[Swprograms] RCI monitoring Tuesday morning

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CANADA. Altho on Monday Oct 30, RCI`s morning broadcast still carried the
doomed CBC programs, The Current and Sounds Like Canada, on Tuesday Oct 31,
RCI`s new production, The Link, was actually aired on 9515, 13655 and 17820.
Tuned in at 1409 to hear an RCI-produced program with Lynn DesJardins, about a
Kurdish-Canadian accused of involvement with the `terrorist` PKK organization.
At 1420 another feature about immigrant entrepreneurs. This is clearly The Link
part I, intended for domestic consumption. At 1450 there was a This Day in
History feature, Jim Craig talking with Marc Montgomery about the Québec
separatist referendum, which barely failed in the 1990s. (TDIH on any station
is a sure way to fill time without having to come up with original material.) 

At 1500 Marc welcomed shortwave listeners to The Link, Part II, as he
mistakenly believes part I is not on SW, according to the original publicity
for the project. Took about two minutes to tease the remainder of the hour, and
RCI-produced news ran from 1502 to 1507. Altho it had some actualities, somehow
it doesn`t match the standard we are used to from CBC news. A topic coming up:
could there be riots here in Canada like there were in France one year ago
(another calendar-driven idea); but then first into global warming discussion.

I suppose CBCNQ 9625 had Sounds Like Canada after 1500, but reception was very
poor. Earlier at 1410 they were in Inuktituk as usual, and guess what --- for
the second day in a row, altho I e-mailed Sackville master control yesterday
about it, 15240 again carried CBCNQ instead of R. Sweden in English, when
checked at 1433. I also had checked 15240 in the previous half-hour and then it
was R. Sweden, in Swedish. Something must be misprogrammed in the automation
requiring a human override once they get around to it. Meanwhile, R. Sweden`s
English SW listeners in central and western NAm are out of luck (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)



 
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