The key to winning a bid to operate a new broadcasting business in South Korea will depend on vision and the potential to become a global media group, according to the chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, which oversees the selection of new broadcasters.
In a meeting with reporters yesterday, Choi See-joong talked about how the [...]
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Korea Communications Commission says global appeal key to broadcasting bids
South African draft bill seeks to scrap TV licences
A draft bill tabled by the South African government this week seeks to scrap TV licences and introduce other changes to public broadcasting in South Africa. The draft legislation would see the cash-strapped SABC funded directly from money deducted from personal income tax.
Minister of Communications Siphiwe Nyanda told Fin24.com his department was amending and renaming [...]
Sky Deutschland Increases HD Capacity On Astra
SES Astra has announced that the German TV entertainment platform Sky Deutschland has contracted three additional transponders on Astra’s prime orbital position 19.2 degrees East. Sky Deutschland will use the additional capacity primarily to offer more HD channels. The first of the three transponders will be brought into use in mid-2010. The other two transponders [...]
Pakistan to tighten broadcast laws
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has decided that laws enforced by the former President Pervez Musharraf on electronic media should be incorporated into the proposed Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Act of 2008, Dawn.com reports.
The Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira, said yesterday that the ministry was under pressure to enforce [...]
Microsoft launches Internet TV in Korea
The new Microsoft Windows 7 operating system will enable Koreans to receive TV broadcasts on their computers without special receivers, The Chosen Ilbo reports. Programmes by broadcasters MBC and EBS will be available through an Internet-TV function added to the media centre of the new operating system, Microsoft Korea said yesterday. This will enable users [...]
Internet addresses to expand to non-Latin scripts
The body in charge of assigning the world’s Internet users their online addresses today said it has agreed to allow the use of any of the world’s scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which approved the change at a meeting in Seoul, said in a [...]
New Norwegian satellite in orbit
Norway’s Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) has announced that its new satellite, THOR 6, has been successfully launched into orbit by the Ariane 5 ECA launcher from the Guiana Spaceport in Kourou. THOR 6 will replace the current Thor III satellite, which is set to retire in 2010, as well as provide additional capacity for expansion.
THOR [...]
Hungary’s ORTT head resigns in wake of licence announcement
The President of Hungary’s National Radio and Television Board (ORTT), László Majtényi, resigned yesterday just 24 hours after the results of the radio frequency tender were announced. Numerous reports suggested that the Socialists and Fidesz [the largest opposition party in Hungary] had agreed to divide the two frequencies used by commercial stations Danubius Rádió and [...]
Radio Australia service to Burma launches
As from 26 October 2009 until 28 March 2010, 11980 kHz carries Radio Australia’s service to Burma in English and Burmese. The commencement date of the Burmese-language component will be announced shortly.
11980 kHz operates from 1600-1700 UT from the Cox Peninsula station using a 250 kW sender and an aerial bearing of 314 degrees.
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Return of 1395 kHz delayed by a few days
UK-based Big L have just announced that the return to the air of 1395 kHz, which is being facilitated with the sponsorship of Dutch-based KBC Radio, has been delayed by a few days. The target date for the resumption of transmissions from the Dutch mediumwave transmitter at Trintelhaven was 1 November, but due to what [...]
Middle East FM radio broadcasting services boom
A new Arab Advisors Group report has found stable growth in the Middle East radio broadcasting sector despite the recession. The report found that a total of 346 FM radio stations broadcast in 18 Arab countries, while private FM radio stations constitute 48% of the total local stations.
The regional landscape varies widely: Algeria and the [...]
Manx Radio has highest audience reach in British Isles
Manx Radio officially has the highest weekly audience reach of any station in the British Isles. In the latest quarterly survey by Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR), the industry standard for compiling listener statistics, the Island’s national broadcaster recorded a figure of 54%. The RAJAR statistics show the number of listeners in that percentage figure [...]
Continent TV - new satellite pay service for Russia
Text of report by Cambridge-based independent Broadband TV News website, on 29 October
Orion Express, the operator of the Russian DTH platform of the same name, has announced plans to launch a new satellite-delivered service named Continent TV.
Targeted at individual subscribers, it will be distributed by the Intelsat 15 satellite at 85.15 degrees East, due [...]
BBC Trust agrees 25 per cent cut in BBC senior management pay bill
The BBC Trust has agreed to proposals put forward by the BBC Executive to cut the amount the BBC spends on paying its senior managers by 25 per cent over the next three and a half years. The Trust has also endorsed a new pay strategy for senior managers joining the BBC and agreed to [...]
Nepal’s Tarai Television resumes operation
Tarai Television, the sole satellite TV channel outside the Nepalese capital, resumed its broadcasting yesterday, after six months of disruption. The Birgunj-based TV channel, which came into operation last year, had gone off the air from April. Deependra Chauhan, station in-charge, said the channel would focus its programmes on contributing to protect national sovereignty and [...]
