Posts from ‘July, 2009’

A  conference on electronic media and communications in Eastern Europe will be hosted in Ukraine’s capital Kiev in October. The seventh annual Eastern Europe Exhibition and Conference will be held in Kiev from October 21 through 23, and will be known as “Ukraine on Air.” 
“The goal of the conferences is to raise the professional level of mass [...]

The BBC is at the centre of another row in the UK, this time because of its announcement that it has signed a deal with four British newspapers - The Daily Mail , The Guardian , The Daily Telegraph and The Independent - to allow the use of BBC video content on their websites. The [...]

An interrogator of the Tehran public prosecutor’s office ordered Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) to present its licence to broadcast works by vocalist Mohammadreza Shajarian on Sunday.
Shajarian’s epic songs that he performed in 1979 and 1980, which still have the ambiance of the early days of the Islamic Revolution, were frequently broadcast by Iranian [...]

British filmmaker Aro Korol is releasing a film entitled Hitler’s Daughter, about the controversial Catholic priest Father Tadeusz Rydzyk and his radio station Radio Maryja. There is little information about the film available as it is currently in production. A trailer has, however, been released that accuses Radio Maryja of inciting anti-Semitic sentiment in Poland. The [...]

Hudson Samarasinghe, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) says the national radio has been modified so as to suit the need of 21st century.  Accordingly, measures have been taken to widen the broadcast network. A massive programme is now underway to streamline the national radio targeting the future and the needs of listeners.
Mr Samarasinghe [...]

The Serbian news agency Tanyug quotes the Minister for the Diaspora, Srdjan Sreckovic, as saying that “The Serbian government will rent a satellite as of January 1, 2010, in order to be able to broadcast programmes of Radio and Television of Serbia RTS in the territory of the USA, Australia, and Europe, maintaining that it [...]

Text of report by Burundi news agency ABP
The chairman of the National Communication Council (CNC), Vestine Nahimana, and Director General for Development of Regional Medias (RDM), the Kenyan, Bedan Mbugua, on Tuesday in Bujumbura signed a convention marking the beginning of activities in Burundi of an east African radio and television called Citizen TV [...]

Radio Oranje launches officially on 30 July. But this one has no connection, apart from the name, with the station that broadcast to the Netherlands from London during World War II. It’s located on the Costa Blanca in Spain, and is owned by former Dutch radio pirate Lammert de Man. Radio Oranje will broadcast 24/7 on [...]

Those who thought that Setanta Sports had disappeared for ever from the UK following its collapse earlier this year may be in for a surprise. The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) today made the following announcements in relation to commercial licensing following its Board meeting yesterday:
The Commission has approved proposed changes to the ownership structures [...]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended FM transmissions of Radio France International (RFI), a government spokesman said yesterday. Information Minister Lambert Mende said transmission of RFI had been stopped across the central African nation Sunday, but declined to give further details.
The government shut down one of RFI’s six frequencies in May, accusing a reporter of [...]

The website of the BBC Russian service – bbcrussian.com – launched an archive of significant historical radio programmes from the past 45 years today. Among the voices featured in the audio archive are Alexander Kerensky, Prime Minister during the 1917 Russian Revolution; Nobel Laureates for Literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky; one of Russia’s great [...]

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax
Krasnodar, 27 July: There isn’t a single extremist website set on Russian internet servers, according to Aleksandr Gostev, director of global research and analysis team at the Kaspersky Lab [computer security] company.
“As of today law-enforcement agencies have succeeded in ‘clearing out’ Russian servers of all such [...]

As Denmark continues on its path to convert the nation’s television stations to a digital broadcasting system, many small stations are finding it difficult to meet the strict guidelines required by the government. The local broadcasters have until 1 November to make the changes or they will be left out in the cold.
On 1 November, [...]

In a news conference today, Choi See-joong, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), said that his agency will complete the regulatory framework for the licensing of new cable news and entertainment channels next month.
Mr Choi also said the government could raise the reception fees for the national public television service, KBS, which is now [...]

TV viewers living in Latin America can now watch Russian channels, particularly, RTR-Planeta. VGTRK, which runs such TV channels as Rossiya, Vesti, RTR-Planeta and Kultura, has become the first Russian company of this kind on the South-American TV market. 
      
RTR-Planeta is already broadcast by Cable Onda operator in Panama, while news channel Vesti is supposed to [...]