CONTINENT OF MEDIA 05-10, November 25, 2005 [with DXLD issues where you may read more] *Welcome to COM 05-10, recorded November 25, 2005. COM is about media around the American continent, not especially shortwave, supplement to weekly World of Radio *COM made possible by Universal Radio; for catalog call 1-800-431-3939 or check http://www.universal-radio.com *Also http://www.dxing.com from Universal radio for quality amateur and shortwave equipment *Powerline communications is a dinosaur [5-199] *Cutoff date for analog TV in US is 2009; outlook for HDTV, DXing, and how to say TV in Navajo [5-195] *Waking up an entire state for an Amber Alert on EAS [5-198] *National Association of Broadcasters comes out against low power AM: ``Save our Monopoly`` [5-201] http://www.nab.org/newsroom/PressRel/Filings/LPAMComs112105.pdf http://futureofradio.typepad.com/the_future_of_radio/2005/11/national_associ.html *Los Alamos NM, which lost its only radio station KRSN this year, now has a webcasting one: http://www.losalamosradio.com [5-191] *Radio Moshiach & Redemption, ``Lubavitcher`` pirate in Brooklyn NY on 1710 heard as far away as Cleveland OH: http://www.radiomoshiach.org/ [5-190] *COM 05-10, from P O Box 1684, Enid OK, 73702, or woradio at yahoo.com, http://www.worldofradio.com *A visit to WBCQ, which amounts to a radio museum; single phase power only [5-196] *Boston`s commercial classical WCRB for sale; very valuable property. Founder wanted classical format to be maintained, but may be shunted to secondary HD stream [5-189, 5-203] *Dick Gordon, formerly of The Connection on WBUR, will start new national talk show in January from WUNC in North Carolina [5-190] *Satellite guru Gary Bourgois has died [5-199] http://www.global-cm.net/news&views.html http://ziggydog.libsyn.com/ *Government intelligence gathering adds Open Source Center, absorbing FBIS; what does top secret clearance cost? [5-194, 5-197] *That`s COM 05-10, a.k.a. World of Radio Extra 64; I`m Glenn Hauser ##