Posts from ‘November, 2009’

Radio Netherlands Worldwide is making a special Spanish-language radio programme for hostages in Colombia. It’s a co-production with the Colombian radio network Caracol by journalist and former hostage Herbin Hoyos. In the programme, families and friends will send messages to their loved ones who have been taken hostage by the guerilla movement FARC.
The programme will [...]

Global satellite operator SES has ordered four multi-mission satellites from Astrium to provide replacement as well as incremental capacity for its SES Astra and SES World Skies divisions. The new satellites, to be designated Astra 2E, Astra 2F, Astra 2G and Astra 5B, will allow the release of the existing satellites at two orbital positions [...]

A mysterious station called ‘Saddam TV’ began broadcasting on the first day of Eid al-Adha, which is also the anniversary of his 2006 execution. Broadcasting from an unknown place, Latifa TV channel started airing Saddam Husain’s different pictures and voice records last Friday.
The so-called Saddam Channel’s first broadcast happened on the first day of Eid [...]

Due to reduced funding, the Latvian State Radio (LR) will lay off part of its employees, while the Latvian State Television (LTV) will reduce staff salaries, as LR Director General Dzintris Kolats said in an interview broadcast on LR today. Next year’s budget plan shows that the radio will still have a deficit of approximately [...]

Sales of digital radio sets in the UK have reached a new milestone, “smashing the ten million barrier”,reveals the Digital Radio Development Bureau. With Christmas sales still to register, the DRDB has issued the news that sales of digital radios topped ten million at the end of November. The first five million sales milestone was [...]

Saddam Hussein ordered his secret agents to attack the Prague headquarters of US run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to end broadcasting to Iraq, a Czech intelligence service spokesman said yesterday. The attack was ordered by the then Iraqi leader in 2000 and Iraqi intelligence agents planned to use weapons including rocket propelled grenades, Kalashnikov rifles [...]

The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, has reaffirmed the Government of Canada’s commitment to increasing funding to TV5Monde and TV5 Quebec Canada.
“It has been my pleasure to represent Canada as chair of the 21st Conference of Ministers Responsible for TV5,” said Minister Moore. “This meeting gave the TV5 partners an [...]

The Bulgarian private news TV channel Re:TV terminated its broadcasts last night after being shut down by its owners because of the economic crisis. Bulgarian millionaire businessman Ivo Prokopiev and his associates at the Civic Media Foundation running Re:TV, Svetoslav Bozhilov and Ivan Krastev, announced the shutdown of the station that was launched almost two [...]

The Swiss federal government is being asked to consider increasing its contribution to the financing of swissinfo.ch as its parent company faces a budget shortfall. The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation says in its financial report for the period 2011-2014 submitted to the cabinet yesterday that it needs SFr54 million ($54.01 million) more per year on average [...]

BBC director general Mark Thompson has predicted the corporation will become “smaller” in the future as all broadcasters go digital, with the BBC website is likely to be cut back. In a speech on Thursday, Thompson said a review of the BBC’s role after the national switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting in 2012 was [...]

Palestinian police closed a radio station in the West Bank after Israel charged that the broadcasts interfered with Israeli military and airport communications, a Palestinian security source said yesterday. Majdi al-Arabid, owner of the al-Hariya station, said Palestinian forces had arrested him and kept him in custody for a day when he refused their orders [...]

Canada’s broadcasting regulatory commission announced yesterday that it will allow Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network to broadcast in English in Canada. In a statement, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said authorizing Al Jazeera to broadcast “will expand the diversity of editorial points of view in the Canadian broadcasting system.
“Further, despite concerns expressed by [...]

A fully loaded, 1950s Rock-Ola jukebox belonging to British DJ Mike Read, will go up for auction next week as he sells off a record and music memorabilia collection worth more than £1 million. His 120,000 vinyl records spanning five decades are being billed as the most defining collection of its kind, while his memorabilia [...]

Web surfers have voted the website Tweakers.net Dutch Website of the Year. In the category of Computers and Technology the tweakers’ site easily beat contenders like last year’s winners Google and Dutch social networking site, Hyves. Tweakers.net bills itself as the technology and consumer electronics website of the Netherlands. If offers news, product reviews, price [...]

The Dutch radio listening figures for September/October were published today by research bureau Intomart GfK. Market leader Radio 538 has increased its share by 0.3 percent, and consolidated its lead over second-placed Radio 2 which itself saw a 0.1 percent rise. But public ‘pop’ music network Radio 3FM saw the biggest gain, its share increasing [...]