Just Right Off Air (Temporarily?)
When I tuned into the radio station this week to listen to my favourite over-the-air radio broadcast, something seemed odd to me almost from the start. Just Right always begins with some audio clip to introduced the first topic of the show, but this "clip" went on for more than 5 minutes. It was then that confusion set in, and I tried to figure out why Just Right was not being broadcast, and why another radio broadcast had taken its place.
Later that day, I went to the Just Right website for an answer. To my surprise, and added confusion, the Just Right show that had not been broadcast on the radio was on the site available for download. I opened iTunes on my computer, and this latest episode of Just Right was downloaded via my Just Right iTunes subscription. Listening to the show, there was a vague explanation from show host, Bob Metz, regarding Just Right not being broadcast on 94.9 FM.
CHRW Radio, 94.9 FM, that is a radio station broadcast from Western University, has removed Just Right from its programming for "six weeks" pending a "review" of its "policy on spoken word shows". In Canada, we have an anti-freedom communist type of system that regulates all Canadian radio and television broadcasts under the authority of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), so I suspect the CRTC may be involved in this CHRW decision. Listen to Just Right #126, November 5, 2009, with CHRW Radio guests, Michael Brown and Alicks Girowski for more information on radio broadcasting and the CRTC.
The full story has not come out yet, so I am hopeful that in the next six weeks I will learn more about this abrupt removal of Just Right from the CHRW Radio airwaves. Meanwhile, I am certain Just Right will carry on in podcast form.
Just Right short-wave radio schedule:
WBCQ, 5130 KHz, Thursdays at 0100 UTC.
Channel 292, 6070 KHz, Thursdays at 2100 UTC.
WBCQ International Short-wave Radio Website
Channel 292 International Short-wave Radio Website
Current UTC, Time Zone (Coordinated Universal Time)
© Trevor Dailey
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