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  1. On #BBCWorldService news:
    Hungary's new government has used its big parliamentary majority to amend the constitution and remove president Tamas Sulyok and several other senior figures linked to the previous nationalist administration of Viktor Orban. All opposition Fidesz MPs boycotted the vote.

  2. On #BBCWorldService news:
    Hungary's new government has used its big parliamentary majority to amend the constitution and remove president Tamas Sulyok and several other senior figures linked to the previous nationalist administration of Viktor Orban. All opposition Fidesz MPs boycotted the vote.

  3. #webradio #BBCworldService

    🖥️ 📻 🔊

    Ce matin, écoute de la 🇬🇧 BBC World Service par l'entremise de Vermont Public Radio, située juste au sud de la belle province.

    Vous pouvez la syntoniser sur 107,9 FM si vous êtes dans la région également. Elle a une grande portée sur le sud du Québec.

    Très belle journée à tous, chers ami(e)s où que vous soyez ! :quebec: 🇨🇦 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇨🇭 🇳🇱 🇮🇪 🇬🇧

    🙂 👋

    vermontpublic.org/radio-schedu

  4. BBC announces 550 job cuts as part of £500m savings plan
    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgmqr
    If you are on here for the news related content and ❤️ 📻 this is what you lose: World Tonight, Midnight News, Money Box Live, AntiSocial, The Law Show, Crossing Continents. On #BBCWorldService The Inquiry, The Conversation and The Fifth Floor.

  5. BBC announces 550 job cuts as part of £500m savings plan
    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgmqr
    If you are on here for the news related content and ❤️ 📻 this is what you lose: World Tonight, Midnight News, Money Box Live, AntiSocial, The Law Show, Crossing Continents. On #BBCWorldService The Inquiry, The Conversation and The Fifth Floor.

  6. 🚀 Breaking news from the cutting-edge research lab: paper folds well because... it's paper! 🎉 BBC World Service delves deep into this mind-blowing revelation, leaving us all wondering if they'll next investigate why water is wet. 🤔 Stay tuned for more thrilling insights! 📜✨
    bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8k70 #breakingnews #paperfolding #researchlab #BBCWorldService #mindblowinginsights #staytuned #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🚀 Breaking news from the cutting-edge research lab: paper folds well because... it's paper! 🎉 BBC World Service delves deep into this mind-blowing revelation, leaving us all wondering if they'll next investigate why water is wet. 🤔 Stay tuned for more thrilling insights! 📜✨
    bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8k70 #breakingnews #paperfolding #researchlab #BBCWorldService #mindblowinginsights #staytuned #HackerNews #ngated

  8. @TheSwiv on the #BBCWorldService radio it has been mentioned every time the announcement is mentioned... all u-turns...

  9. @TheSwiv on the #BBCWorldService radio it has been mentioned every time the announcement is mentioned... all u-turns...

  10. I"m hearing that the strike of #BBCWorldService journalists, reported by Private Eye recently, is getting ever more likely.

    For any academics out there, I hope you will show solidarity with the journalists who work their butts off with ever-smaller teams. If programmes like Newshour, Newsday, The Newsroom, Weekend, and/or Business Daily don't cross the picket line even by telephone or Zoom. Not if you expect sympathy about the currrent plight of universities.

  11. I"m hearing that the strike of #BBCWorldService journalists, reported by Private Eye recently, is getting ever more likely.

    For any academics out there, I hope you will show solidarity with the journalists who work their butts off with ever-smaller teams. If programmes like Newshour, Newsday, The Newsroom, Weekend, and/or Business Daily don't cross the picket line even by telephone or Zoom. Not if you expect sympathy about the currrent plight of universities.

  12. HFCC A26 Transmission and Programme schedules / BBC World Service’s Internet Focus “backfires”

    The HFCC have published their global B25 A26 shortwave plan, taking effect mostly on March 29 (with some likely exceptions in North America). The organization says it seeks to eliminate "inaccuracies and ‘reserve’ frequency requirements from the global schedule database".

    The HFCC global shortwave plans are among the most meaningful reference points to find or identify broadcasts on shortwave, arguably along with Eibi Space, and the BDXC’s frequently updated DX Guides.

    While shortwave usage is indeed shrinking, international broadcasters may sometimes jump to premature conclusions. Recent reports suggest that the BBC World Service’s shift to online media has "backfired". Shortwave isn’t mentioned in particular here, but the BBC had been warned:

    As transmitters can’t go on strike or lobby politicians, they can be cut with the promise of the internet. There are many pros for internet services and streaming in general, such as ease of implementation, low running costs and less need for specialized technical staff,

    RedTech’s Ruxandra Obreja wrote in February 2023, adding that

    However, the most important attribute of shortwave, beyond its free availability, is the anonymity it offers listeners. This may not be so important in, say, Britain or the United States, but it is significant in authoritarian states like China or Myanmar. The truth is that millions of people still rely on free-to-air radio in the car or at home for news, information, entertainment, education and the increasingly essential emergency warnings.

    There may be a bit of a silver lining now, for the BBC:

    [t]he BBC World Service will see funding increased by an additional £33 million over the next three years, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper

    was expected to confirm last week, according to the "Independent".

    After decades of BBC-bashing by Labour and Tories alike, March 2026 seems to become BBC appreciation month.

     

    #BBCWorldService #broadcasting #foreignRadio #shortwave #广播
  13. RE: journa.host/@fulelo/1160693193

    Current lead story on #BBCWorldService -
    "Epibatidine can be found naturally in dart frogs in the wild in South America. Dart frogs in captivity do not produce this toxin and it is not found naturally in Russia."
    #Navalny

  14. RE: journa.host/@fulelo/1160693193

    Current lead story on #BBCWorldService -
    "Epibatidine can be found naturally in dart frogs in the wild in South America. Dart frogs in captivity do not produce this toxin and it is not found naturally in Russia."
    #Navalny

  15. V guardian opinion:
    The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
    #BBCWorldService