Posts from ‘April, 2008’

Czech Radio is celebrating its 85th anniversary in May and to mark that occasion, Radio Prague has issued a special QSL card. If you’d like to have one of your own, make sure to listen to Radio Prague on the exact date of the anniversary, that is May 18, 2008, and send them a reception report [...]

The US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), International Broadcasting Bureau (BBG/IBB), as a result of findings of a market survey, intends to negotiate and award a non-competitive contract with Phoenix Air Group, Inc (PAG) Cartersville, GA. The contract will require PAG to provide air services for TV Martí’s airborne broadcasting platform called AeroMartí that is [...]

The new Amos 3 communications satellite will be launched from Kazakhstan at 8 a.m. Israel time on Monday morning, Israel radio has reported. This comes after last week’s delay of the launch due to technical difficulties. The satellite, which will join the Amos 1 and 2 in space, will provide high-quality broadcasting and communications services [...]

Television news broadcasters and FM radio channels have welcomed recommendations by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to allow foreign investments up to 49 per cent in the two sectors, saying the move will help in expansion.
“We as a news channel welcome the move. This will effectively allow access to foreign funds and allow news [...]

Morand Fachot writes: Just listened to VOA’s Press Conference USA on the future of US international broadcasting with Alan Heil and Barry Zorthian; very interesting. The programme is available for download in various formats, and well worth listening to:

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The Nobel Foundation has dropped TV4 as carrier for its annual prize ceremony, saying the Swedish broadcaster had let Chinese television censor a speech on freedom of expression, a Swedish newspaper said. Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter said TV4, which has the rights to broadcast the annual ceremony, had allowed Chinese television stations to censor Nobel [...]

DISH Network Corporation and Alcatel-Lucent announced this week that DISH Network will test the DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite services to Handhelds) mobile broadcast technology in the United States, with the appropriate DVB-SH equipment, test tools and training provided by Alcatel-Lucent. This evaluation will take place in DISH Network’s laboratories in Atlanta, Georgia from May [...]

The French-language television channel TV5 Monde will not lose its independence and not under any circumstances become the voice of France, said the boss of France Monde this week in an interview with the Swiss press. “There have been rumours that TV5 Monde will lose its independence and become the voice of France, which is [...]

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
["China Rural Online Users up 128 Pct in 2007, Triple Urban Rise" - Xinhua headline]
BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) - The online population in China’s rural areas grew 127.7 per cent last year, outpacing the 38.2 per cent urban expansion, according [...]

I’ve been spending some time checking and updating some of the entries in our Hitlist.  In the process I came across a website that records the History of Radio Clube de Moçambique, and Lourenco Marques Radio, the first commercial radio station in Africa. LM Radio was on the air from 1936 until 1975 and played a very [...]

The website of Radio New Zealand International carries the following announcement:
On 24 and 25 April from 0850-1035 NZT [Wed,Thu 2050-2235 UTC] 15720 will carry the DRM Service and 13840 kHz AM. This amended schedule will continue next week.
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With the 2009 issue of the World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) (to be published in December of 2008), the island of St Helena will be back on the map of the World !!
In the 2008 issue of the WRTH on page 51 is a map of Southern Africa and the South Atlantic region. This map [...]

The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, a pioneering force in sound effects, would have been 50 this month. Ten years after it was disbanded, what remains of its former glory?
The BBC website offers four examples of the Workshop’s creations, including what is arguably its most famous and enduring one - the Voice of the Daleks.

Go to the [...]

Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican and a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has called for more oversight over the VOA Persian Service which, he said, has delivered broadcasts that have been slanted in favour of the Iranian government.
He said the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees US government international [...]

Members of the Executive Committee of the Afghanistan’s National Journalists Union and representatives of Tolo TV attended a meeting at which the contents of a number of letters from the Ministry of Information and Culture ordering the cessation of further broadcasts of a number of Indian television serials by private television stations was discussed and considered.
The [...]