Posts from ‘August, 2007’

The Government Information Service has admitted on behalf of members of the Dutch Royal Family, Prince Friso and Princess Mabel, that they attempted to alter information on the princess in the English language version of the Internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia. They made a crucial cut in a quote from Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.
Meanwhile, in an [...]

TVNZ-New Zealand has today unveiled a plan to significantly increase the presence of Maori programming on the national television public broadcaster. TVNZ’s Head of Television Jeff Latch said that the plan, if approved by funding bodies Te Mangai Paho and New Zealand on Air, would see:

Maori programme hours almost treble
a new and broader range of [...]

Irish public broadcaster RTÉ will broadcast the GAA All-Ireland Hurling final on Sunday 2 September and the All-Ireland Football final on Sunday 16 September on shortwave to Irish people living abroad. Coverage begins at 1200 UTC. For the second year running, RTÉ will also transmit the finals on DRM to most of Europe.
The AM frequencies are as [...]

The Cameroonian Government yesterday issued broadcast licences to four private broadcasting companies: Sweet FM, Canal12, Spectrum TV and TV+, according to an official. Canal2 International, Spectrum TV and TV+ (provider of cable TV), were granted television creation and operation licences, while Sweet FM, broadcasting in Douala, received a radio broadcasting licence.
About 203 applications were registered [...]

Media Network understands that Maldivian opposition radio station Minivan Radio will end its current series of shortwave transmissions tomorrow. The shortwave broadcasts, at 1600-1700 UTC on 11965 kHz, were resumed on 1 August in the run-up to a referendum that was held on 18 August. It’s likely that further shortwave transmissions will be made to [...]

Talpa, the Dutch media company of John de Mol that owns Radio 10 Gold, has decided to adopt a new business strategy which will see a slimming down of its Talpa Digital division that currently employs 20 people. Only a few months ago, Talpa announced some ambitious digital plans, but this week Talpa’s management decided that the [...]

The Malta-based international broadcaster Voice of the Mediterranean may have gone off the air nearly four years ago, but it’s still the subject of much discussion in the island’s political circles. Opposition MP Leo Brincat yesterday said it was difficult to understand why Foreign Minister Michael Frendo has made no statement about the fact that workmen were dismantling furnishings [...]

Spiegel Online reports that a right-wing Polish radio station founded by an ultra-conservative Polish Catholic priest is in line to get European Union funding. Radio Maryja, which has been accused of being anti-Semitic and anti-EU, may receive more than €15 million in EU funding for a private university, Poland’s Minister of Regional Development Grazyna Gesicka said [...]

Radio ORLA, the Internet-based radio station aimed at the UK Polish community, has teamed up with Hayes FM, the brand-new multilingual broadcaster in west London.  The target audience is the nearly 30,000 Poles living within the FM catchment area. This is the first time that a Polish-language commercial broadcaster is to be available on FM in the [...]

The Washington Post and Bonneville International have decided to scrap their three-year content partnership for radio station WTWP on 1500 AM and 107.7 FM. The station, which launched in March 2006, has been struggling with an audience share of less than 1.o% for most of its existence, though the latest survey showed an increase to [...]

The Evangelical Broadcasting Corporation (EO), one of the Dutch public broadcasters, has offered its apologies for broadcasting a fake news item about a Venezuelan invasion of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles. According to the report, which was broadcast on Monday night by Radio 1, four people were killed during the invasion. As a result of the [...]

The Dutch radio listening figures for June/July 2007 were released this morning by research bureau Intomart GfK. The figures are based on the listening diaries of 8,901 respondents aged 10 years and older.
At the top end of the table, the biggest increase in audience share is for public news and talk network Radio 1, which [...]

The future of Australia’s government-funded Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) hangs in the balance unless it receives a real increase in funding, the station’s Managing Director, Shaun Brown, has said. In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday, Mr Brown also warned a future government may be tempted to merge SBS with the [...]

SES Astra will launch its new digital platform entavio at the international consumer show IFA in Berlin tomorrow. The service to digital satellite households in Germany comprises about 500 digital TV and radio channels, which continue to be distributed for free, and the technical access to pay-TV for a monthly flat rate of 1.99 euros.
The first pay-TV [...]

The organizers of the European Radio Awards (ERA) have announced  the signing of a Title Sponsor for the 2007 European Radio Awards. The sponsor,  Global Traffic Network (GTN), provides customised traffic reports to affiliated radio and TV stations across Australia and Canada in exchange for commercial airtime inventory.  It is in the process of launching these [...]