Bummer.
I will have to work through the Press Office, I guess, for advance
programming information in time for inclusion in the NASWA Journal -- I
normally have been able to count on a 7-10 day leat time for BBC On
Air in
advance of my Easy Listening column deadline.
The electronic information is quite useful but unfortunately isn't
issued
until the first or the second of the month.
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 10:39 PM
Subject: [Swprograms] BBC 'ON AIR' MAGAZINE IS SUDDENLY AXED
Dear Mr. Hauser, I've been a regular devotee of your work for a year
or
so ---
and here is my first submission.
The December 2004 edition of BBC World Service's monthly 'On Air'
magazine
is
to be the last. An accompanying letter from Dionne Ormonde, Managing
Editor,
says:
"It is with regret that I have to inform you that, following a
business
review,
it has been decided that the December 2004 issue of BBC 'On Air'
magazine
will
be the last issue published. We have found that many of our listeners
are
getting programme information on line and that it is no longer
cost-effective
to produce the printed edition of the magazine."
The letter goes on to promise a refund to each subscriber for any
unexpired
subscription. It says that the current BBC World Service English
Programme
Schedules are enclosed, and this schedule is valid until 31 March
2005.
Well, I
didn't get a separate schedules guide - only the December 2004
pull-out
programme schedule, which is only valid for that month. We are
invited to
fill
out a postcard and send it to BBC 'Audience Relations' at Bush House,
if
we
want to be on the mailing list for the 6-monthly English schedules
poster
(April - September 2005) - but why bother?
What a shame. This breaks the continuous line of printed Empire/
External/
World Service programme guides from 1939. Does the BBC World Service
care
about
its listeners any more? What about those who do not have the
internet?
Yours
sincerely, (Martin Levene, London, Nov 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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