Tester wrote:
Of course, BBCWS is available by internet streaming but IMHO once you
get into internet streaming you may decide to go with another BBC
stream which has more of the programs you like.

I don't know how this affects the original poster. but the BBC, once the
one of two stations you could receive anytime day or night in the U.S.
has reduced it's broadcasts to North America. The other was Radio
Moscow. :-)

The radio feeds are as you said are available over the Internet and via
satellite, but I think the real reason is money. Many NPR stations pay
them for the rights to rebroadcast BBC news.

While they are unable to charge end users for their programs (BBC prime
is the exception), if you listen to them on NPR, you will probably donate
to that station and that will encourage them to buy the BBC programing.

Personaly, I'm not very happy with the BBC, to them if you are an Isrishman
who blows up innocent people, you are a terrorist, if you are not Irish,
you are an "activist".

Geoff.

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