Posts from ‘September, 2006’

Bilingual European broadcaster Radio Tatras International (RTI) has launched its own blog. Based in Poprad, Slovakia, RTI was born on 09 April 2005. It now broadcasts on Sky Digital via the Eurobird satellite, on various FM frequencies in Slovakia, and on the Internet. RTI broadcasts in English and Slovak, for both Brits and Slovaks working [...]

US market research company Arbitron Inc. has announced that, effective with the release of the Fall 2006 survey reports, public and non-commercial radio stations will be eligible for reporting in the company’s local market ratings reports. The company is also deferring its previously discussed plans to report individual satellite radio channels in order to further refine [...]

Dutch Development Cooperation Minister Agnes van Ardenne has announced that nearly 10 million euro will be made available to support a joint program of Press Now and the Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC) to support the media in developing countries. The program - ‘ Strengthening Media – Empowering People’ -  will be carried out from 2007-2010. It [...]

The licences of the existing public broadcasters in the Netherlands have been extended to 2010 instead of 2008. The Cabinet decided this because, following the departure of former Deputy Minister for Culture and the Media Medy van der Laan, the public broadcasting system is not going to be reorganised in 2008 as she originally planned. What exactly will happen now depends on the new government to [...]

A Zimbabwean judge today threw out a case against 10 staffers of an independent radio station charged with breaking the country’s tough audiovisual laws. Magistrate William Bhila turned down a request by state prosecutors for a further adjournment against the employees of the Voice of the People (VOP) radio station until November 9, saying: “This is becoming a circus. This [...]

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has today signed a ten year sound broadcasting contract with News 106 Ltd (trading as Newstalk 106-108) for the provision of a quasi-national news/speech sound broadcasting service on the FM band.  Newstalk 106-108 will offer a speech-driven service for adults aged 25+, with a primary audience of 25-44 year olds and [...]

Hisako Ozaki, a longtime Japanese missionary and on-air personality with HCJB World Radio’s Japanese language service, has died in Wheaton, Illinois, USA after a lengthy fight with cancer. She was 81.
The Ozakis were accepted as missionaries with HCJB World Radio in Quito, Ecuador, in 1963 to produce and air programmes for Japanese immigrants in South [...]

Text of report in English by Saudi News Agency SPA
Jedda, 24 September: Minister of Culture and Information Iyad Amin Madani has said Saudi Arabia started for the first time its ground digital transmission services for the channels of the Saudi television and the programmes of the Saudi Broadcasting Station.
In a statement to SPA, he noted [...]

iBiquity Digital Corporation, the sole licensor and developer of digital HD Radioâ„¢ technology, has licensed Continental Lensa to develop, manufacture and market HD Radio exciters for AM and FM broadcasters who are converting to digital broadcasting. Continental Lensa is the first licensed HD Radio broadcast equipment manufacturer outside of North America.
 
“With the dramatic increase in [...]

The website of the local radio station for Katwijk and Valkenburk (VLOK) includes some photos taken by Theo de Ruyter of the removal of the top part of REM Island, which took place over the weekend. The pictures can be seen here.
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REM Island has been removed from the North Sea
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Test television broadcasts designed specially for mobile phones are to begin Thursday in the German city of Regensburg using a format, DMB, that has been on air in South Korea since December. Viewers will be able to use the tiny 2.2-inch colour displays of phones to watch the same channels available on ordinary TV sets. The [...]

Text of report in English by Belarusian news agency Belapan
Minsk, 24 September: The prospects for the organization of foreign broadcasting to Belarus and its efficiency were discussed at a round-table conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 23 September.
Participating in the conference were leaders of Belarus’s opposition political parties and nongovernmental organizations, representatives of the European Union, [...]

The removal of REM Island, the artificial platform in the North Sea from where offshore radio and TV transmissions to the Netherlands were carried out in 1964, has taken place. Dutch regional broadcaster Omroep Zeeland reports that the top part of the structure arrived in the harbour at Vlissingen around noon today. It will remain on the pontoon that brought it into the [...]

Doreen Carvajal writes in the International Herald Tribune: “Perhaps it is fitting that a 50-second video clip of an ear-shattering explosion of 13 shortwave radio antenna towers on the Spanish Costa Brava is getting viewers on the Web site YouTube. It took 32 pounds, or 14.5 kilograms, of dynamite to fell the massive antennas, which [...]

Deutsche Welle (DW) will change its Bengali schedule from 29 October. Presently, DW is broadcasting its programme in Bengali at 0100-0200 UTC. This one-hour programme will be split into two half hours, one in the morning and one in the evening Bangladesh time.
Thomas Barthlein, Head of Bengali, Hindi and Urdu programmes of DW who is currently in [...]