Posts from ‘June, 2009’

BBC Worldwide Channels Asia will see two of its new channels, BBC Entertainment and BBC Lifestyle, launch on South Korea’s SK Broadband platform tomorrow, with the deal marking the first time BBC Lifestyle has been broadcast in South Korea.
SK Broadband is a Seoul-based Korean telecommunications company, one of the largest providers of high-speed broadband internet access in [...]

The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is conducting a Special Operations Forces (SOF) FM broadcast antenna performance enhancement study to meet the requirement for a commercial FM and military VHF transmission capability. The application for this study is the Long Range Broadcast System (LRBS), a developmental USSOCOM airborne Psychological Operations (PSYOP) radio broadcast pod [...]

China will delay a controversial policy to force manufacturers to install mandatory filtering software on all new computers, state news agency Xinhua said today. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s climbdown on the mandatory installation of the “Green Dam Youth Escort” filter comes just a day before the order was due to come into effect.
The [...]

SES Astra announced today that it has renewed contracts with BSkyB (Sky) for 24 transponders on a long-term basis on Astra’s 28.2 degrees East orbital position. In total Sky is using 31 transponders on the Astra satellite system.
This agreement confirms a long-running relationship, which began in 1989 when Sky launched its first analogue multi-channel package [...]

The supporters of the military coup staged on Sunday against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya have forced the Latin American news channel Telesur to stop broadcasting in the country. Telesur’s signal is no longer on the air, reported Venezuelan journalist Freddy Fernadez, General Director of the Bolivarian News Agency (ABN), who is currently in Tegulcigalpa where he was to cover [...]

China’s official news agency said today it will begin offering a television service in Europe this week, in the country’s latest bid to project its “soft power” through an overseas media blitz. The state-run Xinhua news agency’s English-language service will launch in Europe starting tomorrow, Xinhua’s deputy editor Wu Jincai told AFP.
“The service will be on screens [...]

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted changes in its FM translator rules to allow AM stations to use currently authorized FM translator stations to retransmit their AM service within their AM stations’ current coverage areas. 
Specifically, AM broadcast stations will be allowed to use currently authorised FM translator stations (i.e. those now licensed or authorised in [...]

A Proton-M rocket with a US telecommunications satellite will be launched today from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency said. Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services (ILS) signed a contract in March to launch two Sirius satellites to expand the existing Sirius Satellite Radio constellation.
ILS, owned by the Khrunichev Center, [...]

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BBC World Service is bringing radio services in 19 languages to Belgrade for the 25th Universiade [1-12 July], thanks to a short-term radio broadcast partnership agreement.
The arrangement between BBC World Service and the bi-annual international sporting competition for university students means listeners in Belgrade can access the BBC’s multilingual programming during the games, 24 hours [...]

In the year 1979, the average shortwave listener would not have given a second thought to the longevity of radio - It had, in fact, always been there. TV had been the competing medium for over 30 years - and in light of its success, and the inability of television to replace the more basic [...]

The Nigerian Minister of Information and Communications, Prof Dora Akunyili, is set to intervene in national radio projects initiated by Federal Government since 2001, which are expected to transmit signals from Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) to other remote parts of the country.
The projects, which have been stalled following budgetary constraints in the Ministry [...]

International television news in the UK focuses on a very limited number of stories and countries, according to a new research report published by the CBA. The report was written by Martin Scott and produced in partnership with the International Broadcasting Trust [IBT], with funding from the UK Government’s Department for International Development [DFID].
The research [...]

Listeners in the Netherlands are reporting reception of Radio Albatross, an East Anglian pirate station, on 819 kHz. According to the operator of the station, the antenna is marconi ‘T’ 13M high with 30M top. The transmitter is running about 250W. The station says its target area is Suffolk, South Norfolk and North Essex. The operator [...]

Reliance Mobile and BBC World Service have announced a strategic alliance where users in India can listen to a live audio service through Reliance’s R-World VAS platform. The service is first such international offering to be launched by an Indian telecom company, claims Reliance Communications.
The new partnership, aggregated by Worldwide Records, will see BBC World Service content [...]