Posts from ‘October, 2006’

When Polish immigrants began to flood Ireland, after Poland joined the European Union in 2004, the need to cater for the growing Polish community in Ireland became obvious. Soon, the Irish media started to consider the Polish audience important. This quickly led to the launch of Polish newspapers, radio and television broadcasts. In Dublin alone, [...]

The government of Kazakhstan has approved licensing rules for organising TV and radio broadcasting. Danial Akhmetov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, signed a corresponding order on 20 October. This document regulates the order of issuing licences for organising TV and radio broadcasting; explains reasons why a licence can be refused, as well as a procedure of [...]

SES Global and Eutelsat Communications have announced a joint investment in the first European satellite infrastructure for broadcasting video, radio and data to mobile devices and vehicle receivers.
In view of the innovative nature of this market, SES and Eutelsat have agreed to join forces in a 50/50 joint venture company, which will operate and commercialise the [...]

Vincent Parascandolo, a research assistant at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC writes: “Of all the resources spent on US policy toward Cuba, Radio and TV Martí are probably two of the most egregious examples of wasted taxpayer money - nearly a half-billion dollars squandered on television and radio transmissions to the island and [...]

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has officially protested against the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to hold the finals of the swimming and a number of gymnastics competitions at the 2008 Olympics in the morning in Beijing, corresponding to the middle of the night in Europe. The EBU says that, with this decision, the [...]

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has today signed a ten year sound broadcasting contract with Dublin Rock Radio Ltd (trading as Phantom FM) for the provision of an alternative rock music service on the FM band to Dublin City and County. The service will broadcast on 105.2FM on a twenty-four hour basis, with a minimum [...]

Radio Netherlands Worldwide will be 60 years old on Sunday 15 April 2007. Ten years ago, our 50th birthday was celebrated with an Open Day, and again for the 60th anniversary we will be opening our doors to everyone who wants to come and have a look around. Details of activities on the day, and a [...]

Radio France International (RFI) has announced an end to its Turkish broadcasts. Speaking about the decision, Antoine Schwarz, the head of RFI’s board of directors, said RFI is planning on forming a forum for the discussion of Turkish-French relations instead of the Turkish radio programming.
RFI programming in Turkish was launched in 1971, when broadcasts were aimed [...]

President and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters in the US, David K Rehr, has sent two letters to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding satellite radio companies XM and Sirius.
In his first letter, Rehr calls on the FCC to “immediately commence a full investigation into both the actual and reported operations of Sirius and [...]

A private TV channel dubbed “Nessma TV” (Breeze TV) will start airing its programmes from abroad at the end of 2006, it was announced this week in Tunis. The new channel, which aims at promoting Maghrebi music and culture, will also broadcast a variety of entertainment programmes .
Mr Nabil Karoui, one of the co-founders, also [...]

China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has released a recommended standard for the mobile multimedia broadcasting industry and will formally implement it next month. SARFT said that it will be responsible for distributing this standard, which is based on the Satellite Terrestrial Interactive Multiservice Infrastructure (STiMi) technology, and will promote it among [...]

The Analyst reports that Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is on a visit to China, along with Heads of State of 40 other African countries, to attend a two-day Africa-China Cooperation Forum. The newspaper says that the President hopes to get Chinese assistance with several projects, one of which is a refurbishment of the Liberia Broadcasting System [...]

Dutch Public Broadcasting and the organisation representing the cable companies, VECAI, have reached an agreement to deliver the 17 themed TV channels being launched next month, as well as “Uitzending Gemist”, a catch-up service for popular programmes that will be launched in 2007. Currently, Uitzending Gemist exists as an Internet-only service.
Rob van Esch, the director van VECAI, said after signing the [...]

The Qatar-based satellite television network  Al-Jazeera said yesterday it will unveil a “Wall of Freedom” in honour of  journalists worldwide who have been killed while doing their jobs.
The 55-foot-tall (16.5 metre) memorial, to be unveiled on the channel’s 10th anniversary on November 1 at its Doha headquarters, is “an ongoing recognition of the dangerous work that [...]

Text of report by Afghan independent Pajhwok news agency website
Kabul, 26 October: Ariana radio will broadcast to a global audience next month via satellite and viewers will be able to watch Ariana TV on the internet in three months time, Engineer Ehsanollah Bayat, the director-general of Arian Radio/TV, told Pajhwok today. He said that presently, [...]