DX LISTENING DIGEST 1-064, May 8, 2001
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1-064 without further delay! (gh)

** ANGOLA [non]. Germany/Angola: According to Ralf.Weyl@telekom.de of 
DTK Juelich Radio Ecclésia did start broadcasting as promised but is 
now on different frequencies than previously announced. Since 18 
April 2001 they have been on an even expanded schedule :

"Sehr geehrter Dr. Biener, 
Radio Ecclésia hat mit dem Regelsendebetrieb am 18.04.01 begonnen. 
Die Sendezeiten können Sie dem unten angefügten Sendeplan 
entnehmen.Viele Grüße aus Jülich. Ralf Weyl (8.5.2001) 

17655 0500 0559 46,47,52 301 160 216 1567    120401 150401 ECC * 
15230 1700 1759 46,47,52 306 160 216 1567    120401 150401 ECC * 
17660 1700 1759 46,47,52 303 160 216 123567  120401 170401 ECC * 
13810 1800 1930 46,47,52 211 155 216 7       140401 140401 ECC * 
15545 0500 0555 46,47,52 306 160 216 1234567 120401 281001 ECC * 
13810 1800 1859 46,47,52 211 155 216 123456  180401 281001 ECC * 
13810 1800 2130 46,47,52 211 155 216 7       180401 281001 ECC * 
(via Dr Hansjörg Biener, Germany, May 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, 
lets hope the Angolans knew about it... Note day of week 1234567 key 
as only 15545 is 7 days (gh)
  
** U K. BBCWS confirmed to me today that they will drop all shortwave 
to the United States, Canada, and Australia as of July. Access to 
World Service will be via FM rebroadcasting (you *do* have access to 
BBCWS on your local FM station, don't you?) and the Internet. Details 
and perhaps an interview on Communications World this weekend (Kim 
Elliott, VOA, May 8, swprograms via DXLD)

Here's the BBCWS statement about this: 

"BBC World Service is committed to meeting the needs of all its 
audiences. It has record numbers of listeners (153m a week) because 
it has been agile in delivering its services in more ways, with 
better audibility, to suit their individual needs over recent years. 
Audiences in these particular regions have already voted with their 
dials by migrating to higher quality FM broadcasts in their areas 
while the growth of online listening to World Service, particularly 
in America, is outstripping comparable internet growth rates. We will 
be doing all we can to help audiences find a better way to listen 
which suits them, through trails, online information, helplines and 
information in our magazine On Air. 

We recognise that short wave will be the major way most of our 
audiences listen to our services for a considerable time to come and 
it would be wrong to portray this as a retreat from short wave 
broadcasting. World Service has already announced major investment 
in short wave, such as the new transmitter currently under 
construction in Oman which will enhance reception quality for 
millions of listeners from the Middle East across Central and South 
Asia. We also modernising our short wave transmitters in Cyprus and 
Singapore. For further information: In the US, for example, over 200 
public radio stations carry BBC programmes in America - three times 
as many people listen to us on FM as on shortwave and one and a half 
million users access online each month. In Australia, listening to 
shortwave has dropped by two-thirds over last eight years, as 
listeners migrate to FM rebroadcasts via ABC. Mike Gardner, Head of 
Media Relations, World Service (via Kim Elliott, ibid., DXLD)  ###