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Radio Heritage Newsletter #26

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Radio Heritage
Newsletter #26
June 2010
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Hello everyone

Welcome to our latest update on what’s happening, our first in a few months now…….

Since we started this project, we’ve been encouraged and delighted by the global response from many thousands who share our vision to celebrate radio heritage and its connections with popular culture and
nostalgia….and to step in and save ephemera and other radio related artifacts….see our latest success story later on in this newsletter!

Celebrating Popular Culture
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New right now….’Radio in Papua New Guinea’ a documentary you’ll find at www.rnzi.com [Mailbox audio for June 14]……….. ‘Diamonds of the Dial’ the story of 75 year old heritage radio calls in
Australia…………….

…Updated editions of the famous PAL Radio Guides for the entire Asia-Pacific region, new radio book reviews and other content you’ll find now at www.radioheritage.net.

Use the Google Search button to dig out stories about stations, people and places you’re interested about…..

AM Radio gets airplay in the popular press
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Thanks to Bill Hester, one of our supporters, here’s a link http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/124955-am-gold-82/PO to an article written by Canadian Jay Somerset at www.popmatters.com.

It’s about ‘The Day the [AM] Music Died’ – a well researched look at how oldies music just sounds different on AM radio, and how new artists and the decline in talk radio may just be combining to bring back music to the AM radio dial.

Actually, Radio World magazine in the USA [www.radioworld.com] has an ongoing series of features about AM radio which we highly recommend reading……and in their latest June 16 edition [available free online] you’ll also read ‘QSL From Long Ago And Far Away’ [page 4] and ‘Keep the Heritage Alive’ [page 33]…..two items about the Radio Heritage Foundation and the value of keeping old radio ephemera.

There’s also a nice feature by James O’Neale in the same issue [page 34] called ‘I Remember the Power of Night-Time Radio’ which remembers the 50kW clear channel signals that covered the US radio
dial………..a theme we’ll be exploring ourselves at www.radioheritage.net shortly with a nice feature from the
afore-mentioned Bill Hester.

We’d also like to thank all of you who continue to send in photos, stories, magazine and newspaper articles and more….such as those from Phillipa Downie whose Dad helped establish commercial radio in New Zealand and then went on to be the first manager of 2AP in Apia, Samoa.

……Keep digging these gems out and send them on to us to share!

Constant Calls in a World of Fads, Fashions and FM
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Talking of gems, you’ll enjoy one of our recent features ‘Diamonds of the Dial’ which looks at the 40 Australian heritage AM stations that have broadcast with the same callsign for at least 75 years!

….it’s also miraculous to find 40 station owners willing to keep their original station callsigns instead of flipping calls for the latest fad or fashion!

…..the same exercise for Californian AM radio stations found only about 5 or 6 that met the same criteria…75 years on the air with the same callsign……amongst them KFI and KNX both in Los Angeles and KXO El Centro…….

FM is getting older by the day
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Of course heritage isn’t just restricted to AM radio, there’s also FM which has now been around for some 70 years in the USA, and even 60 years in Australia [if we include the long forgotten early ABC-FM broadcasts from the 1950's]…….

One from the Yes! Success Files
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………………Explaining the cultural value of radio heritage has its challenges……………. The University of Otago in Dunedin [NZ] recently decided to auction off the original pioneer transmitter used in the first AM broadcast in the country just to clear space [and no doubt to make a few dollars]…..luckily the public outcry from local citizens and organizations such as the Radio Heritage Foundation led to a very rapid retreat from the idea………………we’re pleased they followed our advice to lease the equipment to a local museum instead.

It’s one of a growing number of success stories we’re quietly chalking up behind the scenes, and if you’d like to volunteer some time to protect items of radio heritage in your community, drop us a
line and tell us more about what you’d like to keep safe for future generations.

Thanks for your donations
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The worldwide financial crisis has been having a tough impact on our finances and therefore our ability to get more content online……

……………..Last year we raised US$3500 in donations, paid 20% of our bills and put in 2000 plus hours of unpaid time on our work……………… so we really need your words of encouragement, annual supporter donations [US$10 or more], and sponsorship or partnership of specific projects……………… such as meeting operating costs, funding some of those unpaid hours, and more features and articles at www.radioheritage.net.

Will you help?

………….You can donate online right now, and also choose some of the radio books and CD’s we’ve got available, buy your books, music and magazines through our online Amazon store and support our Google Ad advertisers.

..I really recommend Keith Richardson’s book and CD package ['Never a Dull Moment'] for a highly entertaining inside story about early Top 20 radio in the Pacific and great tales from behind the mike…..I talked with Keith just today and his health is not so good and he also tells me he’s down to just a few copies of his book left…so don’t leave it too late to get your copy from us…….

In the meantime, thanks for your ongoing support and do visit www.radioheritage.net to refresh your radio memories!

Warm regards
David Ricquish
Chairman

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Radio Heritage Foundation connects popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage. It’s a registered charitable entity [#CC25951] in terms of the Charities Act 2005. Our global website is www.radioheritage.net. Annual supporter donations start at US$10. Independently funded by donations from global supporters like you.
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Media Release Radio Heritage Foundation

Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net

New Zealand Budget 2010
Radio New Zealand
International Funding
Frozen
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Radio New Zealand International [RNZI], the country’s shortwave broadcaster receives no additional funding in the latest government budget for 2010/2011 announced in Wellington yesterday.
Funding remains at NZ$1.9m [US$1.26m] and it’s required to deliver 16 hours of good quality reception daily to a minimum of 11 Pacific nations with one 100kW analog transmitter installed in 1990 and one 100kW digital capable transmitter installed in 2005.
The primary coverage nations it’s funded for are French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tokelau, American Samoa, Samoa, Niue, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
The secondary coverage nations are Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Nauru and Kiribati, whilst general coverage must be provided to the Asia/Pacific and Pacific Rim region including the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau.
In addition, RNZI must increase the number of Pacific radio stations relaying or rebroadcasting its news bulletins to 18 and is permiited a maximum 1% of transmission time lost from equipment failure.
The Radio Heritage Foundation welcomes the continued funding of RNZI as recognition by the government that it provides a valuable service for New Zealand’s interests in the Pacific.
‘At a time when many shortwave broadcasters face budget cuts and complete closedown of services, this continued confidence in RNZI’s ability to deliver a quality service with a bare-bones budget is
tribute to the extreme dedication to duty and pragmatism of the entire RNZI team” says chairman David Ricquish.
RNZI provides valuable cyclone, extreme weather watch and tsunami warnings for the entire South Pacific region. It also provides local FM quality news, information and other programs for rebroadcast on a growing number of local Pacific island radio stations.
“With Fiji in media censorship lockdown and media freedoms poorly understood in many of the target nations, RNZI provides local listeners with a respected and valuable news source from a Pacific perspective” adds Ricquish.
“Every week, thousands of New Zealanders are on holiday, on business visits or working and living in the Pacific and RNZI provides a valuable service for their continued safety.”
“To maintain this security, RNZI should also be urgently capital funded for a replacement of the 20 year old analog transmitter with another high power digital capable shortwave transmitter sooner
rather than later” says Ricquish.
Catastrophic RNZI transmitter failure co-inciding with natural disasters or sudden political events and instability in the region could threaten the lives of New Zealanders and New Zealand’s security
and commercial interests.
Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the Pacific. It’s global website www.radioheritage.net offers free
community access to Pacific Radio Guides and other valuable resources. Annual supporter packages start at US$10 and online advertising rates are now available.

Pemenang Kuis Radio Heritage Foundation

Winner Announcement
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
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‘Changing Stations’
The Story of Australian
Commercial Radio
Competition Winner
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In our recent competition ‘Changing Stations’ we asked readers to complete the sentence ‘Long Lost – - Stars’ and we’d like to thank the many people who took the time to send in their – often creative -
entries!
The missing words are “Australian Radio” and the complete sentence is ‘Long Lost Australian Radio Stars’ which is also the name of the popular series about Australian heritage AM radio stations from the 1940’s you can enjoy at our global website www.radioheritage.net.
68% of all the entries had this correct answer and we’re now very pleased to announce the winner as  Steven Spink of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, Australia.
Congratulations Steven, and a copy of ‘Changing Stations’ by Bridget Griffen-Foley will be on its way to you shortly.
Don’t worry if you didn’t win this time – you can still buy a copy of the book for a very good price and may even qualify for free shipping. Just visit www.radioheritage.net, go to the ‘Changing
Stations’ book review and then click on our Amazon sales link to obtain your copy.
It’s a really good read, well researched and very entertaining. Highly recommended for everyone interested in the story of Australian commercial radio. Read all about the book today at
www.radioheritage.net.
We’ll shortly announce details of our next competition to win a CD of original Australian radio serials.
If you haven’t visited www.radioheritage.net recently, stop by and see what’s new or dig a little deeper into our 500+ pages of great stories and hundreds of rare images about radio people, places and events.
Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage. All content at our global website www.radioheritage.net is available for free community access. Annual supporter packages start at US$10 and online advertising rates are now available.

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