Peel to leave World Service??????

[Tom Roche]

 This from a Shorwtave e-news letter I read .... anyone know anything about this?


tom r




DX LISTENING DIGEST 00-64, May 12, 2000
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** U K. Glenn: Met a BBC reporter from Washington at Eli·n Gonz·lez` 
hearing this morning in Atlanta. He says new BBC director, Dyke, is a 
breath of fresh air and has been an improvement. He says one of his 
first acts was to end the much-criticized policy that requires the 
various radio outlets to pay to get discs from the library or to find 
out how to pronounce a word.

I also lamented to him that John Peel appears to disappear from the
BBC WS schedule after next week, replaced on all of the muddied 
streams by Steve Lamacq, who plays a more commercial alternative-rock 
style than the wide variety of styles Peel has been playing for 
decades. It was bad enough that we went from 3 x 30 min Peel every 
week to 1 x 25 min. Now we're losing it completely, with absolutely 
no explanation in the marginally useful "On Air" magazine. Rgds (Mike 
Cooper, Atlanta, May 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST