Re: [Swprograms] FOOC on Write On: Sports pools

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

> Ted is 100% right here.  The BBC's sports output is dropping
off the radar screen.  The loss of the Saturday transmission of
Sportsworld is the biggest blow yet.  Despite their claims that
more people can access their programs the decision they took to
drop the mid day transmission to the Americas has devistated the
sports out put.  Many will say who cares? But the point is that
the BBC no longer has the diversity of programs they once did
and have cut off large parts of their audience from hearing
anything but news.
>  
> Sandy

	Listeners, the ex-pats, only wanted the 
	football pools results for examing their
	bet-sheets in the far flung parts of the 
	globe.
	They were so important that domestic CBC
	and ABC used to patch in the BBC results
	directly to air.

	The rest of the sports is of mild interest.
	See DW sports or NHK/RJ sports for examples.
	And then there is the narrow view of VOA/AFRT
	and U.S. only sports like their form of 
	football, etcs.
>  
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ted Schuerzinger 
> Sent: Sat 9/3/2005 4:50 PM 
> To: Shortwave programming discussion 
> Subject: Re: [Swprograms] FOOC on Write On
> 
> 
> 
> 	William Martin graced hard-core-dx.com with these words of wisdom:
> 	
> 	> Editorial comment: Yeah, sure... They can cram in all sorts
> 	> of sports-junk 15-minute programs
> 	
> 	No they don't.  Where have they gone on the schedule to North America? 
> 	There used to be one at 1145, but that's gone.  Way back when, there used
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