Posts from ‘March, 2009’

The decision taken by All India Radio (AIR) to take up digital radio broadcasting using the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) system was this week described as “a major success” for the DRM consortium. 
The 2009 General Assembly of the DRM consortium being held in Erlangen, Germany, was told that the Indian public broadcaster had started making significant investments [...]

All India Radio has announced the new 7 MHz frequencies of its domestic and external services with effect from 29 March, the start of the A09 high frequency season. From that date, the amateur radio allocation at 7 MHz is extended up to 7200 kHz worldwide. A complete list of the changes is available on [...]

Text of press release by Voice of America on 25 March
[Headline: VOA KHMER LAUNCHES NEW TV PROGRAM IN CAMBODIA]
VOA Khmer Discovering, a new daily Voice of America (VOA) television product showcasing news features, begins airing across Cambodia on Monday, March 30, 2009.
VOA’s first regular television segment in Khmer will be broadcast by National Television [...]

Research bureau Intomart GfK has published the Dutch radio listening figures for Jan/Feb 2009. As expected, the inflated listening figures for Radio 2 for the past two surveys were due to the special programming over the holiday period, and Radio 2 has lost a full 2 percent in market share. But it has just managed [...]

China has formally arrested 12 people for violating controls on dangerous goods following a deadly blaze caused by fireworks at a high-rise belonging to China Central Television, the Beijing News said today.  The 30-storey building, just north of the spectacular, gravity-defying CCTV tower designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, burned spectacularly on 9 February, China’s Lantern [...]

Hardline Saudi clerics have called on the government to ban women from appearing on television and to prohibit their images in print media, which they called a sign of growing “deviant thought.” In a letter to new Information Minister Abdul Aziz al-Khoja that appeared on websites this week, the 35 Islamic clerics also condemned the increase [...]

Nilesat, the Egyptian satellite company, and Eutelsat Communications have announced the signature of a new strategic agreement to pursue the development of the 7 degrees West orbital position which is used by both companies for satellite broadcasting across the Middle East; the Gulf countries and North Africa. This new phase of collaboration between Nilesat and Eutelsat [...]

China has promised to replace a Nigerian telecommunications satellite free of charge after the last one, made and launched in China, failed after about 18 months in orbit, the China Daily said today.
The $340 million Nigerian Communication Satellite, or NIGCOMSAT-1, was launched to great fanfare in 2007, with Nigeria hoping it would offer advanced telecoms, broadcasting [...]

North Korean experts suggest that through radio programmes broadcast into North Korea, the people can be separated from the regime. President of Radio Free Chosun (RFC) Lee Kwang Baek was speaking at a discussion cosponsored by the Citizens United for Better Society and Open Radio for North Korea on Tuesday on the topic of “How [...]

Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap
Seoul, 24 March: The European Union (EU) and an international group of journalists forged a deal on Tuesday to provide 400m won (290,000 US dollars) to help anti-Pyongyang radio broadcasting stations run mostly by defectors from North Korea.
The EU and the Reporters sans Frontiers (RSF) [...]

Algerian Television has launched two new satellite channels in a sector which was previously restricted to three similar channels: one for local transmission, one for emigrants living outside Algeria and one similar to the first.
One of the new channels is called “Rabi’a” (the fourth) and speaks Tamazight with five different dialects. It is concerned with news from [...]

KCBS, serving San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, is celebrating its 100th birthday. The world’s first broadcasting station has created a special section on its website to mark the centenary, featuring a history of the station, audio archives and a photo section. More airchecks and audio clips are always being added to the archives as the station continues to celebrate its centennial [...]

TV channel Euronews and Turkey’s state-run television and radio broadcaster TRT have reached an agreement to launch broadcasts in the Turkish language starting in 2010. The Turkish broadcasts will target the Turkish population residing in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Europe. 20 journalists of TRT will be sent to Euronews headquarters in Lyon, France.
Asked whether inclusion of [...]

RadioNova.ie is now on the web. It’s a tribute site to Radio Nova, the station owned by the late Chris Cary. There are profiles of many of the presenters who worked on the station. The documentary produced for the 25th anniversary of the Radio Nova “closedown”, Bring Back Radio Nova, is now available on YouTube [...]

The newest television station of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), TRT Avaz, has begun broadcasting in an effort to reach 250 million people living in 27 countries in Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans. The name of the channel was announced by President Abdullah Gül.
TRT Avaz will replace the satellite station TRT [...]