Lord Patten vows to protect BBC World Service (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Lord Patten has said his love of the BBC World Service made protecting it a "priority" - particularly the "core" Arabic, Somali and Hindi services.

The new BBC Trust chairman told the Sunday Telegraph he would fight for it as a 20% budget cut across the corporation takes effect this year.

The paper claimed he signalled in the interview that digital TV channels BBC3 or BBC4 may be axed to help secure it.

The BBC Trust denied this and said nothing had been decided.

The last Governor of Hong Kong told the paper: "If you want to know how good the BBC is, just spend time somewhere else.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13741210




Nice that he didn't embarass his friends by identifying "somewhere else" by name. ;)

[Pab Sungenis]

1. The "somewhere else" is nearly everywhere.

The BBC puts all of North American media to shame, including the Canadian broadcasters, and is superior to what I've seen from most other European nations.

If you haven't listened to the World Service, I highly recommend it. It's online, on shortwave, and on SiriusXM.

[meow mix]

2. they started a battlestar series replay last night.. yay

thank goodness something to watch lol