Less than a week after Hamish & Andy topped the Australian Podcast Ranker for a record 21st time, Andy Lee is back in the spotlight.Lee is among the seven nominees for this year’s Gold Logie. He and fellow broadcaster Tony Armstrong are both the running for the top award as Most Popular Personality on Australian… Read More
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Live 95 has announced that Down Syndrome Limerick is the station’s new charity partner.
The charity provides support and services to people with Down Syndrome and their families, the running of which require ongoing fundraising campaigns.
Live 95 Station Director, Joe Nash, said: “Choosing one good cause over another is obviously an almost impossible task, but we ultimately felt that Down Syndrome Limerick was a great fit for the radio station, for the next two years.
“We were inspired by Michelle Coughlan and her team of volunteers for their dedication to their cause and their passion to educate everyone about the amazing people who use their service.
“I also want to thank Julie White and Tess Hughes from our team for their significant contribution during this process.”
Sales and Marketing Manager with Live 95, Julie White, is looking forward to this collaboration: “We will use our ability to reach the Limerick audience to spread the word about Down Syndrome Limerick far and wide, including increasing understanding of their services and those who use them, while also helping to focus attention on their fundraising initiatives in Limerick”, she said.
Gillian Devlin, Alison Reeves, Kate Kennedy, Julie White, Luke Liddy, Emma Dinneen and Jodi Mulcahy with Michelle Coughlan and Ellen Tuffy, Down Syndrome Limerick been announced as Charity Partners with Limerick ‘s Live 95 FMPicture Brendan Gleeson
Chair of Down Syndrome Limerick, Michelle Coughlan, was delighted to link up with Live 95. She stated: “We are passionate about increasing awareness about our family members with Down Syndrome, while helping them to participate as fully as possible in our community and raising much needed funds for the resources we provide to people with Down Syndrome and their families. We are confident Live 95 will help us to do all of this and more, in the months ahead.”
Live 95 will be working with Down Syndrome Limerick on a variety of initiatives, using its on-air, online and social media platforms to spread the word and tell the stories of the people who make this local charity a success.
The station says it is confident that the generosity of its listeners will once again come to the fore for a great cause. […]
FCC Actions
Following a proposal submitted last week from Commander Communications Corporation on behalf of its “Smooth Soul 100.5” WRTM-FM Sharon MS, the FCC is seeking comments in regards to creating a new station class “A10” with a maximum of 10,000 watts effective radiated power (ERP) and 100 meters height above average terrain (HAAT).
The proposal also seeks to amend existing facility requirements and minimum distance separation requirements to accommodate the new FM station class. The Class A10 stations would be required to operate with between 6kW and 10kW ERP at the equivalent of 100 meters HAAT. The proposal is another attempt to create a station class between a Class A and C3 following the rejected Class C4 proposal that would’ve created a class of stations operating at 12kW from a reference antenna height of 100 meters above average terrain in Zone II. Unlike that proposal, the A10 class is meant to be utilized across all zones.
The proposal with the proposed spacing requirements can be read here.
License Cancellations
Dockins Broadcast Group has turned in the license for Classic Rock “The Zone” 960 WGRO/99.7 W259CU Lake City FL. WGRO had gone silent in February due to technical problems with voltage relative to its directional towers. Dockins had surrendered WGRO’s license in February before asking for it to be rescinded and replaced by a Silent STA.
Townsquare Media’s Tri Cities Divestiture Trust has turned in the license of the former Classic Hits “97.5 Kool-FM” KOLW Basin City/Kennewick WA.
Harold Sudbury Jr.’s Newport Broadcasting Company has surrendered the licenses of 104.9 KHPA and 1490 KXAR Hope AR as they near the one year anniversary of going silent due to storm damage. Sudbury sold his six other stations last September.
Silent Notifications
Knight Broadcasting’s 1440 KUHL Santa Maria CA (Transmitter site sold at auction)
Knight Broadcasting’s 96.7 KSYV Solvang CA (Awaiting FCC approval of donation of station)
FM Changes
Entravision proposes relocating its three Rio Grande Valley FMs to the tower of their KFXV-TV. The three stations will utilize a combined antenna […]
Morgan Murphy Media’s QueenB Radio has made significant cuts at its Spokane stations. The “Dave, Ken & Molly” morning show at Hot AC “92.9 ZZU” KZZU-FM Spokane. Originally known “The Breakfast Boys”, Dave Sposito and Ken Hopkins were both with the station in the 1980s and were first paired together in mornings in 1992 at […] […]
Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York’s Sin Fronteras WNY has partnered with Buffalo Toronto Public Media to launch Spanish Public “Radio Bilingue” on 88.7 WBFO-HD3 Buffalo. The station for now will run the national network based out of Fresno CA, but intends to add local shows and sponsors in the coming months. Casimiro Rodriguez, […] […]
French radio journalist Sebastien Farcis said he was leaving India after more than 13 years, as the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) refused to renew his work permit.He is the second French national in four months to have been denied work permit and the third foreign journalist reportedly forced to leave the country this year.Farcis had served as the South Asia correspondent for Radio France Internationale, Radio France, Liberation and the Swiss and Belgian public radios.He is married to an Indian woman and has Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) status, which allows him to live and work in the country but requires a special permit for missionary activities, mountaineering or journalism.He said that no reason had been provided “despite formal and repeated requests” and that he had applied for a new work permit.Farcis, in a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), said the MHA had notified the denial on March 7 this year, not allowing him to cover the country’s recently concluded general elections.Describing the decision as an act of “incomprehensible censorship.“, Farcis wrote on X:“After 13 years working as a correspondent in India, the authorities have denied me a permit to work as a journalist. I have thus been forced to leave the country,”
“It was communicated to me on the eve of the Indian general elections, the largest democratic elections in the world, which I was hence forbidden to cover. This appeared to me as an incomprehensible censorship,”“This denial comes in a worrying context of increasing restrictions on the work of foreign journalists: after Vanessa Dougnac I am the second French journalist in four months having to leave India under these conditions. At least five OCI [Overseas Citizen of India] foreign correspondents have been banned from working as journalists in less than two years,” he added.In February, French journalist Vanessa Dougnac left the country after the government revoked her OCI card. Dougnac, a contributor to several French-language publications, including the weekly magazine Le Point, came to India as a student 23 years ago, worked as a journalist, married and raised a son.Vanessa revealed that the Ministry of Home Affairs sent her a notice in January, stating her work was “inimical” to national interests, leading to the cancellation of her permanent residency.Two months later, Avani Dias, the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), said she had been forced to leave India on April 19, the day the general elections started, after the government objected to her reporting on the assassination of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.The ABC had said Dias was informed of the decision by an official from the Ministry of External Affairs, who said her most recent Foreign Correspondent episode on Nijjar “crossed a line.” […]
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