Posts from ‘August, 2007’

ABC-Australia is set to receive AU$1,318,000 (US$1.08 million) for the installation of satellite downlink equipment in some remote West Australian and Queensland communities.  The government funding will also provide two portable transmitters for Queensland and Western Australia, to act as back up in the event of local equipment being down as a result of bad [...]

SES Astra has closed a new contract to market its high speed internet access product Astra2Connect to end consumers in Germany. The contract has been signed with the German provider of Internet and telecommunications services, H3 Netservice. A first contract for the distribution of Astra2Connect in Germany to end consumers was signed in March with the [...]

New Zealand’s Green Party has welcomed the evidence of strong public support for state broadcasting contained in a recent Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH) survey - and has urged the Government to forego its dividend from TVNZ this year, and thus make it affordable for the state broadcaster to screen more quality local content [...]

GrootNieuws Radio, the Dutch religious broadcaster which has taken over the licence for 1008 kHz from Radio 10 Gold, has confirmed to DutchMedia that it has received official government permission to broadcast, and will start at 2200 UTC on Friday 31 August (midnight in the Netherlands). Radio 10 Gold will thus make its much-anticipated departure from [...]

Text of report by Norway-based Burmese Democratic Voice of Burma website on 27 August
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) radio will begin test transmissions via satellite on Monday [27 August].
Test broadcasts of the regular DVB programme will take place between 1400-1630 and 1730-2100 Burmese time [0730-1000 gmt and 1100-1330 gmt].
The tests will use [DVB's] regular frequency [...]

The Qatar-based international satellite TV news channel Al-Jazeera English (AJE) is preparing to give its three broadcast centres outside Doha (Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington) more autonomy over regional news agendas later this year, according to AJE managing director Nigel Parsons.
His remarks were reported on 27 August by Content Asia, an Asia-based information resource aimed [...]

Le Figaro reports that, under the auspices of the Elysee, the French government intends to settle the tricky issue of foreign radio and television broadcasting by the end of the year. 300 million euros are spent each year to finance the various uncoordinated entities which make it up. One year after the launch of the international [...]

Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap
The public broadcaster KBS said Sunday [26 August] it will soon begin airing its satellite channel KBS World in China for Korean and foreign viewers as well as Chinese in the world’s most populous country.
KBS President Jeong Yeon-ju will formally announce the launching of the [...]

Members of China’s Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) Workgroup said last Friday that progress is being made towards the commercialization of CMMB, a mobile TV standard backed by China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), and that near-commercial products have already been developed.
“At present, only the CCTV-1 channel is being delivered through CMMB. During [...]

Salim Amin, a photojournalist and entrepreneur based in Nairob, has announced plans to launch what he terms the first truly independent pan-African 24-hour news and information TV channel. To be called A24, it will be a voice for Africa by Africans.  
A24 is due to be launched next year, and will be transmitted into rural Africa [...]

Shabelle Media Network, an independent media house in Somalia, has begun broadcasting a peace promoting programme sponsored by the United States Embassy in Nairobi. The programme includes panel discussions about the promotion of peace-building by key figures such as clan elders, intellectuals, scholars and politicians. Shabelle Media Network already produces dramas to create peace and community well-being.
The programme started on [...]

Rob Leighton of Radio Caroline writes: Back in May this year we started talking to Graham Warren, Head of Broadcast Technical Policy at Ofcom, with the intention of applying for a 12 month test & development licence to relay Caroline’s Satellite Service from the UK, using 1kW on either 41m or 49m shortwave.
We proposed carrying out [...]

Stichting Norderney, the Dutch organisation set up to preserve the history of Radio Veronica’s years as an offshore broadcaster, has arranged a special broadcast on 31 August, the anniversary of the offshore station’s closure in 1974. The broadcast will be on 675 kHz by arrangement with Arrow Classic Rock. It starts at 0500 UTC with recordings of historic broadcasts, [...]

The next series of British reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother, which sparked a racist bullying row involving Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, has been axed, broadcaster Channel 4 said today. The last series, aired earlier this year, sparked nearly 45,000 complaints from viewers as well as furious protests in India after Shetty was insulted by fellow [...]

Radio Japan advises on its website that some of its shortwave transmissions will change site and/or frequency due to re-engineering of its transmission facilities.
The Arabic transmission at 0700-0730 UTC currently on 15220 kHz via Ascension Island will move to Meyerton (South Africa) from 29 August onwards. From 28 October the site changes again to Rampisham (UK) and the frequency [...]