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Voice of America operator plans "sunset" for shortwave radiobroadcasts
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 --- Alokesh Gupta,VU3BSE New Delhi (via HCDX) ==================== 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. Given the current tone, both in Washington and worldwide, that they would be ending the most direct, and most portable, methods of dissemination is hardly a surprise. |
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