BBC TO SCRAP RADIO LINK AFTER 62 YEARS
Owen Gibson, Friday February 24, 2006, The Guardian

Calling the Falklands, the twice-weekly BBC World Service
programme
that became a lifeline for the islands during the 1982 war, is
being
axed after 62 years.

The corporation plans to announce today that in an age of
satellite TV
and the internet there is no need for a dedicated programme
bringing
news and personal messages from Britain to the remote Atlantic
islands.

Instead the BBC has agreed on a package of measures to support
the
islanders' local radio service, including the supply of World
Service
content and a two-year subscription to syndicated commercial
programming.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/radio/st...716725,00.html
(via Mike Barraclough, DXLD)

Registration required. Does the story give any hint of when the
last broadcast
will be? Could even be today Feb 24, or Feb 28, scheduled
Tuesdays & Fridays
only 2130-2145 on 11680, masked here by BBC French Guiana 11675
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:

BBC TO SCRAP RADIO LINK AFTER 62 YEARS
Owen Gibson, Friday February 24, 2006, The Guardian

Calling the Falklands, the twice-weekly BBC World Service
programme
that became a lifeline for the islands during the 1982 war, is
being
axed after 62 years.

The corporation plans to announce today that in an age of
satellite TV
and the internet there is no need for a dedicated programme
bringing
news and personal messages from Britain to the remote Atlantic
islands.

Instead the BBC has agreed on a package of measures to support
the
islanders' local radio service, including the supply of World
Service
content and a two-year subscription to syndicated commercial
programming.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/radio/st...716725,00.html
(via Mike Barraclough, DXLD)

Registration required. Does the story give any hint of when the
last broadcast
will be? Could even be today Feb 24, or Feb 28, scheduled
Tuesdays & Fridays
only 2130-2145 on 11680, masked here by BBC French Guiana 11675
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The final broadcast will be March 31st.
(mike barraclough, DXLD)



dxAce
Michigan
USA

BBC (Biased Brit Company) keeps on shaving down their Shortwave
service,eh? I didn't agree with that 1982 Falklands "war".
cuhulin

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:44:12 -0600, wrote:

BBC (Biased Brit Company) keeps on shaving down their Shortwave
service,eh? I didn't agree with that 1982 Falklands "war".
cuhulin

HF Broadcasting isn't very cost effective.

You didn't agree with which side? The Argentines, or the British?

For a country that was so determined to keep the Falklands, I think I'd be
insulted at this turn of events, especially if I'd lost a loved one in that
war What was the point ?



wrote in message
...
BBC (Biased Brit Company) keeps on shaving down their Shortwave
service,eh? I didn't agree with that 1982 Falklands "war".
cuhulin

What if they tried to snag Ship Island,Mississippi? Which side do you
think I would be on?
cuhulin

I didn't look at it in that light cuhulin s. These are their people - I
don't understand their attitude. Is it only about money, or do their people
matter ? If it was only a matter of pride, face or ego, then I might
understand this turn of events. The whole war was just as stupid as any war.
But if it came down to taking part of Mississippi, I might get my hackles up
s. I've never been to there, so I don't know what it is like. I have been
to Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina but from the perspective of military
training, so I can't comment from an unbiased viewpoint on the merits of
those places S.


wrote in message
...
What if they tried to snag Ship Island,Mississippi? Which side do you
think I would be on?
cuhulin

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:47:54 GMT, "Verstaldin"
wrote:

I didn't look at it in that light cuhulin s. These are their people - I
don't understand their attitude. Is it only about money, or do their people
matter ? If it was only a matter of pride, face or ego, then I might
understand this turn of events. The whole war was just as stupid as any war.
But if it came down to taking part of Mississippi, I might get my hackles up
s. I've never been to there, so I don't know what it is like. I have been
to Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina but from the perspective of military
training, so I can't comment from an unbiased viewpoint on the merits of
those places S.


wrote in message
...
What if they tried to snag Ship Island,Mississippi? Which side do you
think I would be on?
cuhulin



Screw the UK, fascist *******s. They're in cahoots with Bush to
destroy the USA.

Regardless of whichever part/Territory of U.S.A.even if it is a dinky
little Island of anywhere in U.S.A.
U.S.A.is U.S.A.That is the way I look at it.
cuhulin