[Swprograms] More on BBC A06 Skeds

["William Martin" <wgmartin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been hoping to see more user comments on what BBC
programs we here in NA can now hear on SW. One thing
I have found is that some of the BBC's website's info is just
wrong. For example, the pages of "Programme Times", which
I went to the trouble of printing out, do not seem to totally
agree with what is on-air. Anyway, if you discover some decent
reception of some of the feature programming that is reasonably
receiviable here, please post your notes on what, where, & when.

A couple things I've noted:

>From Our Own Correspondent IS hearable here on 5975 kHz
at 2206 UT on Saturdays. This is NOT on the "programme time"
listing for FoOC.

Charlie Gillett is usually listenable on 17640 kHz at 1332 UT Saturdays.
(This *is* on the schedule.)

Over To You has been readable (but not great) on 12095 kHz
at 1741 UT Saturdays. (I suppose that this airing should be added to
the DX Programs list to replace the former "Write On" entry.) I am
anxious to hear if anyone in NA has heard this on other times and
frequencies. A program comment: Even though they gave "Over
To You" an extra 5 minutes compared with the former "Write On",
they then waste at least that much time with constant repetition of
the program name, phone number, and contact info. This was even
mocked by a letter they read on last Saturday's edition, which jibed
at the repetitive repetition heard on the first airing. Also, they
waste the listeners' time by having recorded voices from the
correspondents asking the question, instead of having in-studio
personnel read them as was done on "Write On". This also makes
some queries hard to understand due to accents, phone-line quality
or noise, etc. In short, "Write On" was better even if shorter.

(Also, in order to give that 5 minutes to "Over to You", "The Instant
Guide" was shrunk from 15 to 10 minutes. Now, *that* program
*could* give up several minutes by dropping the annoying musical
bits that separated every paragraph, but I haven't heard it yet
enough to tell if they did that or just omitted content.)

For anyone's info, here's the link to the relay of BBC Worldservice
via PRI:

http://www.pri.org/media/programs/bbc_summer06.pdf

It's terribly hard to read, and some of the entries are confusing,
in that the times of duration don't agree with the program lengths
(particularily "Outlook"). I'd sure like to learn what criteria they
use in order to decide what to put on when, especially in the
overnight hours. Far too much of that time is wasted on news
when the FM relay audio quality should be used for arts and
features. Just who makes that decision? Some committee of
member-station program directors? The Illuminati?

73, Will


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