Re: [Swprograms] Fwd: [uk-radio-listeners] BBC World Service changes

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

As the changes are not immediately effective listeners
outside the UK
should write to Write On to find out the rationale
behind these changes.

Mike
--- Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >From London's Sunday Times newspaper.
> 
> The changes cited below are not effective with the
> B-05 schedule
> changes...they must be anticipated for a future
> date.
> 
> Outlook, Everywoman, Pick of the World, White Label,
> Top of the Pops and
> Music Review are all listed in the B-05 schedules
> I've seen.
> 
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paul Donovan
> <pauldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Oct 16, 2005 8:37 AM
> Subject: [uk-radio-listeners] BBC World Service
> changes
> To: uk-radio-listeners@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>  This Radio Waves from the Sunday Times today might
> interest other listeners
> who like or know of these programmes...
> 
> 
> Outlook, which helped to keep Terry Waite sane
> during his captivity in
> Beirut, is 40 years old next year, and the BBC is
> celebrating this by
> getting rid of it. The World Service is also
> dropping its one and only show
> aimed at a female audience, Everywoman, plus Pick of
> the World, White Label,
> In Concert, Top of the Pops and Music Review. Its
> one and only serial,
> Westway, ends next week, though fans will be happy
> to know that it will
> continue to be repeated on BBC7. And it is just
> about to announce a cut in
> the number of its foreign language services from the
> present 43.
> 
> 
> 
> That is a lot of activity, but until now, the
> programme changes have been
> kept quiet. Some producers fear that the man
> responsible for them, Phil
> Harding, boss of all the English output, wants to
> turn the World Service
> into a rolling news channel. This is denied, but the
> thrust is clear. "Our
> research indicates that eight out of 10 of the
> listeners to our English
> schedule are exclusively or primarily interested in
> news and information",
> says a Bush House spokeswoman, "so we are aiming to
> give the World Service a
> clearer role as a news and information provider.
> This will not be a rolling
> news service, a sort of CNN on radio. It involves a
> broad range of news,
> documentary and analysis, with weekdays
> concentrating on information and the
> weekend a more diverse mix, including drama. It's a
> change of direction with
> new priorities."
> 
> 
> 
> Outlook, a 45-minute magazine show every weekday, is
> being replaced - with
> no explanation - by a show with a title and
> presenters yet to be chosen.
> Terry Waite, chained to a radiator in Beirut for the
> best part of five
> years, from 1986 to 1991, one day heard his cousin
> John Waite presenting an
> edition of the programme: when this fact was
> revealed (by John McCarthy, on
> his release), it was the first evidence that Terry
> had access to a radio.
> Outlook responded to that by putting out a special
> edition with Terry's
> favourite music, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D
> minor. Terry heard that
> edition, too, and remembered it: he thanked the
> World Service from the
> bottom of his heart for keeping him alive
> spiritually and mentally, and made
> mention again of Bach's beauty and precision only
> last month at the
> Gramophone Awards. The decision to scrap it is
> incomprehensible.
> 
> The position with the line-up of 43 language
> services is different. Here
> there were omens. The Green Paper urged the World
> Service to review it, and
> the BBC's chairman, Michael Grade, in the annual
> report, dutifully agreed
> that the portfolio would face "significant change".
> Those likely to go are
> Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Slovene
> (because all those countries
> are now members of the European Union) and Romanian
> and Bulgarian (likely to
> join the EU in 2007). The World Service has dropped,
> and started, foreign
> language services before. It continually has to
> adapt to global politics.
> But, again, it is curious that there is no debate.
> 
> The BBC says it hopes to make an autumn announcement
> about all this. No date
> has been fixed, so maybe it is not too late. As for
> Outlook, the spokeswoman
> said: "We don't have a name for the replacement yet.
> It is still in
> development, a weekday, one-hour, programme with a
> new brief. It will
> include human interest stories, personal testimony
> and listener generated
> content". Sounds a bit like OK magazine.
> 
> 
> 
> ends
> 
> 
> 
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