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 *COM appears exclusively on SW via Radio for Peace International *And on the web whenever you want it thanks to http://www.DXing.com sponored by Universal Radio, offering quality amateur and shortwave equipment for the past 60 years; call 1-800-431-3939 or visit http://www.universal-radio.com *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 *This is Continent of Media 02-02; this and many previous editions are available by download or streaming from http://www.DXing.com *Your input welcome to wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA *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 Continent of Media ###