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BBC Celebrates 100 Years This Month - But It's Not What It Once Was
The BBC is an institution in Britain that began 100 years ago this month. But the linked Economist article argues its future is not as likely to be as glorious as its past. And that in its infancy, it was hardly glorious at all.
"By agreement with the newspapers, the BBC broadcast no bulletins before 7pm, to avoid competition. But the BBC - which in its early days employed no journalists - hardly tried anyway. “There is no news,” ran one crisply conclusive bulletin in 1930, before returning to a broadcast of Wagner’s “Parsifal”."
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Re: BBC Celebrates 100 Years This Month - But It's Not What It Once Was
In its glory days (the 70s and 80s) BBC World service was available on short wave 24/7. They often had multiple programs on multiple frequencies at the same time.
Back then, I was more into DXing and resented the likes of BBC, VOA and Radio Moscow cluttering up the bands all day. Now I pine for those days.
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.