ARLA/CLUSTER: As "várias razões" (em inglês) da RTP para suspender as emissões em Onda Curta

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

RDPi - R.Portugal on HF.

As we could say in Portuguese, the arguments voiced by the RTP
against the country's own HF sce., are like a mere act of hidding
something from the Sun with a sieve. Fools, and only fools can
genuinely accept this... and fools alone would ask for a sieve instead
of using a proper tool.

In other words, cutting some of the RTP expenses where the domestic
listener / tax payer doesn't notice (countries that have an overseas sce.
share the vy. same the situation) is only too appealing not to implement.

In good reason, I do suspect the whole process got a new momentum
after rumours that a new cabinet would study the privatization of
parts of the RTP, so if you put the pieces together, you'll easily
end up realising such an administration would be only too eager to
show less expenses to the a new government that expresses this
idea and, again, suppressing what's poorly known in domestic
terms is the simplest, albeit foolish, option.

Instead, cuts should be done elsewhere within the RTP itself, surely
starting in many aspects that are not even related to radio &/or tv, e.g.
the administration itself, and why not the head of the board of directors
himself to start with? I'm confident he does deserve to be given the boot.

The ignorant in any government, here or abroad, will only tend to find
similar arguments no less applealing, if cutting expenses is in the order of
the day... for cutting [unnecessary] waste is perhaps not that appealing, if
it means reducing privileges, govern. jobs and other amenities kept
for years on end at the expense of the tax payer who's ultimately
called upon to save the mess "engineered" by governments through more
&/or heavier taxes as it is the case right now.

For instance, in the USA - a country whose public debt is no less worrying
that those of certain other countries, but which, as I said in an earlier
comment here in DXDL yg, is something the American public tend to ignore in
different ways -, a similar argument re. HF used the word "sunset." I
recall that was the word I read here in DXLD yg.

The question was not addressed properly, "sunset" is only too mild an
expression; why not being straightforward about this and call it a
severe consideration to gradually cut the huge expense the American
taxpayers have in their backs in order to keep the VoA and the
[political] "treats" like RFA, RFE/RL (to name only a few of the
many other overseas channels) running solely for political reasons
that matter the US politics alone.

I strongly believe the public stations should preserve their own
overseas services, but not as heavily as it has been done to
this date as cuts elsewhere would probably do the trick.

DW is one of the most recent examples; why not keep a reduced
operation instead? The same could be said about former sces.
like those of Norway, Finland, etc., even if the languages of
these countries have not the same weight as others do on a
worldwide scale.

73,
Carlos Gonçalves,
PORTUGAL.

As "várias razões" (em inglês) da RTP para suspeder as emissões em Onda Curta
João Costa > CT1FBF ct1fbf gmail.com
Quinta-Feira, 1 de Setembro de 2011 - 13:44:27 WEST

RTP: there is 'every reason' to suspend shortwave

The chairman of the board of Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP),
Guilherme Costa, said on Tuesday that the company has 'every reason'
to suspend the shortwave transmissions of RDP Internacional.

Mr Costa, quoted by the Lusa news agency, said such a platform is
obsolete from the technical point of view, is generally poor quality
in terms of reception, and is expensive, adding that discussions about
shortwave began within the organisation in May 2009.

He said that RDP had received 190 messages on the suspension of
shortwave broadcasts, and more than half came via email from people
who can listen to broadcasts on the Internet.

RTP announced in May that it would temporarily suspend the shortwave
broadcasts of RDP Internacional from 1 June, citing the low number of
listeners and the need to reduce costs.

Fonte: Media Network, tvi24