Posts from ‘May, 2004’

A member of the Azerbaijani parliament yesterday called on the government to take strict control over re-broadcasts of the BBC Central Asian and Caucasus Service within the country in order to prevent the “unequivocally anti-Azerbaijani propaganda.”
“These kinds of broadcasts must be stopped,” said Mubariz Qurbanli, an MP from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party. Qurbanli [...]

India’s Prasar Bharati Corporation, which is the primary rights holder for all broadcasts from Parliament House, has written to the Indian Broadcasting Foundation to complain about private TV channels using the live Doordarshan feed of the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting on 18 May without prior permission. The private channels used the Doordarshan pictures as Sonia [...]

The KurdishMedia Web site, citing another Kurdish Website (payamner.com) says that Ghazi Fayisal, responsible for Kirkuk TV, has started sacking the Kurdish employees of the station. According to the report, Ghazi Fayisal is a “settler Arab” who came to Kirkuk under the former Iraqi regime as part of the Arabaisation campaign of Kurdistan. The report [...]

New York’s WABC-AM (770 kHz) will sound different next Monday, Memorial Day, between 6am and 6pm local time (1000-2200 UTC). The station will present its annual “Rewound” special, 12 complete hours of original programming from the 60’s and 70’s when WABC was America’s, and the world’s, number one Top 40 station. Everything will be [...]

The long-awaited Mayah DRM-2010 portable DRM receiver has now been shipped to those who pre-ordered it. Radio Netherlands has one, and technical colleagues are now putting it through its paces. We will publish our initial findings as soon as possible.
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After a wasted decade in which the politicians failed to pass the necessary legislation, 2004 looks as if it will be the year when Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) finally gets going in the Netherlands. At a meeting yesterday at the headquarters of transmission provider Nozema, public broadcasting’s DAB coordinator Hans Bakhuizen said that by mid-November [...]

Text of report by Azerbaijani news agency Trend
Baku, 25 May: The broadcasts of the world-famous BBC on the Azerbaijani state radio channel [national first programme] may be suspended, the chairman of the Azerbaijani state television and radio company, Nizami Xudiyev, told the Milli Maclis today, Trend reports.
He said the company had sent an [...]

Researchers at Ball State University’s Center for Media Design in Indiana are some of the first in the US to test out a new software program that could bring interactive TV into American homes. Known as Modelstream, researchers will use the program to see how consumers respond to interactive television, said Mike Bloxham, CMD’s director [...]

India’s new Information and Broadcasting Minister, Jaipal Reddy, has promised to give “full functioning autonomy” to national broadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio.
The minister says he hopes to model the national network on the pattern of the BBC. Mr Reddy said he wants to put a regulatory authority in place as soon as possible but [...]

South Korea’s opposition Grand National Party (GNP) today demanded the resignation of Jung Yun-joo, president of the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) for what it terms “poor management.” Kim Hyong-o, GNP secretary general, said that the GNP will seek ways to privatize KBS by revising the broadcasting laws.
Five months ago, the Board of Audit and Inspection [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says that the authorities in Beijing have been harassing New York-based television channel New Tang Dynasty TV (NTDTV) since its launch in February 2002 as China ensures it maintains its grip on Chinese-language electronic media. NTDTV’s contract with satellite operator New Skies Satellites (NSS) for Asia transmission recently ended after prolonged [...]

Japanese public broadcaster NHK demonstrated the world’s first ultrahigh-definition video system in Tokyo yesterday. With 4,320 scanning lines, the system supports 16 times more information than existing high-definition broadcasting systems, which use 1,250 lines. The demonstration used a screen 5.6 meters wide and 9.8 meters tall. According to NHK, it conveys “a much stronger sensation [...]

The legal adviser to President Mbeki of South Africa, Mojanku Gumbi, has written to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa, to complain about a Highveld Stereo broadcast on April 28. The station is alleged to have defamed the Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Two of the station’s presenters discussed Obasanjo’s presence in South Africa and [...]

The Turkish Foreign Ministry says that Turkey will begin broadcasting TV programmes in the Kurdish language later this year, thus removing a major obstacle to the commencement of membership talks with the European Union. An EU summit in December is due to decide whether to begin accession talks, following publication of an advisory report in [...]

Afghanistan’s first private television station went on air on Sunday in Kabul. Afghan TV is funded by an Afghan businessman and will have 18 hours of programming a day. Up to now, Afghanistan has had just one state TV channel which broadcasts for a few hours in the evening. Under the Taliban there was no [...]