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‘Twilight Zone’ coming to radio at Halloween

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

president

Bob Steinmetz

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Bobb Lynes • Don McCroskey

Dan Haefele • David Struthers

Glenda Kelly • Kevin Stern

Officers

Treasurer................................................... Chester Allen

Secretary..................................................... Glenda Kelly

Activities Chair.............................................. Bobb Lynes

Acquisitions Chair....................................... Dan Haefele

Membership Chair.................................... Barry Opliger

Elections Chair............................... Catherine Passarelli

Merchandise............................................... Michael Plett

Catalogs..................................................... Ted Theodore

New Members Rex Quinn

Editor

PATRICK LUCANIO

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A new radio series may be heard this year (unless you live in Los Angeles, we seem to miss all of the new drama). There are plans to bring a radio version of Rod Serling’s TV classic “The Twilight Zone” to radio. Carl Amari, producer of the popular syndicated “When Radio Was” series, has signed a deal with CBS Enterprises for the rights to 150 scripts of the TV series to be redone as radio shows. Stacy Keach, Jr. will host the series of one-hour dramas, expected to begin on Halloween.
You can hear Tom Heathwood’s “Heritage Radio Theatre” series on Jerry Haendiges’ OTR site at OTRsite.com/broadcast. Jerry’s program “Same Time, Same Station” will be available there as well."Will Hutchins, TV's Dagwood, and a frequent guest at OTR conventions, has a
regular web radio show - GOLDEN MELODY SALOON - which can be heard at
http://bostonpete.com/virtualradiobroadcast/" WFUV at Fordham University plays old time radio on Sunday nights, midnight-1AM EST. See their website for schedule: http://www.wfuv.org For the live broadcast stream: http://www.wfuv.org/wfuvlive.asx
Member Jim Widner writes: “In your recent column you mention collecting stations that stream OTR. While it is not my creation, if you go to my web site at http://www.otr.com, there is a link part way down that says “Listen to OTR via the web? Here’s a schedule.” Click on it and it will take you to a schedule of radio stations streaming OTR and their times. It is in no sense complete (and again, not my own creation) but will give you some help you might be looking for.

Barbara J. Watkins

”Have you thought also of including some of the non-radio stations – web only sites that stream otr? Some are nearly 24 hours a day if one wants to listen that much. One of the better ones is located at http://www.live365.com/stations/77175“
Jim also maintains a database of OTR links at: http://www.otr.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/otr/db.cgi?uid=defaultThere are 550 links listed there. Thanks, Jim.
An editorial appeared in the Ventura [CA] County Star on March 23 entitled “A Survival threat to Internet radio TOO HIGH: A proposed fee may put many U.S. Webstreaming stations out of business.” It reads in part: “…the Internet not only has put an inexpensive means of communication and a virtual library in every home that can afford a personal computer, but also radio stations galore, providing access to music for all sorts of tastes from anywhere and everywhere.
“Alas, here comes the federal government, and its scythe is swinging low. Under authority of a law passed by Congress in 1998, a royalties arbitration panel of the U.S. Copyright Office has proposed a fee schedule that the Webstreaming stations must pay per listener every time they play a record.
“It may not sound like much — it is 0.14 cents — but then

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