Sad but true...when a shortwave broadcaster leaves the air...it ceases to be...no matter what it promises to deliver...Web casting is no substitution for actual radio transmissions...Have you looked at radio Netherlands site lately, its a joke in comparison to what it said it would be... Cheers Doc W2MFT
On Nov 5, 2012, at 10:54 PM, John Figliozzi wrote: > Nothing epitomizes the impact of drastic budget cuts on the World Service > than its reconfigured web site. Skeletal, amateurish, replete with dead > links and missing information... it is truly an embarrassment. More > importantly, the cuts are taking a noticeable toll on its on-air and online > programming as longtime news and broadcast professionals start to leave what > they obviously perceive to be a proverbial sinking ship. It's hard to see > how management pulls this organization out of what certainly seems to be > starting to resemble a death spiral. > > I never thought I'd ever see anything like this happen to what was once such > a confident, thoroughly professional and iconic institution. For me, the > blame goes to successive incompetent short-sighted governments on all sides > and a management that began embracing commercial values and forgetting and > all but abandoning its public service roots and ethos that at one time set it > apart from, and well above, the crowd. What a bloody tragedy. > > John Figliozzi > Halfmoon, NY > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
