[net-gold] In Haiti, Signal FM Staff Keeps Station Running

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  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:50:45 -0500 (EST)




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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:21:58 -0700 (MST)
From: George Lessard <media@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] In Haiti, Signal FM Staff Keeps Station Running





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In Haiti, Signal FM Staff Keeps Station Running

RT @mediamentor: RT @helpingmedia:
In Haiti, Signal FM staff keeps station
running

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@pressfreedom #haiti #media

Signal FM is the only Haitian radio
station to continuously broadcast during
and after the powerful 7.0-magnitude
earthquake that ravaged the capital,
Port-au-Prince, and surrounding areas on
January 12. Signal?s online news service
kept operating as well. The station?s
equipment, located in Petionville
(east of Port-au-Prince) remained in
service, withstanding, remarkably, tremors
to the building and broadcasting aerials.

But the true credit goes to the station?s
staff members, who made extraordinary
efforts and great sacrifices to inform the
public during a period of chaos, the
station?s managing director, Mario Viau,
told CPJ.

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