Posts from ‘May, 2006’

The Indian government is readying a policy for satellite radio that will regulate the sector and also throw the satellite radio space open to multiple players. Currently, only one satellite radio player, the Washington DC-headquartered WorldSpace, operates in the country, and there are no norms or guidelines for the sector yet.
“We will formulate a policy [...]

Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, 31 May: A Japanese group investigating missing Japanese believed to have been abducted by North Korea said Wednesday [31 May] it will change its radio frequency so as to prevent North Korea from jamming it.
The group, known as the Investigative Commission on Missing [...]

NRK, Norway’s public television and radio broadcaster, was hit by a strike beginning at 3 p.m. this afternoon. The Norwegian Union of Journalists (NJ) and LO-Stat, a confederation of unions for employees in the public sector, declared a strike after rejecting a suggested solution submitted by state mediation eleven hours after the deadline for negotiations. [...]

XM Satellite Radio said yesterday that it is suspending the sale of two products and reviewing others after a US regulator said the devices exceeded limits for wireless signal strength. XM said the suspensions applied to Audiovox and Delphi radios that let consumers play XM’s satellite radio service on regular radios but declined to say [...]

A minor update to the summer frequency schedule of Radio Netherlands takes place tomorrow, effective until 31 August. It involves some additional transmissions for our Dutch service beamed to Northern Europe, which are always added for three months in the summer. The revised schedule is now online. Also on that page is the planned schedule [...]

BBC World Service has appointed Liliane Landor as its new Editor BBC World Service News and Current Affairs. She is responsible for all the BBC World Service News and Current Affairs programmes in English. Stephen Mitchell, Head of Radio News says: “Liliane has a great track record in World Service as well as the vision [...]

Due to login problems at Blogger, the Weblog has been inaccessible for editing all day. However, using a program called w.bloggar I’m able to post new items from home. I can’t use this program at work as we’re not allowed to install non-standard software on individual workstations. Hopefully Blogger will sort out whatever is wrong, [...]

Dutch commercial radio station RTL FM, which has been told by the Minister of Economic Affairs that it must close on 8 July and hand its licence to 100%NL, has lodged an appeal to be allowed to stay on the air after 8 July. The request will be considered at a hearing at 10:00 Dutch [...]

Russian national TV networks RTR (operated by All-Russia State TV and Radio company, or VGTRK) and Channel One (formerly ORT, now jointly operated by state and private entities) have encrypted their previously free-to-air satellite relays.
Both channels share a transponder on the Russian-owned Express AM1 satellite located at 40 degrees east. This transponder can be [...]

WorldSpace® Satellite Radio today announced that, through an agreement with Sama Communications Company Limited (Samacom), the company will commission a new satellite uplink facility in Dubai. The new facility will allow WorldSpace to enhance its satellite radio content delivery and enable live programming from Dubai.
Dubai was selected to house the facility based on its central [...]

VT Communications has launched its dual-channel Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) transmission service from Crystal Palace in South East London into Greater London. Partnering with Deutsche Welle and UBC Classic Gold, VT Communications can now provide two discrete broadcast services over a single 20KHz transmission band centred at 25.7 MHz. This is the first time the [...]

Kevin Wilson has been appointed as Interim Head of Communications for the BBC World Service Trust. As the BBC’s international charity, the Trust works with people in developing and transitional countries to improve the quality of their lives through the innovative use of the media.
Kevin joins the Trust from the South Bank Centre, [...]

North Korea has asked its capitalist neighbour in the south for help broadcasting television coverage of the World Cup. South Korea’s unification ministry, which is in charge of policy towards the North, would “positively” consider the request, a ministry official said by telephone.
South Korea previously helped the reclusive and impoverished communist state receive TV broadcasts [...]

Text of report by Shermax Ngahemera entitled “20 apply for TV, radio stations” published by Tanzanian newspaper Daily News website on 30 May
Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has received 20 applications for FM radio and television stations in Tanzania mainland, it was learnt in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
TCRA director-general John Mkoma said that [...]

Our Programme Distribution Department has informed me that the shortwave relays of local Surinam station Radio Boskopoe via Bonaire, initiated following the flooding in Surinam, have now ended. The last broadcast was on Sunday.
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