[IRCA] Radio Heritage Newsletter #30

[Geralyn Hollerman <lynnhollerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
August 14 2011

Radio Heritage Newsletter
August 2011 - #30

In this issue......................


* More Aussie Radio Stars
* WVUV Samoa Pioneer Visits
* Salute our Sponsors - Apex Car Rentals
* Helping Others
* European Crisis Resolved
* Top 5 Radio Books for August
* WIN 170 Episodes of The Pacific Story
* New Zealand LPFM Radio Profiles
* One Eyed FM Rebuilds
* $4600 Debt Crisis Looms


MORE AUSSIE RADIO STARS

Look out for 3HA Hamilton, 3SH Swan Hill and 3TR Sale [Gippsland]
shortly as we approach the end of our first major Aussie Radio
heritage series, to be followed by 2DU Dubbo and 2GN Goulburn as
well. A few more then will round off this popular series of Long Lost
Australian Radio Stars. We're now looking for people willing to
help sponsor our second series.... featuring hundreds of
Australian Radio Pioneers....and promising to be just as popular.
Email info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you can help out........ 


WVUV SAMOA PIONEER VISITS

The last of the AFRS radio WWII callsigns lives on in American Samoa
as WVUV-FM..and Homer Willess, who set up the station way back in the
1940s will be making a visit back to the island shortly with his
family. We're grateful to Larry Fuss [WVUV-FM owner] and his local
team for making Homer welcome. It's not often you get to the meet the
station founder! Check out Homer's romantic Samoan story today at
www.radioheritage.com........'WVUV Radio Romance'............


SALUTE OUR SPONSORS
*Apex Car Rentals*

Apex Rental Cars [www.apexrentals.co.nz] have supported us for
several years, helping our Kiwi Radio Campaign and are recognized as
the only high level Patron status sponsor on our Roll of Honor. 

Starting out as a small operation in Christchurch, they now have
the largest modern fleet of rental cars in New Zealand, a new branch
in Brisbane [Australia], and tick all the boxes with innovative use
of technology to make renting real easy.

Phil and his team have battled through the recent Christchurch
earthquakes...they lost their city office.....so support a good local
company. Good prices, all inclusive simple to understand deals, and
from personal experience, friendly, efficient and very nice folks to
know. 

For your next rental car hire in New Zealand [or Brisbane], we highly
recommend Apex Car Rentals [www.apexrentals.co.nz] and tell them
'Dave & Jo at the Radio Heritage Foundation sent us' when booking!

HELPING OTHERS

We get many calls for advice..and we try and help where we can,
although we could do much more with our collections digitized. Recent
examples include genealogy research looking for a ventriloquist who
performed on 5AD [Adelaide, Australia] in the 1940's, recommendations
for the future of public radio in the Mariana Islands, details of
KGER [Long Beach CA] broadcasts in the 1930s and looking for an old
piano teacher who sang on Australia's ABC radio in the 1950's.....

Want some personal research done? A donation of US$25 covers an hour
[annual supporters get a 25% discount on our rates]....just write
with your question today to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and we'll do our
best to get you sorted.....

EUROPEAN CRISIS RESOLVED!

Thanks to Herman Boel in Flanders [Belgium], we recently added many
hundreds of items from his European AM & Longwave history project -
features, old station lists, a lot of audio of rare broadcasts,
station IDs and lots of images - because he no longer had time to
maintain this immense collection. It now has a new home at
www.radioheritage.com. We'll be adding to this
material................ 

TOP 5 RADIO BOOKS FOR AUGUST

#1 Making Radio
#2 Wireless Empire
#3 ARRL's Antenna Classics
#4 Pop Culture China!
#5 An Air War with Cuba

These great summer [or winter] reads at good prices from our
bookstores at www.radioheritage.com.. over 200 hand picked radio
books.....

WIN over 80 HOURS of THE PACIFIC STORY
Fabulous American Old Time Radio Series

Our good friends at OTRCAT have joined with us to bring you THREE
chances to win this fabulous collection of 170 episodes of the
incredible PACIFIC STORY radio series...back to the days of fast
ocean liners, PanAm clippers, exotic seaports, and tales that take
you around the beautiful islands and lands encircling the Pacific.....

You'll find full details of this fantastic new competition online at
www.radioheritage.com within the next few days...in the meantime,
check out the OTRCAT link at www.radioheritage.com to find how to get
thousands of hours of vintage radio shows today at the very best
possible prices....look for the OTRCAT link just above our Social
Networks header on the righthand side of every page.... 

NEW ZEALAND LPFM RADIO NEWS

With over 1,600 entries, the NZLPFM Radio Guide at
www.radioheritage.com is THE guide to the wonderful world of local
radio.. updated daily.....and lots of new station profiles now online:

* Tongan Radio in Auckland * Radio Ngakuta Bay * Swiss Mixx 106.9
Wanganui * Mamaku School 88.4 * BOLT 88.3 Bedroom Radio * Fevah FM
Hits Hamilton * TAS 88.1 Taihape * Hollah FM Porirua * Ifinity FM
87.7 * Botany 107.1 * The Yak 107.1

We'll shortly be adding One Eyed FM Rebuilds - the inspirational
story of Johnny Miller whose original radio station was destroyed in
the Christchurch earthquakes - and how he has overcome a string of
personal challenges since February to bring his easy listening brand
of local radio to Wellington....

$4600 DEBT CRISIS LOOMS 

Since January, our supporters worldwide have donated some 50% of our
weekly operational overheads. Thank you so much..without this real
help, we couldn't continue. Although we're 100% volunteer run, we
still have to meet the bills for our share of office and operating
costs and we really need your help this month so we can demonstrate
to our bank manager that there really is ongoing financial support to
meet these costs.

We need just on US$4600 to bring us up to date to the end of July..so
if you like all the features at www.radioheritage.com and believe
that what we're doing is useful, educational, even entertaining.....
and can help us bring our bills under control this month.....then
please consider making a donation or personal gift today.

You will be acknowledged on our online Roll of Honor and larger gifts
can also be recognized as sponsorship towards our hundreds of
features already online such as AFRS Memories, Long Lost Australian
Radio Stars, Kiwi Radio Campaign and many more.

****Credit card donations [VISA/Mastercard] can be made instantly
online at www.radioheritage.com and donations from New Zealand tax
residents are one-third refundable.**** 

A reminder we are not funded by any government, the broadcasting
industry, bequests, other charitable foundations or business....
several of our directors have been fully funding these weekly costs
for many years but can no longer meet the full level of funding
needed......your donation does make a difference. 

Thank you for helping us protect and promote radio heritage and
please write and tell us how we can improve, and if you have your own
or family stories, audio, photos, memories or more to share..... we'd
like to hear from you! 

THANKS!!

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organization connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio
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We have also produced over 40 radio documentaries for RNZI, maintain
the PAL Radio Guides for AM, FM & Shortwave radio in the Asia-Pacific
region, and are official contributors maintaining over 25 detailed
Pacific radio country profiles for the World Radio TV Handbook.
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PS...remember to enter to win our fabulous Pacific Story competition
in association with OTRCAT [full details at www.radioheritage.com
later this week].........
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Lynn.
Lafayette, LA
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