CONTINENT OF MEDIA, April 1998, exclusively for RFPI

*Dr. Brinkley, goat-gland surgeon, and his impact on Del Rio

*Grenada radio station now on internet http://www2.spiceisle.com

*Less than 1/2 of one percent of airtime for local broadcasting; see http://www.benton.org/Policy/TV/whatslocal.html>/P>

*DXing digital TV

*Orthodox Jewish FM pirate in Brooklyn FCC doesn't dare bust

*Threat of increased SW interference caused by data on power lines

*C-band satellite systems are easy to find, used and cheap

*Deutsche Welle on-the-air TV in Florida

*AM stereo website http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/lettuce/home.htm

*Creeping commercialism at NPR; avoiding precise time checks

*KMOX goes out of its way to play the national anthem

*New Mexico media news from Carlsbad Caverns, Las Vegas drive-in

*CBC and RCI have new show for Anglophones, "C'est la vie"

*New web "radio" service, http://www.imagineradio.com ###

CONTINENT OF MEDIA, March 98, exclusively for RFPI

*Trend in Public Radio toward local music and humor?

*What's killing AM radio in Canada and the US

*CHSJ, New Brunswick, leaving AM

*Classical station in Boston on the web

*K1MAN, ARRL enemy, retransmits its ham news bulletins

*"Free radiate" campus AM stations, a little-known category

*WJDM using different day and night transmitter sites

*Tampa's peculiar pirate and his legal problems

*FCC changes EEO rules for religious stations

*Where to see a TVDX photo gallery on the web

*Wisconsin station will soon start high definition TV

*Hispanic Radio Network starts weekly Pan American call-in

*Zapatistas reported starting radio stations in Chiapas

*SEC conference in April on the new solar cycle ###