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Rifles and hand grenades – actual prizes for kids at one radio station
And the winner receives – weapons of mass destruction. It was a contest aimed at kids aged 10-17 in Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu.
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Snipers kill a staffer at Radio Simba in Somalia
Farah Hassan Salal was the logistics manager and also a driver for Radio Simba in the capital city of Mogadishu, a city and area known for violence. He was hit by three shots fired by a sniper outside of the radio station, killing the 45-year old.
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ENGLAND: BBC Radio Bristol host Peter Rowell, who made news recently when he went missing, has now been arrested and charged with indecent assault, facing four counts dating back to the 1990's. That's according to the Daily Mail ...
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SOMALIA: The director and a news editor for Mogadishu's independent Shabelle Radio, held for four days by government forces, have been released. The Ministry of Information claimed the journalists were detained for inaccurate reporting ...
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AUSTRALIA: 3AW (693-AM) talk host Ross Stevenson signs a
long-term contract to stay with the Melbourne talk station. It's believed
to be an eight-year deal worth $1 million annually according to the Herald Sun newspaper
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AUSTRALIA: Melbourne's 3AW (693-AM) news anchor Kate Wilson dealt with any radio reporter's worst nightmare - a bad case of the hiccups, which lasted throughout her newscast. You can listen to Wilson's hiccup-filled newscast here ...
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CANADA: Vancouver's CKPK-FM (100.5) "The Peak" afternoon host Peter Schaad is leaving to become the new radio voice for Major League Soccer's expansion Vancouver Whitecaps, whose games will be heard on sports/talk CTFE-AM "Team" (1410) ... The changes that Radio-Info reported at Toronto's CFXJ-FM "Flow" (93.5) are the talk of the Radio-Info Toronto…
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ENGLAND: Former BBC Radio 4 Director Mark Damazer will be given the royal honor of Commander of the Order of the British Empire ... London's Capital Radio (95.8) will be going nationwide this week, as Global Radio is scrapping their Galaxy Network along with Red Dragon-FM, Ram-FM, Trent-FM & Leicester brands - Discuss it ... Read More
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SOMALIA: The African Union Mission in Somalia has formally apologized for an incident Monday when one of their peacekeeping forces tanks rammed the building housing independent Shabelle Radio in Mogadishu, calling it accidental and promising to make all repairs ... SPAIN: Former Columbia Radio Caricol & La Mega director Alejandro Nieto Molina is na…
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SOMALIA: A tank under the operation of African Union peacekeepers rammed the side of the building housing Shabelle Radio in Mogadishu, destroying one side of the structure. Nobody was hurt.
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PHILIPPINES: A radio reporter in Valencia City was shot in the back of the head by four unknown gunmen, a shooting that comes three days after the one-year anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre that left 32 members of the Filipino media dead. Randy Makputin is expected to make a recovery ...
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Armed men attack a Somalia radio station
Two men with guns began shooting outside the studios of independent Horseed Radio in the town of Bosaso, when one of the men tossed a hand grenade at the building, blowing a hole in the side of the structure. The radio station reported no injuries to workers, but soon after the same men allegedly fired on patrons at a cafe across the street, injuri…
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ENGLAND: Despite claims of cutting back on expenses, BBC Radio 1 chief Andy Parfitt approved payment of $200 for a cake to celebrate morning host Chris Moyles becoming the longest-serving morning host in Radio 1 history … NEW ZEALAND: Tony Veitch, whose career was in jeopardy when he was charged with attacking his girlfriend in 2008, will return fu…
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PHILIPPINES: The lawyer for Radio Mindanao Network dismisses the findings of an investigation that “accused the radio station of monopolizing the phone link to the hostage-taker
and stopping a police negotiator from getting through.” The gunman who took over the bus killed eight Hong Kong tourists … Police in Baguio City arrested a man suspected in…
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SOMALIA: Soldiers linked to two separate Islamic terror groups attacked independent radio stations Horn Afrik and GBC in the capital of Mogadishu, taking over the stations and stealing broadcast equipment. Since the start of this year, six radio stations have been attacked by insurgent forces … CANADA: Steve Moore is the new Music Director / Midd…
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A newsman in Somalia is attacked and murdered
Radio Daljir news reporter Abdullahi Omar Gedi becomes the third radio staffer killed in war-torn Somalia this year, and the second in August. Gedi had just left the station in Galkayo when he was attacked by a group of men who stole his cellphone and stabbed him six times.
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SOMALIA: The al-Qaida-linked Al-Shabaab extremist Islamic group took over independent Radio Holy Quran in north Mogadishu, an act being called a “blatant crime” by the National Union of Somali Journalists … SCOTLAND: The Daily Record says the management of Radio Clyde in Glasgow held a champagne party for staffers moments after morning co-host DJ…
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A radio director is killed in the crossfire of a Somali gun battle
CNN reports sixty-year old longtime Somalia journalist Barkhat Awale Adan was caught in the crossfire of a raging gun battle in the capital city of Mogadishu between al-Qaida-linked Al Shabaab rebels and Somalia’s government forces. The director of Hurma Radio was on the station’s roof helping to repair the independent station’s transmitter when he…
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BRAZIL: When the coach of the professional soccer team Golas, himself a legendary Brazilian goalkeeper, objects to a radio reporter’s questions after a game, he and some of his players go on the attack against the radio reporters covering the game. Watch the results here on YouTube … NEW ZEALAND: Radio New Zealand’s Sean Plunket, who recently r…
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CANADA: Cable & telecommunications company Cogeco officially filed with the CRTC to buy 11 radio stations from Corus Entertainment for approximately $76 million …AUSTRALIA: Commercial Radio Australia reports radio ad revenue increased 2.25 per cent for the year ending June 30, boosted by stations in Adelaide up 16.6 per cent and Perth up 13.9 …
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