Re: [Swprograms] BBC 'ON AIR' MAGAZINE IS SUDDENLY AXED
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Re: [Swprograms] BBC 'ON AIR' MAGAZINE IS SUDDENLY AXED



Definition:

"Business review" - what is fast becoming the two most dreaded words in the English language.

Wonder how long it will be before they also drop the e-mail newsletters as a cost cutting move? As you point out, they come out--at best--a day or two before the first of the month. The Press Office seems loathe to release that information earlier. Since when is BBC program information such a state secret?

Another longstanding tradition down the drain. A couple of weeks ago I heard Ann Coulter being interviewed on the World Service. Hearing that bird brain (with apologies to birds) on those once vaunted airwaves was depressing enough. Now this.

John Figliozzi
Halfmoon, NY

On Saturday, November 13, 2004, at 11:12  PM, Richard Cuff wrote:

Bummer.

I will have to work through the Press Office, I guess, for advance
programming information in time for inclusion in the NASWA Journal -- I
normally have been able to count on a 7-10 day leat time for BBC On Air in
advance of my Easy Listening column deadline.


The electronic information is quite useful but unfortunately isn't issued
until the first or the second of the month.


Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA



----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 10:39 PM
Subject: [Swprograms] BBC 'ON AIR' MAGAZINE IS SUDDENLY AXED



Dear Mr. Hauser, I've been a regular devotee of your work for a year or
so ---
and here is my first submission.

The December 2004 edition of BBC World Service's monthly 'On Air' magazine
is
to be the last. An accompanying letter from Dionne Ormonde, Managing
Editor,
says:

"It is with regret that I have to inform you that, following a business
review,
it has been decided that the December 2004 issue of BBC 'On Air' magazine
will
be the last issue published. We have found that many of our listeners are
getting programme information on line and that it is no longer
cost-effective
to produce the printed edition of the magazine."

The letter goes on to promise a refund to each subscriber for any
unexpired
subscription. It says that the current BBC World Service English Programme
Schedules are enclosed, and this schedule is valid until 31 March 2005.
Well, I
didn't get a separate schedules guide - only the December 2004 pull-out
programme schedule, which is only valid for that month. We are invited to
fill
out a postcard and send it to BBC 'Audience Relations' at Bush House, if
we
want to be on the mailing list for the 6-monthly English schedules poster
(April - September 2005) - but why bother?


What a shame. This breaks the continuous line of printed Empire/ External/
World Service programme guides from 1939. Does the BBC World Service care
about
its listeners any more? What about those who do not have the internet?
Yours
sincerely, (Martin Levene, London, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)




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