Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Radio World reports that the Mexican government wants to give the majority of AM stations in the country the opportunity to migrate voluntarily to the FM band, subject to availability of frequencies. However no FM frequencies have been awarded; the plan is bogged down in administrative complications and it’s unclear when it will move forward.
According to SCT, [...]

Stars and Stripes confirms that American Forces Network radio in Naples went silent on Monday morning , the apparent victim of Italian red tape. The service went off the air at 10 am on Monday because Italian officials have yet to give written consent for the station to use new transmitters to broadcast on FM frequencies 106.0 [...]

swissinfo, the multilingual news website of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, is gaining in popularity, particularly among Swiss abroad, an independent study has found. Mediapulse, a market data firm for electronic media outlets in Switzerland, said on Tuesday that swissinfo.ch had 55 per cent more unique visitors in 2008 than in 2007.
During the past six years, [...]

BBC Arabic has today announced a new agreement with MSN Arabia, further expanding the presence of BBC Arabic across the Arab world. International news seekers can now access BBC Arabic content via the MSN Arabia home page. This will complement the direct access audiences have to BBC Arabic on television, radio, online and on mobile [...]

The Kenyah language, which is the spoken language of about 100,000 Orang Ulu in Sarawak, can become extinct if no efforts are made to preserve it. Baram member of parliament Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan said the language was increasingly being threatened by assimilation and the wide use of more dominant languages like Malay and English, [...]

Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) has taken on a new partnership with one of the largest cable networks in India, Incablenet (IndusInd Media & Communications Ltd. of Hinduja Group); This allows around 2 million listeners of Indian households to listen to the English programmes of RNW. The international broadcaster is already collaborating with various FM radio [...]

The BBC and Commercial Radio today announced a new partnership initiative designed to place radio at the heart of Digital Britain and secure its digital future. The plans were revealed by Tim Davie from the BBC, Andrew Harrison from RadioCentre and Ashley Tabor from Global Radio at the Radio Reborn conference in central London.
The initiative [...]

The Abu Dhabi Media Company will launch an Arabic pop radio station in May, aimed at the UAE’s Arabic-speaking youngsters, Campaign Middle East has reported. The group is also looking at launching a radio station based on The National newspaper, following the airing of a television spin off earlier this year.
(Source: AME Info)
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The United States Congress has proclaimed April 25 Willis Conover Day to honour a Voice of America broadcaster who spread American jazz music around the world during the Cold War. The congressional resolution recognizes Conover and Voice of America for their “joint contribution toward spreading the language of Jazz and American cultural diplomacy.”
Conover called jazz [...]

Georgia’s “Objective” union of journalists plans on Tuesday to broadcast “alternative news” from Tbilisi following claims that state-controlled media was biased in its reporting. Irma Inaishvili, the head of the union, said a mobile television center will be set up on a square near the State Chancellery building to broadcast directly to large screens erected [...]

The American Forces Network (AFN) will go off the air in Naples beginning tomorrow unless there’s a “miracle” this weekend, the senior commander of AFN operations in Italy said.
Radio broadcasts heard on 106.0 and 107.0 FM frequencies in Naples will stop unless Italian environmental officials provide written permission for use of a new transmitter site to [...]

One of the longest-serving but probably least-known international broadcasters is profiled in Today’s Zaman. 70 year-old Kereme Sayed has been delieverinng the Kurdish news on Radio Yerevan for 49 years, and is still broadcasting.
The article mentions that Radio Yerevan has one of the most important archives of Kurdish music, a collection it takes great pride [...]

Text of report by Rwandan radio on 25 April
The Rwandan government has just suspended temporarily the BBC’s Kinyarwanda programme of Gahuzamiryango, following a number of broadcasts giving free scope to Rwandan genocidaires and negationists of the genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.
In a telephone interview with Radio Rwanda, Rwandan Minister for Information Mrs Louise [...]

A Pakistani man was sentenced in New York yesterday to more than five and a half years in prison for broadcasting the Hezbollah television channel Al Manar and selling it to US customers. Javed Iqbal, a 45-year-old Pakistani citizen living in New York, was charged with supporting Hezbollah in 2006. He pleaded guilty to the charges [...]

The latest Federal Human Capital Survey, conducted by the Office of Personnel Management, has been published in Washington. In a poll of employees in 37 US federal agencies, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) came in last place in three of four categories - leadership and knowledge management, results-oriented performance, and talent management. The broadcasters did manage [...]