In an interview on BBC budget cuts, following the recent licence fee agreement, in Media Guardian BBC Director General Mark Thompson stated that the BBC would:
" make unspecified but significant savings by merging the World Service with BBC News in 2014 because "however well-resourced the BBC is, we cannot afford to run two global news operations". " http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/05/bbc-mark-thompson-half-billion-cuts Reaction today from EMO Williams, former head of BBC World Service (1960-1995) who argues that: " The existence of a journalistic team devoted to the special needs of a global and individual foreign country audience is the main factor that has given the World Service its unique authority." There's also a letter from Jonathan Kempster about the Ivory Coast closing down RFI and BBC WS FM transmissions highlighting the need for continued investment in shortwave: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/07/bbc-world-service-press-credibility _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
