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Today's Topics:
1. Wed Morn DX (Charles Bolland)
2. BBC World Service cuts language services and radio broadcasts
to meet tough Spending Review settlement (Alokesh Gupta)
3. Glenn Hauser logs January 25-26, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Wed Eve Dx (Charles Bolland)
5. BBC World Service cuts outlined to staff (Arnaldo)
6. BBC World Service cuts outlined to staff (Arnaldo)
7. Jan 26 Logs (brian384...@aol.com)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:00:57 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>,
"brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>,
"'DSWCI'" <l...@dxer.de>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Wed Morn DX
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Bolivia, 6134.804, Radio Santa Cruz, 1015-1030, At
tune in noted a tune of traditional
music. At 1022 a male comments in Spanish giving TC.
RSC is alone on the freq
which allows for a good signal this morning. (Chuck
Bolland, January 26, 2011)
Bolivia, 5952.45, Emisora Pio XII, 1029-1045, Noted a
male in Spanish language
comments. Although the carrier is good, the audio is
very low in the noise.
Splatter is a major problem also. (Chuck Bolland,
January 26, 2011)
Bolivia, 4699.969, Radio San Miguel, 1033-1045, Noted
a female in Spanish language
comments. Shortly she is joined by a male. Signal's
audio is threshold with a fair
presentation however. (Chuck Bolland, January 26,
2011)
Indonesia, 4749.949, RRI Makassar, 1040-1100, At tune
in noted typical music heard
from Makassar usually. At 1045 a female comments in
Indonesian language and
she continues until 1055 when music is heard again.
Signal was poor. There's a
second signal mixing with Makassar. It's frequency is
4750.00 KHz and believe it
to be Tentatively Bangladesh Betar. (Chuck Bolland,
January 26, 2011)
WR G31DDC
26N 081W
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:27:04 +0530
From: "Alokesh Gupta" <alokeshgu...@gmail.com>
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] BBC World Service cuts language services and radio
broadcasts to meet tough Spending Review settlement
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BBC World Service cuts language services and radio broadcasts to meet tough
Spending Review settlement
BBC World Service gave details of its response to a cut to its Grant-in-Aid
funding from the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office today.
BBC World Service is to carry out a fundamental restructure in order to meet
the 16 per cent savings target required by the Government's Spending Review of
20 October last year.
To ensure the 16 per cent target is achieved and other unavoidable cost
increases are met BBC World Service is announcing cash savings of 20 per cent
over the next three years. This amounts to an annual saving of ?46m by April
2014, when Grant-in-Aid funding comes to an end as BBC World Service transfers
to television licence fee funding, agreed as part of the domestic BBC's licence
fee settlement announced on the same day.
In the first year, starting in April 2011, the international broadcaster will
be making savings of ?19m on this year's operating expenditure of ?236.7m
(2010/11).
The changes include:
- five full language service closures;
- the end of radio programmes in seven languages, focusing those services on
online and new media content and distribution; and
- a phased reduction from most short wave and medium wave distribution of
remaining radio services.
BBC Global News Director Peter Horrocks said: "This is a painful day for BBC
World Service and the 180 million people around the world who rely on the BBC's
global news services every week. We are making cuts in services that we would
rather not be making. But the scale of the cut in BBC World Service's
Grant-in-Aid funding is such that we couldn't cope with this by efficiencies
alone.
"What won't change is the BBC's aim to continue to be the world's best known
and most trusted provider of high quality impartial and editorially independent
international news. We will continue to bring the BBC's expertise, perspectives
and content to the largest worldwide audience, which will reflect well on
Britain and its people."
BBC World Service also plans spending reductions and efficiencies across the
board, targeted in particular in support areas where there will be average cuts
of 33 per cent.
BBC World Service also expects to generate additional savings from the new ways
of working after the move to the BBC's London headquarters at Broadcasting
House in 2012, and also by the transfer of BBC World Service to television
licence fee funding in April 2014.
Under these proposals 480 posts are expected to close over the next year.
By the time the BBC World Service moves in to the licence fee in 2014/15 we
anticipate the number of proposed closures to reach 650. Some of these closures
may be offset by new posts being created during this period.
It is expected that audiences will fall by more than 30 million from the
current weekly audience of 180 million as a result of the changes this year.
The changes have been approved by the BBC Trust, the BBC Executive and, in
relation to closure of services, The Secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, as he is required to do under the terms of
the BBC's agreement with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
The changes in detail are:
Full language service closures
There will be the complete closure of five language services - Albanian,
Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa and Serbian languages; as well as the English
for the Caribbean regional service.
End of radio programming
BBC World Service will cease all radio programming - focusing instead, as
appropriate, on online, mobile and television content and distribution - in the
following languages: Azeri, Mandarin Chinese (note that Cantonese radio
programming continues), Russian (save for some programmes which will be
distributed online only), Spanish for Cuba, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Ukrainian.
Reductions in short wave and medium wave radio distribution
There will be a phased reduction in medium wave and short wave throughout the
period.
English language short wave and medium wave broadcasts to Russia and the Former
Soviet Union are planned to end in March 2011. The 648 medium wave service
covering Western Europe and south-east England will end in March 2011.
Listeners in the UK can continue to listen on DAB, digital television and
online. Those in Europe can continue to listen online or direct to home
free-to-air satellite via Hotbird and UK Astra. By March 2014, short wave
broadcasts of the English service could be reduced to two hours per day in
Africa and Asia.
BBC World Service will cease all short wave distribution of its radio content
in March 2011 in: Hindi, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Nepali, Swahili and the Great
Lakes service (for Rwanda and Burundi).
These radio services will continue to be available for audiences by other means
of distribution such as FM radio (direct broadcasts and via partners); online;
mobiles and other new media devices.
Short wave broadcasts in remaining languages other than English are expected to
end by March 2014 with the exception of a small number of "lifeline" services
such as Burmese and Somali.
English language programmes
There will be a new schedule for World Service English language programming - a
focus on four daily news titles (BBC Newshour, BBC World Today, BBC World
Briefing, and BBC World Have Your Say); and a new morning programme for Africa.
There will be a new daily edition of From Our Own Correspondent; and an
expansion of the interactive World Have Your Say programme.
There will be a reduction from seven to five daily pre-recorded "non-news"
programmes on the English service. This includes the loss of one of the four
weekly documentary strands. Some programmes will be shortened. Titles such as
Politics UK, Europe Today, World Of Music, Something Understood, Letter From.,
and Crossing Continents will all close. There will also be the loss of some
correspondent posts.
Audience reduction
Audiences will fall by more than 30 million as a result of the changes
announced on 26 January 2011. Investments in new services are planned in order
to offset further net audience losses resulting from additional savings in the
2012-14 period.
Professional Services
There will be a substantial reduction in an already tight overhead budget.
Teams in Finance, HR, Business Development, Strategy, Marketing and other
administrative operations will face cuts averaging 33 per cent.
Job losses
Under these proposals 480 posts would be declared redundant; of these 26 posts
are currently unfilled vacancies. BBC World Service is proposing to open 21 new
posts. Therefore the net impact of these proposed changes could result in up to
433 posts being closed this financial year against a total staff number of 2400.
By the time the BBC World Service moves in to the licence fee in 2014/15 we
anticipate the number of proposed closures to reach up to 650. Some of these
closures may be offset by new posts being created during this period.
(BBC World Service Press Office)
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Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE
New Delhi
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:28:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 25-26, 2011
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** CANADA [non?]. 11665, Jan 25 at 2144, checking whether WYFR is really in
Arabic today --- yes, but RCI IS clearly audible underneath! Both went off at
2145* after which nothing heard. Since there was a slight SAH, I think these
were two separate transmitters rather than an audio mixture in one. But RCI is
not scheduled on 11665 at any hour from any site; the only other thing
registered at this time is Lisbon, obviously not really using it. Could be any
VTC site testing or mistaken with RCI input for some reason (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6855-6905, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Jan 26 at
1424; at each edge, QRMing 2-way Spanish SSB on 6905, 6855.5. More OTH radar on
6455-6505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, Jan 26 at 2039, wildly screaming
preacher in Afro-English must be ruining her voice, and a sure candidate for
the insanity defense; R. Africa, anyway without any powerdrops at the moment to
strong, steady signal. Made her neighbor Harold Camping in Ascension on 15195
seem positively attractive, a great shining oasis of placidity --- but with a
terrible message (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 26 at 1436 and 1458 poor with country music from AFN;
another day on the air rather than off, but who needs this format, literally,
in SSB on low-power SW? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750, RRI Makassar presumed, stronger of two carriers
on slightly different frequencies, obvious from double-pitch with BFO, Jan 26
at 1350; 1401 ``island music`` continuing past hourtop, improving slightly by
1405 vs local noise level, a semihour after local sunrise. Also something on
3325, presumably Palangkaraya.
9525, VOI, Jan 26 at 1420, VG signal in Indonesian, with IADs; not the first
time reception has improved greatly compared to the preceding hour in English,
making me wonder if they are now making an antenna change. Doubt anyone can
know for sure, but Aoki shows all 9525 broadcasts are 250 kW, 30 degrees from
Jakarta-Cimanggis, certainly favorable for NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 5910, this Wednesday, Sea Breeze is in English, Jan 26 at 1412 with
bios of abductees born in the 30`s. Fair signal. 100 kW, 290 degrees from
Yamata.
5955, NHK with English news, Jan 26 at 1413, equivalent fair signal to NZ 5950,
JSR 5910. 5955 not usually listenable, but it is today, 300 kW, 235 degrees
from Yamata (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, have noticed that the Enid NWS relay via WQCL720, Great Salt
Plains State Park, has been overridden by loud roaring noise lately, surely not
an intentional new way of representing the nearby town of Jet, but presumably
another transmission or input problem unnoticed at park HQ. Got worse as I
drove north of Enid on US 81 to release another trapped squirrel banned from
our pecans, Jan 24 at 2100 UT just across the Grant County line; and still that
way in western Enid on Jan 26 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, Jan 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1430, KALV, Alva has a null toward KBEZ Tulsa, and consequently
Enid, but signal is JBA in western Enid Jan 26 at 1940, and just as I tune in
hear ``stereo 1430, KALV, Alva`` ID. No AM stereo on my caradio but KALV is
among the AM$ stations listed as of Sept 2008 at
http://mysite.verizon.net/tekel/amstereo/usa.htm
Then ad for HCG, which should have included a warning like this:
http://www.hcgdietdangers.net/warning.html
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1230, WBBZ, Ponca City, a semi-local here during daytime with
oldies; unfortunately when I tuned across Jan 26 at 1944 UT, DJ was mixing
extended weather forecast with religious exhortations, e.g., a nice day Sunday
so you must go to church, etc., so it took him a couple minutes to get thru the
week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 18058-, Jan 26 at 2043, JBA carrier with traces of audio, from 3 x
6019.3+, R. Victoria; checked here since Chile was inbooming on 17680 which is
not unusual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non]. 12040, altho RDPI was made aware of the clash with Cuba
several weeks ago, nothing has been done about it. Still Jan 26 at 2034, sports
commentary in hyper-Portuguese is about equal level with RHC music. Meanwhile
numerous nearby frequencies are open, e.g. 12030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PRIDNESTROVYE. Since Harold Sellers had reported VOR on new 7290, from
Moldova? I checked the usual relay frequency after 0000, 6240, at 0053 Jan 26,
and nothing there; something on 7290 but could not tell what (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, Jan 26 at 1400, R. Rossii indeed motorboatless during closing
timesignal, overlapping with start of CW marker on 6074: see UNIDENTIFIED
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 9765, Wed Jan 26 at 1347, routine check for the Basque
semihour from REE via COSTA RICA: instead, Antonio Buitrago in Castilian with
mailbag segment, reading reception reports on ``Amigos de la Onda Corta``!
That`s the DX program normally aired only at two rather inconvenient times on
weekends, one of which is 1330 Sundays. Also on // 17595 direct running a few
words ahead before satellite delay. I suspect REE just grabbed a show to
substitute for missing Euskera segment today, not a permanent change (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Re my inquiry last time about how WPRR Ada MI could slip
off-frequency one kHz to 1681, received this answer from Robert LaFore, Radio
Chief Engineer in Atlanta GA:
``Most if not all AM BCB transmitters are crystal controlled. They normally
have a main and backup xtal. They can be tweaked with a trimmer. My guesses are:
1. Equipment failure
2. Unusually hot or cold in the tx shack
3. A frequency check led them to believe it was off-frequency, and they then
mis-adjusted to make up for the faulty frequency reading
4. They switched from one crystal to the other, and whatever they switched to
is off frequency. (Somewhat related to 1 above)``
Rechecked for a recurrence Jan 26 at 0718, no het on 1680 but an open carrier
atop the channel from KRJO or something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Re my report of ``TMP 44`` on 4079.5, I found a good reference on
this and other HIFER beacons:
http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/High_Frequency_Beacons
which shows:
``4079 TMPnnn SW Arizona The TEMPERATURE BEACON - Temperature in deg. F. -
sends 'TMP' then 2 - 3 digit temp. in CW every 10 seconds. 1 watt`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, Jan 26 at 1400, closing timesignal from R. Rossii, 6075
overlapped slightly with start of CW marker, but as Ron Howard monitored Jan
24, no longer with usual tactical ID as 8GAL; instead, 2MTL again today (he
says it was not heard Jan 25). Reception here barely audible in noise,
incomparably worse than Ron`s recording of it from a California beach:
http://www.mediafire.com/?rjccwqweh3l8m13
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:26:01 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>,
"brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>,
"'DSWCI'" <l...@dxer.de>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Wed Eve Dx
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Zimbia, 4965,047, Number One, Africa, 2220-23050,
Noted a male in English language
religious comments. At 2246 music presented. This
continues as the signal remains
at a good level. At 2300 heard possible ID as, "...
Radio Christian Voice". Broadcast
continues. (Chuck Bolland, January 26, 2011)
Angola, 4949.806, Radio Nacional, 2240-2250, Noted a
male in Portuguese language
comments with a very weak audio. Music at 2248.
Signal was threshold.
(Chuck Bolland, January 26, 2011)
WR G31DDC
26N 081W
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:50:15 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <sl...@ciudad.com.ar>
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Cc: playdx2003 <playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, bcln...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] BBC World Service cuts outlined to staff
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The BBC has confirmed plans to close five of its 32 World Service language
services.
Staff have been informed that up to 650 jobs will be lost from a workforce of
2,400 over the next three years.
The Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will be axed, as will English for
the Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa, in a bid to save ?46m a year.
Audiences are estimated to fall by more than 30 million, from 180 million to
150 million a week.
Director general Mark Thompson said it was "a painful day" for the BBC.
Writing in the Telegraph, he said the cuts would "inevitably have a significant
impact on the audiences who use and rely upon the relevant services".
Yet he said they were "consistent with our long-range international goals and
strategy" and that "supporters of the international role of the BBC should not
despair".
The service, which started broadcasting in 1932, currently costs ?272m a year
and has an audience of 241 million worldwide across radio, television and
online.
Last October the government announced the BBC would take over the cost of the
World Service from the Foreign Office from 2014.
According to Mr Thompson, the cuts were necessary due to last autumn's Spending
Review.
Radio programming in seven languages - Azeri (the official language of
Azerbaijan), Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Spanish for Cuba, Turkish, Vietnamese
and Ukrainian - will end as part of the plans.
Instead there will be more focus on online, mobile and TV content distribution
in these languages.
The World Service will also cease short-wave transmission of six more services
in March 2011 - Hindi, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Nepali, Swahili and the Great Lakes
service (for Rwanda and Burundi).
The BBC said two-thirds of jobs would go in the first 12 months.
Unions have called the moves "ferocious" and have condemned the "drastic cuts".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Jeremy Dear, general secretary of
the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), said that the World Service was
"vital" and "should be protected".
The NUJ said it would hold a demonstration outside the World Service
headquarters in central London on Wednesday.
It has also written to the chairman of the House of Commons foreign affairs
committee, Richard Ottaway, and the chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport
Committee, John Whittingdale, calling on them to review the plans.
According to the NUJ, the "drastic cuts" would "severely damage the national
interest of the UK".
"These ferocious cuts to a valued national service are ultimately the
responsibility of the coalition government, whose policies are destroying
quality public services in the UK," Mr Dear said.
Broadcasting union Bectu has also expressed dismay, saying the cuts "must be
challenged".
It said the union "expects calls for industrial action" and that "at this stage
we cannot rule anything in or out".
BBC global news director Peter Horrocks said the closures were "not a
reflection on the performance of individual services or programmes".
"They are all extremely important to their audiences and to the BBC," he said.
"It is simply that there is a need to make savings due to the scale of the cuts
to the BBC World Service's grant-in-aid funding from the UK's Foreign and
Commonwealth Office.
"We need to focus our efforts in the languages where there is the greatest need
and where we have the strongest impact."
Former World Service managing director Sir John Tusa described the cuts as
"bad, bad, bad". (from BBC web page)
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:50:25 +0100
From: "Arnaldo" <sl...@ciudad.com.ar>
To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] BBC World Service cuts outlined to staff
Message-ID: <02706B181AD24FE39FC1FF87A96DFDEF@windowsv03oj4t>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
The BBC has confirmed plans to close five of its 32 World Service language
services.
Staff have been informed that up to 650 jobs will be lost from a workforce of
2,400 over the next three years.
The Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will be axed, as will English for
the Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa, in a bid to save ?46m a year.
Audiences are estimated to fall by more than 30 million, from 180 million to
150 million a week.
Director general Mark Thompson said it was "a painful day" for the BBC.
Writing in the Telegraph, he said the cuts would "inevitably have a significant
impact on the audiences who use and rely upon the relevant services".
Yet he said they were "consistent with our long-range international goals and
strategy" and that "supporters of the international role of the BBC should not
despair".
The service, which started broadcasting in 1932, currently costs ?272m a year
and has an audience of 241 million worldwide across radio, television and
online.
Last October the government announced the BBC would take over the cost of the
World Service from the Foreign Office from 2014.
According to Mr Thompson, the cuts were necessary due to last autumn's Spending
Review.
Radio programming in seven languages - Azeri (the official language of
Azerbaijan), Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Spanish for Cuba, Turkish, Vietnamese
and Ukrainian - will end as part of the plans.
Instead there will be more focus on online, mobile and TV content distribution
in these languages.
The World Service will also cease short-wave transmission of six more services
in March 2011 - Hindi, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Nepali, Swahili and the Great Lakes
service (for Rwanda and Burundi).
The BBC said two-thirds of jobs would go in the first 12 months.
Unions have called the moves "ferocious" and have condemned the "drastic cuts".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Jeremy Dear, general secretary of
the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), said that the World Service was
"vital" and "should be protected".
The NUJ said it would hold a demonstration outside the World Service
headquarters in central London on Wednesday.
It has also written to the chairman of the House of Commons foreign affairs
committee, Richard Ottaway, and the chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport
Committee, John Whittingdale, calling on them to review the plans.
According to the NUJ, the "drastic cuts" would "severely damage the national
interest of the UK".
"These ferocious cuts to a valued national service are ultimately the
responsibility of the coalition government, whose policies are destroying
quality public services in the UK," Mr Dear said.
Broadcasting union Bectu has also expressed dismay, saying the cuts "must be
challenged".
It said the union "expects calls for industrial action" and that "at this stage
we cannot rule anything in or out".
BBC global news director Peter Horrocks said the closures were "not a
reflection on the performance of individual services or programmes".
"They are all extremely important to their audiences and to the BBC," he said.
"It is simply that there is a need to make savings due to the scale of the cuts
to the BBC World Service's grant-in-aid funding from the UK's Foreign and
Commonwealth Office.
"We need to focus our efforts in the languages where there is the greatest need
and where we have the strongest impact."
Former World Service managing director Sir John Tusa described the cuts as
"bad, bad, bad". (from BBC web page)
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:27:23 -0500 (EST)
From: brian384...@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Jan 26 Logs
Message-ID: <8cd8be93f3bb8a9-13dc-5...@webmail-m071.sysops.aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
** ETHIOPIA. 9705, Radio Ethiopia, 2030-2100:30*, Jan 26, local
Horn of Africa pop music. Some rustic local music. Amharic talk.
National Anthem at 2059. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2100-2300*, Jan 26, audible after
Radio Ethiopia signs off. French talk. Variety of Afro-pop music and
Euro-pop music. Local chants at 2253. Sign off with short flute IS
and National Anthem at 2258. (Brian Alexander, PA)
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 97, Issue 27
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