Posts from ‘March, 2008’

The National Communications Authority of Hungary (NCAH) has announced an international tender for the operation rights of five terrestrial digital television broadcasting networks and a digital radio broadcasting network in the VHF range. At the press conference discussing the details of the bid invitations Dániel Pataki, President of NCAH, said that results of the bids are [...]

Text of report by Norway-based Burmese Democratic Voice of Burma website, on 26 March
Dear listeners, the Democratic Voice of Burma will be changing some of its frequencies beginning from Monday [31 March]. The evening programme [1430 gmt] of Monday, 31 March, will be broadcasting from shortwave 19-metre band, 15,480 kHz and shortwave 16-metre band, 17,625 [...]

Korean President Lee Myung-bak has appointed Choi Si-jung, 70, to head the Broadcasting Communications Commission (BCC), ignoring public criticism of his alleged wrongdoings. The law made it possible for Lee to appoint Choi to head the BCC without undergoing a parliamentary hearing.  Choi has been accused of engaging in inappropriate real estate trading and other irregularities.
Some media unions and [...]

The operation of Polish-based TV and radio broadcasters to Belarus appears to have been affected little by Thursday’s KGB massive raids on journalists deemed to be working for them.
TV Belarus (BelSat), a satellite channel of Poland’s TVP public television network, continued normal operation on Friday. “We keep reporting news on schedule,” a BelSat journalist told [...]

Barely three months after forecasters announced the beginning of new Solar Cycle 24, old Solar Cycle 23 has returned. Actually, it never left. “This week, three big sunspots appeared and they are all old cycle spots,” says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. “We know this because of their magnetic polarity.”
Earlier yesterday, the Solar and Heliospheric [...]

The anti-Qur’an film Fitna made by Dutch MP Geert Wilders has been removed from LiveLeak, the British website where it was being shown. In its place is an official statement by the website saying the film was removed because of very serious threats to staff. The statement speaks of a sad day for freedom of [...]

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has today placed an advertisement in the national press, seeking applications to operate a classic rock service.  The service, which will be on the FM band, will be primarily music driven with a strong emphasis on classic rock music. The franchise area to be served is Dublin City and [...]

The Swedish Radio and TV Authority has awarded Modern Times Group-owned Viasat Broadcasting two new channel broadcast licences for the Sweden’s digital terrestrial television (DTT) network.
The Authority has also renewed Viasat’s existing four licences. The awards will see premium channels Viasat Sport 1 and TV1000 joining Viasat’s TV3, TV6, TV8 and ZTV free-to-air channels. All [...]

Every two years, the Digital Radio Mondiale consortium holds elections. Yesterday the members of the Steering Board, the key players of the DRM Consortium, were elected. After 10 years as Chairman of DRM Peter Senger retired from both DRM and his position as Deutsche Welle´s Director DRM. His successor comes from the BBC World Service [...]

In connection with tomorrow’s elections in Zimbabwe, my colleague Hélène Michaud of our African Bureau has written a piece on the Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations (ZACRAS).  You can read the article here.
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Representatives of Mongolia’s National Public Radio and Television gathered yesterday to share views on the current state and further trends of the radio station “Voice of Mongolia”. A technical and technological modernization and a need to increase a number of listeners are the most urgent issues of the “Voice of Mongolia”- one of the channels to advertise [...]

The SW/MW technical schedule of Radio Netherlands Worldwide effective on Sunday 30 March has now been published on our website.
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Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam movie has gone online. The film, titled Fitna or ‘Ordeal’ in Arabic, shows verses of the Qur’an alternating with graphic scenes of recent acts of terror: the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the charred bodies of train passengers in Madrid, gruesome images from atrocities in London and Somalia. [...]

International transmission services provider VT Communications has moved its London Head Office to the Blue Fin Building on London’s Southbank. The Blue Fin Building is also the new home of VTC’s Media Management Centre, the control centre of its Global Media Network, delivering broadcast and media content globally across multiple platforms. 
The new address is:
VT Communications Ltd
Blue Fin Building
110 [...]

Deutsche Welle is working together with the Algerian public broadcaster EPTV to produce an Arabic talk show. “North-South Dialogue” will feature two guests from Maghreb and two from Europe who will discuss current topics from a European and North African point of view. It will air on DW-TV ARABIA und EPTV simultaneously and will be [...]