Posts from ‘July, 2008’

Borno State Government in Nigeria has bought new equipment and facilities for its radio station, Borno Radio Television (BRTV). Also, the radio station has expressed its readiness to extend it coverage to most states in the Northeastern parts of the country and the neighbouring countries of Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
The General Manager of the station, Alhaji [...]

My RNW colleague Martien Sleutjes writes: Radio Netherlands Worldwide is currently in the process of creating a digital Historical Audio Archive. In working with material from the 1940s and 1950s, we have discovered that some programmes, especially in English, that were produced for the Programme Export department, or Transcription Service as it was then called, are [...]

A new Internet project from OneWorld.nl, onzeWereld and Radio Netherlands Worldwide
OneWorld.nl, onzeWereld and Radio Netherlands Worldwide are launching an international Internet project which offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the Beijing Olympics. The website www.rnw.nl/intimatechina contains intimate little stories, photographs and clips of events taking place in the margins of the world’s greatest sporting [...]

The boss of the BBC World Service’s Cantonese- and Mandarin-language service has had her invitation to the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony withdrawn, the broadcaster confirmed today. Lorna Ball, the head of BBC Chinese, had been invited by state broadcaster China Radio International to the August 8 ceremony but will not now be travelling to China. BBC spokesman [...]

The US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), has a requirement for a contractor to design and construct a new building addition and associated facilities for Government-furnished shortwave  transmitters and related equipment at an IBB transmitting site in Kuwait. The solicitation is expected to be posted on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website [...]

NHK-Japan is to launch new programming initiatives to cater for “digital natives” - a term used to describe the generation of people who grew up with the Internet as a fact of life. The first project will be an edition of its flagship documentary programme, NHK Special, which will look at how digital natives are [...]

Retailers and manufacturers of digital radio products have joined forces to ensure a united effort in launching digital radio in Australia later this year. Meeting for the first time with radio industry executives in Sydney yesterday, Australia’s leading retailers and manufacturers have formed a Broadcasters, Retailers and Receiver Manufacturers Digital Radio Advisory Group, which will [...]

With just over a week to go before the start of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been forced to admit that some of its own officials cut a deal to let China continue to block sensitive websites at the International Press Centre. This is despite earlier promises by [...]

A decision by Lesotho’s broadcasting authority to order the country’s only private radio station off the air was slammed yesterday by media rights activists as an assault on freedom of expression. Harvest FM, which has often been at loggerheads with the government in the small southern Africa kingdom, was last week ordered to cease broadcasting for [...]

UK-based DXer Mike Barraclough thought I was being unfair to the DX Clubs when I wrote that “The traditional DX clubs have been very slow to latch on to the threat posed by this technology” in reference to Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), and Power Line Communications (PLC). Mike regarded this comment as a “sweeping generalisation”.  [...]

Blogger News Network reports: The Voice of America has ceased its on-air Russian-language radio broadcasts as of 26 July. The broadcasts were stopped despite concerns expressed by US lawmakers and human rights NGOs that freedom of speech remains restricted in Russia.
In an apparent effort to limit negative publicity and possible embarrassment, neither VOA nor BBG [...]

US satellite radio giants Sirius and XM completed their merger today after winning a lengthy battle with regulators over concerns about market competition. The new company formed by Sirius Satellite Radio’s buyout of XM Satellite Radio, will be called Sirius XM Radio Inc. 
The combined company has more than 18.5 million subscribers, making it the second-largest radio company, [...]

The president of the Broadcasting Agency in Serbia (RRA), Nenad Cekic, has been relieved of his duties today, Tanjug reports. His deputy Aleksandar Vasic has also been removed from his position.
A member of the RRA, which regulates the media scene in Serbia, revealed that the duties of the council president and deputy will in the future be [...]

Chris Forrester writes: Broadcasters can save millions of dollars in digital broadcast transmission electricity costs by adopting new power modulator modules from Nujira, claims the company. 
“The broadcast transmission network typically accounts for 75% of the total electricity used by a broadcaster and over half of this is used by the transmitter output power amplifier,” Nujira [...]

A report on the Media Guardian website suggests that the reaction of Media Network readers was typical of the reaction generally to the launch yesterday of the new search engine Cuil. Media Guardian also points out that the name may present a problem for people who access the Internet at work, as it is just a small [...]