Word: bbc
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...Press Freedom in Africa: Challenges and Opportunites--with Erica Chinje of Cameroon National Television; Isaac Bantu of BBC Africa Service, Liberia; and Charles Onyango-Obbo of Weekly Topic, Uganda. In Coolidge Hall, room...
...smaller roles in this play, the director seems to challenge the idea that there are no small parts, only small actors--here there are both. One example is the minor role played by Thomas James Norman as the BBC correspondent...
Last week, in a preview of its most ambitious venture yet, STAR began offering hourly news reports from the BBC. In November those newscasts will become the centerpiece for a 24-hour news channel, run by the BBC World Service. STAR's all-news service, like its other channels, will be available free (in contrast to CNN, its chief rival); the operation is trying to support itself entirely from advertising...
TELEVISION The BBC takes on CNN in Asia...
...nothing sacred? The BBC has thrown in the towel on the Queen's English. Hello, a new English-language instructional series being prepared for BBC television, will feature an American among its three hosts. Seems that citizens of the global village, whose idea of proper English was once the measured tones of the BBC, are now more familiar with Yankee accents, thanks to CNN's worldwide reach. Explains Peter Walton, executive producer of the program: "We realized what people want is American English. People were asking, 'Haven't you got anything in American?' " Other BBC broadcasters are doing their best...