George Wood (Radio Sweden)

[1] Following the retirement of Arne Skoog in 1978 he told over the writing and presenting of the program Sweden Calling DXers and its successor MediaScan, until the latter was taken off the air in 2001.

In 1994 MediaScan became the first radio program in Sweden and the second in Europe (the first in English) to have its audio posted on the Internet.

After retirement George Wood enrolled in Egyptology courses at Uppsala University.

George Wood was News Director of the university radio station KCSB-FM (at the University of California, Santa Barbara) in 1971-1973, and has also worked at KPFA in Berkeley, California, Earth News Service in San Francisco, and briefly as a freelancer for National Public Radio.

He has written articles for a number of publications including "Satellite Times", "The World Radio TV Handbook", and the "New Age Journal".