Wednesday, January 26/2011

One of the explanations provided for the terrible sound on BBC World is that we are a long way from the British base at Dhekelia. This sounds, initially, irrelevant - and then simply wrong. After all, the reception was much better in the Kition, which is half a mile further. However, J's suspicion that the signal is stolen seems probable, and may also accout for frequent (inaccurate) messages that the service is unavailable or scrambled - programming continuing beneath the message. It would also explain a reluctance to solve the problem by complaining to the provider.