[BC] BBC Shutters 10 World Service Broadcasts (from allaccess.com)

[dean tiernan]

The BBC WORLD SERVICE is closing ten of its radio services and starting 
an Arabic-language TV news channel. Radio broadcasts in Bulgarian, 
Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and 
Thai are being discontinued due to falling listenership or because the 
countries are or will be shortly in the EUROPEAN UNION. The move will 
cut about 236 jobs but will create 201 others for the new TV channe