Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Chris Forrester writes in Rapid TV News: WorldSpace’s India operation is not included in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. WorldSpace is also advancing its sale process. Founder Noah Samara is still at the helm.
WorldSpace has been given the Delaware Bankruptcy Court’s permission to draw down its first slice of funding, $2m, in order to pay back-salaries [...]

Viewers around the world now have free access to a unique online collection of New Zealand television and film content, Scoop.co.nz reports. NZ On Screen, conceived and funded by NZ On Air, a government body, is a continually evolving showcase of New Zealand television and film. It provides video clips from programmes and movies - and [...]

Ghulam Murtaza Solangi, Director General of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, has assured protesting employees of the corporation of an early solution to their problems. The employees have been protesting for the last three days at non-implementation of a 20 per cent raise in their salaries, long overdue upgrading of clerical staff and regularisation of their contracts [...]

A24 Media, Africa’s first online content delivery site designed to bring an authentic African perspective to global audiences, has welcomed two new Kenyan broadcasters on board.  K24, a 24-hour news channel which features local eyewitness reports, and Royal Media Services, a leading media empire with widespread outreach across Kenya have joined forces with the newly launched [...]

The decision to shut Berlin’s pioneering multicultural radio station Radio Multikulti by the end of the year has sparked a flurry of protests and petitions. Station owners cite a budget shortfall for the closure. It was Europe’s first multicultural radio station and was given a flamboyant launch in 1994, with more than 2,000 guests swaying [...]

Text of report by French state-funded public broadcaster Radio France Internationale on 22 October
Radio France Internationale is on a one-day strike on Wednesday to protest the reform of public media approved by cabinet today [Tuesday]. The sweeping reforms, proposed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy one year ago, affect the financing of French public media. All [...]

With the start of the B08 shortwave broadcasting season on Sunday 26 October, SW Radio Africa, which broadcasts to Zimbabwe from studios in the UK, will change its shortwave frequency on the 25 metre band from 12035 to 11745 kHz. The parallel 60 mb frequency, 4880 kHz, will continue unchanged. The station broadcasts daily at [...]

SES Astra has announced that the number of High Definition (HD) channels broadcast via the Astra Satellite System has increased significantly in the last three months. At the beginning of October 2008, the number of HD channels reached 55 – representing an increase of 13 channels or 30 percent since August. The SES group, including [...]

Beijing announced last Friday that China’s media policy that allowed foreign journalists to travel and conduct interviews without first obtaining government permission would be permanently put into effect, AsiaMedia reports. The policy was among a number of temporary regulations put in place on 1 January 2008 that eased media restrictions for the Beijing Olympics in [...]

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the national broadcaster, TRT, will launch a channel in Kurdish in January, Today’s Zaman reports. He said the broadcasts would initially be for 12 hours a day and that broadcasting hours would be increased later. Mr Erdogan was speaking during a visit to the southeastern province [...]

Text of report by Norway-based Burmese Democratic Voice of Burma website, on 20 October
Dear listeners, beginning from Monday, 27 October, the daily radio programmes of the Democratic Voice of Burma [DVB] will be increased by an hour while some current broadcasting frequencies will be changed.
The new extended broadcast will be aired from 1930 to 2030 [...]

The winter shortwave/mediumwave schedule of Radio Netherlands Worldwide in all languages, including relays of other stations via RNW facilities, is now online. It takes effect on Sunday 26 October.
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Radio Romania International announces on its website that its 30-minute DRM English transmission through the World Radio Network from a transmitter in Norway,  and beamed to the UK, will be broadcast at 1800-1830 UTC on the new winter frequency of 5895 kHz from 26 October (currently 1700-1730 UTC on 7460 kHz).
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South Korea’s ministry responsible for ties with the North said today no unusual activity was observed in North Korea on the day media said Pyongyang might make an important announcement. Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said on Saturday that North Korean diplomats had been told to stay close to their missions and await an important message, which could [...]

Moves to reform the way communications industries are regulated across Europe need to be speeded-up so that consumers can benefit, Ed Richards, Chief Executive of UK communications regulator Ofcom, warned today. Negotiations on the proposals to reform the EU regulatory Framework for communications have gone on for more than a year.
But Ed Richards said today that without [...]