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...were verging on the pompous," says John Tusa, managing director for the World Service of the British Broadcasting Corp. So, to compete with TV and satellite broadcasts, the BBC has updated its venerable radio World Service with a format a spokesman cautiously calls "a bit more relaxed, a bit less formal." A bit. The 25 million addicts around the globe can still tune in to the World Service's news broadcasts, long noted for the accuracy of their reporting, but the format will be slightly less stuffy. Announcers will address correspondents with more informality, as in "Tony, thanks very much...
...opportunity to "work on a new agenda for the opposition parties...and sit down and look at our problems with people from other countries." She says, "The Kennedy School is quite a good place to do it." She also covered this fall's American presidential election for the BBC and may write a book...
...THEBAN PLAYS (PBS, Sept. 16, 23, 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). Sophocles' tragic Oedipus trilogy gets world-class treatment in a BBC production starring Anthony Quayle and Claire Bloom...
...SPAN network's video verite coverage of the podium in Atlanta was beamed by satellite to 22 European countries, prompting hundreds of viewers in those countries to write to the C-SPAN offices in Washington. Interest in President Reagan's farewell speech was so high in Britain that the BBC broadcast it live from New Orleans in a 3 1/2-hour special beginning at 1:10 a.m. in London...
...covered 1988's, some of the foreign television networks are already considering scaling back. "It's becoming too expensive, and all the debate is over before we get here," asserted Tony Naets, bureau chief of the European Broadcasting Union, an association of European broadcasters. Said Martin Bell of the BBC: "People back home are beginning to realize that these are not nominating conventions...