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BBC Ends Falklands Service
February 24, 2006 at 6:29 AM (PT)
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The BBC WORLD SERVICE is dropping its "CALLING THE FALKLANDS" show for the FALKLAND ISLANDS after 62 years. The twice-weekly show launched in 1944 and briefly became a twice-daily show during the 1982 Argentinian invasion. The BBC has reallocated the funding to a new Arabic TV service and will help the local FALKLAND ISLANDS RADIO SERVICE with free use of WORLD SERVICE programs after the demise of the show, which is scheduled to end MARCH 31.

