Posts from ‘September, 2009’

Outlandish new broadcasting organisation PowNed has been recommended to Dutch Minister of Culture Ronald Plasterk. The Dutch Media Commission, the Netherlands Public Broadcasting organisation and the Culture Council all favour allowing PowNed to become a new public broadcaster.
PowNed is an initiative by Internet channel GeenStijl, which is loved and loathed for its outlandish antics, many [...]

Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen’s Centre Party has demanded the resignation of the Director-General of public broadcaster YLE, Mikael Jungner, if an accusation in a YLE programme that Mr Vanhanen accepted a bribe proves baseless. The head of the party’s parliamentary bloc, Timo Kalli, made the demand today on [...]

The US Commerce Department and the private sector corporation which administers the Web unveiled an agreement today that opens up the body to greater international oversight. The agreement creates four review panels which will include government representatives to examine the work of the Internet Corporation for Assigned  Names and Numbers (ICANN) in key areas.
ICANN is [...]

Singapore today announced the creation of a special agency to protect the city-state from cyber-attack. “It will be the specialist authority to deal with threats to national security, especially external threats such as cyber-terrorism and cyber-espionage,” Law Minister K Shanmugam said. Singapore Infocomm Technology Security Authority (SITSA) will begin operating tomorrow, Shanmugam told a [...]

President Cristina Fernández is meeting resistance to her top priority, a broadcast reform bill, as some senators from her own faction push to soften the legislation. Powerful media interests have harshly criticized Fernandez for her handling of the economy and farm policy. The president has campaigned heavily for the reform, saying it would bring diverse [...]

INFO-TV-FM, the company chosen by Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications to offer mobile television, has begun offering broadcast services in Warsaw.
The company is seeking to market the service through the various mobile telephone operators in Poland, though none have expressed a committed interest in offering mobile television on telephones. INFO-TV-FM offers many television channels, including [...]

Radio St. Helena Day 2009 will be on Saturday 14 November 2009. The “Party On-The-Air” will have the following schedule:
Time in UTC             Target Area(s)
20:00 – 21:00         India  /  Southeast Asia
21:00 – 22:00         Japan / Asia
22:00 – 23:30         Europe
23:30 – 01:00         North America / Central America / Caribbean
The transmission will be on 11092.5 [...]

The BBC is planning a radical relaunch of its website to include more social media. BBC sources have told MediaGuardian that the new-look site will launch by March.
Anthony Rose, the BBC’s controller of Vision and Online, declined to reveal specific details last night at the launch of this year’s MediaGuardian Innovation Awards. But he did [...]

Spending on Internet advertising in Britain grew 4.6 percent in the first half of 2009, outperforming the wider ad sector, which slumped 17 percent, and making it the country’s biggest ad medium ahead of TV. According to the biannual report from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), ad spend on the Internet grew to £1.75 billion.
According [...]

On 16 October Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) transmitters will be off-air from 1135-1700 NZDT (2235-0400 UTC) to allow for changes to the antenna combiners. New frequencies 7440 and 17675 will be used after this work is complete. A complete schedule is on the RNZI website.
(Source: RNZI)
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The unofficial radio station of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya resumed broadcasting via the Internet on Monday, a day after the country’s caretaker government shuttered it by force. The de facto government issued a decree on Sunday suspending media freedom and some civil liberties and sent troops on Monday to shut down Radio Globo [...]

A major battle looms between the Kenyan Government and broadcasters over new regulations seeking to take back licences and vet programmes. The most significant and potentially controversial change by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) appears to be a proposal to introduce the so-called one frequency per spot rule.
Its effect will be to force some [...]

SES World Skies has announced that its NSS-12 satellite has safely arrived at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, onboard an Antonov cargo plane. The NSS-12 spacecraft, manufactured by Space Systems/Loral, will now be readied for launch onboard an Ariane 5 booster, scheduled for lift off on October 29, 2009.
The powerful, state-of-the-art NSS-12 satellite [...]

Three all-English radio channels in Korea fall short of their stated purposes of helping upgrade expats’ quality of life, according to the results of a recent satisfaction survey among foreign listeners. In the survey, only 11.7 percent gave “excellent” marks, saying that the introduction of the radio stations helped enrich their life. These people said [...]

TV viewers in some 18 million homes across Britain will need to retune their Freeview boxes tomorrow as the service undergoes an upgrade to make High Definition (HD) channels available. The change will mean that more people will get access to channel Five but some homes will no longer be able to receive ITV3 and [...]