I wrote a nice long piece about the worldservice language services closures and Arabic TV. But somewhere along the line it got deleted by myself. I really need to invest in some decent Blogging software because using a Bookmarklet is not good when your writing a long entry. Anyhow, I'm not going to repeat or remember the entry. Plus it was timed just after the press officially found out about the cuts, while this obvioulsy isnt. Here's the main points of the day.
- Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai language services will end by March 2006
- There will be more investment in developing New Media
- Increased funding for global FM distribution
- Extra marketing for the other 33 languages services
- Modernising bureaus in priority markets
- Further exploring of TV service partnerships within other languages and countries
And here's the front of BBC news at 1pm today.
