Posts from ‘October, 2005’

Text of report by DRCongo’s UN-sponsored Radio Okapi website on 24 October
Inter Viens et Vois radio and TV station of Lubumbashi has been banned from broadcasting for 15 days.
The decision was reached by the High Media Authority (HAM), one of the institutions supporting democracy during the transition.
Inter Viens et Vois is accused of broadcasting hateful [...]

We just received this update from Jeff White of Radio Miami International: “The hurricane has just passed through Miami. Lots of damage. Most of the city has no power. Our transmitter site has no power. I’m worried about the antennas, but it will be at least this evening before we can even get to the [...]

Voicing outrage at the closure of a branch of the Senegalese radio station Sud FM in the Gambian capital of Banjul by police on 22 October, Reporters Without Borders today called on the Gambian authorities to let it resume broadcasting immediately.
“A dispute between the government and a privately-owned radio station in no way justifies such [...]

BBC London 94.9, the BBC’s “local” radio service for London, has suddenly appeared on satellite via the BSkyB platform. It can be found on EPG channel 902, where it replaces BBC World Service Extra. It’s labelled “BBC Radio London”
It’s free to air and can be tuned in by anyone within the footprint of Astra 2D [...]

A BBC ONE Real Story special on volunteer doctors from Britain trying to save lives in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in south-Asia will be broadcast simultaneously in the English language and Urdu. The programme will be broadcast in English but will be available at the same time in Urdu to all digital viewers. [...]

A three-week trial of providing news via SMS to Dutch holidaymakers has proved to be a big success, and Radio Netherlands has decided to offer the service next year during the peak vacation season. The free service is provided in co-operation with Dutch news agency ANP, and delivers updated bulletins three times a day.
Radio Netherlands [...]

Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES Astra has relaunched its Internet presence and now offers a series of self-contained websites. Visitors can now select from the business or consumer site, or alternatively one of 11 sites specifically aimed at one specific country. Some of these are still under construction. The consumer site uses Flash technology. The business [...]

The idea of transmitting data over electrical power lines is not new. Trials are in progress worldwide and a variety of equipment is available, but no large-scale deployments have been completed. Two modes exist: Broadband over Power Line (BPL), offering high-speed access via the electrical grid; and data transfer around the home. The latter comes [...]

The Venezuela-backed satellite TV channel Telesur says that it will begin broadcasting live newscasts on 31 October. The channel launched in July, but up to now all material has been pre-recorded. Telesur’s president, former Venezuelan information minister Andres Izarra, told a news conference yesterday that twelve correspondents will report from eight Latin American countries, and [...]

Kazuhiro Araki, head of the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea, has told reporters that the group plans to start shortwave broadcasts, starting as early as the end of this month. The broadcasts, in Japanese, will be beamed to North Korea in the hope of reaching abucted Japanese citizens, who the [...]

Congratulations, the special Eurovision Song Contest 50th anniversary TV show, organized on behalf of the EBU by Danmarks Radio (DR), will take place in Copenhagen this evening, commencing at 1900 UTC. 14 songs will compete for the title of the “Best Eurovision song ever”. Over 30 countries will be broadcasting the show, but it is [...]

Text of report by Equatorial Guinea radio on 21 October
The engineers of the Italian company, Digitale MultiMedia Technologies [as heard] currently visiting our country to identify the areas in which to set up the new RTVGE [national broadcaster Radio-Television de Guinea Ecuatorial] equipment, went to the Pico Basile centre on 20 October. The Italian engineers [...]

International press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Chinese authorities to stop blocking access to the website of the independent online encyclopedia Wikipedia, whose popularity has been growing steadily in China. The site has been unavailable in several provinces including Shanghai since 18 October.
This latest online censorship paradoxically comes at a [...]

WorldSpace, Inc. today announced that it has received licenses from the Telecommunications Regulatory Authorities of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for terrestrial repeater networks. The licences will enable WorldSpace to deploy mobile satellite radio services in those countries. WorldSpace plans to rollout the mobile services in the first half of 2006.
“The mobile rollout [...]

Media Network has learned that Nigel Chapman, Director of the BBC World Service, will be announcing details to staff of the BBC World Service Strategy to 2010 on Tuesday 25 October at 1115 UTC. Earlier press reports of an announcement on Monday are therefore incorrect. Staff have been advised not to believe rumours that may [...]