Posts from ‘July, 2006’

A new radio show for travellers and gypsies in the East of England was launched by the BBC this weekend. Rokker Radio (Sundays 1800-2000 UTC) is presented by Jake Bowers, Britain’s only Romany journalist, and is a weekly radio show broadcast across six local radio stations in the BBC East region. Jake started working for the BBC [...]

Letting people talk about their things is the key to success of participative radio programmes, as demonstrated by the experiences of the Ha Tay and Hoa Binh Provincial Radio Stations in Vietnam that were supported by UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication.
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The first part of an OSCE Office programme to help improve Azerbaijan’s Public Television (PTV), concluded on Friday with the completion of a study to assess the broadcaster’s needs. The assessment aimed to establish a clear picture of PTV’s current operation and to define its immediate development needs. A BBC team of two international and one local [...]

Radio MNS, an Arabic Catholic radio station, was one of the many means of communication recently silenced by Israeli bombs in Lebanon. “The station functioned without interruption since its creation 12 years ago,” said the radio’s founder, Marie Sylvie Buisson, in statements to ZENIT. Radio MNS was partially destroyed by bombs on Sunday of last [...]

The Japanese government has pledged an assistance of US$8.1 million for radio broadcasting in Nepal. This was announced by Senior Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Yasuhisa Shiozaki, who arrived in Kathmandu for a two-day visit, Nepal News reports.
“That is (our) first aid after the democratisation process firmly picked up in Nepal. But we [...]

Text of report by Jackie Hugi published by web version of Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv on 30 July
The Israel Defence Forces [IDF] Intelligence Corps succeeded in breaking into the broadcasts of Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s television station, and inserting provocative messages into them.
The jamming includes a picture of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah, with the Arabic inscription “Your [...]

The Scottish National Party (SNP) claims BBC Scotland is being underfunded by £90m a year. The claim was made by the party’s leader in the Scottish Parliament, Nicola Sturgeon. She bases her claim on the fact that Scotland has 9% of UK households. On that basis, says the SNP, BBC Scotland should have received that percentage of licence fees [...]

Researchers and employees of Korean company Samsung are devising a method to use the ionosphere as a medium for “long distance communication” without the need for expensive satellites. The ionosphere already plays a role in communications as a “radio reflector” for shortwave signals. But by launching UHF signals behind a 1GHz carrier signal, scientists hope to alter [...]

July 30 looks set to become an historic date for the Democratic Republic of Congo when the central African state holds its first free elections in more than 40 years, thanks in part to Swiss-based Radio Okapi, operated by Hirondelle and the United Nations. Luigi Jorio reports from Kinshasa for swissinfo.
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The Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands, part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, has decided to withdraw four of the six mediumwave licences issued in 2003 to Quality Radio BV. The reason is that Quality Radio has failed to deliver regular programme services on four of the six frequencies, and the Radiocommunications Agency says this is an inefficient [...]

One of the largest public broadcasters in the Netherlands, the KRO, says it’s considering an experiment by offering TV programmes on the Internet without background music. The reason is the large number of complaints the broadcaster receives, mostly from people over 50, who say that they find it more difficult to listen to voices with [...]

Radio Mashriq (also rendered as Machrek, meaning East] was monitored by BBC Monitoring via internet audio on Friday 28 July. The Arabic-language station is anti-Hezbollah but is generally measured in its tone. It was also heard to announce transmissions on 756 kHz mediumwave, AM, which it is believed can be heard in the Lebanon/Israel border [...]

London commercial talk radio station LBC 97.3 FM will expand its terrestrial coverage from early September when it begins broadcasting to a number of other regions in the UK on DAB. The regions to be added are the North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire, the North East, South Wales and the West of England. LBC is already [...]

US audience research company Arbitron has just published the 2006 edition of Public Radio Today. This free-to-download 45 page report gives a glimpse at the 26 million people who listen to public radio in the US each week. It contains valuable insights into their education and income profiles, and shows the types and amounts of public [...]

The Ministry of Communication and IT in Azerbaijan has submitted a proposal to the Cabinet of Ministers stipulating the preparation of concept for the transition to digital TV broadcasting, Trend reports, quoting Ilham Ahadov, CEO, PA Teleradio. Ahadov said the government had already drawn up the order according to which both governmental and private TV channels [...]