Dan Say wrote:

David wrote:

On 19 Mar 2005 19:23:57 -0800, (Jim) wrote:
......
The BBC West Asia service is available Free to anyone in Nepal
with a $200 Worldspace receiver.

http://www.worldspace.com/programmin..._asiastar.html

Except that in April Worldspace is going to
encryption and will require a monthly license, more
than the monthly income of most Nepalis etc.

Radio for the elites indeed.

Problem is, the elites are all the suits at the BBC care about. They've
even said that they don't want to be heard by the average person. So
they're going to satellite radio and FM relays in cities where the rich
and powerful congregate (there's one in San Francisco but not in
Sacramento; I doubt very much that Omaha will ever have any BBC
programming). Apparently the BBC is just interested in narrowcasting-the
selected targeting of the rich and powerful to the exclusion of
everybody else. It's a sad end to what was once the great news reporting
service in the world, the one that tried to tell the news honestly to as
many people as it could reach.


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