Posts from ‘April, 2005’

The Shabelle Media Network (SMN) TV and radio station based in Mogadishu, Somalia, has announced the official launch of Shabelle Satellite Television. SMN says the station covers every single part of Africa, Asia and Australia in the initial stage, to be followed by coverage of Europe and North America in the second phase.
SMN says [...]

Text of report by Kyrgyz TV on 29 April
The major British company BBC will expand its broadcasting in Kyrgyzstan, making investments in the development of radio. A ceremony at which an agreement on rebroadcasting BBC programmes by Kyrgyz radio was signed was held at the Kyrgyz National Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation today. Now [...]

The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has called for public comment on possible ways to manage interference from Broadband over Power Line (BPL) communications. BPL communications is an emerging technique that uses electricity networks to transmit data, voice and video. Releasing a discussion paper on the issue, ACA Acting Chairman Dr Bob Horton said the challenge [...]

WRN, one of the leading satellite transmission companies for the UK radio industry, is hosting Virgin Radio Classic Rock on its ‘RADIO’ channel, Sky Digital 934 from Sunday 1st May, 2005. WRN is receiving the Virgin Radio Classic Rock feed at its central London broadcast centre and inserting it into its ‘RADIO’ channel. WRN is [...]

Thailand’s MCOT Public Company Limited is seeking three to four potential foreign partners to establish MCOT Television, a report on the MCOT website has said. MCOT’s President, Mingkwan Sangsuwan, said the company was in process of negotiating with three to four potential partners and the process was likely to be finalised within three months. An [...]

BBC Japan – the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) channel dedicated to Japanese viewers – has had an encouraging start since its December launch, the Japan Today newspaper has reported. The newspaper quoted Director of the BBC’s Global News Division, Richard Sambrook, as saying the channel, with a mixture of light entertainment, documentaries and educational shows, [...]

With less than a week to go before the general election, British TV station Channel 4 has apologised to the Green Party for messing up its only election broadcast. Due to “human error”, the 5-minute programme was accompanied by subtitles meant for the broadcast of the UK Independence Party. The subtitles were highly critical of [...]

The frequency of our Spanish transmission via Ascension at 0000-0200 UTC is changing from Sunday 1 May (2 May according to UTC day). 11900 kHz will be replaced by 5995 kHz.
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BBC Monitoring observes that public broadcaster Republic of Iraq Radio has recently appeared on the Hotbird 4 satellite at 13 degrees east, frequency 12654 MHz, horizontal polarization, symbol rate 27500, FEC 3/4. This transponder is on a wide beam with a primary footprint covering Europe as far east as Moscow.
Republic of Iraq Radio has [...]

Korea’s first-ever Internet broadcasting service for migrant workers will make its debut on 1 May. The state-funded Migrant Workers Support Center will launch MNTV (www.mntv.net), which will show programmes to help migrant workers adjust to Korean society. The Migrant Workers Support Center opened last December in Daerim-dong, southern Seoul, as part of government efforts to [...]

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders voiced alarm at Bahrain’s decision announced on 24 April 2005 to oblige all websites dealing with the country to register with the ministry of Information. “This does not happen in any democratic country and is a threat to press freedom,” the organisation said.
Announcing the step, the information ministry said [...]

Malawi’s opposition parties are threatening to block the budgets for state-run radio and television in parliament because of alleged bias. The main opposition party, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), claimed that the public broadcasters – Television Malawi and Malawi Broadcasting Corporation - are no longer serving the interests of the nation but those of [...]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has announced its decision to honour SW Radio Africa with its 2005 Free Media Pioneer Award. Gerry Jackson, founder and station manager of SW Radio Africa, will receive the prize at an award ceremony on 24 May, during the forthcoming IPI World Congress in Nairobi, Kenya (21-24 May).
In Zimbabwe, where [...]

The BBC World Service is launching its first major direct e-marketing campaign, which builds on the success of its e-newsletters sent to thousands of listeners across the world. From Friday 6 May, the newly-designed World Service E-Network, promoting the BBC’s international English language radio and online output, goes weekly. Subscriptions will be driven via puff-boxes [...]

Circuit City Stores, Inc. and InterTAN Canada Ltd. today announced that on or before June 30, 2005, all stores currently operated by InterTAN Canada Ltd. under license from RadioShack Corporation will be re-branded as THE SOURCE BY CIRCUIT CITY. The introduction of THE SOURCE BY CIRCUIT CITY stores begins today with the unveiling of the [...]