UK: CHILDREN'S RADIO STATION PLANNED BY BBC

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Under pressure for reducing the hours of radio programmes aimed at children, the BBC has announced plans to launch a new digital radio station dedicated to children. New technology could allow the digital station to be linked to a special website. Although a record 74.1% of children currently listen to commercial radio, up from 70.4% in 1999, the majority are listening to pop music stations such as Virgin and Capital Radio. However, the BBC's new channel would focus mainly on speech-based programmes such as dramatisations. Meanwhile, the BBC is encouraging interest among children in classical music through a link-up between the Radio 3 classical music station and the Blue Peter children's TV programme.

United Kingdom, Product introduction, British Broadcasting Corp.

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Why the BBC's short-wave switch-off does a disservice to the English-speaking world

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The BBC World Service is to stop short-wave broadcasts to North America and significantly scale down its transmissions to New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific. The BBC argues that this will cut costs, allowing services to the Third World to be established. However, fans of the World Service are opposing the move.

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The BBC sends a message in soap

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BBC World Service Radio uses the soap opera 'New Home New Life,' broadcast to an estimated audience of between 5 million and 15 million in Afghanistan and western Pakistan, to transmit valuable information. Each episode contains advice on issues such as mine avoidance and sanitation, as well as being entertaining. The soap opera is also subtly used to present modern, Western values to an extremely conservative society. This has led to some criticism from leaders of the Taliban religious army.

Social aspects, Afghanistan, Soap operas

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