{"id":1088,"date":"2011-04-19T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:36:33","slug":"the-bbc-world-service-to-keep-hindi-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/the-bbc-world-service-to-keep-hindi-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC World Service to keep Hindi broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1040\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/BBC-World-Service-Bush-Ho-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1040\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1040 \" title=\"BBC-World-Service-Bush-Ho-007\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/BBC-World-Service-Bush-Ho-007-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/BBC-World-Service-Bush-Ho-007-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/BBC-World-Service-Bush-Ho-007.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BBC World Service - Bush House<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to <a title=\"MSN India\" href=\"http:\/\/news.in.msn.com\/international\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5117946\" target=\"_blank\">MSN India<\/a>, 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&#8230;I wonder if the BBC WS or VOA will reconsider broadcasting to China for the same reasons?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"RNW\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/medianetwork\/bbc-reinstates-additional-hindi-shortwave-broadcasts\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Sennitt<\/a> posted the new BBC WS broadcast schedule to India:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0100-0130 UTC on 6065, 9425, 11995, 13745, 15510 kHz<\/li>\n<li>0230-0300 UTC on 11995, 15660, 17510, 17655 kHz<\/li>\n<li>1400-1500 UTC on 1413, 7565, 9685, 11795, 15470 kHz<\/li>\n<li>1700-1730 UTC on 1413, 5910, 7460, 9605, 11740 kHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Kim Andrew Elliott\" href=\"http:\/\/kimelli.nfshost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Elliott<\/a> for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;I wonder if the BBC WS or VOA will reconsider broadcasting to China for the same reasons? Andy Sennitt posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[104,327,352,377,376],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-bbc-world-service-cuts","tag-hindi","tag-indi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1216,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/hague-giving-bbc-world-service-2-2-million-to-save-hindi-shortwave-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1088,"position":0},"title":"Hague giving BBC World Service \u00a32.2 million to save Hindi shortwave broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"June 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This is fantastic news for BBC World Service's Hindi shortwave broadcasts. The allocated funds will be given to BBC WS over a 3 year period.Kudos to Foreign Secretary, William Hague, for recognizing the impact of BBC Wold Service's Hindi language service. 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