ARLA/CLUSTER: A BBC World Service encerra o seu serviço na Tailandia

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

BBC broadcasts from Thailand end

The Malay Mail reports the BBC’s Thailand transmission towers fall
silent as junta talks falter

The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting from one of its major
global transmission stations situated in Thailand, AFP has learned,
after talks broke down with a junta riled by its uncensored coverage.

Sources with knowledge of the negotiations said the BBC’s
Thai-language output impeded discussions about renewing the 20-year
lease on the complex, the network’s main shortwave broadcast station
for Asia.

The centre’s large red and white transmission towers in Nakhon Sawan
240km north of Bangkok beamed local language news into
tightly-controlled countries such as China and North Korea, and into
places where many still rely on radio like Pakistan and Afghanistan.
It went off air on January 1 following the expiry of the lease.

Read the full story at
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/bbcs-thai-transmission-towers-fall-silent-as-junta-talks-falter