BBC Will reduce the number of broadcast: From March 27 2005 BBC will reduce the number of hours broadcast on short wave in English, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese (BBC Website)
Japan's lower house approves NHK's draft budget : (18 March 05) The House of Representatives in Japan yesterday approved the fiscal 2005 draft budget of public broadcaster NHK. The draft budget features a fall in revenues from viewer subscription fees, reports Japan Today. The US$6.43 billion (672.4 billion yen) budget, financed almost entirely through subscription fees, was approved only with the support of the ruling coalition. This is the first time since 1997 that the NHK budget has failed to gain unanimous approval in the lower house. The fiscal 2005 budget is down from the previous year for the first time because of a fall in viewer subscription fees, owing to a refusal by many households to settle their dues after fraud cases involving NHK employees came to light. (ABU Latest News) Best Regards, MD. AZIZUL ALAM AL-AMIN GOURHANGA, GHORAMARA RAJSHAHI-6100 BANGLADESH ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
