bglad wrote:
for news, try the BBC World Service output - it's studiously global and run & funded separately from the rest of the BBC
Yes, that's one of the few things that hasn't changed at the BBC - World Service news has always been of extremely high integrity.
I worked in the BBC's Overseas Services at Bush House in London in the late 1960s; as bglad notes, the funding is not from license fees, as is the rest of the BBC. At that time, and probably still, the government provided the funding for all overseas services and told the BBC how many hours to broadcast in each language, but the choice of content was entirely with the BBC's producers, without government influence.
Everything went out on short-wave radio, with steerable antennas directing the signal to different parts of the world at different times of the day. At the other end you were lucky to get a listenable signal much of the time, with fading and atmospheric interference often a problem. And there was no way to get the BBC domestic radio signals outside of Britain.
How simple now to turn on the Squeezebox and get just about anything with AlienBBC!
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