Mark Byford's statement actually came AFTER the
BBC had decided to stop direct SW to USA.
if you'll permit to say:
Bull****.
the BBC quit broadcasting to NA several years ago.
The Byford statement was mentioned by me, here in RRS,
in 2001:
From: W G White )
Subject: Q: US/Aussie swl DXers - hows the World Service blackout
doing?
Date: 2001-12-07 13:12:26 PST
Joe [---] wrote in message ...
"Your Friend Bill" "Remove The NO In The Reply wrote
message ...
[...]
For the most part we can still hear the WS but we're real ****ed about
the affront...especially the auto-workers in Detroit. [...]
Why them in particular?
Mr. Byford apparently thinks Detroit auto workers are not part
of the BBC's target audience of opinion formers and decision
makers. He revealed this idea in a news interview:
"What is important in the States is what type of listener we're
getting," says Mr. Byford. "We're not going to stop the Detroit car
worker listening to the World Service -- we welcome anyone -- but
our target audience is opinion formers and decision makers."
-- Mark Byford
What a concept, heh.
Geoff
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 01:02:48 GMT,
(Bob) wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:32:48 -0500, "W G (Geoff) White"
wrote:
"What is important in the States is what type of listener
we're getting," says Mr. Byford.
ahem. let me point out a simple fact:
the BBC does not even broadcast to north america. kinda forgot that in
Mark Byford's statement actually came AFTER the
BBC had decided to stop direct SW to USA.
if you'll permit to say:
Bull****.
the BBC quit broadcasting to NA several years ago.
He made
lots of comments on the fact that they believed FM
rebroadcast of BBC was reaching the right target,
and that was one of them. They even claimed that
their US audience numbers were increasing due to
listeners on FM.
which had zip to do with the thread at all. the BBC does not use FM on
shortwave. those of us who DO shortwave kinda know that...
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