That's essentially what John Tusa also said on "Newshour".
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Joe Buch wrote:
>
> Today BBCWS is on MW 648 kHz and I am told it has quite a domestic following
> around SE UK. I heard it quite well recently in Germany, Holland and Belgium
> on the coast in the day
If I remember correctly, back in the good old days of Goon Shows, live "silly"
football matches, and Ted Heath music, the foreign office did not fund BBCWS.
It all came from the license fee. It was pressure from license fee payers who
forced the foreign office to pick up the tab.
Today BBCWS
I certainly hope you guys are right.
SF
Mr. Sandy Finlayson
Director of Library Services &
Professor of Theological Bibliography
Westminster Theological Seminary
Philadelphia, PA
-Original Message-
From: swprograms-boun...@hard-c
One dynamic mentioned in The Guardian was how the everyday Brit would react to
having some of the license fee go to an Urdu or Arabic service.
I'd posit that we might--once again--hear more domestic fare (e.g. from Radio
4) on the WS in English.
But, in the main, I think this is good at fir
The World Service and domestic operations were in the process of
consolidating their physical locations; already much of what the World
Service "spends" is simply to reimburse the domestic operation for
programming and services.
So, one expense that should be avoidable is the cost to maintain the
What remains to be seen is how much of the BBC World Service will be left after
the dust settles. It's hard to imagine that the BBC is going to want to spend
a lot of money on the World Service.
SF
Mr. Sandy Finlayson
Director of Library
What was interesting is that as recently as last week, the DfID was
deemed likely to fund a greater portion of the World Service in the
years ahead.
Much of "Newshour" on Tuesday looked at the consequences of shifting
funding to the Licence Fee instead of the Foreign & Commonwealth
Office.
Richar
