http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/0309voa.html
 http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/03/07/loc_big_retailers_could.html 
*WWV heard on 30 MHz, so could be 2nd, 3rd, 6th or 12th harmonics
*Classical Music on the Wane in US Radio; fewer commercial stations,
 and public stations also drawn to news/talk instead
 http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=16078&highlight=1&timeline=1&highlightterms=radio&lstKeywords=radio
*Complete texts or links to these stories in DX Listening Digests;
 one way to find would be keyword search at the 2002 archive
 http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldtd02.html
*Public stations keeping some classical, jazz only due to ``mission
 issue`` of NPR, e.g. WKMS in Kentucky
 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biz/e_friend.php3?goto=%2Fusnews%2Fissue%2F020311%2Fideas%2F11npr.htm
*WYSO, Yellow Springs OH, dumping locally-produced jazz, women`s
 show, and others despite flood of criticism
 http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/go/0306wyso.html 
 http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/local/0312wyso.html 
*WCBE, Columbus, OH, trying to shift management to WOSU
 http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgi-bin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd02&DOCNUM=10952&TERMV=5502:4:15779:4:15814:4:21109:4:26324:4:26367:4:31609:4:36679:4:
 http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news02/mar02/1127443.html
*Unitarian radio show airing in Salt Lake City, ``Bulding a Good
 Society``, on KRCL, behind the Zion curtain, where webcast suspended
 due to DMCA, but this and other shows ondemand via
 http://www.krcl.org/PublicAffairs/ondemand.htm
*Sarasota, Florida station pretending to be WLS, but ABC objects,
 so next pretending to be WGN [not two stations]
*WLVA-590, Virginia, transmitter site worth more than station
 itself, so off the air for a while; fans offer yard space
*Clinton, TN, station WDVX in RV popular amongst travelers
*That other WOR, 710, New York, about to relocate transmitter site
 less than a mile away to improve signal with different parameters;
 interimly 10 kW non-directional; watch website or details
 http://www.wor710.com/Engineering/technical.htm
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*Unidentified 7-tower array south of Fort Worth last year is
 actually a failed amusement ride, miniature airplane on cables
*Michigan requires permit to listen to SW in a motor vehicle,
 evidently long-outdated law when police were on 120 meters;
 See http://www.mpscs.com/com-022.pdf
*Michael Dorner, Catholic Radio Update, commentary ``The Public Be
 Damned``; full text in DXLD 2-041, on Digital TV boondoggle
*IBOC, digital radio on FM about to happen, e.g. Crawford
 Broadcasting about to roll out, including Chicago; MW will benefit
 more, but take longer; see http://www.crawfordbroadcasting.com/home
*DXLD 2-046: Radio Free Richmond, Virginia, trying to stop IBOC DAB:
 http://www.digitaldisaster.org
*IBOC on AM daytime-only for now; engineers just discovered skywave;
 see http://www.rwonline.com/dailynews/one.php?id=1358
*DAB Digital Radio a big hit at Toronto auto show; totally different
 and incompatible system to American
 http://www.worlddab.org/pressreleases/Toronto_car_show-overview.pdf
 http://www.worlddab.org/pressreleases/DAB_programming_features.pdf 
*Australians coming to American satellite TV: TARBS pact with
 PanAmSatCorp -- Television And Radio Broadcasting Services, a
 multicultural broadcaster, more than 50 channels DTH
*Advance schedeles for opera on the internet:
 http://www.angelfire.com/or3/opnetradio/thiswk.htm
 http://www.angelfire.com/or3/opnetradio/nextwk.htm
*And so, I, Glenn Hauser, now conclude edition number 02-02 of
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