"I will face and answer all the charges against me," he said in a taped radio statement broadcast today.
For the eight-week holiday season, 225 performances is an unusually high number, according to a Radio City statement.
"Sirius XM failed to note that BBC Radio 1 is already available for free online (without the $2.99 surcharge Sirius XM requires to gain access to its online programming) in North America via the BBC iPlayer and podcasts, as well as smartphone apps such as TuneIn Radio," the statement read.
To counter that, Israeli radio stations read statements in English and other languages assuring foreign workers they would not face legal action if they sought medical treatment.
It is eerily reminiscent of the Rwandan media of 1994, when the radio went from statements such as "You have to kill the Tutsis, they're cockroaches" to, shortly afterwards, instructions on how to do so, and what knives to use.
A few minutes after the attack, Iraqi radio issued a statement attributed to his son, Uday Hussein, saying : "God protect us from foreign aggressors".
Emil Hurezeanu, who covers Romania for German radio, called the statement "delirium and self-parody"; and Cornel Nistorescu, editor of Evenimentul Zilei, a national daily, said: "We have more important things to discuss tonight".
According to the file we spent £8.99 a month renting one from Radio Rentals (the statement shows we could have had a video recorder for a further £12.99 a month, but we dismissed that: too pricey).
What made all this especially depressing was that three months earlier Variety had printed Mr. Ascher's figures, had been duly corrected by the ever-vigilant Gilbert, and had accepted the correction, noting that Mr. Ascher, apart from getting his figures confused, had inadvertently omitted the word "radio" from his statement.
On the contrary, if radio talk shows, politicians' statements and informal conversations are any guide, President Megawati Sukarnoputri's standing seems to have plummeted.
