Posts from ‘September, 2008’

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has lost its appeal to keep hold of its 17.9 percent stake in British free-to-air broadcaster ITV, the Competition Commission has ruled.
BSkyB had challenged a ruling by the Competition Commission forcing it to reduce the stake to below 7.5 percent. BSkyB bought the stake in 2006 for 135 pence a share or £940 million pounds in [...]

Text of report in English by Jung Kwon Ho: “North Korean officials listen to foreign radio”, published by South Korean newspaper The Daily NK website on 25 August
Shenyang, China - Among cadres in North Korea, listening to foreign radio is on the increase.
Several sources from North Korea report that “Irrespective of rank, the trend [...]

“Europe, Personally” is a project originated by RTVSLO/Slovenia, which has received the support of the Radio Development Fund. The project has now been launched. The long-term aim of this project is to establish a network of European radio stations within and also outside the European Union, which will regularly make radio shows about everyday life [...]

SES Astra announced today that the Slovakian telecommunications and TV operator Towercom has doubled its capacity on Astra and contracted one more transponder at the orbital position 23.5 degrees East. Towercom, which owns and operates the Skylink TV platform in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, will use the additional capacity for different local channels for [...]

A DRM+ special event is taking place today in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In addition to a report on the concept and  presentation of the first field results of  the DRM+  trial, the event is an unique opportunity for witnessing a real live DRM+ demo and learning more about the advanced features and benefits of DRM+.
The University of Applied Sciences of [...]

Television New Zealand and YouTube will jointly present a live election debate on 14 October, ahead of the country’s general election on 8 November. The debate between Labour Party leader Helen Clark and National Party leader John Key will for the first time feature questions posted as video submissions on YouTube.
TVNZ has invited members of [...]

The US House of Representatives has unanimously passed the Webcaster Settlement Act, which would allow Internet radio stations to negotiate with the music industry for a royalty rate lower than what Congress mandated last year. The vote came following the decision of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to drop its opposition the the bill after Congress addressed [...]

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has asked the Government of Armenia to review the recently adopted amendments to the TV and radio law that introduce a moratorium on issuing new broadcasting licences until the planned digital switchover, scheduled to start in 2010.
In a letter [...]

Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) will introduce regional television networks with the implementation of digital broadcasting in three years’ time, said Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek. He said as the digital broadcasting system would have 20 channels, each region, including Sabah and Sarawak, would have its own network.
“It is not impossible for us to have [...]

A reminder that BBC Radio 4 launches its new weekly media show on Wednesday 1 October at 1230 UTC. Its brief is to cover what is happening in newspapers, television, radio, and the Web. Steve Hewlett will present it live, and unlike previous media programmes on Radio 4 The Media Show will run for 52 weeks [...]

Free Media Online reports that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is preventing the Voice of America from using an AM frequency [810 kHz] in Moscow for its Russian-language radio programes, even though the Russian authorities still allow the frequency to be occupied by VOA. It also says the BBG ignored directives from Congress and terminated all on [...]

The European Parliament , meeting in Brussels this week for its plenary session, adopted a report by Karin Resetarits (Die Liberalen, Austria) which calls on the European Union to encourage alternative media in Europe in order to promote pluralism and cultural diversity.
Stemming from the old family of “free radio” and other pirate broadcasting, alternative media today [...]

The Voice of America (VOA) will carry the first presidential candidates’ debate on foreign affairs live from Oxford, Mississippi, this evening providing international audiences with analyses and commentary. VOA is sending a team of journalists to cover the debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.
VOA journalists from English-language programmes as well as those from [...]

The British government indicated tiday it would work quickly to help the country’s broadcast industry agree a new model to see it through the digital switchover and advertising downturn. Andy Burnham, secretary of state for culture, media and sport, told a Royal Television Society event in London he hoped the government would announce a decision [...]

The United States is stepping in to help Georgia restore key radio and television stations bombed and looted during recent hostilities with Russia. The assistance will help the stations resume broadcasting reliable and unbiased news to residents, according to the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital. Together the stations had been reaching 30 percent of Georgia [...]