Posts from ‘June, 2008’

Broadcasting regulatory authorities of member countries of a regional economic cooperation body in the Black Sea region convened today at a forum in Istanbul. The forum aims at creating a network among broadcasting regulatory authorities of the member countries of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) to share experience and “to add dynamism to broadcasting [...]

The Dutch Minister for Culture, Ronald Plasterk, wants to limit the salaries of top presenters working for public broadcasting companies. He believes they should earn no more than 200,000 euros, a figure somewhat higher that the so-called “Balkenende norm” of 180,000 euros a year. Mr Plasterk asks whether a presenter who interviewed the prime minister [...]

The Swedish government’s investigation into public service radio and television was presented today, and called upon Swedish Television to minimise its current level of sponsorship. Another change is that the TV licence fee will be replaced by a so-called public service charge. Chief investigator Rose-Marie Frebran’s main criticism concerns Swedish TV’s high number of sponsors in [...]

The Local Radio Company Plc has signed a three year licencing agreement with Guardian Media Group (”GMG”) to broadcast Jazz FM on DAB, the Internet and digital television in the UK.  Broadcasts are expected to begin in late autumn. Local Radio Company Chairman Richard Wheatley said “Our previous success in developing and building the Jazz FM brand and our [...]

Text of report by Cambridge-based Broadband TV News website on 30 June
The government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is planning to privatize the country’s public broadcaster, Makedonska Radiodifuzija (MRD), at the beginning of next year. MRD general director Saso Stancevski explained that it was impossible to avoid privatization because the EC is [...]

Last week, Sweden’s Radio and TV Authority expressed its preference for the latest digital radio version of DAB+ to the government. DAB+ is a more efficient version of DAB, a standard which has been in use in Sweden for over a decade, but with very few listeners. The last government was sceptical and ordered the report which has [...]

Israel Broadcasting Authority union representatives petitioned the National Labor Court on Sunday in an attempt to get a stay of execution against measures that would force the temporary or permanent suspension of programmes.  Anchors of late night talk shows on Israel Radio’s Reshet Bet have spent the last two or three weeks making their farewells [...]

The creation of a publicly funded digital channel dedicated to Scottish coverage is to be championed by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond.
The channel, which would cost £40m a year, is expected to be recommended by the Scottish government-backed broadcasting commission and could be operational by next year. It would show a mixture of new programmes [...]

The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has fixed its guidelines for new TV broadcasting channels to be delivered via broadband Internet, paving the way for private firms to start this service around this fall.  The regulatory body’s executive committee passed the final long-pending bill on Internet-Protocol TV (IPTV) on Friday after heated debate among its five [...]

The Director-General of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, (FRCN), Ben Egbuna, has said that paucity of funds and obsolete equipment remain the major factors militating against it. Fielding questions from newsmen in Bauchi, Egbuna regretted that the Corporation was still faced with the problem of obsolete equipment. He said, “As it is now, we have transmitters [...]

The Zimbabwean newspaper Sunday Mail claims that Voice of Zimbabwe, the county’s world radio station [sic] appears to be reaching all parts of the globe judging by the correspondence it is receiving from countries as far apart as Brazil and India. The newspaper says the station, which broadcasts on shortwave in the 60 metre band (evenings) and 49 [...]

CNN Chile, the first 24-hour news network in Chile, presented its executive team and official network logo this week as it prepares to begin broadcasting before the end of the year.
CNN veteran Rolando H. Santos joins the network as senior vice president for Turner Latin America and as senior strategic advisor in charge of supervising the [...]

CRFS (Cambridge Radio Frequency Services), a developer and manufacturer of innovative real-time spectral analysis tools, has been selected by Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, to undertake one of the most detailed spectrum mapping projects ever conducted in the UK. The project will enable Ofcom to begin to build a detailed picture of radio spectrum use [...]

According to the latest media research, Radio B92 is the most listened-to and trusted station in Serbia. The station itself says this is helped by cooperation with the BBC Serbian Service, with whom “World News at 2” is jointly produced, and features breaking news, commentaries and expert analysis. The BBC also cooperates with other local [...]

The BBC has begun DVB-T2 test transmissions today, from the Guildford transmitter southwest of London, in preparation for HD on Freeview. The transmission facilities are provided by National Grid Wireless and Arqiva as part of their support for the DVB standardisation process and the UK project for the launch of DVB-T2 services. This follows the approval [...]