Posts from ‘March, 2006’

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has given its approval to Montreal’s Radio Shalom to operate a “commercial religious” station on the extended AM band at 1650 kHz with 1 kW power. The station plans to broadcast in French (60 per cent), English (30 per cent) and Hebrew (10 per cent).
Radio Shalom has [...]

As you may know, Blogger - the program we use to produce this Weblog - is owned by Google. Google has its own blog (http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/) which suddenly became unavailable for a few hours a couple of nights ago, producing the error message “Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server. Please visit [...]

UK-based satellite broadcaster Radio Caroline has announced that it will no longer be carried by Technisat as part of their Music Bouquet subscription service from the end of March. The service, carried on the Astra 1G satellite at 19.2E, has run out of channels and, as Radio Caroline was being carried free of charge, the [...]

An electronics whizz who became a local hero after setting up a pirate radio station with spare parts that cost just one dollar was inundated Wednesday with offers of support after the government shut him down. FM Mansoorpur, set up three years by Raghav Mahto using bits and pieces from his electronics repair shop, was [...]

Nigeria has banned a private radio station owned by an opposition politician from broadcasting political programmes, his party said today. The Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) said the ban was a government attempt to silence its critics, echoing comments from a growing number of opposition and civil society groups who say Nigeria is slipping back [...]

CVC has announced an extension of its regular daily DRM transmissions in Portuguese from Santiago targeting Brazil, on a new frequency.
Time: 1800-2000 UTC
Frequency: 17660kHz
Power: 15kW
Broadcaster: Voz Crista
Language: Portuguese
Bearing: 45 deg
Target: Brazil
DRM technical parameters will vary.
(Source: James Serpell via DRM Software Radio Forum)
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The Japanese government will consider easing shareholding limits among media organisations to help boost the capital strength of Japanese broadcasters and increase their global competitiveness, a senior communications ministry official has said. Vice Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, Shogo Hayashi, expressed the intention to relax the ministry ordinance that prohibits a media organisation from [...]

In a complete reversal of the usual trend, the Enigma Radio Network has announced that starting today its podcasts will be heard throughout most of the world on shortwave radio.
The Daily Dig, a 3-5 minute world news programme, can be heard on 15825 kHz on WWCR, Monday through Friday at 1:05 PM Eastern time (1805 [...]

The Nepali army is to run its own radio stations to counter what it calls propaganda being spread by Maoist rebels fighting to topple the country’s monarchy, an army officer said today. Brigadier-General Nepal Bhusan Chand said the army plans to start six FM stations to “neutralise the propaganda campaign by the terrorists”, while also [...]

World Vision, in partnership with other members of the Child Protection Network, is leading awareness raising efforts on the return process by communicating key messages via radio to families preparing to leave relief camps across Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Funded by World Vision Japan, the five-minute radio spots in the national language Urdu [...]

China’s first regional English TV channel started broadcasting today in Guangzhou, capital of the southern Guangdong Province. The channel is broadcast to the entire south of China and mainly deals with news and stories around the Pearl River Delta. The new English channel will broadcast for 18 hours every day and the programs are divided [...]

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has today announced that the following decisions with regard to the licensing of radio services were reached at its board meeting yesterday:
National broad format sound broadcasting service
The Commission has awarded a ten year licence in principle to Radio Ireland Limited (trading as 100-102 Today [...]

New Zealand’s national indigenous channel, Maori Television, celebrates its second ‘on-air’ anniversary today. Chief executive Jim Mather says significant progress has been achieved in the past two years as the station continues to cement its place as a permanent and valued element of the local broadcasting landscape. Recent research shows that 50 per cent of [...]

Azerbaijani Minister of Connection and Informational Technologies, Ali Abbasov, has told Trend news agency that monitoring held in the regions bordering Iran has revealed that many private TV and radio stations in Azerbaijan are not fully using their licenced frequencies. As a result, frequency vacuums appear and they are usually used by foreign stations, the [...]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006, the new website www.veronicastory.nl goes live. The Dutch Veronica foundation wants to preserve its history and feeling ‘for eternity.’ Contributions from the Dutch public will be an important element of the site. Under the slogan “What is your Veronica Story?”, everyone is invited to tell his or her personal story [...]