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[João Costa > CT1FBF]

The end of an era - BBC Relay Station site handed back to Seychelles

Tuesday November 18 marked the closure of an iconic chapter of Seychelles’
history, signalling the end of an era when information was much more
difficult to come by. With much of Africa joining the internet and mobile
phone revolution, the times of trying to glean information about happenings
in the rest of the world on a crackly AM radio station have now passed by.

Over 25 years after its establishment, the site of the BBC’s former Indian
Ocean Relay Station (IORS), located at Grand Anse, on the western side of
the largest inhabited island in the archipelago, was handed back to the
government of Seychelles by the country’s British High Commissioner,
Lindsay Skoll.

The station transmitted BBC World Service programmes since 1988 via
shortwave to listeners across East Africa in a range of languages,
including the BBC's English-language output for Africa as well as
programmes in Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Somali and French.

In November 2013, the BBC announced its intention to cease all its
shortwave transmission services from Seychelles due to a gradual and
irreversible fall in demand for shortwave radio services, and on March 29
this year, the BBCIORS retransmission services from Seychelles were
officially switched off. BBC World Service broadcasts in East Africa are
still available via the internet and also via various other localised
frequencies.

The handing over of the site to the Ministry of Land Use and Housing (MLUH)
also included the station’s buildings and equipment, all of which are still
in working order. The site is spread over a 32,000 square metre property,
occupied under a lease dating back to March 27, 1985...

Detailed article with photos here:
http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/1792/
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Our thanks to *Mike Terry* for the above information
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