Posts from ‘October, 2005’

WRMI General Manager Jeff White has posted the following update on the station’s website:
“Hurricane Wilma hit South Florida on October 24 and has caused extensive damage throughout the southern part of the state - particularly in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale areas.
“Electrical power was out at our offices in Miami until last Friday, Oct. 28. [...]

Bahrain will soon have its first privately-held radio station, a spokesman for the project said today. Sawt al-Ghad, or the Voice of Tomorrow, has already obtained permits from the Ministry of Information and gone on the air on a trial basis in Bahrain and eastern Saudi Arabia, said Mohammed Shrughi of Delmon Media. The station [...]

Ray Anderson, boss of UK commercial broadcaster Radio London, says the station has secured new funding for the project to go forward and survive in what is now a very competitive radio market. In a statement on the station’s website, Anderson says:
“When I relaunched the station in May of this year, we launched with a [...]

The Voice of America (VOA) has expanded radio broadcasts to Western and Southern Africa in response to listener requests for increased programming to the region.
VOA’s Hausa Language Service has expanded its popular breakfast program to a full hour. The new hour-long program, airing from 0430-0530 UTC will offer listeners a comprehensive and timely broadcast [...]

According to Michigan-based US newspaper the Midland Daily News, the Ku Klux Klan is planning to start shortwave broadcasts. Thomas Robb, who co-hosts “This is the Klan” on a public access TV channel in Midland said the Klan is always recruiting, just like other groups wanting to reach people. He said people learn about the [...]

Excerpt from report by Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency
Muzaffarabad, 28 October: AJK [Azad Jammu Kashmir] President Sardar Muhammad Anwar Khan Friday [28 October] said that radio is playing a pivotal role in fostering the cause of relief and rehabilitation in the quake-affected areas.
He said this during a visit to Azad Kashmir [...]

According to reports in the Digital Spy Satellite Forum, the Duty Office of UK commercial broadcaster ITV states that:
“ITV4 will appear on channel 136 (Men & Motors) for one night only on 1 November. M&M will be back on 2 November, as advertised. From 7 November, ITV4 will be available on digital satellite channel 120.”
This [...]

Dave Kernick reports: A shortwave transmission aimed at reaching Japanese citizens alleged to have been abducted to North Korea was observed commencing its inaugural broadcast on Sunday 30 October 2005 at 1530 gmt on 5890 kHz, going off the air at 1559 UTC.
The programme, called “Shiokaze” - sea breeze - was speech-based in Japanese (no [...]

The Moroccan Minister of Communication, Nabil Benabdallah, says that the improvement of broadcasting services depends on digital technologies, reported MAP news agency. Mr Benabdallah spoke to the House of Representatives about the problems in receiving the Moroccan second channel 2M in some parts of the country. He said the difficulties are due to the geographic [...]

A joint hearing of two US congressional subcommittees has focused on the importance of broadcasting to bring accurate news and other information to the people of North Korea.
Read the VOA report by Dan Robinson (audio available)
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German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has launched a high-definition television (HDTV) service, becoming the first major broadcaster in Europe to transmit in the high-resolution format.
The free-to-air broadcaster will screen selected programmes in HDTV on its two main channels, ProSieben and Sat.1.
Speaking at an official launch ceremony in Munich on 26 October, ProSiebenSat.1 officials hailed [...]

A Japanese company has developed technology to transmit a two-hour movie in 0.5 seconds, the world’s fastest speed achieved with fibre-optic cables in the field, it said today. Kansai Electric used fibre-optic cables on power-transmitting steel towers to achieve the speed of one terabit per second, which is more than 100 times faster than [...]

An alliance of Nepalese political parties have called for a general strike in the capital tomorrow in a move to try to overturn a government ban on FM radio news broadcasts. On Sunday the government banned FM radio stations in Kathmandu from airing news-oriented programmes, a move that followed a media ordinance by King [...]

The Asahi Shimbun has published more information on the planned shortwave broadcasts to abducted Japanese citizens in North Korea. The 30-minute programme launches on Sunday and will be called “Shiokaze”(sea breeze). It will air every day at 1530-1600 UTC. No details of the frequency are mentioned in the report, which says that “A British broadcasting [...]

Text of report by Norway-based Burmese Democratic Voice of Burma on 25 October
Dear listeners, the Democratic Voice of Burma will be changing some of its frequencies beginning from Sunday, 30 October.
The programme being broadcast from 2100 to 2200 [1430-1530 gmt] on shortwave 16 metres, 17625 kilohertz, will now be broadcast on 17495 kilohertz.
There [...]