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Friday Dec 23, 2005

Goodbye BBC! I will miss you.

After 66 years of broadcasting in Czech, BBC stopped today its current affairs program. Czech language will totally disappear from BBC radio here in Czech republic by the end of January. The reason for closing Czech BBC redaction (and some other European and Asian) is to gain money for creation of TV for Arab world.

I am not happy with this decision and I am not alone in such feelings. Actually I am little bit angry at BBC for this step. Yes, it's selfish. We are now democratic country and our media have full freedom of speech. But I cannot rid of sensation that BBC was little bit more... I will miss you BBC!

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/74089
http://www.cbw.cz/phprs/2005111412.html

Posted at 08:57PM Dec 23, 2005 by psum in General | Comments[3] | Permalink

Comments:

that's what BBC's used for: democraticize the non-democratic countries.

Posted by max on December 24, 2005 at 04:13 AM CET #

It's a terrible shame to lose Czech language BBC to pay for a new Middle Eastern propaganda service. I understand quite a few services are being shut down to pay for this new Al Jazeeralike. The good news is that more and more BBC shows are being broadcast via their web site, e.g. Newsnight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm and In Our Time http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/ - and Radio 4 is still absolutely excellent http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ :-)

Posted by Kevin Hutchinson on December 24, 2005 at 05:32 AM CET #

http://www.tellusrandom.blogspot.com

Posted by Aknab on December 27, 2005 at 08:14 PM CET #

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