Posts from ‘October, 2004’

The latest edition of Radio World from Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal (RVI) suggests that listeners should write to the Flemish Media Minister to suggest why RVI should not stop broadcasting in English, French and German next March, as is currently planned. Radio World says:
The Flemish media minister Geert Bourgeois wants listeners and viewers to help to [...]

Over a million radio listeners in Eastern England are without an FM service after a transmitter mast at Peterborough in Cambridgeshire collapsed onto the transmitter building and neighbouring fields after catching fire on Saturday evening. The station covers much of Cambridgeshire, and parts of Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and West Norfolk. Services broadcast from [...]

Taiwan-based satellite broadcaster ETTV will from tomorrow be offering three channels for overseas Chinese in 34 countries of Central and South America. The project is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government Information Office. The three channels are ETTV News, ET Drama, and ETTV South America. Gary Wang, Chairman of Eastern Multimedia [...]

It has been revealed that, prior to his death last week, broadcaster John Peel had held discussions with the British Library about leaving his extraordinary record collection to the nation. Peel had built an extension to his country home to house his unique collection of vinyl, CDs and tapes from around the world. It would [...]

The 8,500-member Japan Broadcasting Workers Union is set to submit a written demand for the resignation of Katsuji Ebisawa, President of public broadcaster NHK. The Union says that, since the alleged embezzlement of some 49 million yen by a former NHK producer came to light in July, a number of viewers have refused to pay [...]

About 50 armed supporters of presidential candidate Sergei Bagapash have taken control of the TV centre in the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia. Bagapash told journalists that the action was to prevent a recurrence of what happened the previous day, when supporters of rival candidate Raul Khadzhimba broke into the building of the Supreme Court [...]

An interesting new TV channel for the Arab world was launched on Friday night, October 29th. It is aimed at viewers between 13 and 35, and is a US$ 20 million joint venture between Lebanon’s richest TV network (Future TV) and the region’s fastest growing media metropolis - Dubai Media City.
Since more than 65% of [...]

UK media regulator Ofcom has published the Communications Market Quarterly Update covering the latest data available to 30 September 2004. The Update shows that, for the first time:
* The UK has overtaken Germany in broadband penetration. By the end of June 2004 the UK had 7.5 connections per hundred population compared to 6.1 in Spain, [...]

The Hungarian government has given the green light to the privatization of national telecommunications and broadcasting company Antenna Hungaria Rt (AH) in an open tender. According to press reports, six foreign investors have expressed interest in taking part in the privatization tender: France’s Telediffusion de France, Portugal’s Portugal Telecom, Retevision of Spain, Italy’s Telespazio, the [...]

Reports from the breakaway Georgian Republic of Abkhazia say the state television and radio broadcasting system is off the air. In the early hours of this morning the Abkhazia Supreme Court decided to cancel its decision on the election of Sergei Bagapsh as president of Abkhazia. The Court has declared the election results across the [...]

The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) plans to introduce major changes in its stations. Radio Nigeria 1 is to be renamed Radio 1 and listeners in Lagos will be able to listen to the station on FM. Radio Nigeria 3 will become Bond FM. Metro FM will be repositioned as a city station for [...]

The Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Corporation was officially launched yesterday at the third meeting of the Co-ordination Commission for the 2008 Beijing Games. Jiang Xiaoyu, Vice-Chairman of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games organizing committee, was named chairman of the new company’s board, and Hein Verbruggen, Chairman of the International Olympic Committee’s Co-ordination Commission, was named its [...]

The Commercial Radio Association in the Netherlands (VCR) says that Monday’s published listening figures for August/September show that more people are listening for longer than ever before to commercial radio. The commercial broadcasters now have a combined market share of 51%, and almost 60 per cent of all Dutch people listen at least once a [...]

BBC Director of New Media & Technology, Ashley Highfield, today outlined the Corporation’s vision for a broadband Britain, and called upon the collaboration and co-operation of Government and industry to avoid a digital underclass. Delivering the keynote speech at the Broadband Britain Summit, Highfield described broadband as a new era in the world of content [...]

DXing With Cumbre is a weekly radio programme produced by Marie Lamb and broadcast on shortwave via World Harvest Radio stations WHRI and KWHR. It features the latest DX tips from Cumbre DX as well as audio clips of recent SWBC DX catches. As of Sunday, October 31st, the show will also be available on [...]