Posts from ‘July, 2009’

Dave Kernick writes: The Central African Republic’s government-run broadcaster Radio Centrafrique now has an online presence at www.radiocentrafrique.org. The website is in French, the country’s official language.
 
Although the site does not have a live audio stream it does offer an extensive audio archive, including news bulletins in French and the national language, Sango. The complete [...]

IPS Radio and Space Services has made a significant change to its forecast for solar cycle 24. The forecast cycle maximum smoothed sunspot number has been dropped from 134 to approximately 90. In addition the time of maximum has been shifted away by one year to September/October 2013. These changes were made due to the protracted solar minimum currently [...]

GlobeCast and Eutelsat Communications have signed of a new contract at Eutelsat’s specialist video neighbourhood for central European digital TV markets at 16 degrees East. The new contract for one transponder will be used by GlobeCast to broadcast channels produced by TVR, Romania’s national public broadcaster. It doubles TVR’s resources at 16 degrees East, enabling the broadcaster [...]

British Sky Broadcasting has announced that the number of customers choosing Sky+HD, the UK’s only high definition (HD) service currently capable of broadcasting 3D services, has increased to 1.313 million following record growth.
Sky announced yesterday that it will launch the UK’s first 3D channel next year. The channel will offer a broad selection of the best available [...]

A Zimbabwean cabinet minister said this week that the cost of repairing equipment at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings is about $US10 million. Information and Publicity minister, Webster Shamu told Parliament that the equipment was now obsolete and in dire need of a revamp.
“The transmitters have been in operation for about 34 years instead of eight, which [...]

Bulgaria’s Council for Electronic Media decided to slap Darik Radio with a hefty fine for airing a recorded Madonna invitation to her fans in Bulgaria, because in the invitation, the pop-star spoke English, Bulgarian daily 24 Chasa has reported.
According to chapter 12 article 1 of the Radio and Television Act, all advertisements in foreign languages [...]

Nautel Limited has been selected by Radio Nacional de Argentina to provide eighteen NX25 AM transmitters for locations in provinces across the country. Delivery of the transmitters began last month and will continue through early 2010.
The Nautel NX25 provides a 27.5 kW (maximum) power output in a compact footprint. Radio Nacional de Argentina selected the [...]

The BBC Trust has today announced that it has approved revised plans to enhance the BBC’s local TV and radio services in the regions and nations. The revised plan contains the following measures:

An annual ’state of the nation/region’ journalism initiative in each nation and region
A fund for programming in the English regions
More landmark factual programming [...]

The minister known as Reverend Ike, who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions of people across America, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday aged 74. He had never fully recovered from a stroke he suffered in 2007.
Reverend Ike served 5,000 parishioners at the United Church Science of Living Institute in Washington. But he became known [...]

The government of Zimbabwe has announced that the BBC and CNN are now free to resume operations in the country.  This development is the outcome of meetings held by representatives of the organisations with the Minister of Media, Information and Publicity, Webster Shamu and his Permanent Secretary, George Charamba.
The BBC last officially covered in Zimbabwe in [...]

The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) is to stop using short and medium wave frequencies so as to save on costs, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. Information Permanent Secretary Dr Bitange Ndemo said the frequencies were consuming too much power and were already overtaken by technological advances.
The national broadcaster has also committed to reduce its power [...]

The authorities of the Finnish semi-autonomous province of the Åland Islands have complained to the government, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) and Digita about official statements read only in Finnish on YLE’s Swedish-language radio stations.
A number of Ålanders were outraged on Friday when a statement about a spill at the Porvoo oil refinery was read [...]

Yahoo! and Microsoft reached agreement today on a long-awaited Web search partnership that would unite the two companies against market leader Google. Under the no-cash deal, Yahoo! will use Microsoft’s new Bing search engine on its own sites, while Yahoo! will act as the exclusive global sales force for the companies’ premium search advertisers.
Yahoo!, which last [...]

Fugitive ex-premier of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra has decided to spend more than US$29 million in setting up a global television network called “Voice TV”, which will start airing from next month, according to MP Pracha Prasopdee. He said the network will be linked to People’s Station and MTV and can be viewed on the already [...]

Italy’s RAI will withdraw its five RaiSat channels from News Corp’s Sky Italia satellite platform starting 1 August, sources familiar with the situation said today. RAI’s move follows months of fruitless negotiations with Sky over a renewal of an existing contract.
Sky Italia had offered 425 million euros to RAI for its digital channels, including RaiSat and [...]