running dogg wrote:

dxAce wrote:

Heard an announcement about BBC changes as of March 27 just
prior to the 1400 news.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sc...es/index.shtml

Apparently English, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese for South
America will be reduced, if not more. I've not had time yet to
peruse everything.

I just looked at the Americas listings. Apparently programming
in English and Spanish for the Americas will be reduced to
morning and evening prime time, and the Portuguese service for
Brazil will be eliminated. I noticed that the alternate freq for
the English service to Central America (what most US citizens
listen to) will be moved up an hour so that 9525 will be on
between 0000 and 0300 and 6135 will be on 0300 to 0500 (right
now 9525 starts at 0100 and 6135 at 0400). 5975 will still be on
until 0500, but no mention was made of transmitter location
being changed, so if the site for 5975 is moved off Antigua
audibility in the US may suffer, although that's just
speculation on my part.

See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/inst...dcasters.shtml
for the list of FM, Satellite and AM and, at the very end, current
short wave frequencies.
That's all going, but what are they doing with new transmitters in
Chile and elsewhere?
Delano, Greenville? Ascension? All have back signals that may be
heard in North America.
Portuguese still to lusophonic Africa.

I presume that China and evangels will move in to the missing
frequencies as they signed new deals with VT-Merlin for Meyerton
and Chile to South America.
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