{"id":1197,"date":"2011-06-20T13:47:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2011-06-20T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:47:51","slug":"bbc-world-service-annual-broadcast-to-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/bbc-world-service-annual-broadcast-to-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC World Service annual broadcast to Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBC-WorldService.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1198\" title=\"BBC-WorldService\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBC-WorldService.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>(Thanks to <a title=\"RNW Media Network\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/medianetwork\/bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-already-online\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Sennitt<\/a> for bringing this to my attention.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year, it&#8217;s difficult for me appreciate the annual tradition of broadcasting to the 43 scientists and technicians at the British Antarctic Survey in light of <a title=\"BBC World Service budget cut by 20%\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/bbc-world-service-budget-cut-by-20\/\">the recent BBC World Service cuts<\/a>. Still, the broadcast is quirky, nostalgic and certainly DX worth catching.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the times\/frequencies courtesy of <a title=\"RNW Media Network\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/medianetwork\/bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-already-online\" target=\"_blank\">RNW Media Network<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>This half-hour programme will be on the air at 2130-2200 UTC tomorrow (Tuesday 21 June) on the following shortwave frequencies:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>5950 kHz\u00a0 Skelton 300 kW beam 180 degrees<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>7295 kHz\u00a0 Rampisham 500 kW\u00a0 beam 180 degrees<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>7360 kHz\u00a0 Ascension 250 kW beam 207 degrees<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>9850 kHz\u00a0 Skelton 300 kW beam 180 degrees<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"RNW Media Network\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/medianetwork\/bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-already-online\" target=\"_blank\">Read RNW Media Network&#8217;s full article on the broadcast here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Thanks to Andy Sennitt for bringing this to my attention.) This year, it&#8217;s difficult for me appreciate the annual tradition of broadcasting to the 43 scientists and technicians at the British Antarctic Survey in light of the recent BBC World Service cuts. Still, the broadcast is quirky, nostalgic and certainly DX worth catching. Here are [&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":[56,81,3],"tags":[239,419,327,420],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-news","tag-andy-sennitt","tag-antarctica","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-bbc-ws"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-jj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1088,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/the-bbc-world-service-to-keep-hindi-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1197,"position":0},"title":"The BBC World Service to keep Hindi broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"April 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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