I share your distress over how hard it is to find BBC World News. Where I live Verizon Fios carries it and some Comcast systems have carry it but neither Dish Network or DirecTV have it. I've long since given up asking DirecTV, they just refuse to comment.
Sandy Finlayson On Jul 10, 2012, at 8:02 PM, John Figliozzi <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, let's hope that Jubilee show was just a stumble and not an example of > what's to come. I've been complaining for years (it may seem longer to > others) about the penchant for public broadcasters to recreate themselves as > "commercial broadcasting lite". They have markedly different missions and > values, if they're doing the jobs correctly. > > A side issue: Why is it so damn hard to get stateside cable operators to add > BBC World News Channel? I can't get a suitable answer from Time Warner > officials... and I work in the industry! (as a regulator) They carry BBC > America and I doubt it's a capacity issue. They just added about half a > dozen "adult pay per view) services. It's not a reach to say that the latter > do make them money.. but the BBC services are not a heavy lift financially > speaking. > > John Figliozzi > > On Jul 10, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Sandy Finlayson wrote: > >> Interesting that the article picked up on the complaints over the Diamond >> Jubilee. The coverage I saw on BBC America was certainly a mixed bag >> ranging from the professional and traditional to the utterly frivolous and >> silly. The coverage of the Thames pageant will go down in history as some >> of the worst live coverage the BBC has ever done. Everyone gets things >> wrong but it was really bad. >> >> SF >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Cuff >> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:35 PM >> To: Shortwave programming discussion; Internet radio discussion >> Subject: [Internetradio] Saving Auntie: Meet the BBC's new boss : CJR >> >> From the Columbia Journalism Review >> >> RC >> >> http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/saving_auntie_meet_the_bbcs_ne.php >> _______________________________________________ >> Internetradio mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio >> >> To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the >> URL shown above. >> _______________________________________________ >> Internetradio mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio >> >> To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL >> shown above. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Internetradio mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > > _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
