{"id":6783,"date":"2013-06-26T07:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2013-06-26T07:08:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:08:53","slug":"bbc-world-service-audience-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/bbc-world-service-audience-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC World Service audience increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BBC-World-Service-007\"Richard Cuff shares this information regarding the BBC World Service:<\/p>\n

Shared link:
\nhttp:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/bbc\/10139865\/World-Service-triumphs-in-the-face-of-adversity.html<\/a><\/p>\n

An article in the Daily Telegraph reflecting on the BBC’s\u00a0recently-released audience figures, showing a year-over-year increase– attributed to Persian and Arabic TV.<\/p>\n

Note the hopeful tone – the World Service budget is actually slated to\u00a0increase as of 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, we have no idea if this would equate to the preservation of some shortwave radio services, but one can always hope.<\/p>\n

Rich is an administrator for the SW Programs (Shortwave Programming Discussion) group. If you would like to join this email reflector, simply visit this page to register your email address<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Cuff shares this information regarding the BBC World Service: Shared link: http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/bbc\/10139865\/World-Service-triumphs-in-the-face-of-adversity.html An article in the Daily Telegraph reflecting on the BBC’s\u00a0recently-released audience figures, showing a year-over-year increase– attributed to Persian and Arabic TV. Note the hopeful tone – the World Service budget is actually slated to\u00a0increase as of 2014. Of course, we have […]<\/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":[56,3,43],"tags":[2001,1876,2002,4082],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-world-service-audience","tag-bbc-world-service-budget","tag-rich-cuff","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Lp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8821,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/bbc-world-service-to-further-reduce-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":6783,"position":0},"title":"BBC World Service to further reduce shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"February 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I appears the BBC World Service is cutting shortwave broadcasts even further in an attempt to meet tighter budget numbers. 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