General Manager Notes for the BoD Meeting 25 Jan 2001
John K Muir

a) Financial Statements for the end of December 2000 shall be 
   presented at the next BoD meeting. 

b) The Radio Marathon (Barb Holtmann and Barb Bell) was a 
   wonderful success again this year. The total exceeds $1,000.00 
   and promised money is still coming in. A full report shall be 
   presented at the next BoD meeting. 

c) Entra Season (see attached report) was very well handled by 
   Chantelle Barrette and Gillian Veitch, with the assistance of 
   some Trent Radio regulars. 

d) Trent Radio has agreed to provide audio production and 
   technical operations for two Trent University "Flash" (web 
   movie) presentations, at the rate of $250.00 per day.  One is 
   a day-in-the-life of a "typical" Trent student and the other 
   pertains to research at Trent. As well, another series of 
   five minute audio introductions to Trent U are to be produced 
   ($50 each).  In this same vein we recorded the Peterborough 
   end of a double-ender interview with Prof Chris Metcalfe for 
   the CBC's "This Morning" ($50). 

e) Your President and General Manager put in more than fifty-
   five hours cleaning and organising the upstairs office. 

f) Through equipment donations just prior to the end of the Fall 
   season, the computer network have grown to five machines.  In 
   summary the stand alone archive data computer has been 
   replaced by a Windows unit, Studio A is now three times 
   faster, and Studio B appears to be about twenty times fast 
   for some audio production operations. 

g) Repairs to a transmitter amplifier are proceeding more slowly 
   (and more cheaply) than at first anticipated.  The first 
   quote we obtained for replacement transistors was $555US 
   each. Instead six new "off brand" transistors were purchased 
   for $425US total.  Two have been installed (leaving two spare 
   pair) and the amplifier is to be "burned in" this weekend, 
   prior to reinstallation at the CHEX tower site, We have been 
   on half power since the middle of November with only one 
   complaint, which has been remedied 

h) Two or more flexducts blew off the the Upper Apartment plenum 
   leaving one of tenants without heat in his room.  The firm 
   which did the original install in the fall of 1999 was called 
   to repair the problem after an unsuccessful attempt was made 
   by us. The last word on this was the Lakeshore Heating was 
   going to do the work without charge. 

i) The brokered programming contract has been renewed for one 
   year ending January 2002.  Trent Radio receives about $9,700 
   a year for airing the the half-hour programme every weekday 
   morning. 

j) The Board should be aware that Trent radio is contesting the 
   Neighbouring Rights Collective of Canada's right to levy a 
   fee under the terms of the Copyright Act.  They have had 
   several staff changes since we started our appeal one year 
   ago, however, we do have a current email from their Executive 
   Director stating that they will look in to our claim in due 
   course. 

Sincerely // John K Muir, General Manager