<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Sale of shortwave stations used by BBC</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Babcock International Group’s Media Services business is to be sold to Encompass <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Chris Greenway tweeted: <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Engineering/defence contractor Babcock, which owns UK&#39;s last remaining shortwave transmitting station (Woofferton) and operates BBC shortwave and medium wave relay stations in Ascension Island, Cyprus, Oman and Singapore, is selling its media operations</em><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisGreenwayUK" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://twitter.com/ChrisGreenwayUK</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Encompass says: <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">This deal expands Encompass’ scale in EMEA and extends the company’s combined channel playout, transmission and digital products portfolio while adding international radio distribution to its suite of services.</em><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.encompass.tv/encompass-to-acquire-babcocks-media-services/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://www.encompass.tv/encompass-to-acquire-babcocks-media-services/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Babcock Media Services Radio Distribution <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://babcock.media/services/radio-distribution/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none;word-wrap:break-word">http://babcock.media/services/radio-distribution/</a></p></div>