Posts from ‘September, 2007’

British media regulator Ofcom has fined morning TV programme contractor GMTV £2 million ($4.03 million)  for letting viewers enter competitions they had no chance of winning, the regulator said today. Ofcom said GMTV had breached rules relating to fair conduct and its responsibility to control service arrangements. It said GMTV had picked competition finalists before phone lines [...]

LTV, the Lithuanian national broadcaster, has launched its third channel, LTV World. As the name suggests, LTV World is an international channel which can be seen by viewers in northern and western Europe, and later by audiences in North America. Under the current plan, broadcasts of LTV World in North America will start via the [...]

The fact that Danish authorities still haven’t withdrawn the broadcasting licence and pulled the plug on a Danish-based television station that Turkey says is a mouthpiece for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is creating problems in bilateral relations between Ankara and Copenhagen, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan warned during a meeting with his Danish [...]

Modern Times Group  (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, today announced that it is restructuring the Viasat DTH satellite pay-TV offerings in Scandinavia, in order to provide greater flexibility and choice for subscribers in customizing their pay-TV packages. Viewers will now have more than 20 different options of how they structure their pay-TV channel packages.
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Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a decree on creating a new Ovaz (Melody) radio channel of the General Directorate of the Turkmen TV.  According to the document, the radio channel will start broadcasting in Turkmen, Russian and English. The decree approves the staff list of the new radio channel. The Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan [...]

The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) has increased its production as a result of the crisis in the country. ”We normally broadcast two hours every day on shortwaves but at the moment,  in addition to that, we also broadcast seven hours daily by satellite,” the station’s deputy director Khin Maung Win told AFP in an interview. 
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Text of report in English by Romanian news agency Rompres
["US Soldiers in Mihail Kogalniceanu Base Establish Radio Post" - Rompres headline]
Bucharest, Sept 26 (Rompres) - The US soldiers training in Mihail Kogalniceanu base inaugurated on Tuesday 25 September the radio post ‘Good morning Romania’, to broadcast in English.
Spokesman of Joint Task Force of Eastern [...]

Radio Netherlands Worldwide has learned that Abdul Rahman Panjshiri, Director of Planning & Foreign Relations at the National Radio and Television of Afghanistan (RTA), has resigned afer 29 years with the organisation. Mr Panjshiri has told international colleagues of the reasons for his decision:
“Following the appointment of Mr Khorram at the Ministry of Information and Culture [...]

The American Embassy in Cairo, in cooperation with the Voice of America (VOA), has produced a compilation of recordings from the archives of the VOA Arabic service. The three CD collection is entitled Bainee wa Bainak or “Between You and Me”. US Ambassador Francis J Ricciardone introduced the collection saying, “We chose the name Bainee [...]

University of Queensland researchers from the Australasian Centre on Ageing and 4MBS Classic FM are collaborating to develop a new radio service specifically for older Australians. Funded by a grant from the Wicking Trust, administered by ANZ Trustees, the new service will address the needs of older socially and emotionally isolated Australians including those living [...]

SES New Skies announced today that France 24 is now broadcasting across Africa on the NSS-7 satellite located at the orbital position of 338° East. NSS-7 is the primary satellite for video distribution in Africa, and 338° East has a significant legacy as a strong, diverse and thriving African programme neighbourhood comprising French, English, Arabic [...]

A new radio station will commence broadcasting to the Dublin area this weekend under a temporary licence from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, and will operate every Friday, Saturday and Sunday until 2 December. The Rock, based in Dun Laoghaire, will broadcast classic rock music aimed at the over-30s on 94.9 MHz FM and 1278 kHz AM.
(Source: Radiowaves.fm)
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Figures released by the DRDB (Digital Radio Development Bureau) show household penetration of DAB digital radio in the UK is set to reach 58.5% by the end of 2011. The DRDB’s new five-year forecast puts household penetration at 21% by the end of 2007, and 30% by the end of 2008, rising to 40% in [...]

Technically WorldSpace is now operating without a broadcasting licence in South Africa, writes Chris Forrester in Rapid TV News. South Africa’s Independent Communications Authority (ICASA) issued a batch of new broadcasting licences, but WorldSpace was not among them.  It had already withdrawn its application back in May because it did not meet local ownership rules.
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The Pennsylvania Air National Guard 193rd Special Operations Wing has retired commando Solo II, its 1963 aircraft which operated a flying radio and television station over Haiti, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Bosnia, Kosovo and other world hotspots. The plane was put to rest yesterday in a ceremony at Fort Indiantown Gap and is now on permanent [...]