RE: BBC cutting news jobs

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:40:54 -0500, "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net> said:

> Answered here a few years ago, but why did the VOA kill the Bethany,
> Ohio relay station?  (Man, what a facility tour that was.)

It was the oldest facility they had, and not particularly ideal for
serving the audiences VOA was most interested in (in Asia, Eastern
Europe, and the Middle East).  Why operate four facilities when you
only need two?  The land was probably getting pretty valuable, too.

-GAWollman