[IRCA] New on RNZI - Earthquake Radio

[Geralyn Hollerman <lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

For anyone interested:
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Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
June 11 2011

RNZI Airs New Radio Heritage
Documentary
Earthquake Radio
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Join us from Monday, June 13 2011 as we bring you the inside story on
Radio New Brighton 102.1 FM, the emergency radio station for
earthquake hit Christchurch, to be broadcast on the Mailbox program
from Radio New Zealand International.

This unique documentary includes on-air sound grabs, interviews with
the people who set up the station, volunteer announcers, and local
residents. We usually research and write about radio stories, this
time we were in the heart of the story ourselves.  

You can listen directly via shortwave radio from RNZI in New Zealand,
or audio on demand [for the following month] with full details of
current broadcast frequencies [both DRM and analog] and times
possible for your area as well as audio downloads at www.rnzi.com. 

The report also backgrounds how the earthquake on February 22 2011
affected local radio stations, how they responded to the loss of
their studios and yet still maintained 24/7 service, and broke the
biggest news story in New Zealand for decades.  

You'll also learn about JOYZ2U 77.2 FM and other disaster recovery FM
stations set up in Japan after their earthquake, tsunami and nuclear
triple hit just two days before Radio New Brighton went to air.

How the radio community in the two countries responded to the
earthquakes has many similarities, but there are also key differences
in how civil defence and local authorities regarded these emergency
local radio stations. In one country they were ignored, in the other
fully supported.

So join us from Monday, June 13 2011 as we explore these two recent
examples of earthquake radio on the Mailbox program from Radio New
Zealand International [www.rnzi.com].

You can also use our fully up to date guide to contemporary AM radio
in Japan and New Zealand with free access to our PAL Radio Guides at
our global website www.radioheritage.com.

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connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the
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We currently have an urgent need for donations towards our operating
costs as the donor base in New Zealand has been devastated by calls
for earthquake relief. If you can help us, please make a donation
today at our website www.radioheritage.com. 
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Lynn.
Lafayette, LA
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