Re: [Swprograms] [dxld] RCI`s drastic schedule changes

[jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

I think this can be understood only in the context of what CBC has 
done over the past year to make its content available throughout the 
continent via Sirius.  The feeling in management circles must be that 
now that much more content than ever before is available to North 
American (and, consequently, USA) listeners, RCI's mission can be 
redirected.  Certainly the availability of CBC1, CBC3, Premiere Chaine 
(i.e.: Plus), Bandeapart and RCI Plus--all 24/7--trumps anything they 
had been able to do previously via RCI on shortwave.

Given its longstanding audibility problems on sw in my part of the US 
(northeast) and the arrival of CBC on Sirius, I can't say I will miss 
it.  I haven't listened to RCI on sw much at all over the last year.  
It's a sad but true statement; but that's the way it is.  

As a consequence of all this, we are witnessing RCI attempting to find 
a new raison d'etre.  For now, it appears to be centering on new 
immigrants, actual and potential.  I'm not at all certain that this is 
a winning formula.  Perhaps we are seeing RCI (at least as we have 
come to know it over the decades) in its final hours?

John Figliozzi
Halfmoon, NY

----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:03 pm
Subject: [dxld] RCI`s drastic schedule changes
To: dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, odxa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, swprograms@hard-core-
dx.com

> A day late, Nov 28, RCI posted its revamped schedules effective 
> Nov 27. There
> is now a continuous multilingual service on one frequency to USA 
> (reallyduplicating RCI+ on Sirius), and starting at 4 minutes and 
> 45 seconds past each
> hour (here rounded off to 5), 16 hours per day. 
> 
> Most notable is that ENGLISH HAS BEEN DRASTICALLY REDUCED. 
> Furthermore, there
> is no longer anything on the schedule relayed from CBC. The afternoon
> broadcasts, including DNTO and Cross Country Checkup on weekends, 
> are GONE! As
> are the Saturday and Sunday morning broadcasts which included 
> Vinyl Café,
> Quirks & Quarks, and part of Sunday Edition. No As It Happens, No 
> World At Six,
> no nothing. <snip>

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