Posts from ‘July, 2006’

Probably the most extreme format change of all time has taken place on a radio station in Kingsburg, near Fresno, California.  KFYE-FM was a Christian radio station, broadcasting Christian music, sermons and readings from the Bible. But last month the station was sold, and the new owner decided to change the format. Shocked listeners tuning into the station’s frequency, 106.3 [...]

The Legislative Council (DPRD) of Boven Digoel regency, Papua, hopes that Radio Republik Indonesia will soon open a radio station close to the border between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. ”We really long for the presence of an RRI station in the border area to counter broadcast domination by PNG’s and Australia’s radio stations,” Boven Digoel DPRD [...]

22 of the 288 local broadcasting organizations in the Netherlands have each received a fine of  € 1750 from the Dutch Media Authority for failing to provide it with the required information. Once a year, local broadcasters are obligated to provide the Media Authority with details of their programming, financial situation and other relevant details on [...]

In addition to tax free shopping, there’s a new way to spend time at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol before boarding your aircraft. Passengers can download travel information, music, audio books and videos at Fuel for Travel, which is located in Departure Lounges 1 and 2 after Passport Control.
Fuel for Travel is the result of a unique [...]

Serbian President Boris Tadić has sent the Broadcasting Law back to parliament for further discussion. Tadić said that with the proposed amendments and changes to the law, the independent work of the Broadcasting Agency would be seriously compromised, because the amendments call for the Serbian Government to make an agreement on a financial plan for [...]

UK media regulator Ofcom has today published proposals to introduce pricing for spectrum used for digital terrestrial radio and digital terrestrial television from 2012 and 2014 respectively. Known as Administered Incentive Pricing (AIP), Ofcom says the proposals will bring radio and television spectrum users into line with most other spectrum users, who already pay AIP. [...]

Iranian police have renewed a crackdown on television satellite dishes, banned for beaming Western “decadent” images into the Islamic Republic. A police spokesman said yesterday that hundreds of dishes had been removed from homes in the capital Tehran and other cities this week as part of a campaign against “social vice”. ”We have a law against the [...]

For the first time the BBC1 Ten O’Clock News and Newsnight (BBC2’s flagship current affairs programme) are being made available as video podcasts for BBC News viewers to watch on the move as part of a 12-month trial. From now on, viewers can download Ten Weekly - the best of the week’s Ten O’Clock News packages [...]

SES Americom and Home2US today have announced that Euro-World Network has signed agreements to have hit Croatian radio and TV shows delivered to thousands of Croat viewers and families living throughout the United States. Under the fully-managed distribution agreement, Euro-World has moved two key Croatian channels, Hrvatska Radiotelevizija (HRT TV) and Hrvatska Infomivni Centre (HIC TV), to [...]

The original story from Internews did not mention the frequency or power of the transmitter that will carry Punokawan AM. We contacted Teddy Wahyu, the Media Coordinator for Internews Indonesia, and he tells us that the frequency will be 1425 kHz and the power 500 watts.
More on this story:
Internews setting up emergency mediumwave radio station in Indonesia 
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The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has invited applications for the provision of a new quasi-national Christian and religious sound broadcasting service. The service will be broadcast primarily on the AM band with supplemental low power VHF-FM transmitter stations. It will have a broad format and will focus on general religious and Christian affairs of relevance [...]

A new radio station in Malawi, Star FM will begin testing its signals next month before finally rolling out in September. Station Manager Patrick Kamkwatira, a veteran broadcaster, says Star FM will fill its own niche with a mix of 50 percent talk and 50 percent music. Kamkwatira, who is believed to be one of [...]

As the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict persists, US subscribers to the Sky Angel Christian satellite TV and radio service are receiving the news straight from Jerusalem’s only 24/7 Christian radio station - a ministry that has suffered much since first establishing operations in South Lebanon in 1979. High Adventure Ministries operates Voice of Jerusalem, the only Christian [...]

The switch to digital transmission by radio broadcasters will be explored at length during the upcoming 2nd ABU Digital Radio Convention, which will see some 40 experts from Asia and around the world leading the various discussions and workshops. Aiming to help radio broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region to determine when to make the digital [...]

As the controversial Latin American TV network Telesur celebrates its first anniversary, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez yesterday proposed to the 53 African Union countries that they join the Telesur network to improve intergration between Africa and Latin America.  Chávez was addressing the seventh African Union summit in Banjul. “Telesur already exists in South America and [...]