Posts from ‘May, 2006’

Unfortunately, the video sharing site YouTube has imposed a 10-minute limit on the length of videos that members are allowed to upload. But videos already uploaded before the limit was imposed are still available for viewing, and we found one that will be of interest to some readers of this Weblog.
“Scattered Frequencies: Radio Networking in [...]

The OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today issued the following statement:
“The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro is alarmed by recent activities of the Republican Broadcasting Agency (RBA) Council. While the OSCE acknowledges the fact that an independent regulatory body should be entrusted with the authority to [...]

Radio Netherlands EuroQuest producer Jonathan Groubert will be the featured guest on Wisconsin Public Radio’s global call-in show “Here On Earth” this Sunday, 28 May at 1900 UTC or 2PM CDT in the US. He and host Jean Feraca will be discussing Islam, immigration, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Other guest(s) TBA.
You can listen to the [...]

US-based Global Voices Online website, a weblog aggregator, has launched what it terms as a “magazine-style” podcast which compiles and summarizes a series of podcasts from around the world, says a post on the website dated 24 May.
The programme is currently entitled The Global Voices Show. In an email to all subscribers, David Sasaki said: [...]

A “pirate” radio station that has been operating for the past couple of months in the Quad-Cities (consisting of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa and Moline/East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois) is refusing to go off the air, despite not having a licence. The operators of Power Hits 103.3 FM claim they have authorization [...]

Venezuela continues to expand its influence on its much poorer neighbour, Bolivia. The presidents of the two countries will today sign an accord which, amongst other things, includes the funding by Venezuela of 109 rural radio stations to be set up in Bolivia.
Read the full story from Business Week Online
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British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has been awarded ‘near-live’ rights to 242 soccer games per season from the Barclays Premiership in a three-year deal covering the 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. BSkyB has acquired the rights in a joint bid with British Telecom. These rights enable BSkyB to offer full delayed coverage or extended highlights of [...]

Pakistan has banned 87 illegal FM radio stations in the country’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The spokesman for Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Muhammad Saleem, said the stations will be closed down in different parts of the province in the next three months. He said that many of the banned FM stations were [...]

With the prices of flat-panel digital TVs falling faster than originally expected, Hong Kong’s free-to-air broadcasters may not wait for China to roll out its own digital terrestrial TV standard and instead choose a different technology as soon as the third quarter of this year, senior executives at Television Broadcasts (TVB) have said. TVB’s Assistant [...]

Norwegian public broadcaster NRK has announced that it will move all its radio and TV channels to the Thor 2 satellite at 1º West as of 1 June. The satellite will carry all of NRK’s regional services as well as the national channels. Conax and Viasat NDS encryption will be used for the TV [...]

The following has been published today on the website of Radio Slovakia International:
The Radio Council approved the new organisational structure of the public broadcaster. The transformation of Radio Slovakia International was a part of the Wednesday discussion on the proposal of new General Director Miloslava Zemkova.
According to the approved document, Radio Slovakia International should [...]

Dmitry Medvedev, one of two men touted as presidential candidates in 2008, will chair a new state commission on the development of television and radio broadcasting in Russia, the government press service said today. The press service said that new body would coordinate the executive’s broadcasting activity, including in conceptual development, consider ways to improve [...]

The sales of LCD television sets have more than doubled in the past year. In the first quarter of this year, 7.4 million LCD tv’s were sold worldwide, 135 percent more than in the same period in 2005. According to the quarterly report by market research company DisplaySearch, Dutch manufacturer Philips sold the most LCD [...]

A survey conducted by BBC, Reuters and the Media Center shows that 74 percent of the Egyptians trust the media, international television being the most reliable and accurate for them. Both local and international television are seen as the most trusted source of news by 77 percent of Egyptians. 68 percent trust local newspapers while [...]

Only one in three people in Japan know that analogue television broadcasting will discontinue in July 2011, according to a survey conducted by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry. Analogue television sets will no longer be able to receive TV programmes from July 25, 2011, unless a digital tuner is attached. To avoid confusion before [...]