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BBC World Service - Bush House<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: The Telegraph<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The new chairman of the BBC has signaled he is prepared to axe sports events and a digital television channel \u2013 but vowed to fight to save the World Service from spending cuts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read full article at The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: The Telegraph) The new chairman of the BBC has signaled he is prepared to axe sports events and a digital television channel \u2013 but vowed to fight to save the World Service from spending cuts. Read full article at The Telegraph.<\/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":[327,352,410],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-bbc-world-service-cuts","tag-lord-patten"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-iN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1192,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/lord-patten-bbc-hindi-to-survive-budget-cuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1165,"position":0},"title":"Lord Patten: BBC Hindi to survive budget cuts","author":"Thomas","date":"June 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: moneycontrol.com) Terming the BBC Hindi Service as \"very important\", Lord Chris Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust and chancellor of the University of Oxford, today said the service will survive the major funding cuts that had severely affected its future. 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