On Jun 7, 7:25*am, D Peter Maus wrote:
On 6/7/11 04:47 , dxAce wrote:









Voice of America operator plans "sunset" for shortwave radio broadcasts

The sun is setting on Voice of America's shortwave radio service,
heard worldwide in dozens of languages for 70 years.

A strategic technology plan prepared by the Broadcasting Board of
Governors (BBG), the federal agency responsible for Voice of America,
Alhurra, Radio Free Asia and other international stations, concludes
that it should end many shortwave broadcasts in favor of "more
effective" media such as internet radio.

Full story at :
*http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/06...erica-ope.html

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Alokesh Gupta,VU3BSE
New Delhi
(via HCDX)
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dxAce
Michigan
USA

- Same old song we heard with BBC.
-
- Isn't anymore true now than it was then.
-
- But, remember, these broadcasts are both
- political in origin and often propagandist
- in nature.

The BBC {Domestic} and BBC World Service
-selling-the-uk-britain-britannia-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture...United_Kingdom
Language Culture and -oops- No Borders !