{"id":8204,"date":"2013-12-08T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8204"},"modified":"2013-12-08T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:51:47","slug":"concerns-about-the-bbc-world-service-after-reorganization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/concerns-about-the-bbc-world-service-after-reorganization\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns about the BBC World Service after reorganization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBC-World-Service.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8205\" alt=\"BBC-World-Service\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBC-World-Service.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBC-World-Service.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBC-World-Service-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BBC-World-Service-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jonathan Marks of the weblog <a title=\"Critical Distance\" href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Distance<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bumped into an interesting document on the voice of the listener and viewer site in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>They seem to be concerned that BBC will reorganise so that BBC World Service won\u2019t get representation high enough in the organisation. I have heard it said that this was a problem during the days of Sam Younger 1994-1998. BBC World Service will need a powerful voice to show its value. The licence fee is a continuous debate in the UK. But it surprises me that BBC WS doesn\u2019t really have an organised listener foundation like the VLV. Those resident in the UK are not the target audience for the BBC WS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2013\/12\/who-will-speak-up-for-bbc-world-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/criticaldistance.<wbr \/>blogspot.nl\/2013\/12\/who-will-<wbr \/>speak-up-for-bbc-world-<wbr \/>service.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you, Jonathan. Indeed, I often wonder if RCI would have been struck so hard by (CBC) cuts if the international broadcaster had a strong leader; one who looked to innovate and adapt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Marks of the weblog Critical Distance writes: Bumped into an interesting document on the voice of the listener and viewer site in the UK. They seem to be concerned that BBC will reorganise so that BBC World Service won\u2019t get representation high enough in the organisation. I have heard it said that this was [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,3,43],"tags":[104,1438,2396,327,2372,246],"class_list":["post-8204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-cuts","tag-bbc-reorganization","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-critical-distance","tag-jonathan-marks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-28k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9207,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/bbc-world-service-to-get-more-money-but-less-influence\/","url_meta":{"origin":8204,"position":0},"title":"BBC World Service to get more money, but less influence?","author":"Thomas","date":"April 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Marks takes a look at the future of the BBC World Service under the umbrella of the BBC News group board. 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