BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Service, which was once part of the CIA, but is now transferred to the US
government's Open Source Center. It keeps a number of staff in the
slightly idiosyncratic surroundings of Caversham Park, where gardens
partly landscaped by Capability Brown host a dozen satellite dishes. The
staff canteen is housed in the old orangery.
Over the years, BBC Monitoring's staff - currently standing at about 450
worldwide and recruited from diverse backgrounds, ranging from university
graduates to former asylum seekers - has maintained a constant vigil,
listening at any one time to 37 television stations and 100 radio
services. Since the 1990s, it has also sifted through newspapers and
websites, with the internet now accounting for about a third of its
activities.
Such is BBC Monitoring's reputation for absolute accuracy, President
Kennedy accepted at face value a translation of a radio address by
Khrushchev in 1962 to a domestic audience announcing the withdrawal of
Soviet vessels carrying nuclear missiles to Cuba. Without waiting for
confirmation from US intelligence sources, Kennedy responded to the
Kremlin's overtures immediately.
The Cabinet Office, which oversees government funding of BBC Monitoring,
said: "We are involved in regular discussions with the BBC over
expenditure in this area and nothing has been put to ministers to decide.
No decision has been taken [on future funding]."
In a statement, the BBC said it would be approaching the funding
discussions with "vigour and confidence" but added it was "acutely aware
that the prevailing economic climate will bring huge challenges and tough
choices".
(via Mike Terry-UK, BrDXC-UK July 13)
In praise of ... Caversham Park
(via Chris Greenway-UK, dxld July 14)
USA 15550 1910-, WJHR Milton-FL July 7. Fair to good reception on an
otherwise pretty dead SW band with old canned preaching.
(Walt Salmaniw, Masset-B.C.-CAN, DXplorer July 10)
12133.5usb AFN, Saddlebunch Keys FL, 2149-2207, 07 Jul'10, NPR prgr All
Things Considered, ephemerides, news at 2200; 25443.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9)
USA WRMI schedule in EDT as of July 12 attached.
From the July 12 WRMI xls program schedule grid, we extract:
WORLD OF RADIO: Wed 1530; Thu 1500, 2100; Fri 1430; Sat 0800, 1730; Sun
0800, 1515, 1730; Tue 1530, 2230; Wed 0030
AWR WAVESCAN: Thu 1430; Fri 1530; Sat 0730; Sun 0830; Mon 1500, 2100
HCJB DX PARTYLINE: Sat 0000, 1000, 1500, 2015; Sun 0115, 0400, 0600, 1030,
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