Posts from ‘June, 2005’

Turkey’s largest media empire, Dogan Yayin Holding (DHY), announced today that it had cancelled the sale of a 19.99 percent stake in a subsidiary broadcasting company to Deutsche Bank after Turkish authorities said the takeover was illegal.
Deutsche Bank paid $150 million (124.1 million euros) in early June for the share in Dogan TV, which is [...]

Spain has ordered a satellite TV company to stop broadcasting a television station run by Hizbollah’s anti-Israel guerrillas to Latin America, the Industry Ministry said yesterday. The decision comes after France banned the channel, al-Manar, from broadcasting there in a move widely condemned in Lebanon, Hizbollah’s home country. The United States labelled the station a [...]

A meeting was held yesterday in the city of Sirte, Libya, between the Secretary of the General People’s Committee for Finance and the delegation of directors and deputies of regional and international banks which are loaning money for the African satellite project.
The meeting discussed the objectives of the African Satellite, stages of its manufacturing and [...]

Nepal’s private FM radio stations plan to defy a ban on news broadcasts and begin giving daily updates of planned protests against the government’s clampdown on the media, a broadcaster said today. The country’s 47 private FM stations also plan to broadcast news on activities relating to King Gyanendra’s birthday on July 7, the Save [...]

The Harare-based Radio Voice of the People - which is transmitted on SW for listeners in Zimbabwe via the Radio Netherlands Relay Station in Madagascar - now has its own website: http://www.vopradio.co.zw. The website is hosted in Zimbabwe.
(Source: Bernd Trutenau via DX Listening Digest mailing list)
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Excerpt from report by Indonesian news agency Antara web site
Cairo: Foreign Minister Hasan Wirayudha has succeeded in preventing the scheduled closure of the Indonesian language Egyptian radio station by the Egyptian government, which has been broadcasting from Cairo to the whole of the Indonesian archipelago region for the past 52 years.
“The Ministry of Information [...]

Sony Corporation says it will close a Welsh plant and cut 650 jobs, a fifth of its total workforce in Britain, as demand for traditional television sets slips away in favour of flat screens. The Japanese electronic giant will close its Bridgend factory, which makes cathode tubes for box television sets, cutting 400 jobs. A [...]

China Radio International (CRI) yesterday launched a new domestic channel called CRI Newsradio which operates on 900 kHz mediumwave. The new station provides a 24-hour service including current affairs, finance, sports and entertainment, and can be heard in both Chinese and foreign languages. Chinese interested in international news and other cultures, as well as foreigners [...]

FIFA has agreed direct TV rights deals with broadcasters in Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Spain as part of a Europe-wide package for the 2010 World Cup worth around one billion euros ($1.21 billion). For the rest of Europe, world soccer’s governing body said it would work in partnership with the European Broadcasting Union to [...]

Russia’s Deputy Minister of Culture and Mass Communications, Leonid Nadirov, says the planned English-language news TV channel may just be a pilot project. “We also do not have programs in Chinese, Pashto, and Turkish. I think the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - also need programmes in their native languages,” said Mr Nadirov. [...]

Text of press release by Paris-based GlobeCast satellite services company on 28 June
Paris, 28 June: GlobeCast today announced the addition of a new transponder to its capacity on the Eurobird satellite over the United Kingdom and Ireland. Joining the company’s three other digital DTH [direct to home] platforms on Eurobird, this new capacity, available this [...]

Since 1200 local time yesterday, two FM outlets of Radio Nacional del Ecuador - 100.9 MHz in Quito and 105.3 MHz in Guayaquil - have been off the air because of unpaid debts to the Ecuatronix company for the use of the transmitters and the rent of the equipment. The unpaid bills have accumulated since [...]

UK commercial broadcaster ITV plc says it welcomes the publication this morning of the financial terms set by media regulator Ofcom with respect to each of its regional Channel 3 licences and GMTV. Under the new terms for ITV plc’s 12 licences (including GMTV), it is estimated that payments for 2005 will be less than [...]

The Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey TD, has announced that he is developing a Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Pilot in Ireland. Expressions of interest are now currently being sought for infrastructural elements of the DTT Pilot.
“I am committed to the long-term provision of a free-to-air digital terrestrial [...]

A large number of photos have been posted on the Internet of the Big L - Radio London mediumwave site at Trintelhaven, and the arrival of Light Vessel No. 8 in Harlingen where it is to be fitted out for use by Radio Waddenzee/Radio Seagull. The photos are courtesy of Hans de Swan, Bert M [...]