Posts from ‘October, 2008’

The High Court in Blantyre on Sunday granted Private broadcaster Joy Radio an injunction stopping the revocation of its license by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA).  The court order means that Joy radio can go back on air pending further court processes where both sides will be heard.
According to MACRA, three things resulted to [...]

DRM Member Thomson Broadcast & Multimedia showcases its latest DRM offerings at the Africast exhibition in Abuja, Nigeria, taking place from 21-23 October. The Thomson stand will be featuring live DRM demonstrations with the latest digital receiver sets as well as a wide variety of product presentations. From the broadcasting side, the DRM Members BBC, [...]

The website of Click, which describes itself as the BBC’s flagship technology programme, says “A new form of digital broadcasting, David Reid discovered, has the potential to re-draw the global radio map.” In fact, the article is about Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM), and is largely based on interviews with Ruxandra Obreja, chair of the DRM [...]

There has been a sharp decline in enthusiasm among Kurds in Turkey for planned broadcasting of programnes in Kurdish as the state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) fell short of pledges to air shows in languages other than Turkish as of this month.
It was previously announced that the broadcasts would start this month; however, [...]

Malawian authorities said today they have closed a private radio station recently taken over by former president Bakili Muluzi as it breached a law barring politicians from owning broadcasters. “We have revoked the license of Joy radio with immediate effect because it flouted regulations,” James Chimera, acting head of the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority, told AFP.
Chimera [...]

Taiwan’s National Communication Commission (NCC) has recently stepped up its clampdown on unlicensed radio stations around the country, but admitted this would only serve to temporarily reduce the number of such stations. Chen Chuan-ping, director of the NCC Northern Regional Regulatory Department, said today that the crackdown has resulted in halving the number of illegal [...]

WorldSpace, Inc, along with its US subsidiaries WorldSpace Systems Corporation and AfriSpace, Inc. have filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
The WorldSpace Board of Directors unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization was necessary for the Company to engage in an [...]

Text of press release by EU-funded The European Audiovisual Observatory on 15 October; subheadings as published
[Over 6,500 TV channels available in the European Union and candidate countries (Croatia and Turkey) in 2008]
As this year’s MIPCOM [the world's audiovisual content market in Cannes] reaches its halfway mark, the European Audiovisual Observatory announced its latest figures on [...]

The Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Mark Scott, says the quality and diversity of its Radio National service will continue despite the axing of several programmes, ABC News reports. On Wednesday the ABC released its 2009 Radio National schedule, confirming that eight specialist programmes would not be returning. The programmes are the Media Report, [...]

BBC World Service is launching a special English-language news and current affairs programme - broadcast from the region and tailored for the region. From Monday 20 October, Evening Report will bring audiences in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - as well as South Asian diaspora audiences, wherever they are - half an hour [...]

Research bureau Intomart GfK today released the Dutch radio listening figures for August/September 2008, based on the listening diaries of 9,381 respondents aged 10 years and above. This month it’s the public networks which have seen the biggest changes in market share, with Radio 2 creeping up by 0.5% on market leader Radio 538, whose share remained [...]

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam is 120 years old. To celebrate this event, the orchestra, together with public broadcaster AVRO and Radio 4, the Dutch classical music channel, is offering 10 free downloads of exquisite symphonies performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra:

Franz Schubert - Symphony no. 8 ‘Unfinished’
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 2
Felix [...]

A French learning programme dubbed; “Bonjour Ghana,” to be screened on GTV was launched on Wednesday in Accra by Kama Productions, a documentary and film production organisation. The programme, which is supported by the French Embassy and the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), would be shown on “Children’s Channel”, a children’s variety programme aired on GTV [...]

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has launched a proceeding to gain a better understanding of broadcasting in the new media environment. The proceeding will include a public hearing starting on February 17, 2009, in Gatineau, Quebec.
In 1999, the Commission exempted from regulation services that distribute broadcasting content over the Internet. In 2007, it also [...]

The Australian Senate has approved draft laws giving commercial radio stations extra time to prepare for digital broadcasting. They had been given until 1 January 2009 to make the switch-over to digital, or risk losing their licence. Special Minister of State John Faulkner says the new deadline of 1 May has been granted because of a [...]