{"id":39028,"date":"2019-08-15T09:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=39028"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:57:28","slug":"bbc-world-service-steps-up-shortwave-broadcasts-in-kashmir-during-media-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/bbc-world-service-steps-up-shortwave-broadcasts-in-kashmir-during-media-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"“BBC World Service steps up shortwave broadcasts in Kashmir during media shutdown”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: BBC Media Centre<\/a> via @George53419980)<\/p>\n

The BBC World Service has extended output on shortwave radio in Indian-administered Kashmir to provide reliable news and information.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Director of the BBC World Service, Jamie Angus, says: \u201cThe provision of independent and trusted news in places of conflict and tension is one of the core purposes of the World Service.<\/p>\n

“Given the shutdown of digital services and phone lines in the region, it\u2019s right for us to try and increase the provision of news on our short wave radio services. Audiences in both India and Pakistan trust the BBC to speak with an independent voice, and we know that our reporting through several moments of crisis this year has been popular and valued by audiences who turn to us when tensions are highest.\u201d<\/p>\n

BBC News Hindi radio output (9515 and 11995kHz) will be extended by 30 minutes from Friday 16 August. The full one-hour news programme will be on air from 7.30pm to 8.30pm local time.<\/p>\n

On Monday 19 August, BBC News Urdu will launch a 15-minute daily programme, Neemroz. Broadcast at 12.30pm local time on 15310kHz and 13650kHz, the programme will focus on news coming from Kashmir and the developments around the issue, and include global news roundup tailored for audiences in Kashmir.<\/p>\n

BBC World Service English broadcasts (11795kHz, 9670kHz, 9580kHz, 7345kHz, 6040kHz) will be expanded, with the morning programming extended by an hour, ending at 8.30am local time; and the afternoon and evening programming starting an hour earlier, at 4.30pm local time.<\/p>\n

The shutdown has left people with very few options for accessing news at this time. However, news services from the BBC continue to be available in the region – through shortwave radio transmissions in English, Urdu, Hindi, Dari and Pashto. As well as providing an important source of news to the region, the South Asian language services have brought added depth to the BBC\u2019s coverage of the Kashmir story.<\/p>\n

The recent introduction of four new languages services for India – Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Telugu, following additional investment from the UK Government – has enabled the BBC to offer a wider portfolio of languages and distribution methods to a region that is geographically diverse as well as politically tense. This year\u2019s Global Audience Measure for the BBC showed that India is now the World Service\u2019s largest market, with a weekly audience of 50m.<\/p>\n

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(Source: BBC Media Centre via @George53419980) The BBC World Service has extended output on shortwave radio in Indian-administered Kashmir to provide reliable news and information. The Director of the BBC World Service, Jamie Angus, says: \u201cThe provision of independent and trusted news in places of conflict and tension is one of the core purposes of […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[327,7952,4655,84],"class_list":["post-39028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-kashmir","tag-why-shortwave","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-a9u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39039,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/bbcs-shortwave-service-to-kashmir-an-important-lifeline\/","url_meta":{"origin":39028,"position":0},"title":"BBC’s Shortwave Service to Kashmir: “an important lifeline”","author":"Thomas","date":"August 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: CNN Business) London (CNN Business) As a communications blackout continues in Kashmir, the BBC is using one of the only ways to reach listeners in the Indian-controlled state: shortwave radio. 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