FWIW, American shortwave listeners should register their complaints with the local House Reps and Senators. The withdrawal of the VOA from shortwave is shortsighted. I suspect the Chinese have a better grassroots handle on the value of SW in both developing and developing countries--hence their expansion in broadcasts to both worlds.
When I was on vacation to Aus/NZ this past November, I could not find VOA in English anywhere during the daytime. I could find CRI in English on several channels in the 11, 13 and 15 mhz bands. I think too many Western countries are too infatuated with the value of the internet and local distribution nets to realize the value of SW. The BBC really thinks I'm still awake most nights at midnight when the local NPR station relays them? That my employer lets me use bandwidth at my office to stream audio on company time during the day? The combination of cutbacks and politicization of what is left from the VOA is a very sad thing to witness. Russell Lay Nags Head, NC At 09:19 PM 1/31/2006, John Figliozzi wrote: >Circle February 1, 2006, on your calendars. That's the day VOA >ceases to be >a significant global broadcaster on shortwave. Note the last minute >nature of this >communication and the non-sequitors given as reasoning for this death >blow. >VOA dies so that radios Marti, Farda, Sawa and Al Hurra can live? >Gimme a break. >Norm Pattiz may be gone, but his sorry legacy lives on. > >John Figliozzi ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.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
