Posts from ‘May, 2008’

The importance of choice in television news and current affairs services is one of the key findings in the third interim report of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission. Since March, the Commission has been gathering evidence on the democratic importance of broadcasting in Scotland. The interim report published yesterday reveals emerging issues in the role of [...]

The Voice of America’s additional English broadcast to Asia at 0200-0300 UTC is to discontinued as from today, so the following  transmissions are cancelled:

9780 kHz at 0200-0300 UTC from Sri Lanka
11705 kHz at 0200-0300 UTC from Thailand

(Source: DXAsia)
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Due to the change to Daylight Saving Time in Pakistan the following changes are effective from tomorrow, 1 June, for the Voice of America’s Urdu service:

MW 972 and 1539 kHz at 1300-0100 (ex-1400-0200) UTC
SW service at 0000-0100 (ex-0100-0200) UTC on 7135 and 11755 kHz
SW service 1300-1400 (ex-1400-1500) UTC on 9340 and 15790 kHz.

(Source: DXAsia)
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Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Belarusian foreign ministry’s refusal on 28 May to issue accreditation to reporter Alyaksey Minchonak of Radio Racyja, a station based in the Polish city of Bialystok that broadcasts to Belarus. This latest obstacle for the station comes a month after the police raided its Minsk bureau and seized equipment.
“The [...]

The Turkish Parliament passed a bill on Thursday allowing the state-owned television Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) to broadcast programs in languages other than Turkish, paving the way for broadcasts in Kurdish, Arabic and Farsi.
TRT will now be able to allocate one of its channels to 24-hour broadcasts in Kurdish. TRT General Director Ibrahim [...]

The newly inaugurated and upgraded Kargil radio station of All India Radio in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) will soon broadcast daily news bulletin in Balti to encourage local and Pakistan’s Northern Areas’ audiences. Broadcasting Corporation of India Chief Executive Officer BS Lalli said the Balti service would go on air within the next two months.
The [...]

Positive tests results using the DRM+ standard for a radio station broadcasting on FM were unveiled at an international symposium yesterday. Throughout March, April and May 2008, the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern has broadcast its experimental radio station across the southwest German city in digital on 87.6 MHz using DRM+ in order to test this [...]

There should be tighter controls on the management of the BBC’s website - in part to prevent it stifling commercial rivals, the BBC Trust has said, reports BBC News. After reviewing bbc.co.uk, the trust said it was “an excellent service” but that its content had to be different from that on rival websites. And it criticised the [...]

Text of report by Kenyan privately-owned TV station NTV on 30 May
[Presenter] Retired president Daniel Moi is asking the government to monitor vernacular radio stations which continue to propagate what he calls hate political messages. Moi says such stations have the potential to plunge the country into chaos if not monitored. The retired president wants [...]

For those of you interested in the European Football Championships, which start in just over a week’s time, I’m pleased to report that we have today launched our blog in English, called Euro 2008 - the armchair fan. That’s because, like most people, we’ll be following events at home on TV. We did one four years ago [...]

The TV talkshow “Jugend ohne Grenzen” (young people across borders) had its production premiere on 24 May, 2008. Young individuals from Germany and Egypt gathered this past Saturday to discuss the “long road towards getting a dream job”. The monthly talkshow will alternately be produced in Berlin and Cairo and is a joint-production from Deutsche [...]

Opposition supporters rallied in front of Georgia’s state-owned public broadcaster (GPB) yesterday to protest “unfair coverage” of their campaigning, amid news of the resignation of the station’s board chairman. Board chairman Irakli Tripolski resigned yesterday, complaining of bias in the Georgian Public Broadcaster’s news coverage. However, today he withdrew his resignation.
“[The] law on public broadcasting says that [...]

The Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor has indicated that it is interested in the terrestrial distribution of radio and television programmes in Finland. Currently the field is a monopoly held by Digita Oy. Network licences are up for renewal in 2010, and applications for the licences can be applied for already in the autumn of this year.
Telenor [...]

Australia’s leading advertising agencies and radio stations have joined forces to provide advice and guidance for the industry about the introduction and implementation of digital radio, scheduled for early next year. The Digital Radio Advertising Advisory Group met for the first time in Sydney yesterday.
Discussions at the inaugural meeting focused on a market update including [...]

Unions representing the staff of France’s public broadcasting services are planning a one-day work stoppage on 18 June. The strike will affect Radio France Internationale as well as domestic networks. Jean-Francois Tealdi, a spokesman for the 10 unions concerned, told AFP that the strike had been called to “save public service broadcasting” and to “defend the pluralism of [...]