Posts from ‘August, 2006’

Irish public radio network RTÉ 2FM will be broadcasting live music on two channels from this year’s Electric Picnic boutique festival over the course of the three days, from Friday 1 September right up until midnight on Sunday 3 September. The event will not only be covered on the regular RTÉ 2FM channel at 90 - [...]

Dutch public broadcaster Radio 747 will disappear from 4 September, to be replaced by Radio 5. But although it is reverting to its old name, everything else will be completely different. The network, which will operate on a smaller budget than its predecessor, nevertheless hopes to increase its market share from the present 1% to as much [...]

The Ethiopian Broadcasting Agency has issued a commercial licence to Radio Fana. Broadcast Licencing Department Head Gizachew Tsegaye said that the agency gave the licence to Radio Fana based on its request of 11 October, 2004. Although the station is licenced as a commercial one, it ought to serve the society in a fair and balanced manner, he said.

 
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The Broadcasting Board of Governors/International Broadcasting Bureau (BBG/IBB) intends to award a non-competitive contract to a US firm to conduct a telephone survey of 2,000 Iranian adults (15 years and older) and resulting data in electronic and print form on the impact of IBB’s Persian language television and radio programming in Iran.
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The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) intends to advertise and broadcast educational opportunities available in the United States to prospective students in China. The Department of Commerce intends to award the firm fixed price requirement to CNBC-Asia, which will negotiate broadcasting terms, dates, and slots with the following broadcasters: Beijing TV 5, Shanghai Media Group Young Channel, [...]

Sri Lankan police said on today they suspected a missing ethnic Tamil radio station producer had been abducted, prompting new fears over press safety with at least five media workers killed so far this year. Assistant news manager Nadarajah Kuruparan, 36, worked for a Tamil language radio station. He was last seen leaving his house early this [...]

KBS World, the international cable and satellite channel operated by the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), has inked carriage deals in the Philippines and Singapore. Beginning 1 September, the channel will be available in the Philippines via Central CATV, reaching about one million homes. KBS World will be available for all Central CATV subscribers as a [...]

Christian sources in Pakistan say that intelligence police are conducting a wide range inquiry of staff and operatives of FEBA Radio in Pakistan. FEBA broadcasts religious programmes in many languages of the Indian subcontinent, and Churches in Pakistan and India prepare recordings of hymns and sermons. The government of Pakistan has not granted permissions for Christian [...]

Paisley radio station Q96 looks set to receive a new name and a new home in the east end of Glasgow after a consultation into the plan met little resistance. If the proposed takeover by Real Radio Scotland owner GMG Radio from UTV for a “nominal sum” goes ahead, chief executive John Myers said the [...]

Top broadcasters from Asia-Pacific and Europe, including Radio Netherlands, will meet from 11 to 13 September at UNESCO’s Paris Headquarters in Paris, France, to discuss joint approaches to media issues such as cultural diversity and conflict resolution, digital opportunities for radio and television and mechanisms to improve media governance, credibility and accountability. The Asia-Pacific-Europe Media Dialogue, a [...]

Carl Moore is a retired journalist and broadcaster. He was Chairman of the Barbados Broadcasting Authority from 1994 to 2003, and currently hosts a late-night radio show titled “A Little Night Music”, on CBC 100.7FM. In a commentary, he says that “the daily diet of talk radio, while allowing the citizenry to talk back, has [...]

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc said on Friday that the US Federal Communications Commission had given it the go-ahead to sell three radio models after concerns about whether they met regulations. XM shares rose as much as 9 percent after the news. As a result of the new certifications XM said three primary products - the [...]

Euroradio 2006 – the Offshore Echo’s / France Radio Club annual event - takes place in Calais, France on Saturday 9 September, at the Hotel Georges V in the centre of Calais.  
Commemorating the best of offshore radio with video presentations and special guests, who include: Peter Philips known on Radio Caroline during the 1980’s, where [...]

One TV channel endlessly repeats close-ups of dead policemen tortured by a presidential candidate’s supporters; a rival radio station calls for foreigners supporting President Joseph Kabila to be expelled. Democratic Republic of Congo’s media has become a political battleground. With the vast central African country two months away from a historic presidential runoff, many observers [...]

Christian Vision’s Spanish language service, CVC-La Voz, has added Chilean radio network Conquista Alas de Aguilas to its chain of partner stations, bringing the total of partner stations in Latin America and Spain to over 200. Conquista Alas de Aguilas has 22 stations and repeaters covering all of Chile.
CVC-La Voz produces its programmes in Florida [...]