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The BBC World Service to keep Hindi broadcasts
BBC World Service - Bush House
According to MSN India, British Members of Parliament have decided that they cannot allow cuts to BBC WS broadcasts in Hindi to India as India is a growing economic power and partner with the UK. Hmmm…I wonder if the BBC WS or VOA will reconsider broadcasting to China for the same reasons?
Andy Sennitt posted the new BBC WS broadcast schedule to India:
- 0100-0130 UTC on 6065, 9425, 11995, 13745, 15510 kHz
- 0230-0300 UTC on 11995, 15660, 17510, 17655 kHz
- 1400-1500 UTC on 1413, 7565, 9685, 11795, 15470 kHz
- 1700-1730 UTC on 1413, 5910, 7460, 9605, 11740 kHz
Thanks to Kim Elliott for bringing this to my attention.
Radio Caroline seeks a spot on the British AM dial
Radio Caroline circa 1960's.
(Source: NY Times)
“Since first taking to the air from a makeshift studio on an offshore ship in 1964, Radio Caroline has endured government raids, shipwrecks and a decade of radio silence before finding a land-based studio in the southeastern county of Kent. From there, a cast of volunteer disc jockeys has transmitted album-oriented rock to a global audience over satellite radio and the Internet since 1999.
But to station management, that global reach isn’t enough. In an age when many prefer to listen to music over the Web or by satellite, Radio Caroline would like to be rewarded for its contribution to British popular culture in the most modest of ways: an AM radio designation in the southeast of England, where it was conceived.”
The Sydney Morning Herald: “We need to broadcast to the world, not whisper”
(Source: The Sydney Morning Herald)
As the Cold War was ending in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Western nations, confident of a lasting peace, began to neglect the tools that had sustained them in the ideological war against communism. In the US, institutions of public diplomacy and strategic communications were disbanded, and foreign service hiring frozen, in what the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, called a “gutting” of the US’s ability to engage, assist and communicate with the world. Other countries blindly tagged along.
[…] Right after the BBC World Service was forced to announce deep cuts to its budget affecting even its Arabic-language services, Egypt and Tunisia evicted their presidents. The impact is reverberating around the Middle East.[…] The events of the past few weeks in the Middle East have surely reinforced the power of the media (new and old) to inspire, engage and propel change.
Video documents the history of the VOA Bethany site
(Update 18 August 2011)
Digging back through our archives, I found this video post from February. If you aren’t familiar with the history of the VOA Bethany site, this is a must see.
Thanks to Kim Elliott for bringing to my attention.
While some shortwave broadcasters are leaving the China market, one expands
(Source: The Epoch Times)
“While BBC is canceling its Mandarin broadcasts in April 2011 and Voice of America (VOA) its Mandarin and Cantonese broadcasts in October 2011, Sound of Hope Radio (SOH) Network announced that they will be expanding short-wave broadcasting to China to meet the demands of its Chinese audience”
Radio Documentary: The Wireless World of Gerry Wells
I just discovered (via PRI’s The World Technology Podcast) a 2010 radio documentary about lifelong radio designer and repairman, Gerry Wells.
If you haven’t heard it before, I suggest you drop what you’re doing and give it a listen below. This is the most charming radio doc I’ve ever heard out of the BBC World Service.
For archival purposes, I have a full copy of the radio doc available for download by clicking here.
Again, a special thanks to Clark Boyd with PRI’s The World for bringing this to my attention.