2005 Overview:

From the information available, reoccurent report topics throughout the year relate to local news, the Catholic Church, and aviation.

 

Month Overview

January

N/A no info found

February

Radford spends this month reporting on the Catholic Church in continuation from his reports from the previous year. He also reports on local construction news in regards to a cementary construction project.

  • February 4: The concern over Pope John Paul and his health has renewed the interest in the Catholic Church and the Catholics in Western New york have grown closer to their new Bishop Edward Kmeic. Buffalo News has a achance to interview him and share his reponses to several questions, such as his plans and viewpoints on consolidation, with viewers.
  • Series: Discussion over what to do with St. Francis cemetary. The cemetary has existed for over 200 years, but recent problems asuch as vandilism, the ground shifting, serious flood, cracks in the ground and tombstones, has the city question if the cemetary should remain. There are limit finicial means to solve the problems that plague the cemetary. Radford captures some local reactions to it. Locals who have family there simply do not understand how the city would relocate everyone.


March

Buffalo DJ Tommy Shannon will retire after 50 years on air. Buffalo News has the chance to interview him and discuss what got him in radio and what inspired him to be a DJ.

April-July

N/A no info found

August

This month Radford's reports focus on political and aviation news and how the two are intertwined.

  • August 24-26: In Washington D.C. the Base Realignment and Closire Commision holds a vote that reverses the Department of Defense reccomendation (and decesion) to close Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station and Rome DFAS as wel as the realignemnt of the Senators Directorate at the Air Froce Research Lab in Rome. Hillary Clinton visits communities in NY that successfully contributed to this reversal as she is a supporter of NY's military bases which she states are the backbone of defense.
  • Radford reports on a Canada Plane crash from the airline Air France Flight 358 which occured on August 2, 2005. Radford explains to viewers what led up to this crash as well as the aftermath. Radford describes how the weather influenced this crasha s the airport had been under red alert due to possible lightening, but had not stopped planes from.

September-October

N/A no info found

September-November

Radford holds a segment discussing Edward Kmiec and his plans for the Catholic Church in Western New York. He describes how Churches are like a buisness or company, they are legal entities.

December

Radford reports on Joanie Summers who has moved back home to Buffalo New York after 40 years of success as an actress and singer. Buffalo News had the opputunity to interview her and find out her thoughts on returning home.

 

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