Posts from ‘January, 2004’

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has published the text of a letter written by EBU Secretary General Jean Stock to former BBC Director-General Greg Dyke following his departure from the BBC. Stock writes that “From Geneva we have watched with admiration how you have invigorated the “mother of broadcasting” during your years of tenure - [...]

Unions representing BBC staff say they’re organising protests next week. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) says on its Web site that “To mark our anger at the unfair and one-sided conclusions reached by Lord Hutton, members of the NUJ working in news and current affairs will hold a rally to assert our independence of [...]

Journalists at Radio France have prolonged their strike until Monday following the refusal of the Minister for Culture, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, to name a mediator. The strike started on 27 January at France Inter, France Informations, France Bleue, France Musiques, France Culture, FIP and Le Mouv’ over wage parity with journalists working for France Télévisions. Although [...]

Andrew Gilligan, the journalist whose verbal indiscretions started the chain of events that led to the suicide of arms expert Dr David Kelly, and this week’s resignations of the BBC’s Chairman and Director-General, has tonight quit the BBC. In a lengthy statement, Gilligan said that “I and everyone else involved here have for five months [...]

I’ve been informed that from Monday 2 February, all Radio Netherlands broadcasts in Dutch which currently end at :55 minutes past the hour are going to be extended, and will end at :57 minutes past the hour.
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Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap; ellipses as published
Seoul, 30 January: North Korean defectors in South Korea will establish an internet radio station on Pyongyang’s infringement of human rights, a step aimed at raising awareness of their fellow North Koreans on the issue, a defectors’ group said Friday [30 [...]

I woke up this morning feeling sad, because the BBC has lost the most popular Director-General it ever had for no other reason than he was trying to do the right thing. Greg Dyke was not prepared to accept, as his predecessors had done, that the BBC’s way of doing things was necessarily the best. [...]

BBC Director-General Greg Dyke has left his post on a day of high drama and emotion at the Corporation. The BBC is insisting that he resigned of his own volition, but Independent Television News says it understands that Dyke was effectively sacked. ITN says he offered his resignation to the BBC Board of Governors, but [...]

Salam Pax, the “Baghdad Blogger”, has been listening to the recently-launched radio station for American Forces in Iraq. It’s interesting to see how the output of this station, which isn’t intended for Iraqis, sounds to those Iraqis who understand English:
“It transmits on 107,7 FM in Baghdad, which really is at the end of the frequency [...]

US broadcasting provider Sirius Satellite Radio Inc has announced that its loss widened in the fourth quarter of 2003, despite adding 112,000 subscribers during the period. The New York-based company lost $147.8 million, compared with a loss of $122.1 million a year ago. This loss is greater than had been forecast. Revenue for the quarter [...]

Dutch media site RadioFreak.nl quotes Arrow boss Ad Ossendrijver as saying that his new FM station Arrow 90.7, which gained the last major Dutch terrestrial FM licence in the second round of licence awards last year, will be on the air within the next 10 days. After a short period of test transmissions, the station [...]

Several privately owned Rwandan FM radio stations are due to begin operations in February following a cabinet directive to the country’s press council to issue work and broadcasting permits to fully registered stations. An official told IRIN that at least six FM stations, including Radio Contact, Radio Flash, National University of Rwanda-School of Journalism, Radio [...]

BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies has resigned following publication of a judicial inquiry that sharply criticised the BBC’s role in events that led to the death of British weapons scientist David Kelly.
Davies told his fellow governors at a hastily convened meeting, that “I have been brought up to believe that you cannot choose your own [...]

Due to a recent outbreak of the W32.Novarg.A@mm mass-mailing worm being transmitted via E-mail messages, Yahoo! Groups says it has had to temporarily reject some messages. Based on an advisory posted by a leading anti-virus company, Yahoo! Groups will temporarily reject messages with the following subject lines:
test
hi
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Mail Delivery System
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Server Report
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Until further [...]

Dutch regional public broadcaster RTV Rijnmond, which is in financial crisis, this morning announced that 29 jobs are to go out of a total of around 140. The cuts have been spread evenly across radio and TV. The job losses mean there will be changes to the programming of both outlets, but Director Eric Wehrmeijer [...]