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During the winter we have heard all kinds of people
telling us that VOA News Now has been broadcasting for 19 hours per day, with
their only silent period being from 0700-1200 UTC. However, this is far
from the case. When you take out the 2 hours when Music Mix programming
airs, ie from 0200-0300 and 2100-2200, plus Border Crossings at 1900-2000, plus
Talk to America from 1700-1800, you are in fact left with only 15 hours per day
(16 at weekends when Talk to America is not aired).
So, if News Now does reduce to only 14 hours a day
when the B04 period comes in on 31 October, that will in fact amount to just a
one-hour reduction on what we have during the season just ending.
What is more serious is the quite extraordinary
cutbacks in frequency hours outlined in World of Radio 1225, particularly the
complete elimination of News Now on Munich 1197. So this means, if I am
not mistaken, that there will be only 4 MW carryingg News Now at any time during
the day, namely 1143 from the Phillipines, 1575 from Thailand, 909 from Botswana
adn 1530 from Sao Tomai (apologies if I have spelled that wrongly). The
1188 transmission from 2100-2200 does not count, as there will apparently
continue to be Music Mix programming during that hour.
PAUL DAVID,
Wembley Park, United Kingdom |
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