Posts from ‘November, 2005’

Text of report by Nepalnews.com website on 29 November
Radio Sagarmatha FM - the first community-based radio station in South Asia - resumed its transmission Tuesday [28 November] afternoon within hours of the Supreme Court verdict to the government not to implement its decision to stop the transmission of the pioneer public radio.
Radio Sagarmatha [...]

George Lessard, who runs the excellent Creative Radio mailing list, writes: I am in La Paz, Bolivia for another two weeks as a volunteer under a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funded program with the Canadian Executive Service Organization. I’ve discovered that there are (at least) 700 low power community radio stations in the country. [...]

Starting 1 December 2005, all satellite transmissions of Deutsche Welle (DW) to Asia will be shifted to AsiaSat 3S. Transmissions via AsiaSat 2 will, however, continue simultaneously until 21st January 2006 in order to give listeners and viewers the time for the necessary alterations. The new parameters are:
AsiaSat 3S digital

Position: 105.5° East
Frequency: 3.760 GHz
Polarization: Horizontal
Video [...]

Germany’s media watchdog said today it was concerned that the agreed takeover of broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1by publisher Axel Springer could create an entity that would be able to exercise a dominant influence on public opinion in Germany. “The concerns were raised in the initial investigation and were communicated to the parties involved,” Bernd Malzanini, the head [...]

Following a board meeting on Tuesday 22 November 2005, the management of UK digital dance music radio station Pure Dance has decided to put the station up for sale.
Pure Dance was launched in June 2004 on the Sky Digital service, and since then has steadily built a regular audience of nearly one million listeners every [...]

Radio Sweden has announced that, beginning today, there will be a new frequency and a new starting time for its DRM tests to Europe from Radio Canada International’s transmitters in Sackville. The transmissons will be at 1502-1558 UTC, and the frequency will be 17880 kHz. This arrangement provides a daylight path from Sackville to Europe [...]

The new President of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is Genichi Hashimoto, President of NHK-Japan. He was elected at the General Assembly in Hanoi at the weekend to succeed Zainal Abidin Iberahim of RTM-Malaysia, who has been acting ABU President since Katsuji Ebisawa resigned from the post early in 2004. Mr Hashimoto will serve a [...]

A “radio war” is taking place in Brussels, where public broadcaster RTBF’s station for young people, Pure FM, is being blocked in central Brussels by the transmissions of an unlicenced multicultural station, Contact Inter, on the same frequency of 88.8 MHz. The interference started last Thursday, and continued through the weekend. The station had been [...]

Construction of a 610-metre TV tower, expected to be the world’s highest, started recently in Guangzhou, capital city of South China’s Guangzhou province. The TV tower, with a 450-metre tower and a 160-meter mast, will be finished in 2009 at a total cost of 2.2 billion yuan (27.2 million US dollars).
The TV tower will [...]

The first annual Middle East Broadcasters Conference and Exposition, MEB 2005, will take place from December 8-10, 2005 at the Beirut International Exhibition and Leisure (BIEL) Center. MEB-HD, the first fully-functioning HDTV station in the Middle East, will be a centerpiece of the show. Over thirty companies from North America, Europe and Asia are donating [...]

The Siemens Communications Group is supplying high-speed Internet technology and new mobile communication technology to Greenland. 57,000 inhabitants are being equipped with Europe’s fastest Internet, ADSL2+, enabling them to surf the World Wide Web even faster and more conveniently than their 700 million neighbors on the European mainland.
Telecommunication – whether mobile phone coverage literally in [...]

Text of report in English by Israeli Globes business information website on 27 November
Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Cyprus have signed a regional agreement to coordinate television and digital radio frequencies. The Ministry of Communications said the agreement was intended to coordinate use of these frequencies, thereby avoiding disturbances in the systems of Israeli wireless [...]

Police in Nepal raided and closed down Radio Sagarmatha, the first community radio station in South Asia, earlier today. The police stormed into the Master Control Room at 8.55 pm local time and arrested five employees. Reports from Nepal say the raid was carried out on the orders of the government, which accused Radio Sagarmatha [...]

One of the unsuccessful candidates for the FM licence currently held by RTL FM says that the Dutch government is not going to appeal against a court decision in Rotterdam that the award prodedure was flawed, and the licence is now expected to be re-awarded.
In early October, the court in Rotterdam decided that RTL [...]

US urban broadcaster Radio One Inc. has announced plans to launch the first national talk radio network geared toward a black audience. Chief Executive Alfred Liggins III thinks he has found a gap in the market and said in a conference call that “We are in the business of aggregating audience for this particular (demographic) [...]