Radio Heritage Newsletter #25

Hello Radio Fans

Isn't it amazing to see how fast 2010 is rushing past....our second
competition for the year is already online at
www.radioheritage.net....and it's to win a copy of 'Changing
Stations', a great story about commercial radio in Australia.

Read all about it on the home page today, and make sure you get your
entries into us by March 28 2010...entries welcome from anywhere.

You can read all about this book at
www.radioheritage.net/story185.asp, and if you're really keen you can
buy your own copy directly from our Amazon link on that page. It's a
worthwhile addition to any radio book collection.

Whilst on the subject of Australian radio...our latest radio heritage
documentary on Radio NZ International is broadcast tomorrow and it's
got some great interviews with early radio people, wonderful old
radio serials and some great music...check it out at www.rnzi.com
from Monday....you can listen online easily by clicking on 'audio'
and 'Mailbox'......

Whilst you're at www.rnzi.com have a listen to the earlier 'Mailbox'
documentary from February 22...this features rare audio from FM
stations in Vila [Vanuatu] and Honiara [Solomon Islands] and a great
overview of the radio history of these two Pacific islands.

The University of Queensland in Brisbane is hosting World Press
Freedom Day May 1-3 and the Radio Heritage Foundation is pleased to
support this conference....you can get more information here at
www.wpfd2010.org...media freedom means a lot for broadcasters in the
Asia and Pacific region.

Have you seen our new Borderless Radio reports yet? Erika Engle at
the Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper writes about them in 'The Buzz'
business column of February 24 at www.starbulletin.com and you can go
directly to download these free reports at
www.radioheritage.net/BRR_intro.asp ....they really are a fresh way
of looking at radio across the Pacific today....

If you're interested in Los Angeles radio news, we highly recommend
Don Barrett's LA Radio site www.laradio.com which has now opened up
all its content for free access...there's an interesting story there
now about 94.7 KTWV The Wave and it's moves away from soft jazz to a
new kind of 'easy listening' format....since CBS pulled the plug on
online streaming for listeners outside the USA because of copyright
issues I'm not sure what the format is really........

Some things never change...a 1939 Australian radio business book
reports of a big battle between commercial radio and record companies
demanding royalties...it's the same battle that broke early
commercial radio attempts in New Zealand in the 1930's and continues
to drive radio stations to the wall in 2010........

More and more people are now appearing at
www.radioheritage.net/Roll.asp our Roll of honor of supporters...and
if you'd like to add your name there, you can become an Introductory
Annual Supporter for just US$10 and upgrade before March 31 2010 to
full Regular Annual Supporter for just another US$10......saving
US$5.....

Instant 10% discounts on books and CD's [excluding affiliate
programs], 25% savings on private research rates, special merchandise
offers and much more....

......and that's on top of our already free content, Pacific Asian
Log Radio Guides, Borderless Radio Reports..hundreds of pages of
unique radio heritage articles and stories, wonderful images and much
more as well.....so please add your name to the roll of our
supporters today by going to www.radioheritage.net/Supporter.asp and
signing up there...........

We've got a grant application in to allow us add even more great
articles and news in the coming months....unfortunately updating the
site does cost us NZ$25 an hour so we have to hold over lots of new
content until funding arrives....

In the meantime, keep the articles, stories, images and audio flowing
in to us here at info@radioheritage.net or via mail to our new
address: Radio Heritage Foundation, PO Box 20024, Newtown, Wellington
6242, New Zealand. We'll be adding all this new content just as soon
as we can.

Thanks to all our supporters who've joined the Roll of Honor so far,
and we hope you'll enjoy the chance to win 'Changing Stations' in our
new competition ending March 28 2010.

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PS...Keith Richardson tells us his printer found two more boxes of
'Never a Dull Moment' his inside story on decades of radio in New
Zealand + a collectors CD of early Top 20 and other programs....so
we'll continue to offer this book as a thank you for donations....see
all the full details at www.radioheritage.net/story173.asp and
request your copy today....