Text of report by Radio France Internationale website on 29 September
A Paris appeals court has ordered Radio France Internationale (RFI) to make adjustments to its plan to cut staff by 206 posts. In a decision handed down on Monday, the court found the RFI plan contained a number of irregularities, and ordered management to [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Court orders RFI to change job cut plan
Joint declaration by VOA/BBCWS/DW/RFI/RNW
20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, freedom of speech is still far from being a reality in many countries of the world and journalists have to face ever more sophisticated restrictions preventing them from reporting freely. While, for some of us, multimedia usage has become [...]
AIB announces judges for 2009 International Media Excellence Awards
The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) has announced the judges for the 2009 “AIBs”, its International Media Excellence Awards. The awards are renowned for their independent assessment of quality, using external and peer review by respected professionals from the broadcasting and wider media industries. The AIBs are independent of commercial interest and attract entries from [...]
New shortwave/mediumwave frequency schedule published
The new B09 RNW shortwave/mediumwave frequency schedule, effective from 25 October 2009, has now been published and is available on our website. This schedule is of course tentative, but our frequency manager Jan Peter Werkman tells me that he does not expect many changes before the schedule goes into effect.
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Talpa decides to pull out of Danish radio market
Talpa, the media company of Dutch billionaire John de Mol, has decided not to continue financing Danish commercial station Radio 100 FM. A Talpa spokesperson said that, despite putting a lot of effort over the past five years into making 100 FM the most popular radio station in Denmark, the economic climate and the high [...]
British broadcaster Mike Read “declared bankrupt” - report
British broadcaster Mike Read is reported to have been declared bankrupt. According to the Daily Mirror, he has been forced to sell his entire record collection at auction to raise money owing to the tax authorities. Mr Read’s collection consists of 120,000 records and the reserve price is £750,000, though it’s expected to raise over [...]
“Swedish TV too American” says EU
The EU Commission has expressed concerns over Swedish TV channels airing too much American material. According to a directive adopted a couple of years ago, at least 50 percent of the programme schedule should contain European productions. But the latest figures show that all the Swedish TV channels put together only managed to entertain their [...]
Banned opposition radio station in Sierra Leone goes to court
Sierra Leone’s largest opposition party has taken the country’s media monitoring body to court for banning its radio station. The Independent Media Commission (IMC) banned the Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP) station, Radio Unity, in March. This followed political clashes between the SLPP supporters and the ruling All Peoples’ Congress (APC). The APC’s station, [...]
Broadcasting union and BBC heading for clash over BNP
British broadcasting union BECTU has issued a press release criticising the BBC and the justice minister, Jack Straw, for their willingness to endorse the participation of the far-right British National Party (BNP) in a forthcoming edition of the TV discussion programme Question Time.
The BBC says it is obliged, under its charter, to give airtime to [...]
Pirate radio operator banned from London roof tops
A man has been banned from every roof top in London after he pleaded guilty to installing pirate radio equipment on a tower block in the city. Kieran O’Sullivan received the antisocial behaviour order (ASBO) following a successful prosecution by UK media regulator Ofcom. He also received an 18 week custodial sentence suspended for 12 [...]
UNHCR and BBC team up to warn people about Gulf of Aden risks
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners have joined forces to warn thousands of people about the dangers they face by crossing the perilous sea waves that separate the Horn of Africa from Yemen. Every year tens of thousands of people, mainly Ethiopians and Somalis fleeing poverty or conflict and persecution, [...]
Chávez tightens Venezuela broadcasting control
The Venezuelan government has intensified its policy of imposing controls on the media with a swathe of new broadcasting rules, regulations and requirements to the point that it is now empowered to tell radio stations what to transmit during at least part of every day. Under a resolution published in the Gazeta Oficial, the Information [...]
Polish radio station sues rival for plagiarism
RMF FM, one of the most popular commercial radio stations in Poland, to sue its main rival Radio ZET for plagiarism. RMF FM launched legal action against Radio ZET at a court in the southern city of Krakow last Wednesday.
“Radio ZET is copying our ideas. (…) It has just started broadcasting literary radio adaptations; its [...]
Honduran troops shut pro-Zelaya radio station - director
Honduran soldiers raided a radio station aligned with ousted President Manuel Zelaya and shut down its operations after the de facto government issued a decree allowing the suspension of some civil rights and media, the radio’s director said today.
“Soldiers assaulted the radio this morning, took over the station and took it off the air,” the [...]
New Chinese high-definition TV channels launch tomorrow
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) - Nine state-owned television channels on the Chinese mainland are poised to broadcast in high-definition from Monday, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT)said in a statement posted on its website Sunday. All programmes on [...]
