Posts from ‘August, 2006’

France 24, the new French international news channel owned by France Télévisions and TF1 has retained capacity on three Eutelsat satellites (Hot Birdâ„¢ 7A, Atlantic Birdâ„¢ 2 and Eurobirdâ„¢ 1) for broadcasting when it launches in December this year. Eutelsat was selected following a public competitive tendering process conducted in accordance with European Union regulations.
Through Hot [...]

Radio Televisyen Brunei (RTB) yesterday signed a five-year agreement with AsiaSat to transmit its satellite programme channel - Brunei International - commencing October 1. For the last 10 years, the RTB Brunei International channel has made use of the Indonesian Satellite Palapa C2 to transmit its programmes to overseas Bruneians and the international audience. The intention [...]

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has strongly criticized the decision of a Polish prosecutor for dropping the case against Radio Maryja for broadcasting an anti-Semitic rant, calling it “disgraceful.” In April, Stanislaw Michalkiewicz, a regular commentator on Radio Maryja, a right-wing Catholic radio station with a mass audience, openly scorned the expropriation of Jewish property during the [...]

A Senate committee said yesterday it would not vote this year on another term for Kenneth Tomlinson as Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, following a government report that said he used the office for personal gain. President Last year President George W Bush nominated Tomlinson to a second term. However, the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee [...]

The Dutch radio listening figures for June/July 2006 were published this morning by research bureau Infomart GfK. Market-leader Radio 538 has strengthened its position, as has Q-music. Both stations increased their market share by 0.3%, as did Sky Radio which is now just 0.2% behind the second-placed station, Radio 2. Some of these listeners may [...]

WGUC-FM 90.9, Cincinnati, Ohio’s Classical Public Radio, has chosen to broadcast in surround sound on its HD1 Channel on HD Radioâ„¢ and on its main analogue channel using Neural Audio’s 5.1 technology to become the first radio station in the US to go 5.1 on its main channel with commercially available 5.1 music. This began on Thursday, [...]

Her “loving” husband emerged pretty well, but her “control freak” of a sister-in-law is probably less amused, after a CNN  presenter left her microphone on while chatting to a colleague in the toilets. Viewers who tuned into Tuesday’s edition of “Live From …” to watch  President George W Bush in New Orleans were instead treated to the [...]

Tomorrow is Radio Prague’s 70th birthday. On 31 August 1936, the first ever programme in English was broadcast from Prague and the date is considered the birth of the international shortwave service in Czechoslovakia. We take this opportunity to wish our friends and colleagues at Radio Prague a very happy birthday. To mark the occasion, Radio Prague’s [...]

The European Commission is considering granting up to €5 million a year to news channel Euronews to broadcast in Arabic. EU Communication Commissioner Margot Wallstrom told EUobserver that broadcasting by Euronews in Arabic would be important in “building bridges” to the Muslim world. The Commission currently funds Euronews - a TV channel run by a [...]

RTL Nederland made a profit of  â‚¬ 36 million in the first half of 2006, more than double the result for the first half of 2005. Turnover increased slightly, to € 171 million (2005: € 169 million). The TV businesses alone made a profit of € 37 million (2005: € 20 million), which was offset by a [...]

A US State Department investigation has found that the chairman of the organization that oversees most US international broadcasting misused government money on several occasions, US newspapers and news agencies reported on 29 August.According to a summary of a report by the State Department’s inspector-general released on the 29th and cited by the New York [...]

Workers of the Cameroon Radio and Television, CRTV, have charged their General Manager, Amadou Vamoulke, with mismanaging the corporation and making things difficult for them. The indictment is contained in an open letter the workers wrote to the General Manager on August 24. The workers claim that since January 30, journalists and technicians have died [...]

Lao National Television is to get a new studio and equipment for its entertainment and sports channel, thanks to a grant from the Chinese government. The studio will be built at LNTV’s headquarters in Vientiane. The accompanying equipment will include a transmitter.  “We are in the process of securing a grant from the Chinese government [...]

An illegal Hong Kong radio station that featured regular broadcasts by pro-democracy activists has been raided by the  police, a statement said today. Police swooped last night on Citizens Radio, a rebel radio station set up in October, seizing broadcast equipment and transmitters from the station’s warehouse base. One man was also arrested. ”After months of investigations and [...]

BBC Radio 1 announced today details of the second John Peel Day to take place on Thursday 12 October 2006 - the anniversary of John’s last broadcast on the network. More than 500 events took place last year across the UK and the world. 
Once again music fans, bands, artists and DJs are being encouraged to stage [...]