Posts from ‘November, 2008’

It looks as if plans to develop Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) in Taiwan have failed. The development of DAB in Taiwan has passed through three stages: planning, preparation and a final stage characterized by setbacks. It now looks like it may disappear altogether.
In 2001, the government planned 10 groups of radio stations, including most of Taiwan’s most renowned [...]

The Voice of America has broadcast a programme in Special English about Henry Loomis, who died earlier this month. Mr Loomis served as director of the Voice of America for seven years starting in 1958, and played an important role in creating the Special English service. A transcript and MP3 audio of the broadcast are available [...]

DMS Broadcasting in the Cayman Islands last week announced the official revamp of its radio station websites. All four sites have received a facelift with revitalized branding, easier user functionality and more interactive elements for listeners. The sites offer online streaming, allowing listeners to tune in online to their favourite stations from work, home or from anywhere in [...]

Tourists in New Zealand will benefit from a new service designed to entertain, educate and navigate – all from the comfort of their rental car. Tourism Radio will feature New Zealand music, entertaining radio shows with a distinctive local flavour and area information relevant to the region a tourist is travelling through.
Tourism Radio’s managing director [...]

Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has said the Kenya Communications Amendment Bill currently before Parliament is aimed at enhancing the regulation of the broadcasting sector and provides a legal framework to encourage professionalism in the media industry.
Mr Musyoka, however, noted that although the Bill was as a result of broad consultations with the media and other [...]

UEFA has agreed to pay compensation to broadcasters who lost live pictures as a result of a power blackout during a Euro 2008 match, Germany’s Spiegel news magazine reported. Football’s organizing body in Europe has agreed to pay “a high six-figure sum” to the German public broadcaster ZDF, according to the report released in advance [...]

Malaysia’s Information Ministry has proposed that the Murut language currently broadcast over the Radio Keningau FM station be broadcast globally in the future. Its minister, Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek, said this could be done over the Internet.
“There is much uniqueness of the Murut community, including in Pensiangan, that can be shown to the outside world. I [...]

Dutch-owned Talpa Radio has lost an appeal against the Danish government, in which it was attempting to get the licence fee reduced for the regional frequency package FM6, used by its flagship station 100FM. Talpa argued that the cost of the licence is too high compared to the cost of the national licence for FM5, which is in the [...]

If you have been trying to post a comment in the last 36 hours, and have received error messages or simply wonder why your comment didn’t appear, my apologies. Due to the activities of a couple of spammers who posted a lot of commercial messages (which by law we are not allowed to carry), I [...]

Radio Netherlands Worldwide has announced the winners of the annual Best of Blog Awards, the BOBs, and a Cuban weblog came out top. The English-language winner was the United States Party Time blog on September’s presidential election. The Dutch-language winner deals with food in all its aspects, tasty and not so tasty.
The BOBs are the [...]

Much of the news about the Mumbai attacks reached the world via Twitter, an Internet service which allows people to post brief messages on the Web immediately. Twitter’s social networking and microblogging site is rapidly developing into a source that is being tapped by mainstream media.

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Britain’s Home Retail Group has acquired the rights to the Alba and Bush trademarks from Alba Plc for £15.25 million ($23.54 million) in cash. Home Retail, which owns high street catalogue retailer Argos and DIY chain Homebase, said it had bought the rights to the trademarks for exclusive use on consumer electronics and certain other goods sold [...]

Media watch and civic groups in South Korea are threatening to take legal action against the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) over its decision to relax broadcasting ownership restrictions, The Hankyoreh reports. The groups say the move by the KCC “opens the way for money to enter broadcasting.”
The KCC this week approved an amendment bill to the Broadcasting [...]

Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has prepared a new bill which aims to revamp the way that radio and television are broadcast in Turkey.  The RTÜK has long been working on the bill, which was recently sent to the Prime Ministry, which in turn will examine and make the final touches to it before [...]

Korea’s new all-English-language radio channel will be launched on 1 December, Seoul Traffic Broadcasting confirmed yesterday. The channel, tbs eFM (101.3 MHz), will start broadcasting at 10 a.m. on 1 December. It will consist of 10 news programmes throughout the day, including BBC News twice daily; “This Morning” and the “Evening Show,” which will feature news, [...]