That's odd, because Radio New Zealand on shortwave has always been a fairly easy catch, even in the days of their original 7.5kw transmitters. This summer I am getting solid reception of RNZ on 7245 kHz around local sunrise here in Houston.
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BBC License Fee - Gone - 2027
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My last world band receiver was disposed of around 1990.
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...we make sure that the BBC is sustainable in the long term
Kirk Bayne
...we make sure that the BBC is sustainable in the long term
Kirk Bayne
Back to business as usual - issues kicked into the very long grass, nothing to see here.
Five challenges the BBC faces as it turns 100
The BBC's media editor on how the BBC has to prove its worth, as it reaches its 100th birthday.
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Britons aged between 16 and 24 spend more time on TikTok alone than watching broadcast television.
Kirk Bayne
TikTok is a flash in the pan, a cheap Chinese plastic product designed (overtly or otherwise) to promote junk content - often political, violent, racist or misogynistic - that pollutes and destabilizes Western societies while China itself restricts such things. Like the brightly-colored and candy-flavored vapes marketed towards kids that are banned in China but exported to the West, it's good enough to sell to us but not good enough for them. TikTok will come and go like all of these "platforms".
Meanwhile, 91% of people in Britain watch or listen to something from the BBC each week, including 80% of 18-24s. It produces content that is distinctively British and reflects British society and culture - the good and the bad, with drama and comedy and live arts and culture and music and well-researched and trusted news reporting instead of the knee-jerk outrage crap and "look! boobs!" that social media specializes in. I know which I'd rather have.
Meanwhile, 91% of people in Britain watch or listen to something from the BBC each week, including 80% of 18-24s. It produces content that is distinctively British and reflects British society and culture - the good and the bad, with drama and comedy and live arts and culture and music and well-researched and trusted news reporting instead of the knee-jerk outrage crap and "look! boobs!" that social media specializes in. I know which I'd rather have.
But Canada's CBC does run some commercial advertising on it's television services.
I don't think the BBC World Service directly targets North America (or even the Western Hemisphere) with shortwave service anymore.
Many NPR member stations run BBC World Service programming during late-night and overnight hours. I think there are a handful of NPR member station licensees that run the BBC World Service 24/7, usually on an HD-2 subchannel or (in one or two cases) an additional analog radio signe.
The World Service has been part of satellite radio here from the outset, although XM, before the companies combined, carried the entire World Service -- sports, music, drama and all -- while Sirius opted for a slimmed-down news-only feed. The full World Service is now carried on both platforms.
The BBC World Service is also available on BBC Sounds, through which you can listen to its programs up to 30 days after the broadcast. Registration is free, and the BBC Sounds app is available on the App Store and on Google Play.
You are correct, BBCWS SW no longer has any targets in the mainland Americas. Sometimes I receive African Service in New York but nothing near consistently.
The BBCWS ended shortwave beams to the U.S. and Canada in 2001. However they continued to target the rest of The Americas, so reception was still easy.
The closure of the Antigua transmission facility in 2005 resulted in major cuts to SW output to The Americas, and the remaining transmissions were moved to a hodgepodge of transmitter sites in the area. Further cuts were made in 2006, and all SW to The Americas ended in 2008.
It is still possible to hear listenable signals from some of the transmissions to Africa and Asia if you have a favorable combination of time, frequency, and beam. Transmitter hours to those areas have been greatly reduced in recent years, with more cuts presumably coming next year as part of a reorganization and revamp of the World Service.
Look over any NPR station’s schedule, and you are likely to find the BBCWS as overnight filler.
KUT in Austin is an example of an NPR station that carries BBCWS 24/7 on its HD-2 channel.
The BBCWS has some alternate feeds, so programming is not uniform across all outlets. Back in the 90s and early 00s there were as many as eight different versions of the program schedule, depending on what part of the world you were in, and which platform you were using. All of this has become more consolidated in recent years.
Having been born and raised in W.N.Y., I can assure you that is not true! Buffalo's PBS WNED TV is far more
viewed in Southern Ontario OTA than CBLT, the CBC affiliate for the Toronto region. Aside from "Hockey
Night in Canada," I can't even remember one other program I ever watched on CBC. WNED viewership
in Southern Ontario is so great that it receives more donations from there than in W.N.Y. Of course, the
population in Southern Ontario is greater...... How do you measure "impact?"
We dont run any BBC WS news programming on our station..
I do hear a fairly good amount of BBC WS in english on SW from my location and fairly well too.... for me, its location location location and antenna antenna antenna!
I do hear a fairly good amount of BBC WS in english on SW from my location and fairly well too.... for me, its location location location and antenna antenna antenna!
The Asia beams from the BBCWS transmitter sites in Oman and Singapore are probably quite favorable for Alaska. However these might be the most likely to be eliminated as part of the ongoing BBC reorganization and any reduction of what remains of its SW output.I do hear a fairly good amount of BBC WS in english on SW from my location and fairly well too.... for me, its location location location and antenna antenna antenna!
I've heard the BBC WS from just about every transmitter site they eminate from.. Bulgaria, Wooferton, Germany, Oman, Kuwait, you name it.. ive heard it.
I take it you’re not a fan of The Archers🤣
BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
Government announcement will force broadcaster to make deep cuts to its programme budgetswww.theguardian.com
IMHO, there should be 1 BBC TV channel (programs for children [similar to PBS kids] during the day) and documentaries and the like evenings (possibly repeated 3 hour blocks overnight) and 1 BBC Radio station (Talk/News - similar to NPR), leave the entertainment programs and music radio to commercial interests.
Kirk Bayne
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made some excellent movies in the 1940s and 50s……
Oh wait…not those “Archers”…🤔😆
In the ancient of days, Radio Australia and Radio New Zealand were regular and easy morning catches. VLW9 in Perth also was usually in the 31 meter band in U.S. Eastern Time Zone
I really did miss the best of the shortwave era, and it sounds like you recieved some nice commercial ones. I can recieve Radio New Zealand on their higher frequencies here in the Western US (usually 13.840 and 11.725), and it has servicable content, but not like three decades ago.
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