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D Peter Maus wrote:
Seeing-I-dawg wrote:
BBC lies in radio listening figures

http://ussneverdock.blogspot.com/200...g-figures.html

BBC, in recent years, has had a problem with numbers.

Largely, because year end bonuses were tied to them.

Byford and his top execs, for turning off the Shortwave feeds to
North America pocketed bonuses equalling the savings in operating costs
realized by shutting of those SW feeds.

Despite the reality that those SW feeds, by Byford's own numbers,
captured and held millions of listeners a week. And that those
listeners, and their TSL, time spent listening, were not servable
through the highly touted FM and webserver access.

If Karmazin had been successful in buying the BBC, there would have
been bodies flying out the windows at Bush House.

They occaionally had one of those middle management types on "Write On",
(the listener feedback show, now "Over to You") and they've got a terminal
case of "New Media" disease. They think the World Service is a web site.
And the only audience that counts are "persons of influence".

I got a vague impression that the BBC owned a chunk of XM. Or maybe
XM slipped them some bucks under the table to kill off North America
Shortwave.

Mark Zenier
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