Posts from ‘February, 2008’

Radio presenter Chris Cary has died in Tenerife at the age of 61. Cary, better known to millions of UK Radio listeners as Spangles Muldoon, suffered a stroke while working on the island, and died in hospital. Cary worked at a variety of stations including Radio Caroline, Radio Luxembourg and Radio Northsea International, and his own Irish station Radio Nova which was [...]

The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, William Ampem Darko, said the Corporation is working hard to come out with a working document on the restructuring of the corporation by 7 March. Restructuring, he noted, is dear to the hearts of people both in and outside the corporation. Mr Ampem Darko was addressing a [...]

Six months after launching its first digital channel TVNZ 6, Television New Zealand (TVNZ) is shortly to launch its second digital channel. Advertising-free digital channel TVNZ 7 will launch on Sunday 30 March 2008 with an event and live broadcast from Parliament. TVNZ 7 is New Zealand’s first local free-to-air factual channel. It will screen [...]

Irish Communications Minister Eamon Ryan has welcomed the announcement by the European Commission on the closure of its investigation into the compatibility of the public funding arrangements for RTÉ and Teilifís na Gailge (TG4) and EU State Aid rules. This followed negotiation between the sides.
Minister Ryan said “The positive outcome of the negotiations confirms the [...]

The DRM+ trials in Hanover are just finishing and the next DRM+ trials will start in another German city, Kaiserslautern. On 1st March 2008, the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern will broadcast, on the FM frequency 87.6 MHz, in DRM+ digital quality from its own experimental radio station to the city of Kaiserslautern. The Federal [...]

A reminder that the 10th anniversary contest of the Euro-Africa Medium Wave Guide officially starts tomorrow, 1 March, and will conclude on 30 April. To celebrate the event, a quiz is being organised. The quiz is open to anyone, regardless of location or club membership. The quiz does not solely deal with medium wave, but [...]

Text of report by Kenyan privately-owned newspaper Daily Nation website on 29 February
Eleven Eritrean opposition activists in exile have launched a television broadcast against Eritrea’s President Isayas Afewerki. The group’s spokesman, Mr Mengisteab Asmerom, told the Nation in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, that the new programme, broadcast in Arabic and Tigrigna, is part of [...]

The only European convicted over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda was flown home to Italy to serve out the rest of his 12-year sentence, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said today. Georges Omar Ruggiu, a former presenter with Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, was sentenced in 2000 after pleading guilty to two counts [...]

Modern Times Group, the international entertainment broadcasting group, today announced that Viasat Broadcasting has signed an agreement with TV2 Norway to include the TV2 channel, the TV2 news channel and the TV2 movie channel on Viasat’s DTH satellite pay-TV platform in Norway. The TV2 channel will be available to all Viasat subscribers from 3 March [...]

We are sorry to have to pass on this message from Mike Bird in Australia:
“I am writing because I have just heard that my good friend and former colleague at Radio Australia, Barry Seeber, passed away earlier today after a 4 year battle with cancer. He was 65 years old. I produced Barry in the mid [...]

The CNN website has an in-depth profile of Free North Korea Radio, which broadcasts from Seoul and is jointly funded by South Korean citizens and the US Government. The station’s founder is a former North Korean soldier who defected.

Radio gives hope to North and South Koreans

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Yahoo! Korea has announced that it will offer Voice of America news covering the Korean Peninsula, international and US news. The online news service will cover breaking political, diplomatic, and international news from hard-to-access areas of North Korea and the Korean Peninsula.
Under this partnership agreement, Yahoo! Korea will offer VOA news in the Korean language in [...]

The Korean Ministry of Information and Communication announced yesterday that Korea’s National Assembly has passed a special act to convert the country to digital broadcasting by the end of 2012.
The act was first drafted by the Committee for Digital Broadcasting Development, co-chaired by Minister of Information and Communication and Chairman of the Korean Broadcasting Commission in April 2007, [...]

Google has made its blog-publishing system, Blogger, officially available in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew, bringing to 40 the number of languages supported. Blogger now supports right-to-left writing for those languages.
The announcement was made on The Official Google Blog, on 27 January. Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs in August 1999 as one of the earliest [...]

The viewers of al-Baraka satellite TV were astonished when the station suddenly went of the air without any prior notice last Tuesday afternoon. No less surprised were the station’s employees and management; they had received no notification from NileSat about any interruption.
Officially, the station was taken off the air because of some missing documents. If [...]