Posts from ‘October, 2009’

Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) should further strengthen its content and make it more interesting, Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said. Among others, he said, RTM should focus on targeting those in their 30s and below. “There is no problem in terms of the technical aspect, its just the question of [...]

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has given assurances that from Sunday 1 November television reception will improve. This follows the contracting of another satellite distributor to carry GTV to the transmitting sites for nationwide transmission.
A statement by the Director of Corporate Affairs, Doris Kuwornu, said that from Sunday the frequent picture freezing and audio breaks that [...]

Canadian federal broadcast regulators have given the CBC permission to change its Whitehorse radio signal from the AM to FM band, disappointing rural listeners outside the Yukon capital who wanted the AM signal to stay on. In a decision released on Tuersday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said that converting CBC Radio One’s [...]

Ray Woodward reports: “This station is currently being carried via WRN capacity @ 28.5 east (Eurobird 1) 11.390 GHz Hor SR:27500 FEC:2/3 on the channel label ‘MOS Radio’.”
West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) describes itself as “a trans-territorial radio station set up to facilitate the exchange of development information between and among countries of West Africa, [...]

The European Commission says that as digital TV replaces analogue TV, four-fifths of the airwaves that used to carry TV broadcasts will be freed up. This means that they can be used for new, innovative services that use radio spectrum, from wireless Internet and more advanced mobile phones to new interactive and high-definition TV channels. [...]

Austrian TV viewers are to get “higher quality, more public-service broadcasting” after the European Commission (EC) approved a new agreement on the operation of public broadcaster ORF. SPÖ State Secretary Josef Ostermayer negotiated the agreement with EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes. He said approval of the agreement would mean “higher quality, more public-service broadcasting, more [...]

Hungary’s national body in charge of awarding frequencies, ORTT, has rejected bids by incumbent pop-music stations Slager Radio and Danubius Radio to operate for the next seven years, ORTT announced today. It has awarded the two key frequencies to a consortium called FM1 and to Advenio Zrt, it said. The decision was unanimous, but the [...]

Belarus President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has issued a presidential edict exempting the National State Television and Radio Company from paying profit and value-added taxes for the period from October 1, 2009 to December 31, 2012. The exemption would not apply to value-added tax on imported goods, according to the edict.
The edict requires the company, which runs [...]

To atone for the embarrassment suffered from the negative publicity received after a school dropout was convicted for running an improvised community radio station, Malawi’s Communications and Regulatory Authority (MACRA) today said it would donate state-of-the-art community radio equipment and a licence to Gabriel Mkondesi, a primary school dropout who operated the popular radio illegally.
Mkondesi [...]

A veteran broadcaster, Tapa Nath Shukla, has been appointed Executive Director of Radio Nepal. Mr Shukla, who joins from the Ministry of Information and Communications, is a former head of both Radio Nepal and Nepal Television. His appointment was announced after a cabinet meeting in Kathmandu. He succeeds Ram Sharan Karki, who has been Radio [...]

Business news network CNBC is launching a 24-hour business channel with Korean broadcaster Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), ContentAsia reports. The new channel, called SBS-CNBC, is scheduled to start in January 2010 and gives CNBC its biggest presence in Korea yet. Distribution will go from 1.5 million outlets (hotels, commercial and residential) to 15 million households.
The [...]

Taiwan will relax restrictions on Chinese media coverage of the island, in yet another sign of warming cross-strait relations, a senior official said today.
Effective immediately, Chinese journalists posted in Taiwan are no longer required to inform the Government Information Office making any reporting trips, said Chao Chien-min, vice chairman of the [...]

Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) is now selling its audio visual products to the public, said the Director-General of Broadcasting, Datuk Ibrahim Yahya.  The move aimed to give an opportunity to various groups to obtain information on various events and programmes produced by RTM since its establishment until today.
He said this could also provide an exposure [...]

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) - China added 16.45 million broadband users in the first nine months, bringing the total to 99.33 million, data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Tuesday showed.
China had 360 million Internet [...]

Myroslava Gongadze, the host of Voice of America’s (VOA) Ukrainian daily Chas-Time TV programme, has been named one of the “100 most influential women of Ukraine” in an annual list compiled by the Ukrainian news magazine Focus.
“At VOA I have the unique opportunity to be part of the 45 different languages services worldwide helping people [...]