RE: [Swprograms] Changes to Sirius BBC Stream?

["Sandy Finlayson" <SFinlayson@xxxxxxx>]

It would be nice if the BBC would at least acknowledge that they have done their Canadian listeners a dis-service by the loss of short wave.  Instead all I got when I was communicating with them was the standard issue line that I could hear all I wanted online and local radio would take up the slack.

Oh well that's a long lost battle!

Sandy

-----Original Message-----
From: swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard Cuff
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:32 PM
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Changes to Sirius BBC Stream?


Yep -- the PRI feed to US public radio stations is slightly different from
both the Americas (Shortwave/XM) and the Sirius (all news) feeds.

Compare the differences here:

PRI feed
http://www.pri.org/PublicSite/listeners/programs/pop_up/bbc_win_schedule.pdf

All news feed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/internet/news_weekly.shtml

Sandy, you make a good point -- Canada has clearly been underserved since
7/2001 in the availability of the World Service.  According to the  BBC
website, CJRT FM has an hour on Sundays from 1300 to 1400 UT (8 AM - 9 AM
ET), but the CJRT doesn't show this; they insteady show three 5-minute
newscasts weekdays at 1200, 1300 and 1400 UT.

Somewhat amusingly, if you type in "Winnipeg" into the schedule finder, the
web site returns the Americas shortwave schedule, but every entry then reads
"Not available on short wave [sic]".

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandy Finlayson" <SFinlayson@xxxxxxx>
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: RE: [Swprograms] Changes to Sirius BBC Stream?


> It is interesting to note that if you check the schedules on the BBC
website there is no indication that Sportsworld is being dropped from the
Sirius Stream.
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> I had not realized that the BBC offered any alternative programming during
the Sportsworld time slot, since it goes out on all frequencies and nothing
else is offered by way of alternative for the blacked out web stream.
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> Sirius is in the process of applying for a license to beam into Canada.
If they are successful, this would help with the BBC WS coverage as well as
making CBC Radio 1 available here in the USA.
>
> Canada remains one of the poorest served countries when it comes to BBC WS
because of the loss of the Sackville relay and that loss has not been made
up by local radio.
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> Sandy
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