Current Affairs BBC's Czech service bows out after 66 years on air
The BBC's Czech service announced the end of the station's current affairs broadcasts on Friday. Newscasts are to continue until the end of January when the Czech service, which has been on the air for 66 years, will fall silent. Earlier this year the BBC World Service announced sweeping changes to its programming, axing ten of its language services, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, in order to redirect funds to the Arab world. The news has come as an unpleasant surprise to many devoted listeners, and worse still, there are now fears that the BBC's World Service in English may have to go off the air as well.
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