{"id":1216,"date":"2011-06-28T06:34:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2011-06-28T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:34:06","slug":"hague-giving-bbc-world-service-2-2-million-to-save-hindi-shortwave-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/hague-giving-bbc-world-service-2-2-million-to-save-hindi-shortwave-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hague giving BBC World Service \u00a32.2 million to save Hindi shortwave broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is fantastic news for BBC World Service&#8217;s Hindi shortwave broadcasts. The allocated funds will be given to BBC WS over a 3 year period.Kudos to<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1217\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/William_Hague.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1217 \" title=\"William_Hague\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/William_Hague-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/William_Hague-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/William_Hague.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign Secretary, William Hague (photo source: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Foreign Secretary, William Hague, for recognizing the impact of BBC Wold Service&#8217;s Hindi language service.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the <a title=\"BBC World Service budget cut by 20%\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/bbc-world-service-budget-cut-by-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">cuts in funds earlier this year<\/a> will still eliminate vital language services like Albanian, Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa, Serbian, and English for the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: the <a title=\"Guardian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/jun\/22\/bbc-world-service-hindi\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The BBC World Service&#8217;s Hindi short-wave broadcasts have been saved from the axe after the foreign secretary, William Hague, agreed to give extra money to the highly regarded international broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>Hague has agreed to give an extra \u00a32.2m annually to the World Service for the next three years from the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office budget.<\/p>\n<p>This slightly reduces the impact of a controversial 16% cut in the World Service&#8217;s FCO grant, announced as part of the government&#8217;s comprehensive spending review in October.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Guardian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/jun\/22\/bbc-world-service-hindi\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article in the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fantastic news for BBC World Service&#8217;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&#8217;s Hindi language service. Sadly, the cuts in funds earlier this year will still eliminate vital language services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,81,3],"tags":[104,352,423,424,377,425],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service-cuts","tag-bbc-world-service-hindi","tag-bbcws-cuts","tag-hindi","tag-william-hague"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-jC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}