CONTINENT OF MEDIA 05-04 produced April 26, 2005 by Glenn Hauser
      [with DXLD issues where you may read more about each item]

*Glenn Hauser, welcoming you to COM 05-04, about media around the   
 American continent, not especially SW
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 Digests and audio of this program
*Will Martin proposes an active antenna for portable radios to be worn 
 on the body [5-064]
*The versatile Slinky, including use as a radio antenna; and its  
 commercial jingle [5-046]
*2006 GM cars to start providing audio-in jack for outboard devices 
 such as portable SW radios [5-054]
*Watch out for ``cognitive radio`` applications which could allow more 
 noise in rural areas [5-056]
*KCCU Lawton OK explains mobile reception problems such as cellphone 
 charger interference, satellite radio in cars blocking FM reception,  
 stop lights causing radio noise; but does not see its own HD radio 
 plans as a problem, which will interfere with adjacent stations [5-  
 059]
*Comments on our 25 MHz Mexico DRM monitoring anomalies [5-051]
*Dentro-Cubans see C-130 aircraft, used for relaying TV/Radio Martí, 
 as a ``flying menace`` [5-063]
*Dentro-Cubans changed pronunciation of ``OK`` from English to Spanish 
 [5-058]
*Danny Finkleman retiring from ``Finkleman`s 45s`` with last show June 
 25; some specials before then. Not just records, but rants, Saturday  
 evenings on CBC Radio 1; see http://www.publicradiofan.com
*Get phony names for dedications at http://www.randomrequest.com [5-
 065]
*MP3 medley of radio station jingles, even VOA:
 http://www.jingles.com/audio/jamsong.mp3
*New blog in memory of the Newark News Radio Club:
 http://newarknewsradioclub.blogspot.com [5-057]
*All about US Highways [numbered, not Interstates] could be useful in 
 identifying stations: http://www.us-highways.com/usbt.htm [5-057]
*Matt Sittel`s new website about TVDX with lots of screen shorts, DTV:
 http://www.mcsittel.com/ [5-066]
*ABC TV to resume digital TV news channel in July, also on web [5-063]
*Harry Shearer exposes Sean Hannity, Fox `News` coaching guests on how 
 to stonewall the opposition [5-065]
*Closed Captioning: stupid errors [5-065], but it`s not easy and the 
 present shortage of live captioners will be worse soon when all 
 programs must be captioned [5-067]
*WFUV finally has a new Bronx transmitter site authorized away from 
 the BotGards [5-066]
*Christopher Lydon returning with public radio talkshow May 30, Open 
 Source, from WUML, and WGBH [5-046]
*Weekly Hobby Radio segment reads Monitoring Times on Boulder feed,  
 from Radio Reading Service of the Rockies, Saturdays 2030-2100 UT via  
 http://www.rrsr.org
*Glenn Hauser, concluding COM 05-04 a.k.a. World of Radio Extra 58 ###