Posts from ‘January, 2009’

During a government meeting yesterday, Latvian State Radio (LR) asked the Cabinet of Ministers for a million subsidy or LVL 1.05 (US$2 million) for 2009, LR’s interim chief Dzintris Kolats told members of the press yesterday. Kolats pointed out that LR has debts worth LVL 744,902, (US$1.4 million) and that these debts have not been included in [...]

Text of report in English by Turkish semi-official news agency Anatolia
Ankara, 27 January: Turkish state-run radio and television network TRT will launch a new TV channel to broadcast to Europe, the Middle East, the Balkans and the Central Asia, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday [27 January].
TRT’s new channel will start broadcasting in [...]

Irish public broadcaster RTÉ will carry out a test transmission on 28 January [Wednesday] at 1930-2030 UTC on 6220 kHz and seeks reports from listeners in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. These should be sent to freqdept @ wrn.org [remove spaces from email address when mailing].
(Source: WRN via DX Listening Digest)
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One opposition supporter has been shot dead in protests in Madagascar, according to the Deputy Mayor of the capital city, Antananarivo, Andriamahazo Nirhy-Lanto. Earlier thousands of opposition supporters ransacked the state radio station, Radio Nationale Malgache, looting furniture, computers and files before setting it on fire and damaging vehicles nearby.
The protesters were backing a weekend strike call [...]

A shortwave coordination conference organised by the Asian-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) has agreed to publish a shortwave journal to help promote shortwave broadcasting.  The five-day ABU-HFC Shortwave Coordination Conference in Kuala Lumpur agreed that the journal should be published once a year.
Frequency managers at the conference examined more than 6,900 daily transmissions to look at ways [...]

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Athar Abbas yesterday said the military was acquiring the latest technology to jam the illegal radio transmissions of the Swat Taliban, a private TV channel reported. The ISPR spokesman told the channel that the Taliban’s FM radio transmitters were mobile and could not be destroyed immediately. However, [...]

The Sri Lanka government has informed the Appeal Courts that it has decided to cancel the radio licence given to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Attorney General has informed the Appeal Courts of the decision when the petition challenging the LTTE radio licence was heard yesterday.
The petition was submitted few months ago by Piyasena [...]

Uganda’s Broadcasting Council says it will withdraw licences from over 30 radio and TV stations for failure to comply with the Electronic Media Act. Secretary to the council Kagole Kivumbi said that some individuals have been getting licences and failing to start business within a year as stipulated in the law.
Media houses affected include those operating in [...]

Bob Shennan has been appointed Controller, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music. He will join the BBC in February and will report to Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director of Audio & Music. In his new role, Bob – previously head of the Channel 4 radio division and Controller, Radio 5 Live – will lead [...]

Starting this week, people in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, as well as the rest of the country, can listen to a six-hour Voice of America (VOA) radio programme of news and information in Pashto, Urdu and English on FM, AM, shortwave and the Internet. The trilingual program will feature news packages, talk shows and in-depth [...]

The 8th session of Islamic Conference of Information Ministers opens in Rabat today. The meeting will discuss several important issues, foremost of which are the Palestinian problem and the possibility of launching an Islamic satellite channel to serve as a mouthpiece of the Muslim World and to defend its causes and rights. 
The conference will also discuss [...]

The University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN) is to launch an academic broadcasting unit (RTU) soon. Sources said on Friday that the radio station project, which was initiated a few years ago by the university, was made possible by the support of Belgian technical cooperation (CTB), which would support it for five years.
The radio station, which is [...]

The British government today urged the BBC to drop its refusal to broadcast a humanitarian appeal for victims of the war in Gaza. The BBC said the appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), a coalition of 13 aid agencies, would compromise the impartiality of its coverage.
“The most important thing we can do for the [...]

Following a successful, year-long trial of DAB repeaters installed in Currys Superstores and John Lewis branches, regulator Ofcom has agreed to put in place a permanent licensing regime for all retailers across the country. Since the scheme was approved last year, DSGi has moved quickly to install repeaters in over 300 of its Currys stores, [...]

Kuwaiti Minister of Information Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabahhas has confirmed Kuwait’s support for the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU). In a meeting with a visiting ASBU delegation, the minister stressed the importance of Arab emphasis on professionalism, as Kuwait acknowledges the union’s importance and role in developing Arab media.
The minister referred to legislation and plans [...]