Posts from ‘August, 2005’

CVC (Christian Vision) has announced special DRM transmissions directed towards Berlin for the IFA between 2nd and 7th September. The broadcasts will be at 1000-1300 UTC on 6065kHz, DRM power 50kW, from Moosbrunn (Austria) using an 11.8dB log-periodic antenna at 335 degrees. The programme content will be live, with English music and chat, originating in [...]

Several of the Dutch public broadcasters have begun a campaign for public support against the Cabinet’s plans for the future of public broadcasting. Members of the public are being asked in programme magazines and via the website www.publiekinactie.nl to make their feelings known to Members of Parliament before the scheduled debate on 12 September.
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Kingswood Warren - the 19th century Surrey house that is currently home to the BBC’s world-renowned Research & Development Department (R&D) - will again open its doors to the public on 10 and 11 September 2005 as part of a national weekend of Heritage Open Days, organised by the Civic Trust and English Heritage. Visitors [...]

China Digital Media Corporation has announced that its cable television operation in Nanhai, Guangdong Province, has launched 35 additional Pay-TV channels. These new channels contain television dramas, sports,family and movies channels, which are categorized into various value added packages.
As of today, Nanhai’s cable television operation provides 130 television channels to about 400,000 subscribers which comprises [...]

There are a few changes to the shortwave schedule of Radio Netherlands effective tomorrow until the end of the summer transmission period on 30 October. These changes do not affect any of our English broadcasts. The complete revised engineering schedule from 1 September - 30 October is now on our website.
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The Israeli news website Ynet reports that a Palestinian army station started broadcasting this morning. Al-Karama (Voice of Honour) will be the Palestinian equivalent of Israel’s Army Radio, and will initially broadcast 12 hours a day, according to the Palestinian Interior Ministry. It quotes Interior Ministry spokesman Toufik Abu Husa as saying that “The station [...]

A Russian broadcasting and telecommunications satellite, Express-AM3, will become operational tomorrow, a senior communications official said today. Boris Antonyuk, the Deputy Minister of Information Technology and Communications, said, “The satellite will start broadcasting five TV channels - Pervy, RTR, Kultura, NTV, and STS - on September 1.” According to the official, the ministry has completed [...]

Telenor-owned Norkring has entered into an agreement with the BBC World Service for digital broadcasting over short wave, DRM. From Norkring’s transmitting station at Kvitsoey, Norway, signals will be broadcast to Central Europe. The agreement involves broadcast of the radio channel BBC World Service “English for Europe” for an initial period of 18 months. The [...]

Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read, currently working for the commercial station Big L - Radio London, has been named as one of the presenters on the new longwave station in the Isle of Man. A report on the Isle of Man Today website says that bosses of the station have confirmed that Read [...]

BBC Radio’s download and podcast trial is proving to be hugely popular, averaging over 100,000 download requests a week during July. The first published figures show Radio 4’s In Our Time is the most popular programme included in the trial to date, averaging 30,000 download requests a week since the trial began earlier this year. [...]

CBC Management and the Canadian Media Guild are due to resume talks today in their first face-to-face meeting since the CBC locked out 5,500 employees on 15 August after a 15 month dispute over job security. According to the Guild website “The parties, through their chief negotiators, have had some good discussions over the last [...]

Tomorrow, 31 August, is the 31st anniversary of the end of Dutch offshore radio. In commemoration of the event, tomorrow there will be a special transmission called “The Day the Music Died” jointly organised by Laserradio, Stichting Norderney, Mixers and Quality Radio bv. Frequencies used will be mediumwave 1557 and 1584 kHz at 0700-1800 UTC, [...]

The Broadasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has today announced the signing of a ten year contract with Dublin Public Service Radio Association Limited (trading as 103.2 Dublin City Anna Livia FM) for the provision of a talk-based, broad format, special interest service in the franchise area of Dublin City.
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Premiere, Germany’s only pay-television channel, said today it had acquired exclusive broadcasting rights - for both free-to-air and pay TV - for matches in the UEFA Champions League over the next three years. Financial details were not disclosed, but industry sources estimated Premiere was paying around 200 million euros (US$244 million) for all the live [...]

South Asian information ministers ended a two-day meeting in Kathmandu with an agreement to cooperate in broadcasting, film and media development, an official said. The ministers from the seven-member South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) had agreed to establish “a regulatory framework to streamline the works of private channels and broadcasting agencies,” said Nepal [...]