Posts from ‘November, 2007’

Gerry Jackson, Station Manager of SW Radio Africa*, writes concerning today’s Al Jazeera report on the ‘million man march’ in Harare, in support of Robert Mugabe:
“Their correspondent, Supa Mandiwanzira, is a known supporter of the ruling party and also provides reports to the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation.
 
“He does not mention that thousands of people were [...]

BBC Radio Bristol is set to switch its main frequency to 94.9FM, and provide a better signal, from Monday 3 December 2007. Managing Editor of Radio Bristol, Tim Pemberton says: “This is good news for our listeners in and around Bristol as it will mean we now have a high quality signal on 94.9FM. Our listeners in [...]

Text of report by Pakistan channel Dawn News on 30 November
Geo News restarted its transmission from Dubai late Thursday [29 November] night. According to an announcement on the channel, their transmission can be viewed around the globe but cable viewers in Pakistan will not be able to see it.
With the imposition of emergency on 3 [...]

Israel’s Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog announced on Wednesday that plans were already under way to expand broadcasting hours for the Israel Broadcasting Authority’s Amharic-language radio show despite recent cutbacks to the national broadcasting body.
Speaking at the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women, which was discussing domestic violence in the Ethiopian community, [...]

New technology will help the ABC bring local coverage directly to communities affected by natural disasters like floods and cyclones. Three fly-in transmitters have been purchased to allow local ABC stations to set up shop anywhere in Australia. The units were originally designed for the United States military to use in the Iraq war.
Mark Spurway, [...]

The rapid roll-out of television on mobile phones across Europe took a key step forward yesterday with EU member states supporting an industry standard for the bloc. The European Commission, and now the EU nations, are backing the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld) over competitors.
All EU nations will have to support and encourage the use [...]

Eutelsat Communications has signed a contract for capacity on its Atlantic Bird™ 3 satellite with Télédiffusion d’Algérie (TDA) to broadcast Algeria’s national Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) package of television and radio channels. TDA’s capacity on Atlantic Bird™ 3 will ensure that Digital Terrestrial Television channels benefit from immediate and complete coverage of Algeria.
In the initial phase, digital channels [...]

The Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) has reached an agreement with US network Time Warner Cable to carry KBS World - its international television channel.  The agreement will enable KBS World to potentially reach an audience of two million people in 216 cities in southern California beginning 1 December 2007.
KBS World will now be available to [...]

Text of report in English by Rwandan news agency RNA
Kigali, 29 November: DRCongo government radio has been broadcasting hate messages branding Congolese Tutsis as Rwandan with the aim to have them “annihilated” and something must be done urgently or else the conflict there gets out of hand, a Jewish academic has said.
Dr. Rabbi David [...]

Text of report by Brussels-based Kurdish Roj TV on 27 November
The Kurdish people now have another TV channel. Newroz TV, which had started test transmissions in February this year, began regular broadcasts today, 27 November.
Newroz TV will broadcast from Sweden. Its transmissions will begin at 1700 and end at 1900 European time. It aims to [...]

Georgia’s prime minister said today he wanted Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to buy the banned independent television station Imedi outright. News Corp co-owns the channel with Georgian multimillionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, an opposition figure who wants to end President Mikhail Saakashvili’s rule. The president’s allies say Imedi was a mouthpiece for his opponents during anti-government protests this month.
“We [...]

SVT Europa and Radio Sweden are switching from the Sirius 2 satellite to Eurobird 9. The switch will be made on 8 December, and will affect Radio Sweden’s satellite channels to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Satellite dishes will have to move from 5 degrees East to 9 degrees East to receive Eurobird 9. [...]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty yesterday inaugurated a one-hour weekly show on Georgian Public Television (GPB) which introduces to the young generation forgotten or undiscovered cultural figures and political themes of Georgia’s Soviet communist past.
RFE/RL Georgian Service Director David Kakabadze says “it is of paramount importance for Georgians to examine and come to terms with their [...]

A UN tribunal today reduced the jail terms of three Rwandan journalists convicted of fanning the 1994 genocide by inciting Hutu extremists to slaughter Tutsis. The Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2003 handed defendants Ferdinand Nahimana and Hassan Ngeze life imprisonment sentences while a third one, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, got 35 years.
“There have been [...]

Text of press release by Digital Radio Mondiale on 27 November
Geneva, Switzerland: The ITU is the United Nations organization for coordination of the use of the radio spectrum. Every four years it conducts a thorough review and modification of the regulations for the use of the radio spectrum, including broadcasting use.
Since 2002, Digital Radio Mondiale’s [...]