Posts from ‘November, 2006’

Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) will not telecast parliamentary proceedings live despite constant requests by the Opposition, Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin said today. He said the decision was made in the interest of safeguarding harmony in the country, as well as the high cost involved. The people would surely not be able to accept the behaviour [...]

Indian Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi has informed the Lok Sabha (parliament) in a written reply that in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Lucknow, All India Radio (AIR) has more FM listeners that commercial competitors.
In Delhi, 52.5 per cent of FM listeners prefer AIR FM station Gold and 47.4 per cent Rainbow. Of the private [...]

External broadcaster China Radio International (CRI) launched a local FM relay service in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, on Sunday 19 November 2006. Transmitting on 93.0 MHz, the service is on the air between 1000 and 2230 hours local time (0300-1530 gmt) with programmes in Laotian, English and Mandarin.
The service is also available on a live [...]

BFBS Radio, which serves the UK Armed Forces worldwide, announces on its website that it is launching on satellite to the UK via the Sky platform on on Monday 4th December. The EPG number wiill be 0184. Presumably this will be a relay of BFBS Radio 1.
(Source: BFBS via Ray Woodward)
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The US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has expressed its dismay and concern at the sudden and forcible closure of Azerbaijan’s first private radio and television company, ANS, which has carried shows produced by the Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). BBG Chairman Kenneth Y Tomlinson condemned the action as one which [...]

According to Tamil sources in North London, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members in London broke into the premises of the anti – LTTE radio station, the Tamil Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) and vandalized it on the early hours of morning on Saturday.
The Asian Tribune says the TBC was planning to broadcast the heroes’ day message by Col. Karuna [...]

Dutch broadcaster RTL FM, which continues to be played out of the Sky Radio studio, has assumed a temporary role as a station broadcasting continuous Christmas music. The RTL website announces that “RTL presents Sky Radio the Christmas Station. 24 hours a day the best from 50 years of Christmas music”. The station continues to be carried on most cable [...]

BBC Monitoring observed a new clandestine radio broadcasting in Persian on shortwave 7435 kHz at 1700-1800 gmt on Friday 24 November 2006, identifying as “Radyo Democrasi Shora’i” [Radio Council Democracy].
The full opening announcement was translated as follows: “You are listening to the Voice of the Council Democracy. Radio Council Democracy is the voice of the [...]

One of the 21 Iranian journalists who were detained and questioned for three hours or more earlier this week after returning from the Netherlands was a government informer.
The Dutch non-profit organisation Communications for Development, which sponsored a two-week training seminar for the journalists, reports that  it became apparent during the interrogations that the Iranian secret [...]

Activists in Thailand yesterday submitted a petition to the Supreme Administrative Court urging it to delist state broadcaster Mcot. They asked the court to scrap the decisions previously made by the deposed Thaksin Shinawatra cabinet to transfer Mcot’s business, assets and liabilities to Mcot Pcl as well as the royal decree permitting the 2004 corporatisation.
The [...]

Morocco will have its first private TV news channel in just over a week, the Communications Minister Mohamed Nabil Benabdallah has announced, saying the channel, broadcasting in Arabic and French, will be operative from December. The initiative is part of the Rabat government’s strategy to improve freedom of information in the country, the Minister said.
Since [...]

The Dutch Christian broadcaster Reformatorische Omroep has started a week-long test on the DAB platform in the area around Eemnes. The station has been active for about a year via the Internet and the kerktelefoon (Church telephone)network, and is now hoping to begin an expansion into national digital radio. The broadcasts are gradually featuring more presented programmes, and [...]

News broadcast player Television Eighteen India has signed an exclusive distribution deal with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to bring its infotainment channel, Australia Network, to 68 million cable homes across India. The Australian public broadcaster, on the other hand, will share content with TV18 Group as well as assist it in taking the group’s [...]

Digital pay-TV is fighting to survive in China despite nearly 90 digital pay-television channels covering 150 cities of the country, according to a digital TV executive. Digital pay-TV had covered all of China except Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan since its launch in 2004, but its prospects were still fuzzy, said Song Jun of [...]

Azerbaijan National Council for Television and Radio has passed a decision to shut down ANS TV and ANS CM Radio, Council chairman Nushiravan Maharramli told APA in an exclusive interview. He said that a meeting was convened today in order to decide the ANS’s licence prolongation. The Council members made the final decision to not prolong [...]