Radio Around the World:

SRI LANKA: A mob firebombed the offices of privately-owned Siyatha Radio and Siyatha TV in the capital city of Colombo, injuring two. As a result of that attack, English-language Real-FM and Tamil-language Vettri-FM have been affected … DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Armed men cut the transmission lines for Radio Liberty Kinshasa and two TV stations owned by the former vice-president and leader of the opposition Movement for the Liberation of Congo … BULGARIA: A feud between Bulgarian National Radio and nationalist party leader Volen Siderov has ended. Siderov had called for a political purge of BNR, saying it wasn’t being objective … CAYMAN ISLANDS: Former Tucson, Arizona radio host / PD Blake Rogers heads to Grand Cayman to become morning host/PD of DMS Broadcasting’s X-107.1. You can listen to the Top-40 radio station here … ENGLAND: BBC Radio 2 says it will soon announce the acts that will take part in the “Elvis Forever” concert scheduled for September 12 to celebrate what would have been the 75th birthday of “The King” … CANADA: Astral Radio Vancouver appoints market Director of Talk Programming Stu Ferguson as Brand Director at CISL-AM (650).

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