§ Mr. G. Darlingasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what programmes in the British Broadcasting Corporation's overseas and European services have been discontinued or curtailed since 1950.
§ Mr. Ian HarveyThe net programme hours of services which have been curtailed or discontinued since 1950 are are shown in the following table of weekly programme hours of total output as at 1st July, 1950, and 1st July, 1956, respectively.
— 1950 1956 South African Service Afrikaans 4½ 1¾ Colonial Service Greek for Cyprus ¾ Nil Far Eastern Service Dutch for Netherlands East Indies 1¾ Nil French for South East Asia 1¾ Nil Latin American Service Latin American Spanish 40¼ 21 Latin American Portuguese 24½ 8¾ European Services English 54¾ 34¾ Austrian 5¼ 3½ Belgian— Flemish/French 3½ Nil Danish 5¼ 3½ Dutch 7 4 French 29¾ 21 German 36¾ 28¾ Luxembourg Patois ¼ Nil Norwegian 5¼ 4½ Portuguese 5¼ 3½ Yugoslav 12¾ 11¾ Non-European Services in English General Overseas Service 168 147 hrs. mins. hrs. mins. North American Service 42 55 35 55 Pacific Service 12¼ 7 Colonial Service 12 10¾ Eastern Service 2½ Nil
§ Mr. G. Darlingasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many British Broadcasting Corporation programmes of the Latin-American service were rebroadcast in South and Central America in 1949 and in 1956.
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§ Mr. Ian HarveyI am informed that in 1949 183 stations rebroadcast the British Broadcasting Corporation's Latin American service for a total time of 340 hours a week. In 1956 the service was rebroadcast regularly by 11 stations for a total of 23 hours a week.