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Below find index to archives for January to March 2000
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March 2000

2000-03-01 Jury decides that Sydney newspaper defamed broadcaster Alan Jones
2000-03-01
Church of England to set up organisation to monitor religious broadcasts.
2000-03-01 Sirius Satellite Radio and ATX Technologies announce alliance that would allow automobile drivers to purchase goods on radio receivers.
2000-03-02
BBC appoints Helen Boaden as controller of Radio 4.
2000-03-02
to 3 Australian racing steward claims he was defamed by broadcaster Alan Jones.
2000-03-03
WGN, Chicago station changes-Steve O'Dell takes over from late Bob Collins.
2000-03-03
to 8 KABC, Los Angeles, drops "The Stephanie Miller Show".
2000-03-04
Triad Broadcasting of Monterey to buy five Nebraskan radio stations from J.C Acquisition.
2000-03-04 to 9 KPCC-FM in Pasadena drops 20 weekend and night-time music shows as it moves to news and talk under Minnesota Public Radio management.
2000-03-05
UK digital radio station Radio First reported close to signing exclusive live commentary deals with top soccer clubs.
2000-03-06
to 21 Clear Channel Communications plans stations sales to get regulatory approval of AMFM takeover.
2000-03-07 to 31 Bidding for British mobile licences which allow Internet access.
2000-03-08 British EMI group to develop online audio channels with Radiowave.com.
2000-03-08
U.S. talk show host Judy Jarvis dies.
2000-03-09
Irish radio station has to pay £10,000 to employee who was forced to retire because "radio is for young people."
2000-03-09
BBC beats off higher TalkSport bid to retain English cricket broadcasting rights.
2000-03-09 WLIT-FM in Chicago starts revamp under new general manager.
2000-03-10
Radio executive warns that Irish county-based radio stations would not survive a complete switch to digital transmission.
2000-03-10 Dot.com advertising helps boost Austereo earnings by a third in final half of 1999.
2000-03-11 Ireland's Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) begins awarding new radio licencses for the country.
2000-03-11 WLIT-FM in Chicago starts revamp under new general manager.
2000-03-12: Chicago Tribune on "The Sportswriters" show on ESPN's WMVP-AM
2000-03-12 -28th Scottish Radio Holdings bid for Border TV.
2000-03-13 Maryland-based Radio 1 to spend 1.3 billion on acquisitions.
2000-03-13
British soccer clubs to launch digital stations.
2000-03-13
U.S. FCC posts spectrum auction rules which would allow re-selling of spectrum as a commodity..
2000-03-14
to 24 Sydney 2UE "calls" rugby from pay TV after 2GB deal to buy exclusive commentary rights..
2000-03-15 KGIL-AM fires seven DJs as it moves to an all-Jazz format and renames itself KJAZ-AM.
2000-03-16
Brian Johns steps down as ABC (Australia) MD.
2000-03-16 Brian Johns last day as managing director of ABC (Australia).
2000-03-16 CBC, Canada, finds $10 million p.a. extra for radio services.
2000-03-16
Former Chicago Bear Keith Van Home agrees $1.6 million settlement of defamation suit against shock jock Erich "Mancow" Muller.
2000-03-17 :Veteran U.S. broadcaster Durward Kirby dies aged 88.
2000-03-18: Speculation grows about BBC management job cuts under restructuring.
2000-03-18 UK Guardian columnist on BBC sponsored pilot CD to show how digital can enhance production.
2000-03-19
: BBC Radio 5 Live hires 86-years-old grandmother as first Internet critic.
2000-03-19: BBC to sign sponsorship deal for pop charts shows.
2000-03-20: U.S. Federal Communications Commission to examine possibilities of software-defined radio.
2000-03-20: UK Guardian item on differing perception of male and female voices
2000-03-20
: Australian Broadcasting Authority invites bids for two new Sydney area commercial radio stations
2000-03-21: Internet News reports that U.S. public radio is gaining major sponsorship from dot.com companies.
2000-03-21: Salem Communications agree $19 million deal for eight Clear Channel stations .
2000-03-22: Former triple-J talent in Australia to go back on air as Internet station.

2000-03-22: Jazz host Mark Ruffin leaves WBEZ-FM Chicago after a row with management.
2000-03-22: :Virgin Radio is to be investigated by the U.K. Radio Authority for possible breaches of political impartiality after DJ's on-air announcement about funding candidate.
2000-03-22: U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman tells Senate sub-committee that communications technology is the engine of the future.
2000-03-23
:Spike networks strikes deal with Music Choice for distribution of twice-daily show from Spike's Los Angeles Internet radio station.
2000-03-23:Virginia public station manager fired after row over cancellation of live opera broadcasts.
2000-03-23:Arbitron latest webcast ratings show more stations but slightly lower audiences.

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2000-03-23:UK TalkSport under pressure to boost audience soon.

2000-03-24: $550 million settlement offered in Voice of America sex discrimination case.
2000-03-24: Chicago WBEZ-FM teams up with Chicago Reporter paper for a month of investigative reporting on youth drug arrests.
2000-03-25 to 31: US Congress may kill off FCC plans for 1000 new low power FM stations for local communities.
2000-03-25 International Air Travel Association expresses concern about spectrum re-allocation as mobile phone spectrum bidding hots up.
2000-03-26: Privatization and FM growth seem likely to boost Indian radio industry.
2000-03-26: Successful launch of second of three WorldSpace Corporation satellites to provide digital radio services to the third world.
2000-03-26: Sig Mickelson, founder of US Radio and Television News Directors Association and first CBS News President dies.
2000-03-26 to 28th; UK Wireless Group, owner of Talk Sport, prepares for £150 million flotation.
2000-03-27: BBC Radio Wales accused of discriminating against broadcasters with English accents.
2000-03-27: BBC Radio 4 commission pilot programme of former TV hit "Doctor Who".
2000-03-28 to 29th Australian Broadcasting Authority issues new conditions on 2UE Sydney's licence in wake of cash-for-comment affair.
2000-03-29: Sydney 2UE ratings up despite cash-for-comment affair..
2000-03-29: WLS-AM, Chicago goes less political after firing late host Mike Malloy.
2000-03-30
: Infinity Broadcasting in $90 million deal to buy Waterman Broadcasting's San Antonio radio stations.
2000-03-31
: US Broadcasters seek legal judgment that over-air stations should not pay extra copyright fees for streaming their signal on the Internet.

February 2000

2000-02-01 Dolly Parton sells her Tennessee radio station.
2000-02-01
to 23 :Australian talk radio cash-for comment story- Report - out 8th
2000-02-01
Greg Dyke takes over as BBC Director General
2000-02-02
Daimler-Chrysler to invest $100m in Sirius satellite radio.
2000-01-02
to 29: Pacifica stations conflict continues with fears for future of stations.
2000-02-03
Latest UK RAJAR audience figures good for BBC/Classic FM
2000-02-03 Chicago Abitron ratings.
2000-02-03
UK radio chief calls for lighter regulation.
2000-02-04 KNEW-AM, San Francisco starts airing CNET tech news channel.
2000-02-04 to 24: Irish hearings on £35000 radio company gift to communications minister.
2000-02-05 to 16 ABC Australia in $65 million online deal.
2000-02-05
to 27 Radio Liberty reporter missing in Chechnya.
2000-02-06
to 10 BBC farming soap under pressure for pro-government propagandizing.
2000-02-06
$2 billion Emmis Corporations expansion plans.
2000-02-07
to 11 CBC job cuts.
2000-02-08
Seattle radio station starts billboard advertising of online site.
2000-02-09
Washington DC Arbitron ratings.
2000-02-09
to 20 Chicago WGN host Bob Collins dies in plane crash.
2000-02-11
VOA cuts 51 jobs, trims European broadcasts.
2000-02-11
Radio station drops legally-binding marriage from St. Valentine's day honeymoon prize offer for strangers.
2000-02-11 British PM Blair starts weekly web radio broadcast.
MP3 of broadcast

2000-02-12
Radio One Inc revenues nearly double.
2000-02-12
UK Capital Radio sells its Radio Cafés.
2000-02-14
Indian state stands down carrier pigeons in favour of radios.
2000-02-14
Chief executive of UK Capital radio calls upon British government to set switch-off date for analogue radio.
2000-02-14
Santa Monica public radio station KCRW creates live Internet international news channel from NPR and BBC World Service content.
2000-02-15 Church of England report attacks BBC religious programming.
2000-02-15
UK couple still in dispute despite winning Valentine's Day divorce as radio station prize.
2000-02-15
Salem Communications Corporation buys stations in Dallas and Nashville. station prize.
2000-02-15 Infinity Broadcasting Corporation profits up by almost one third for last quarter of 1999.
2000-02-16
Staff exodus from WMAQ, Chicago, amidst uncertainty over station's future.
2000-02-17 RTÉ presenter Myles Dungan,to host Radio 1 afternoon arts show.
2000-02-17 Jimmy de Castro retires from AMFM Inc; expected to start internet company.


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February 2000 cont'd
2000-02-17 NAB launches lawsuit against FCC January decision to permit low-power FM stations
2000-02-18 Susquehanna Radio signs 23-station deal with Internet company Radio Wave of Chicago.
2000-02-18 Pressures to grab more of radio spectrum mount from new mobile operators.
2000-02-19
Australian Broadcasting Corporation offers major expansion of rural services if funding is restored to pre-cutback levels.
2000-02-19
Arbitron ratings show Dr Laura radio show slipping in ratings.
2000-02-19 NPR shines while CBC slips.
2000-02-20
to 27 Chicago public broadcaster WTTW's begins multi-media initiative.
2000-02-21
Changing population demographics may leave UK commercial radio stranded unless it targets older listeners.
2000-02-21
Liberty Media buys stake in Canadian radio and TV company Corus Entertainment Inc.
2000-02-21
Public station KSSN-FM in the San Fernando Valley to boost its power six-fold -to 320 watts from current 52 watt output.
2000-02-22
Garrison Keiller's "Prairie Home Companion" programme to be recorded in Scotland and Ireland to mark show's silver jubilee on U.S. NPR
2000-02-22
Chicago company offers unlimited internet streaming audio for $500 per month plus 15-secnd advert gateway at start of each stream.
2000-02-23
Sydney 2UE holds up in ratings despite cash-for-comment report.
2000-02-23
RTÉ loses ground in latest Irish radio ratings
2000-02-23 Australian Rugby League bars Sydney 2UE
2000-02-23 Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, who had faced Internet-only games reports, do radio deal with Chinese station.
2000-02-23 TalkSport outbids the BBC for the rights to the 2002-2003 winter England cricket tour of Australia.
2000-02-24
UK radio station offers £10,000 prize to couple who win contest to stay in bed longest

2000-02-25
RTÉ, the Irish state broadcaster, concerned about suggestions it may be forced to sell transmission network.

2000-02-26
U.S. Virgin Islands radio station rescinds try-out offer to former Washington DJ who was fired from previous job for making racist comments.
2000-02-27
Metro Networks, Chicago, fires 13 staff and is moved into headquarters of  Shadow Broadcast Services which bought it last year.

2000-02-28 Federal appeals court rules that St. Louis public radio station does not have to accept underwriting message from the Ku Klux Klan.
2000-02-29 US radio station and billboard giant, Clear Channels Communications is acquiring SFX Entertainment, which provides live entertainment shows and owns and operates more than 100 venues in the U. S., in a share deal worth around $3 billion.
2000-02-29
U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman William Kennard warns that growth of wireless communications is rapidly eating up the available spectrum worldwide.

2000-01-04 CNET and AMFM announce channel on new technology.
2000-01-05
US stations face ratings delay due to Arbitron problems..
2000-01-06
Concern over use of digital technology to reduce pauses and increase adverts.
2000-01-07
to 08 CBC licence renewed for 7 years but conditions foreshadow cuts.

2000-01-08
UK pirate stations manipulate RDS to grab audience.

2000-01-09
Pacifica network vacates Berkeley offices.

2000-01-10
Church of England attacks BBC for cutting back religious output.

2000-01-11
WMZQ Washington changes country format.

2000-01-12
UK Talk Radio to switch to all sport format.

2000-01-13
Chicago school station WEPS-FM celebrates golden anniversary.
2000-01-13 to 19 Scottish Media Group to buy Ginger Media Group for £225 million.
2000-01-14
Rancho Cucamonga Quakes sign Internet radio deal after failing to reach radio station agreement for games broadcasts.
2000-01-15
to 29 US FCC forecast to grant new low power licences

2000-01-16
to 31 Incoming BBC Director-General Greg Dyke share sales.
2000-01-17 UK Guardian BBC special media reports.
2000-01-18
Sirius radio satellite launch delays.
2000-01-20
Scottish radio to raise £75 million to expand.
2000-01-21 CanWest calls for lighter Canadian radio regulations.
2000-01-21 Australian government wants performance-related deal in new ABC funding.
2000-01-22
UK station offers Valentine's divorce prize.
2000-01-23 BBC Radio 4 chief James Boyle leaves the corporation.
2000-01-24 Radio One Inc expansion plans.
2000-01-25
AMFM ties up with traffic.com
2000-01-25
Bloomingdale Broadcasting sold for $176 million.
2000-01-25
UK Independent special report on Kelvin MacKenzie of Talk-Sport.
2000-01-26
WXRT, Chicago drops SuperBowl to stay with music.
2000-01-26
Scottish Radio only bidder for Edinburgh digital multiplex licence.
2000-01-27
BBC radio soap sex in shower scene more soap than sex..
2000-01-28
John Birt's last day as BBC director-general.
2000-01-29
UK radio and media group Chrysalis to raise £30m for online ventures.
2000-01-29
US FCC backs down on ruling that religious programming is not educational content.
2000-01-30 TV host Rosie O'Donnel pursues 'Rose City' (Portland) station for calling itself "Rosie 105"
2000-01-31
London Capital Radio becomes national broadcaster on digital channel.
2000-01-31
Two more Los Angeles stations go "Spanish"

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