George MacClaren Wood III is an American journalist who has worked at
Radio Sweden
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since 1975, He was born in
Berkeley, California
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on August 10, 1949, and grew up in
Piedmont, California
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. He has degrees from the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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and the
University of California, Berkeley
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, and participated in the university's Education Abroad Program to
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Arne Skoog in 1978 he told over the writing and presenting of the program
Sweden Calling DXers
Sweden Calling DXers was a radio program on Radio Sweden, founded in 1948 by Arne Skoog. He reasoned that shortwave listening or DXing was a very young hobby, and that by providing information in a weekly program for shortwave listeners about thei ...
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.
He was Radio Sweden's Webmaster since Swedish Radio's first website launched in 1995, while also serving as a journalist for the Radio Swedish English Service. His was one of the voices in the satirical sketches in the program the Saturday Show. He retired from Radio Sweden in August, 2014.
Egyptology
After retirement George Wood enrolled in Egyptology courses at Uppsala University.
Other activities
George Wood was News Director of the university radio station
KCSB-FM
KCSB-FM (91.9 FM) is a non-commercial, educational radio station located on the UC Santa Barbara campus.
KCSB is designed to be educational for both programmers and listeners. UCSB students and other programmers are provided an opportunity to lear ...
(at the University of California, Santa Barbara) in 1971-1973, and has also worked at
KPFA
KPFA (94.1 FM) is an American listener-funded talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station sign ...
in Berkeley, California, Earth News Service in San Francisco, and briefly as a freelancer for
National Public Radio
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. Since the late 70's he has been the Stockholm stringer for
CBS Radio
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News. He has written articles for a number of publications including "Satellite Times", "The
World Radio TV Handbook
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", and the "
New Age Journal
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