Many thanks to an SWLing Post contributor who shares this item which was originally posted by Kai Ludwig on the Shortwave Sites email group. Kai writes:
There is a new name to get familiar with:
Encompass to Acquire Babcock’s Media Services
Note the statement from Encompass about their reasons for purchasing Babcock’s Media Services. It does not mention the word “radio” at all. Seems to me that radio distribution will in future be just a legacy service, kept in the same way Babcock already keeps the traditional stuff of World Radio Network after they likewise took over this company three years ago. Just consistent with the observation quoted at https://twitter.com/ChrisGreenwayUK/status/1022963699374596099
“Shortwave is on its last legs” a BBC colleague told us yesterday. OK, but the Chinese government still feels it necessary to jam many SW channels with their “Firedrake” music, as they were doing this evening on 9355 kHz, to stop their own people from hearing voices from abroad pic.twitter.com/bM9oenliOx
— Chris Greenway (@ChrisGreenwayUK) July 27, 2018
The sports stuff mentioned in the statement is this:
http://babcock.media/latest/001017/And a picture is worth thousand worths, so just compare the photos from 2004
http://travelseries.de/trav2004/trav04_4.htmClick to access 04-23-18-20.pdf
with the current ones of what has in the meantime developed into a TV/video NOC:
http://babcock.media/virtual-tour/I would be surprised if Encompass keeps the former WRN HQ, because they already have a facility in London:
https://www.encompass.tv/encompass-london/