Posts from ‘April, 2006’

A new radio programme exclusive to Sirius Satellite Radio will spotlight the best music from Sweden and more. Nordic Rox will be produced under the creative guidance of Per Gessle, one of the world’s most successful songwriters, producers and musicians. The programme will be hosted and programmed by Radio Stockholm on-air personality Viktor Petrovski, a [...]

Hong Kong media experts Thursday expressed fears for freedom of speech after the government unveiled plans to set up an audit team to monitor the territory’s public broadcaster. The Audit Commission released a damning report on Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) yesterday, highlighting its poor financial controls, management problems and its failure to comply [...]

Radio Six International is launching a new DX programme on 13 May. The station is now receiving many letters and reception reports every week from listeners to its shortwave and mediumwave transmissions, and this week its Internet service notched up its 122nd country with new listeners in Trinidad and Tobago.
Currently, letters from shortwave fans [...]

New Skies Satellites, an SES Global company, has announced that Rede Canção Nova, the Brazilian Catholic broadcaster, has chosen its NSS-806 Latin American satellite to distribute its free-to-air international channel to cable operators, radio and television affiliates and the general public across Latin America and Europe.
Canção Nova targets the Portuguese-speaking community in Europe and Latin [...]

WRN, the London-based international broadcaster, is launching a podcasting service. From 1st May, content will be available for download direct from the WRN website at www.wrn.org/podcasting and from iTunes and other podcast directories.
International programme producers providing weekly downloadable shows for the WRN podcasting service include Radio Prague, Radio Poland, Radio Slovakia International, RTE [...]

Excerpt from Rwandan newspaper The New Times website on 25 April, in which the newspaper asserts that the Rwandan print media were not alone “in this hate campaign”.
Let’s look at audio-visual media of which Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) takes the lead. The radio station was launched in mid-1993, as a private [...]

The proliferation of digital broadcast platforms such as Internet radio, satellite radio, HD and podcasting is a testament to the popularity of radio programming in the US. The Infinite Dial: Radio’s Digital Platforms, a new study by Arbitron Inc and Edison Media Research, explores this expansion of the radio market and its implications for advertisers [...]

BBC Mundo, the BBC’s international radio and internet service in Spanish, will for the first time provide news content on television thanks to a new arrangement with leading Latin American TV channel, Latinoamérica Televisión (LTV). BBC Mundo’s news and information site bbcmundo.com will provide international news and headlines in a news ticker featured on all [...]

Cuba has accused the US of increasing its financing of a “radio-electronic war” to promote a crisis to allow it to intervene militarily in the Island. During debates at the UN General Assembly’s Information Committee, Cuban Ambassador Rodrigo Malmierca noted that the US 2006 budget allocated $37 million for “anti-Cuban propaganda” through Radio-TV Martí, $10 [...]

To accommodate new international airport construction near Ecuador’s capital city of Quito, missionary engineers and national staff have lowered a two-antenna curtain array that Radio Station HCJB, the “Voice of the Andes”, formerly used to air programs to the South Pacific and Europe. In 2003 the mission switched to local and regional AM and FM [...]

UK media regulator Ofcom has today published proposals to reduce the regulatory burden on restricted broadcast licensees. The proposals will also expand the choice and flexibility associated with these services.
Restricted Service Licences (RSLs) are issued under the Broadcasting Act on FM and AM to provide radio services within a particular establishment (long-term – up to [...]

The April 26th, 1986 accident at the power plant known as Chernobyl-4 in Pripyat, Ukraine, is regarded as the worst in the history of nuclear power. Large areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of roughly 300,000 people. The accident raised serious questions about nuclear safety. The [...]

The Media Council in Saxony, Germany, has approved an application by the Dutch public broadcasting network Radio 1 to operate an FM service in Leipzig on Sunday 11 June when the Dutch national football team plays its World Cup match against Serbia and Montenegro there. A transmitter operating on 90.8 MHz will be installed at [...]

Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa Radio has launched its eight new digital radio channels. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende visited the Talpa studios and gave the signal to start just after 1500 UTC. The site, Radio Digitaal, requires Flash version 7 or higher, and will automatically start to download it if necessary. The following channels are [...]

A copy of the digital archives of the BBC’s Hungarian radio service, reflecting the country’s history, culture and political events over 66 years, will be placed in Hungary’s national library and public radio archives after an agreement was signed by the BBC World Service and the library today.
The 1,100 discs contain copies of archived broadcasts [...]