General Manager's Report for BoD 20Feb02 / John K Muir

Transmitter:  The transmitter continues operate with spurious 
emissions, and no move has been made to find qualified and 
local technical support.

Weekend Echo: This is a re-airing of previously broadcast 
programmes on the Saturday following their first hearing.  
Trials continue with positive comments coming in.

Gzowski Tribute broadcast: On Sunday, 17Feb02 at 9am, Trent 
Radio in collaboration with Trent University broadcast the Peter 
Gzowski tribute event which took place at Trent University's 
Wenjack Theatre on the previous Tuesday, 12Feb02. 

TISPOC: The hoped for funding from Heritage Canada has not been 
approved.  Alternative sources are being sought.  It is 
recommended that Trent Radio wait until these avenues have been 
exhausted before making a direct application to TrentU for 
support in digitising the CJON collection.

Live Music Day 2002; Held on 29Jan02 and primarily planned, and 
produced by students from Trent University's Cultural Studies 
346 class, was a great success as a broadcast, as a didactic 
exercise and as a social event.  Well done to all involved.

Former Trent Radio programmer, Greg Brophy, is now a Queen's, 
education student and plans to work on creating radio related 
curricula for public school grades as part of his current 
degree. 

Work on Studio C continues with the last meeting scheduled for 
the week beginning 11 March 2002.

'Audio Soup' - a weekend long set of workshops on audio 
production for about seventeen folks from near appears to have 
been a great success.  It was noted though, that a Studio C 
would have really come in handy.  In addition to about a $2000
net from the event, in addition to the expense of about $600 
worth of tech gear being covered, there were two other elements 
of note.  Many of those engaged in teaching had never played 
that role before, and they came through with flying colours.  
Trent Radio can now claim it has the organisational maturity and 
reach to successfully undertake a project such as this.  My 
sincere thanks to all involved.

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