{"id":9374,"date":"2014-04-24T06:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9374"},"modified":"2014-04-24T06:47:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:47:38","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-bbg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/an-open-letter-to-the-bbg\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to the BBG"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"voa<\/a>Many thanks to Keith Perron who shares his open letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors<\/em> Chairman, Jeff Shell.<\/p>\n

Keith’s letter focuses on the importance of shortwave radio from the perspective of a broadcaster and of someone who has traveled to remote areas in Asia.<\/p>\n

BBG Watch<\/em> published Keith’s letter yesterday and featured it on their website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Keith Perron who shares his open letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors Chairman, Jeff Shell. Keith’s letter focuses on the importance of shortwave radio from the perspective of a broadcaster and of someone who has traveled to remote areas in Asia. BBG Watch published Keith’s letter yesterday and featured it on […]<\/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":[1090,62,179],"class_list":["post-9374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbg-watch","tag-keith-perron","tag-pcj-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2rc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9026,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/dear-bbg-take-note-of-the-radiogram\/","url_meta":{"origin":9374,"position":0},"title":"Dear BBG: Take note of the Radiogram!","author":"Thomas","date":"March 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to my friends, Bennett Kobb (AK4AV) and Christopher Rumbaugh (K6FIB)\u00a0who wrote a letter to the BBG\u00a0regarding the relevancy of shortwave radio. 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