On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:47:02 -0700, running dogg wrote:

Tebojockey wrote:

On 7 Jun 2005 02:47:59 GMT, "PM" wrote:

L am as an avid shortwave listener for more than 50 years unfortunately I am
sseing demise of shortwave broadcasts, such as BBC and VOA.

"Mike Terry" wrote in message
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I am interested in the latest views on this topic.

What do you think - has shortwave got a future?

Views/links to articles would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Mike






Believe me, the VoA is still here...although it's not cheap for us in
the CNMI! The CUC (Commonwealth Utilities Corp.) gouges the US
Government on our electricity because it can't get it's own government
(CNMI) to pay its power bills. Every time they go to shut off a CNMI
govt office, the CNMI govt gets it's buddies in the CNMI judiciary to
issue an injunction prohibiting it! Front Page news has it that the
CNMI govt will be completely broke by election day this year...

But I digress. The VoA is still here...we just concentrate on new
targets and have expended services to those new targets at the expense
of old services like English and most european languages. However,
the general feeling at the IBB water cooler is that we'll all be
pahsed out within 10-15 years. :-(

Al in CNMI

There's always Sawa and Farda, both IBB operations, although Sawa is
only on FM. And then there's the Studio 7 service to Zimbabwe. But most
VOA services have been cut deeply, and they'll probably cut the rest
soon. DW has already cut all its Americas services, and BBC is heading
in that direction.


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VoA will definitely not disappear anytime soon. There are too many
minority languages it supports. VoA, Sawa, Farda and all the other
stations run by us here at IBB will continue as long as they are
politically necessary and convenient. After all, it is nothing more
than a propaganda war we're fighting on the airwaves. I've got this
contract for at least five more years, and the IBB has been mandated
by Congress to outsource (contract operation) 35% more of its
stations, so there is a future, but an indeterminate one!

Al in CNMI

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