N8KDV wrote:



Dan Robinson wrote:

TAIWAN: Interesting that 15 minutes after AFP, and then AP reported the
(possible) shooting of Taiwan's President, Radio Taipei International on
5950 at 0600 mentioned absolutely nothing about it -- just more summaries,
perhaps canned, of the last hours of campaigning for the election.
Although it might be unreasonable to expect the latest news a la VOA or BBC,
it is a sad commentary on immediacy from one of the last remaining
international broadcasters, regardless of how the signal is getting to us

I heard a brief blurb on WLS 890, Chicago a bit ago. Here is a link to the BBC
story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/3548893.stm

Radio Australia reported at 2300 UTC that the Taiwanese President was
not seriously injured, that he has already been released from the
hospital, and that Taiwanese elections are going on as scheduled.

Many stations record programming once and air it multiple times. For
example, Radio Exterior de Espan~a records one English language
broadcast per day then airs it three times, to Europe, Africa and North
America respectively. Considering the repeated budget cuts that many SW
broadcasters have been subject to, it's not very surprising.