Budget cuts announced in October 12 are now kicking in... Shortwave utilization will now run 6-8 hours / day max, primarily in the mornings and evenings...
The BBC figures it will lose 1.5 million listeners (per week? PR piece doesn't say) as a consequence of the reduction of SW. Also, a new English language program, "The Newsroom", replaces World Briefing; "The Strand" will disappear as a separate program and will be folded into "Outlook". On Fridays "Outlook" will be replaced with "The Fifth Floor", a sampling of content from across the 27 BBCWS language services. Details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/ws-new-schedule.html Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA _______________________________________________ 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.
