That's John Tusa, much beloved during his time at the World Service, and always good for a quote when contraction of services or delivery platforms is discussed.
Judging from the PR I've seen, and the observations from others in the international broadcasting community, this has been in the works for a few months, and has been orchestrated between the World Service, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (which has historically funded the World Service) and the BBC Trust (the domestic arm of the BBC, which will be picking up funding as of 2014). Shortwave in English to Africa will be scaled back to two hours/day by 2014; most non-English shortwave services will be eliminated that time, though. Rich C On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:08 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Bad news: The British Foreign Office has just cut BBC's World Service budget > by 20%, resulting in "severe reductions" in shortwave service: cancellation > of shortwave service in five languages and several countries, and the loss > of up to 650 related jobs. They're apparently giving up on shortwave in > China, Cuba, the Balkans, virtually all of Europe, and other regions. > > BBC says its can offer its World Service via the internet and mobile phones. > An very interesting heated debate about this decision between former BBC > chief John Choosa(sp?) and Conservative MP Louise Bagshaw can be heard here: > _______________________________________________ Swlfest mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swlfest To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above. For more information on the Fest, visit: http://www.swlfest.com http://swlfest.blogspot.com
