Posts from ‘November, 2006’

Radio Sagarmatha, the pioneering Kathmandu-based community radio broadcaster, has been awarded the AMARC International Solidarity Prize 2006 in recognition of its outstanding work in defence of human rights and democracy in Nepal. The AMARC International Solidarity Prize, which is awarded every four years, was presented to Radio Sagarmatha at a ceremony in Amman, Jordan on [...]

Text of report “State Intelligence Service informed about Greek Radio” by Albanian newspaper Gazeta Shqiptare on 27 November
The State Intelligence Service [ShISh] is for some months now investigating a radio station waging anti-Albanian propaganda from a small town over the border with Greece.
ShISh sources confirm the existence of this station and say that a special [...]

South Korea’s Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) has reappointed Jung Yun Joo as KBS President and Chief Executive Officer for another three-year term. Mr Jung’s official appointment was made on 24 November by South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, under the recommendation of the KBS Board of Governors.
Commenting on his appointment, Mr Jung said: “KBS, as [...]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Rwanda is pursuing its efforts to restore contact between several hundred Rwandan children in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other countries in the region and their relatives, from whom they were separated by the armed conflicts that have devastated the region in recent [...]

The 4th conference of Russian-language websites of the CIS and Baltic republics got under way in Moscow on today. Taking part in the forum, organized by the Voice of Russia and the Regional Center of Internet Technologies, are experts from Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Estonia and Latvia, and also from Germany.
According to Voice of [...]

Vatican Radio has a number of special live broadcasts on mediumwave, shortwave and satellite during the visit of Pope’s historic visit to Turkey, which started today and continues until Friday 1 December. Full details of these broadcasts can be found on the Vatican Radio website.
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Solomon Telekom is likely to launch the country’s first pay television service on the eve of Christmas Day, reports the Solomon Star. Speaking during the launching of company’s plan for 2007-2008, Telekom’s Christian Lasaqa said they had already reached an agreement with Sky Pacific of Fiji, which will be the supplier. Mrs Lasaqa said if [...]

The new Swedish Minister of Culture says DAB is not the radio of the future. She finds the necessity of listeners having to buy completely new receivers neither economically nor politically possible.
Read the story at MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers
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Alan Freeman CBE, one of the UK’s best-loved broadcasters, has died peacefully at his London home after a brief illness. 
Alan was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1927 and came to Britain in 1957. He enjoyed almost 50 years as one of the UK’s greatest champions of music-makers across the widest possible range of musical genres.  
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City 7 TV, a new channel from Dubai, launches today. The new channel is produced in the UAE with local content and targets English language viewers. It provides a combination of content filmed in the UAE and international programming purchased from outside of the region. The station says its programming will appeal to top business decision [...]

China is set to launch a new satellite for television broadcasting called SinoSat 3 in May 2007, said an official today. Fan Xinming, an official with SinoSat said the decision was made after SinoSat-2, a broadcasting satellite launched on Oct 29, became defunct due to failure of its solar arrays and communications antenna. Fan said [...]

The chairman of the BBC, Michael Grade, has resigned to take the top job at ITV, the public service broadcaster’s main commercial competitor, both companies have announced. ITV informed the London Stock Exchange this morning while the BBC were forced to make the announcement overnight after details of Grade’s appointment as executive chairman appeared in a national [...]

A digital music download service that allows consumers to buy songs instantly as they listen to them on digital radio will start operating across Britain in the first half of 2007, UBC Media said today. The London-based radio programming producer said it had reached agreements with radio companies, record companies and mobile operators to launch the [...]

On Friday 1 December, the same day that Queen Beatrix officially opens the new building of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, its British equivalent is re-launching under a new name. Previously known as the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, the building will now be known by the snappier name of the National Media Museum.
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Indian television broadcaster Sun TV Ltd said today that its board has approved the merger of satellite television company Gemini TV Pvt. Ltd. with itself. The board also approved merging Udaya TV Pvt Ltd, excluding the FM (frequency modulation) radio division, with itself.
“…Sun TV shareholders should benefit immensely from the highly profitable operations and strong [...]