Re: [Swprograms] World News Blog - Sigh of relief at the Department for International Development - cry of anguish at the Foreign Office.

[<jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One dynamic mentioned in The Guardian was how the everyday Brit would react to having some of the license fee go to an Urdu or Arabic service.  

I'd posit that we might--once again--hear more domestic fare (e.g. from Radio 4) on the WS in English.  

But, in the main, I think this is good at first blush (and certainly much better than it might have been).  If you remember back to some of our other discussions, one of the laments with VOA and to a lesser extent RCI is that these stations had no domestic constituency to fight for them during the budget wars et al.  WS definitely has this going for it at least.  I agree with Rich--there is pride on the street in the UK over the WS.  And that's not a bad place to start.

BTW, the switch doesn't kick in until 2014.

John Figliozzi
Halfmoon, NY

---- Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> The World Service and domestic operations were in the process of
> consolidating their physical locations; already much of what the World
> Service "spends" is simply to reimburse the domestic operation for
> programming and services.
> 
> So, one expense that should be avoidable is the cost to maintain the
> intra-BBC accounting.
> 
> Those of us interested in preserving the World Service should monitor
> the activities of the BBC Trust, as that now becomes the entity
> responsible for WS oversight.
> 
> In the "Newshour" segment I mentioned, Sir John Tusa stated his
> opinion that the World Service has built up substantial goodwill
> amongst Brits and he believed that goodwill would help keep an
> organizational focus on the World Service.
> 
> I would think that "Over to You" and "World Have Your Say" would be
> interesting programs to monitor over the next few weeks as this
> continues to play out.
> 
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
> 
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Sandy Finlayson <sfinlayson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What remains to be seen is how much of the BBC World Service will be left after the dust settles.  It's hard to imagine that the BBC is going to want to spend a lot of money on the World Service.
> >
> 
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