A U.S.freelance radio host was fired from a documentary program
that airs on National Public Radio affiliates after she became
a spokeswoman for a Washington “Occupy” protest because her producers
believed she violated the public radio network's code of ethics.
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Also in the U.S. It's been a classic radio war between WFLZ (owned by Clear
Channel) and WPOI (owned by Cox) in Tampa.
WFLZ has owned the hit music space for years until HOT 101.5
came along recently and went on the offensive. The station was
so open in its on-air attacks it went directly after WFLZ's
morning man, calling him too old to be playing modern day
music hits. They even claimed he still had a MySpace account.
Yikes, that's a low blow.
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority has stomped
on a pirate radio station that was operating from Chadstone,
a Melbourne suburb.The station, operating on 1485kHz AM could be heard
for up to 10km, and had been broadcasting for a week, mainly in the
evenings, ACMA reported.
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Indiana officials have handed down a fine of $91,500 to ERI
(Electronics Research, Inc) for an April accident that killed
two ERI employees that were installing a tower. Twenty-nine-year-old
Ernesto Garcia of Laredo, and 32-year-old
Paul Aliff of Mesquite, Texas, fell over 300 feet while working
on a 500-foot-tall radio tower.
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What’s better than giving away one “baby”? Giving away five.
Ottawa CHR “Hot 89.9” must be delirious about all the free
publicity from the morning show’s “Win a Baby” contest. It
was blasted as “really tacky” by the Infertility Awareness
Association of Canada and it made news around the globe.
Of course the station's prize wasn’t a live nappy-wearing
homo sapiens, but IVF treatments for infertile couples –
up to three rounds.
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