Posts from ‘February, 2004’

A group of former employees of longwave commercial broadcaster Atlantic 252 are setting up a “tribute” Website to the station, which closed down in December 2001. The group say that they “aim to provide a platform for you to remember the best bits of Atlantic 252.” The temporary home page promises “photos, audio and [...]

“Informed sources” in India say that the Government has transferred its top spokesman to another post, reportedly for participating in a protest last week by members of the Indian Information Service. Principal Information Officer (PIO) Sahab Singh has reportedly been moved to the Planning Commission. The sources said Singh, whose position held the rank [...]

An organisation representing dismissed employees of the state-owned broadcaster in Georgia is demanding the resignation of its chairman. The Association for the Defence of Georgian TV and Radio Corporation Employees has appealed to the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, over the re-appointment of of Zaza Shengelia. They cite findings by the Audit Chamber reagrding property [...]

Rwanda’s first private radio station since the 1994 genocide has began broadcasting. Radio 10 kicked off its FM programmes with an on-air promise from its businessman owner that it would not repeat the acts of Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), which openly encouraged the killings a decade ago. Eugene Nyagahene also said [...]

On Friday the Tokyo district court, after a case lasting eight years, delivered its verdict on Soko Asahara (real name Chizuo Matsumoto), head of the Aum-Shinrikyo religious sect. Asahara was found guilty of organizing acts of terrorism involving the use of chemicals in 1994 and 1995. As the result of those attacks, eighteen [...]

The respected technology site ZDNet has published an editorial by AnchorDesk Executive Editor David Coursey, a licenced radio amateur, warning of the threat posed by the decision of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the second step in making broadband over power lines a reality.
Coursey points out that [...]

International press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders has called for the reinstatement of three journalists sacked from the government daily The Herald for working with the Voice of America. The three, sports editor Robson Sharuko and sports journalists Tendai Ndemera and Rex Mphisa, were dismissed at the beginning of February.
The Media and Information Commission [...]

Angola’s state-owned public television network TPA will soon broadcast a computing course by technicians from Microsoft. The Coordinator of the National Commission of Information Technologies (CNTI), Pedro Teta, said the course will air on TPA’s second channel, and will take place in the CNTI premises as soon as possible after the arrival of four [...]

Pakistan’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, says that private radio stations will not be allowed to sign rebroadcast agreements directly with foreign radio channels. The policy decision was announced by the Minister while presiding over a meeting of the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Thursday. Ten private radio stations are already [...]

Isle of Man International Broadcasting plc has issued this official account of the events at the High Court in Douglas, Islea of Man, earlier this week:
The Petition of Doleance challenging the Isle of Man Government’s issue of a long wave broadcast licence has been firmly rejected by the High Court in Douglas. [...]

Hong Kong viewers will get the naked truth on a new TV news show presented by nude newsreaders, reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, quoting the South China Morning Post. The newspaper says that the Fire/Ice news bulletins will be broadcast on Saturday and Sunday nights on a digital TV channel. 18-year-old model Chan Long will [...]

The number of US Internet subscribers accessing the Net through broadband connections is set to expand from 28.5 million in 2004 to more than 47 million in 2007. That’s according to the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Dial-up subscriber numbers actually fell slightly for the first time in 2003, dropping 0.2 percent to 47.7 million from [...]

Management at Radio Canada International have officially informed the employees’ union that two of the four announcer-producer positions in the Ukrainian service have been abolished. Both had been filled temporarily since last year, with no clear explanation why they had not been filled permanently. The RCI Action Committee says it’s not clear what the remaining [...]

The new Dutch public radio station Urban Radio may stay on the air for the time being, following a court ruling in Amsterdam today. The Commercial Radio Association VCR had taken public broadcasters NOS and NPS to court over their purchase of commercial cable station Colorful Radio, in order to get the commercial station’s slots [...]

From 1 March 2004, China Radio International (CRI) will be broadcasting in English two hours a day on mediumwave for Eastern European listeners. The broadcasts will be aired at 0700-0900 UTC on 1395 kHz from a transmitter in Albania. The programmes will be:
0700-0755 RealTime Beijing
0755-0800 Learn Chinese Now
0800-0830 News and Reports
0830-0855 Daily CRI feature [...]