Posts from ‘November, 2005’

As I had a few moments to spare, I clicked on one of the links that Blogger auto-generates to show the 10 most recently updated Blogs. Iraq in 5 Minutes is a new Blog created by an American solider, Kris, from Arkansas. He says “This site was created for family and friends to view a [...]

Training in digitizing and preserving the sound archives of Bangladesh Betar recently continued with a second UNESCO/IPDC funded workshop this year. Since the first workshop in March 2005, that was conducted by the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) also with the support of UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), Bangladesh Betar [...]

Nigerian police shut a radio station owned by the southern Bayelsa state today as the federal government intensified its campaign to dislodge the governor, who is wanted for money laundering in Britain. Bayelsa Radio failed to start broadcasting this morning and several armed riot police stood guard outside the sealed building in the state capital [...]

France’s government gave the green light on Wednesday for an international TV news channel to start broadcasting in French by the end of next year, with the aim of spreading the country’s vision to the world. The brainchild of President Jacques Chirac, the 24-hour news channel is expected to beam into homes, hotels and newsrooms [...]

HOOAH!!! Radio, a free Internet-based radio station that salutes US soldiers and supports their families, officially launched on Monday. Staffed by live volunteer DJs that are comprised of US military veterans, HOOAH!!! provides of music and entertainment that is designed to appeal to listeners of all ages. HOOAH!!! offers an opportunity for friends and loved [...]

The Museum of Television & Radio will launch the She Made It website tomorrow. She Made It: Women Creating Television and Radio is a three-year initiative celebrating the achievements of creative and business women in the US television and radio industries. The Museum will honour great women writers, directors, producers, journalists, sportscasters and executives.
The site [...]

Europe’s love affair with the Internet continues apace according to research announced by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) which demonstrates both the increasing time spent online and the increasing sophistication of internet use among European consumers.
The average European internet user now spends 10 hours 15 minutes a week online compared to 8hrs 45mins a [...]

The local UK television service Solent TV has announced that it will launch its satellite TV service on Sky Digital in March 2006. This is slightly later than originally planned, probably due to the reported software problems Sky has been having with its new Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) that will not now be ready until [...]

The outgoing Director of Botswana’s Department of Broadcasting Services, Habuji Sosome, says he is not aware of any problems bedevilling the public broadcaster. “I am not aware of such problems”, he said in an interview with the Botswana Press Agency (BOPA). “I only read them in the press.” However, Sosome said if there were such [...]

Adventist World Radio has launched a redesigned website featuring a searchable programme schedule for AWR’s shortwave broadcasts, a prayer request section, and expanded story features. The church-owned site is located at www.awr.org.
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The BBC’s pilot for its new local television news service launches in the West Midlands this week. The nine month scheme - starting on Thursday 1 December - uses the latest broadcasting technology to create different kinds of local television news in six different areas of the West Midlands. They are: Birmingham; the Black Country; [...]

CBC/Radio-Canada and Sirius Satellite Radio have announced that, from its launch day on Thursday 1 December, Sirius Satellite Radio Canada will carry Radio Canada International (RCI) in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian and Chinese, which will also be enhanced by shows from partner stations in Canada and around the globe.
“Canadian demographics are evolving, [...]

TCM (Turner Classic Movies) is set to expand its channel offering with the introduction of a brand new channel, TCM2, in the third quarter of 2006. TCM UK is the first of the TCM channels outside the US to launch another complementary broadcast outlet in addition to the main channel.
Part of the Time Warner [...]

French media and entertainment group Thomson is in advanced talks over buying Thales Broadcast Media, which deals in the radio and television transmitter business, according to a report in La Tribune. The newspaper says that Thales announced its plan to sell the division at a board meeting last week. Thales Broadcast Media employs around 600 [...]

A new organisation has been set up which hopes to drag the Netherlands kicking and screaming into the DAB era, just as some other countries in Europe are losing interest in the 20-year-old digital transmission platform. The Digitale Radio Documentatie Bureau (DRDB) says it plans to stimulate interest in digital radio through cooperation between manufacturers, [...]