Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Ukraine’s National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting has granted four Russian TV channels permission to broadcast in the country. The channels allowed to broadcast are Zoopark, Ocean-TV, Feniks + Cinema and Topshop TV.
Broadcasting by foreign channels whose programs had not been adapted to Ukrainian laws, including Russia’s Channel One, RTR-Planeta, Ren-TV and TVts International, [...]

The London Evening Standard’s new owner, Alexander Lebedev, is planning to expand his media empire with a new English-language radio station in Moscow. Lebedev has a large stake in Russia’s main independent news outlet, Novaya Gazeta, and is planning to expand this brand having bought two radio licences. He has told Media Guardian that one will become [...]

The assets of satellite broadcasting company Worldspace were supposed to have been sold this week at a bankruptcy court in the US state of Delaware. However, the sale was postponed at the last minute and is now due to take place on 6 March.

Read more in Rapid TV News

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Dr Edmond Mansoor, Antigua’s minister of information, broadcasting and telecommunications, says that the 620 AM transmitter of the Antigua Broadcasting Service was decommissioned by Cabinet in 2008, mainly because it was over 25 years old and parts for it were no longer manufactured.
Dr Mansoor said the government plans to upgrade the 620 AM band of ABS Radio [...]

In order to enhance educational broadcasting in Nigeria, the Japanese government today hands over a 200kW mediumwave transmitter to the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) in Kaduna.
This was made known in a statement signed by the corporation’s head of corporate development and communications, Ike Okere. It read in part: “The Nigerian and the Japanese [...]

Research bureau Intomart GfK has published the Dutch radio listening figures for Dec 2008/Jan 2009. As with last month’s figures, that covered Nov/Dec 2008, special Christmas programming (the Top 2000) was responsible for the high reach of Radio 2, which increased its lead over Radio 538. Next month’s report, covering Jan/Feb 2009, should see a return to [...]

Current Head of the BBC’s Multi Media Newsroom Peter Horrocks has been appointed as Director of BBC World Service, it was announced today. As Director of BBC World Service, Peter Horrocks will be responsible for the overall editorial leadership and management of the world’s leading international multimedia broadcaster. He will take up the post in [...]

A new Internet discussion site to encourage an online debate about the UK Government’s vision for a fully digital economy and society was launched yesterday. Minister for Technology, Communications and Broadband, Stephen Carter said:
“We understand that there’s huge interest in the Digital Britain report and have already seen a flood of comments posted on various websites and [...]

Radio Caroline’s Breakfast jock Tony Paul caught up with actor Bill Nighy recently in Hollywood and persuaded him to give Radio Caroline listeners the inside scoop in his upcoming movie The Boat That Rocked. Bill, who plays the owner of a pirate radio station, spoke exclusively to Tony about making the film and about his [...]

If there is one mobile communications event that showcases mobile’s staggering growth, it is Mobile World Congress. Over the past few days in Barcelona, the industry explored ways of sustaining this growth even in difficult times. With 4 billion connections to date and 6bn expected by 2013, content is playing an increasingly important role.
So why [...]

Text of report in English by Turkish semi-official news agency Anatolia
["COMMMON TELEVISION OF TURKISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES TO GO ON AIR ON MARCH 21" - AA headline]
Baku, 25 February: Director General of Turkey’s state run TV channel TRT, Ibrahim Sahin, said in Baku Wednesday that “common television of Turkish speaking countries will go on air on [...]

Staff working for the BBC World Service’s South Asia section will take part in a 24-hour strike beginning at midnight tonight, to protest plans for 34 redundancies in London and the relocation of the production of broadcasts in Urdu, Hindi and Nepali to Islamabad, Delhi and Kathmandu.
Unions have spent eight months negotiating with the BBC over the plan, [...]

A Georgian television station at the centre of a storm over the country’s record on media freedom has been sold to the United Arab Emirates-based RAK Investment Authority (RAKIA), the station said today.  Imedi TV has been the subject of an ownership dispute since its founder, billionaire opposition figure Badri Patarkatsishvili, died in London in February [...]

Eutelsat Communications has announced the entry into commercial service of its Eurobird™ 9A satellite at 9 degrees East. Redeployment of the satellite was made possible with last week’s entry into service at 13 degrees East of Hot Bird™ 9, which released Eurobird™ 9A (formerly Hot Bird™ 7A) for its new commercial mission to support the [...]

Dutch commercial stations Arrow Classic Rock and Arrow Jazz FM have launched an appeal to listeners for donations in the hope of staving off closure by 11 March. As an incentive, the websites of both stations are offering an exclusive CD to those who donate more than €15. However, raising nearly €9 million in two weeks seems a [...]