[commedia] BBC shortwave archive created

[Community Media Association (London)]

Subject: BBC shortwave archive created


Collection of BBC news tapes provides rich loam for
scholars


Sixteen years' worth of world events are steadily beeping and crackling
their
way into broadcast history at Montreal's Concordia University.

In all, the tapes contain about 9,000 hours worth of newscasts from the BBC
World Service, systematically recorded from short-wave radio by the late
Denis
Diniacopoulos between 1970 and 1986, while he was a professor in Concordia's
Communications Studies Department.

Now, the Concordia Centre for Broadcasting Studies (CCBS), which was
bequeathed
the recordings after Diniacopoulos' death in 1997, is transferring them onto
CD-
ROM to turn them into a unique archive. Not even the BBC has kept the
newscasts.

More at
http://pr.concordia.ca/ctr/2001-02/Feb_28/02-BBCTapes/index.shtml