Radio Gaga: BBC Radio services shrink
BBC is ceasing its 648 kHz transmissions of World Service English language radio on 27 March, 2011.
Traditional airwaves are being looked upon as liabilities, and spending reviews around the globe are ensuring that Short wave and Medium wave broadcasts are slowly folding up.
A BBC release says, ” We have had to make some difficult decisions about the distribution of BBC World Service radio around the world, as a result of the Spending Review settlement that BBC World Service received at the end of 2010.
Kolkata ( Radio JU ) 90.4 FM
Traditional airwaves are being looked upon as liabilities, and spending reviews around the globe are ensuring that Short wave and Medium wave broadcasts are slowly folding up.
A BBC release says, ” We have had to make some difficult decisions about the distribution of BBC World Service radio around the world, as a result of the Spending Review settlement that BBC World Service received at the end of 2010.Closure of the 648 kHz service and medium wave frequencies to Russia, continues the process of withdrawing from direct broadcasts to Europe in response to a declining number of direct listeners.”
I discovered that one can get BBC services for a part of the broadcast day from the following FM stations in India
Chandigarh (Vivek FM) 90.4 FM
Siliguri ( Radio Misty) 94.3 FM
Radio is changing with the times, but it lives on!
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