{"id":4739,"date":"2012-10-25T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2012-10-25T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:34:58","slug":"bbc-shortwave-hit-by-world-service-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/bbc-shortwave-hit-by-world-service-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Shortwave hit by World Service cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As we mentioned last week<\/a>\u00a0in our post with the\u00a0internal memo<\/a> from the BBC World Service, the BBC has now formally\u00a0announced\u00a0that World Service shortwave broadcasts in Arabic are to close by next April and the Cyprus shortwave relay station will close as well.<\/p>\n

(Source: BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Short wave broadcasts of World Service Arabic will end by next April, while the Cyprus short wave relay station will close.<\/p>\n

World Service English short wave transmissions will be reduced to six hours a day, with 1.5m listeners likely to be lost as a result. Currently, there are between seven and 19 hours of short wave depending on region.<\/p>\n

The distribution changes – which include cuts to medium wave transmissions – are designed to save \u00a34.8m in 2013\/14. It’s a large chunk of the \u00a312m savings the World Service is targetting in its third phase of cuts as a result of a 16% reduction to its grant-in-aid.<\/p>\n

An estimated 3% of the Arabic audience is likely to be lost when the eight hours a day of Arabic short wave in the Middle East is halted. A short wave service will continue in troubled Sudan where there’s a ‘strong need’ for humanitarian information and access to other platforms is limited…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article on the BBC website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we mentioned last week\u00a0in our post with the\u00a0internal memo from the BBC World Service, the BBC has now formally\u00a0announced\u00a0that World Service shortwave broadcasts in Arabic are to close by next April and the Cyprus shortwave relay station will close as well. (Source: BBC) Short wave broadcasts of World Service Arabic will end by next […]<\/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":[1446,1445,352,420,789],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-bbc-arabic-cuts","tag-bbc-cyprus-cuts","tag-bbc-world-service-cuts","tag-bbc-ws","tag-bbcws"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1er","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6108,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/allens-thoughts-as-bbc-cyprus-relay-station-closes-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":4739,"position":0},"title":"Allen’s thoughts as BBC Cyprus relay station closes today","author":"Thomas","date":"March 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post reader, Allen, writes: BBC's Cyprus relay station is being closed down today after more than 50 years of service. 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