Posts from ‘July, 2007’

Radio Asia AM, the first Malayalam Radio Station in the Gulf and the Middle East region, is set to increase its reach by changing its frequency from 1557 kHz to 1269 kHz from 11th Aug 2007 onwards, said Brij Bhalla, General Manager. The new 1269 AM Radio Asia will further enhance its foot print across UAE and other GCC countries. Along [...]

RadioScape® plc, headquartered in London, England has opened its Greater China regional office in Beijing. This is the company’s third regional office in Greater China, with commercial and development offices already in Hong Kong.
John Hall, RadioScape CEO, commented “The new office will serve as a centre for handling sales enquiries, customer services and technical support [...]

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has announced the temporary deferral of the advertisement of three commercial radio services.  These are: a classic rock service for the Dublin and commuter belt area; a country and Irish service for the North East and; a country and Irish service for the Mid-West. The Commission says the decision to [...]

Billed as the biggest change in the way viewers watch television in 40 years, the BBC launched an online service today that allows people to download many programmes from the last week. BBC Director General Mark Thompson says the arrival of the “on-demand” iPlayer is as important as the first colour broadcasts in the 1960s.
Viewers can [...]

Dubai-based Pakistani TV news channel ARY One World is no longer available to viewers in the UK and Europe via the Eurobird 1 satellite and the Sky satellite TV service. The station had occupied channel 819 on the Sky electronic programme guide (EPG).
A caption broadcast via parent station ARY Digital (Sky channel 792) at 1956 [...]

Effective 11 August, Scotland’s only independent international broadcaster, radio six international, returns to shortwave with a resumption of its Saturday morning broadcast on 9290 kHz beamed to Europe, the Far east and Pacific regions.
The programme – transmitted every Saturday between 0700 and 0800 UTC â€“ will be relayed from the 100 kW facility at Ulbroka, Latvia as [...]

UK-based Virgin Mobile has decided to dump its broadcast mobile TV service after less than a year because of poor customer take-up. Virgin Mobile’s business partner, BT, has decided to disband its BT Movio business, and cancelled its spectrum contract with GCap Media. It’s expected that the service will be switched off early next year. The BT [...]

The 5 August edition of Amsterdam Forum (to be recorded on Wednesday 1 August) will look at the state of the Internet. Blogs and user-generated sites such as Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace now dominate.  Anyone can be a filmmaker, a journalist or a movie star. There are no filters, no edits - and no quality control. Some say [...]

British cable operator Virgin Media has joined forces with Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports to launch a new TV channel as part of its drive to boost its sports offering and take on fierce rival BSkyB. Satellite group BSkyB has in the past relied on sports content such as Premier League soccer to attract customers but [...]

The BBC Trust started its first service review today of the BBC’s online service, bbc.co.uk. Under the terms of the BBC’s Charter and Agreement, the Trust is responsible for issuing service licences for the BBC’s UK public services. These service licences include the remit of the service, the key requirements necessary to meet the remit [...]

Although Dutch commercial station Radio 10 Gold will continue broadcasting its current format after it stops using mediumwave, owner Talpa has launched three new Internet streams on its Radio Digitaal service featuring subsets of the Radio 10 Gold playlist. Listeners can choose from nonstop offerings of hits from the 60’s/70’s, the 80’s and the 90’s. These channels [...]

Text of report in English by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Yerevan, 26 July: The council of the Armenian Public Television and Radio Company (PTRC) has made a decision to stop from 9 August the rebroadcast of other broadcasters.
This measure is applied to the Interstate Television-Radio Company Mir, the American Radio Liberty and a local television [...]

George K. Otis, Sr., founder of High Adventure Ministries and Voice of Hope, passed away peacefully on Sunday July 22, 2007, at the age of 90. 
Otis was a Christian radio pioneer and evangelist He was an author of more than a dozen books, including his autobiography, High Adventure. The founder of the Voice of Hope Radio [...]

Yesterday’s statemement by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on strengthening the UK’s anti-terrorism measures also contained a brief statement on the media. Without going into detail, the Prime Minister announced funding for the BBC’s forthcoming Arabic TV channel. Previously the BBC had been told that it would have to fund the operation from its existing [...]

UNESCO has handed over 82 pieces of equipment, valued at US$271,000, to create a new TV studio at the Educational Radio and Television (ERTV). The equipment was granted under a US$2.5 million project, funded by Italy, aimed at developing educational broadcasting in Afghanistan.
The project, the first phase of which is being completed, started in 2003 [...]