Posts from ‘October, 2006’

Al-Jazeera news channel, which has changed the face of Arab television reporting by breaking taboos, is set to extend its controversial reach to English-speaking audiences as it marks its 10th anniversary tomorrow. Its second decade will see the repeatedly delayed launch of the English-language Al-Jazeera International on 15 November, one of the station’s directors, Mahmud [...]

BBC World Service has launched its first marketing campaign in Afghanistan, promoting its Pashto and Dari language broadcasts on FM across the country. Starting today, the two-month campaign will promote the ever-increasing BBC FM network in the country’s six major cities: Ghazni, Herat, Jalalabad, Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif.  
Working with a leading Kabul-based full service agency, Aina-Darya Communications, [...]

BBC World Service has further expanded its broadcasting on FM in Kyrgyzstan. The new BBC 103.7FM brings BBC Kyrgyz to listeners in the capital, Bishkek, while BBC 102.2FM in Batken and BBC 106.3FM in Kerben give audiences in these cities the opportunity to tune in to BBC Kyrgyz and BBC Uzbek broadcasts.
Hamid Ismailov, Head, Central Asia [...]

Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) Radio & Communications will create a new classical radio using digital technology that offers high-quality sound transmission, Japan Times reports. TBS Radio said that necessary infrastructure is being put in place to enable a broad base of listeners to enjoy the planned classical music broadcasts.
The new channel will be the first [...]

The Swedish newspaper Expressen reports that soccer matches from the satellite/cable channel Canal Plus are being pirated over the Internet. The pirates are taking the broadcasts from the 24 hour pay film and sports channel and streaming them for free online using Windows Media. 
Read the story at MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers
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Sky News has announced plans to severely cuts its news operation in Ireland. Currently, 25 people are based in Dublin, where two daily half-hour bulletins are produced for Sky subscribers in Ireland These will end on 30 November, and the staff will be reduced to just four people. In Belfast, the current staff of five will be [...]

The launch of the UEFA Video Service (UVS), has given Internet users in 96 countries access to live online matches from UEFA competitions. UVS has been developed by UEFA to enable its broadcast partners to extend their rights and provide live match coverage on the Internet.
Over 20 broadcasters around the world are using UVS to [...]

XM Satellite Radio has announced the successful launch of its XM-4 satellite. Liftoff occurred yesterday at 6:49 pm ET from the Sea Launch Odyssey Launch Platform in open waters of the Pacific Ocean on the equator. The XM-4 satellite was inserted directly into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, on its way to an orbital location for [...]

The BBC and Sky, dominate the “third screen” in the UK, according to Telephia, the largest provider of consumer research to the communications and new media markets. Telephia recently expanded its consumer research program in the UK to track mobile content consumption at the channel, website and content title level. The first wave of findings [...]

The BBC has appointed one of its most popular presenters in Africa as the head of its BBC Swahili language service. Solomon Mugera starts his new job today. He is now responsible for all BBC Swahili managerial and editorial direction, for its staff located in London, Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, and for [...]

Bengali international satellite television channel Ananda Bangla Channel-A started test transmissions recently. The channel will telecast regular programmes next month. This channel’s head office is in Hong Kong, but it has an office, studio and newsroom in Dhaka.
The channel is broadcasting via the Apstar-VI satellite, and is free to air. Channel-A will be broadcasting 24 hours a day immediately from its [...]

RadioShack Corporation and MovieBeam, Inc today announced an agreement to sell the MovieBeam movies-on-demand system in approximately 1,700 neighbourhood RadioShack stores effective immediately. The rollout covers 31 major metropolitan areas across the US in which the MovieBeam service is currently offered.
The MovieBeam System is composed of a set-top box and small indoor antenna that receives, stores, [...]

In the run-up to next month’s general election in the Netherlands, the government has withdrawn the licences for 1200 electronic voting machines, about 10% of the total in the country, after it was discovered that the radio signals produced by one particular type of machine can be received several tens of metres away, meaning that voter [...]

How to avoid fragmenting the Internet; how to ensure the free flow of information in cyberspace; and how to respect the basic human right of freedom of expression on the web are among the crucial issues to be addressed at the first meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Athens (30 October – 2 November [...]

Ian McFarland writes: ”Just wanted to let you know how the project is going. Another couple of orders and I’ll have sent out 70 sets of CDs. The bulk of the orders have come from the US, but also from Holland, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Australia, NZ, Japan, Ireland, Scotland, & Canada. I had thought that the Idents [...]