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Friday 19th April 2002

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Assign Country Assign Channel	This Week In Doctor Who - April 19, 2002 (posted 19th Apr 2002, 12:04pm - TWIDW post #0088)
Assign Country Assign Channel	THIS WEEK IN DOCTOR WHO - April 19, 2002 by Benjamin F. Elliott Vol 5, No 16 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho/ http://www.topica.com/lists/twidwtalk/ thisweekindoctorwho-subscribe@yahoogroups.com twidwtalk-subscribe@...
Assign Country Assign Channel	Welcome to the weekly guide to Doctor Who broadcasts around the world.
Assign Country Assign Channel	The column was going to begin with a Eulogy, but it seems that the patient in question may still be alive. http://www.100000watts.com/ is one of the best sites on the internet. One fan, as a labor of love, has compiled a complete guide to TV, FM, and AM stations in the United States and Canadian/Mexican border markets. Locations, networks, web links, transmitter patterns, power levels, TV & radio markets, and a number of search engines. When I'm asked about how I put This Week together, I direct people to http://www.100000watts.com/ as the guide I use to track down US material. It is the most comprehensive web site I can remember coming across on any particular subject. On April 15 Chip (the site's creator, owner, and maintainer) announced that he planned to retire his site, as the site had grown to the point that he couldn't maintain it to his standards anymore. Those of us who appreciated Chip's service sent our best wishes for his future and regrets that his site was leaving the internet.
Assign Country Assign Channel	Thankfully, the story didn't end there. Imagine if Outpost Gallifrey http://www.gallifreyone.com/ announced it was going under. There'd be a lunatic fan or two out there who would offer to take it over and keep it alive. That has happened with http://www.100000watts.com/ . Chip is reporting that he has received several offers from people offering to keep the site alive in one form or another. He is evaluating the offers to see if any of them will work, and is keeping the site up to date until he reaches a final decision. No guarantees. http://www.100000watts.com/ might still be retired, or it might stay open. No one knows yet. I am delighted that the offers were made, regardless of the outcome. Gives me hope for the future of sites like his.
Change Country Assign Channel	UK - It's official. http://www.sceneone.co.uk/s1/tv/listings , the main service I have used to keep track of UK listings, was shut down on 3 April. I have replaced the link with another, slightly more awkward search engine that still works. I might use different links there in future weeks until I settle on one I like.
Change Country Change Channel	AUSTRALIA - Jason Fraser's Varos Doctor Who site http://www.varos.com/drwho/uktv/ has now put up a tentative schedule for the rest of UKTV Australia's run of Doctor Who. Subject to change as UKTV's actual schedule info comes out. Right now, it looks like UKTV will end the current run of Doctor Who in early to mid June. UKTV plans to rest the series after it finishes the current run. They "rested" the show for a couple of months twice before, once in 1998 after airing all of the series once, and again in late 1999-early 2000 after the end of a run of best-of stories.
Change Country Change Channel	USA - Dallas, TX - KERA 13/K24AD http://www.kera.org/ is definitely keeping Doctor Who on the schedule as they enter the Tom Baker stories. Their schedule search engine indicates that Tom Baker stories will air into May. It looks like Doctor Who will stay in the same time slot (Late Fri 12:15AM), but will switch to movie format. Also, it looks like they have mixed up the production and broadcast order of these stories, so unless changes are made they will air all the stories in the "Nerva" arc out of order. I have e-mailed them about that in case there is any chance to fix things - here's hoping. When KERA picked up Doctor Who last year, the committment was just for the Jon Pertwee stories, so the presence of the Tom Baker stories implies that they have received some pledge support from fans. Good to know.
Change Country Change Channel	Interstellar Transmissions, the sci-fi radio show, is changing its broadcast time effective Friday May 3. It is moving to 7PM EDT (Midnight BST, 4PM PDT, Sat 9AM AEST if you're tuning in over the web). IT will also be changing radio stations. It will move from WSBR AM 740 West Palm Beach - 640 watts night-time power, to WWNN AM1470 Pompano Beach/Boca Raton, FL - 50,000 watts daytime, 2500 watts night-time, and simulcast on WBYU AM1450 New Orleans, LA - 1000 watts day or night.
Assign Country Assign Channel	Additions and corrections are welcome at bfelliott@... , thisweekindoctorwho-owner@yahoogroups.com , bfelliott3 on AIM, or thebfe on Yahoo Messenger. And now, the listings:
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Broadcast Link Change Country Change Channel	BBCI http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/death/index.shtml Death Comes To Time Episode 5A Death Comes To Time, pt 1 of 3 now online RealPlayer. Episode 5B goes online 26 April.
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