Posts from ‘April, 2007’

The Dutch love discussion and debate, so a group of experienced broadcasters in Hilversum have decided to create a TV channel that will broadcast interviews and debates 24 hours a day. “Het Gesprek” (The Conversation) is the initiative of Frits Barend, Ruud Hendriks, Pieter Storms and Derk Sauer, and is planned to launch on 2 October. It’s believed to [...]

Almost 70 percent of Venezuelans oppose the imminent closure of an opposition television station but worry more over the loss of risque soap operas than free speech, a pollster said yesterday. Leftist President Hugo Chávez has vowed not to renew the concession of the openly anti-government RCTV when it expires on 27 May, sparking heavy criticism [...]

An act to govern broadcasting in Grenada is currently being drafted. It has already begun to stir up some debate among media practitioners on what it means for the media in Grenada. The Broadcasting Authority Bill seeks to provide for the establishment of a broadcasting authority to licence and regulate sound and television broadcasting in [...]

The following caught my eye in a teaser on the website of Foreign Policy magazine. Joseph S Nye Jr, writing on the subject of “A Smarter Superpower”, observes that “The United States spends about 500 times more on the military than it does on broadcasting and exchanges [exchange programs] combined. The United States cut shortwave, English language [...]

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) today, emphasised the need for greater coordination between all parties involved in conflict and post-conflict situations, in order to ensure rapid action, a coordinated strategy and optimal media work in a dangerous environment.
Speaking at a conference in Essen, Germany, on media in peace building and conflict prevention, organised by Deutsche [...]

Press release from the South African Broadcaasting Corporation (SABC):
Restriction to SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe website not the fault of the  SABC
Johannesburg, Wednesday 25 April 2007: The SABC would like to set the  record straight in reference to the article by Tererai Karimakwenda on SW Radio Africa Zimbabwe News (23 April 2007). 
 The article insinuates that [...]

Text of report entitled: Member of majlis national security committee: States do not sever ties over a report, by Iranian newspaper Aftab-e Yazd website on 22 April
While some media have reported in past days that the Netherlands has earmarked 15 million euros for the overthrow of Iran’s government by devoting that sum to media projects, [...]

The US-based Intelsat has shut down the radio and television broadcasts of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels, the Sri Lankan government said in a statement today. Intelsat, the world’s largest commercial satellite communications provider, has told Colombo’s mission in Washington that the service of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was shut down over the [...]

The choice of a minority presenter for the main news show on a major network is almost revolutionary in Germany. But experts say it spotlights the long way the country needs to go to visibly integrate its immigrants.
At the end of April, Dunja Hayali, a German journalist of Iraqi origin, will break the mold when [...]

NEC Corporation today announced that it completed the supply of 12 digital terrestrial TV transmitters, which were ordered in July, 2006, to National Company of Radio and TV Broadcasting (SNRT) in Morroco. The digital broadcasting system started operations in March, 2007.
In the project carried out by SNRT, NEC supplied 12 digital terrestrial TV transmitters that adopt [...]

Digital TV broadcasting will begin in 13 major Turkish cities within the next six months, Nuri Colakoglu, chairman of the Anten Corp Executive Board, said. Anten Corp, which was established to unite TV transmitter operations in Turkey under a single roof in order to start broadcast through a common antenna, held its first executive board [...]

President Bush yesterday nominated magazine publisher James K Glassman as the new Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees US government international broadcasting. Glassman, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank in Washington, will replace embattled chairman Kenneth Y Tomlinson, who resigned in January.
Bush had renominated Tomlinson to continue as [...]

The Indonesian-American Friendship Society (PPIA) and the Voice of America (VOA) announced a PPIA-VOA Broadcasting Fellowship Program today. The cooperative program will provide opportunities for promising young Indonesian journalists, and radio and TV broadcasters to gain six months practical experience with the VOA Indonesian Service in Washington, DC.
In announcing the program, Tantowi Yahya, Chairman of [...]

The Tsunami Working Group of the Tonga National Emergency Management Office is calling on Radio Tonga to operate 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. The committee met yesterday in Nuku’alofa to discuss the draft of Tonga’s response procedures and it was pointed out that there are gaps in the warning system.
The committee agreed that [...]

The Voice of Tibet Foundation has launched a campaign to protest Chinese radio “jamming” of its broadcasts. It says The Peoples Republic of China has systematically “jammed” Voice of Tibet’s and other “foreign” shortwave radio services for more than 10 years now, and is calling for action and support internationally to protest and demand an immediate stop to [...]