Re: [Swprograms] 60% of BBC WS audience still listens on shortwave

["Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Said powers that be in Bush House would claim that this shows the
brilliance of their strategy.  They'd say that here in the good ol' US
of A the odds of that capricious shutdown happening by governmental
fiat are nil.

The BBC gambled back in 2001 that those listeners who were motivated
enough to seek them out via alternative technology could effectively
do so.  Those listeners who weren't so motivated probably weren't
worth counting, anyway...at least in *their* eyes.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA


On 8/22/07, jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Isn't it fortunate that shortwave apparently still
> exists as an option for those listeners disadvantaged by the service's
> sudden unavailability in Russia via FM?
>
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