CONTINENT OF MEDIA 99-06, recorded Aug 24, 1999 by Glenn Hauser *COM brings you stories not necessarily about shortwave, from the Western Hemipshere *Times for this program on RFPI: Tue 2000, Wed 1730, Fri 1900, Sat 1730, most repeated 8 and 16 hours later *Older editions also archived at http://www.rpfi.org/webcast.html *Latest editions including this one on http://www.DXing.com *Barry Goldwater's ham station K7UGA to become museum exhibit in Tempe *Wyoming's Wind River Reservation has new Indian station KWRR *Tijuana has squeezed in a new channel 3 TV; San Diegans cry foul; how US channel spacing rules differ from Mexico and Canada *Tijuana's XEUT 1630 back on *X-band website: https://www.angelfire.com/mb/exband/index.html *See our website for any URLs missed here: https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio *"Perfect Paul" NWS synthesized voice given early retirement in Oxnard, California *Enid's NWS with "Perfect Paul" (recording) *How Digital TV tuning will work, old channel labeling maintained; vertical and horzontal scrolling; interference between DTV stations and analog stations; blue screen decides what you see, defeats DX *Canada getting first DTV in October; but not in such a hurry as US *Dear listeners, you have heard more than half of this month's COM 99-06 *Tip for Rational Living: Extremists boycott fast food over sporks *Randi Steel's March statement on hate radio *New York Philharmonic dates for live broadcasts 1999-2000; full info at http://www.newyorkphilharmonic.org *St. Louis has a Neighborhood Crime Fighting Radio Station *Oklahoma City has new Spanish TV station *When Cuban TV stations have local programming *Discourse about the marimba, heard on Guatemalan stations *Venezuela en la Onda, DX convention Oct. 22-23; info from Jose Andueza, P O Box 141, Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela *Diexismo en Venezuela: http://diexismo.8m.com/ *St. Vincent issues stamp honoring Mike Wallace and other oldies *And so concludes another COM, 99-06; check out all the other programming on RFPI 6975, 15049, 21460-USB; and all the info and products that Universal Radio has to offer at http://www.DXing.com ###