Posts from ‘January, 2008’

The Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS) will start broadcasting from tomorrow until 14 February in a trial period without news reports, said the station’s acting director Thepchai Yong yesterday. Full programming with news reports will begin from 15 February, he said.
The trial, from 5am to midnight, will have documentaries, children’s shows, a live talk show, [...]

Italy’s broadcasting system, dominated by Mediaset and state-owned RAI, breaks EU rules because it fails to foster competition, Europe’s top court has found.
The ruling by the European Court of Justice today strengthens a fight waged for the past nine years by Italian regional broadcaster Europa 7 to get national coverage. “The exclusive allocation of radio [...]

SES Americom today announced the debut of satellitewiki.com, a wiki devoted to the satellite industry. The timing of the debut coincides with the 50th anniversary of the launch of Explorer 1, the first US satellite.
Using the same style and software used to power Wikipedia, satellitewiki.com lets visitors explore the history of man-made satellites, definitions of [...]

Continental Airlines has entered into an agreement with LiveTV that will allow Continental to offer 36 channels of live, inflight satellite-based television programming provided by DIRECTV®  at every seat on Continental’s new generation aircraft. The service is expected to be available to customers on flights operating within the continental United States beginning in January 2009. [...]

Text of report by report by Cambridge-based Broadband TV News website on 30 January
A new French-language DTH [direct-to-home] bouquet will start test transmissions on the Hot Bird satellite [at 13 degrees east] in mid-March, according to Tele-Satellite [French magazine, website].
The service will reach Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Using the Viaccess PA2.3 CA [conditional access] system, [...]

SES Sirius, an SES Astra company, announced today that the Sirius 4 communications satellite is now in operation and has taken over all transmissions from Sirius 2 and Sirius 3. Since it was launched on 18 November 2007, all operations have been carried out according to plan.
The Swedish Space Corporation is a minority shareholder in [...]

The BBC has teamed up with Bangladesh’s leading news website bdnews24.com so its users can listen to BBC World Service radio. Thanks to the new partnership, visitors to the 24/7 site across the world can now access BBC radio programmes in English and Bangla. bdnews24.com is the first news site in Bangladesh to carry BBC radio [...]

Digital audio broadcasting (DAB) may end up to radio what Betamax was to video, warns a report published in the UK today. The report, by media and telecoms specialist Enders Analysis, said the launch of the second national commercial digital radio multiplex, headed by Channel 4, might exacerbate the problems rather than solve them, and warned [...]

The Algerian government has begun using Radio Qur’an to broadcast Islam-based arguments against violence and extremism. Eager to combat the forces of extremism and terrorism in their country, Algerian authorities have enlisted the aid of the station to broadcast religious messages condemning the violent practices. Islamic scholars from Algeria and Gulf countries have appeared on [...]

The proposal for the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) to have a 24-hour television news channel will be tabled in the Cabinet soon, said Deputy Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. “We will bring it up with the Cabinet for approval so that it can be realised as soon as possible,” he said today.
He said [...]

The Voice of America has condemned the attack against Goran Gavrilov, General Manager of Kanal 77. Mr Gavrilov was beaten violently outside his home in Stip, Macedonia on the night of 25 January.
“We call for a full and complete investigation of the circumstances surrounding this brutal attack,” said Danforth Austin, Director of the Voice of [...]

 The British government ruled today that media giant BSkyB must cut its holding in independent television broadcaster ITV to below 7.5 percent, as recommended by competition authorities. BSkyB snapped up 17.9 percent of ITV for £940 million (1.39 billion euros, $1.78 billion) in November 2006. However, many analysts saw the move as preventing an ITV tie-up with [...]

The broadcast operator Axión, a Spanish subsidiary of the DRM Member TDF, has launched a Spanish website dedicated to DRM. Several of DRM´s Spanish members participated in the creation of the website, which displays DRM promotional activities in Spain. This is the Spanish extension of the Digital Radio Mondiale consortium website.
The DRM consortium says the launch of [...]

A new, state-authorized radio station catering to West Bank settlers could be established somewhere in Judea or Samaria as early as April unless a pending High Court petition torpedoes the move. The announcement comes as the Israeli government has launched US-backed peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority that could lead to territorial compromises in the [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks, together with Global Mediacom, will launch a commercial broadcast mobile TV service, based on DVB-H technology, in Indonesia in the first half of 2008, in what NSN says is its biggest DVB-H agreement so far. One of the drivers behind the deal is to enable users to watch in time the Olympic [...]