Posts from ‘November, 2009’

The Iraqi Kurdish opposition group of Change List will launch a terrestrial TV station in multi-ethnic Kirkuk in the near future, broadcasting programmes in Kurdish and Arabic, Rozhnama weekly of Wisha media company owned by Change List leader Nawshirwan Mustafa reported on 24 November.
The report quoted the director of the terrestrial TV station, Aso Jamal [...]

The W7 satellite of Eutelsat Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by ILS. Lift-off of Eutelsat’s 5.6 tonne communications satellite took place on Tuesday 24 November at 1419 UTC. After a 9-hour 12-minute flight, the launcher released W7 into geosynchronous transfer orbit at 23.31 UTC.
After an extensive [...]

The BBC has held talks with financial advisers about floating part of its commercial arm on the stock market, amid pressure over its market share and public subsidy, a report said today.  The Financial Times, quoting unnamed sources, said discussions had been held, including with advisers from investment firm Goldman Sachs and banking giant Credit [...]

US Senator Russ Feingold, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, yesterday announced the launch of his “Spotlight on Spending” series to highlight actions Congress can take to reduce the deficit. The first featured provision is the elimination of Radio and TV Martí.
“This relic of the Cold War attempts to broadcast radio and TV signals [...]

RNW’s Rob Kievit writes: Listeners to Dutch classical music station Radio 4 are angry about planned format changes. In an attempt to increase listening rates, a popular morning music show on Radio 4 will be scrapped in February 2010 in favour of a news magazine. Critic Bas van Putten fulminated in NRC daily that the [...]

Ondas Media SA, the satellite radio company for Europe, has agreed a radio and content cooperation deal to broadcast Luxembourg-based RTL Radio on Ondas Media’s digital satellite radio platform scheduled for launch in 2012. The agreement will enable digital satellite radio listeners to enjoy RTL Radio anywhere in Europe. Ondas Media’s satellite radio will be [...]

Over 40 additional channels will be available to Maltese listeners on digital radio next year, Digi B Network Ltd’s managing director Sergio D’Amico told The Sunday Times. An opera channel is currently running test transmissions, and a classic rock channel broadcasting from Malta, Radio France International, and Deutsche Welle will also be introduced on the [...]

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Cabinet have made it their mission to undo last-minute changes implemented by the previous government at the end of its four-year term.
Like all other European Union member states, Bulgaria must switch to digital television signal broadcasting by the end of 2012, but the process has been delayed for [...]

Radio Televisyen Brunei (RTB) was looking forward to resolving past broadcasting problems when the state broadcaster sat down with a delegation from Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) in a coordination meeting today to discuss technical problems that have been encountered in the past years as well as possible future broadcasting of collaborative works.
“Our technical teams will [...]

A Honduran television station that backs deposed President Manuel Zelaya accused the de facto government of interfering with its broadcast signal yesterday, replacing news programmes with cowboy movies. The Honduran media has become a battleground between rival supporters of leftist Zelaya and the de facto government since a 28 June coup plunged the nation into [...]

US-based radio broadcaster Emmis Communications Corp has said it will leave Hungary after losing a commercial radio licence it had held for 12 years in a tender that it said was politically influenced. In a statement on its website yesterday, Hungarian Sláger Rádió, which was taken off the air on Wednesday, said its owner Emmis [...]

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA) announced today that it has signed a contract in excess of $200 million (CAD) with the Russian Radio Research and Development Institute (NIIR) to provide two advanced technology solutions for the Express AM5 and Express AM6 satellites.
Scheduled to launch in 2012, the Express satellites are designed to provide a [...]

OneClimate.net has launched a new interactive TV channel that will allow people across the world to watch the Copenhagen climate conference live on their computer. The 7-19 December climate summit has been called ‘the most important conference since World War II’.
The channel will feature breaking stories, and an opportunity to interact with experts. The pioneering [...]

Singapore’s largest media company, MediaCorp, will unveil a new radio channel with an Indian flavour on 28 November. The channel, Masti 96.3, will broadcast Hindi programmes daily from 5pm to 8pm on Expat Radio 96.3XFM.
MediaCorp is launching it in partnership with Deshee FM (Singapore), which is run by Singapore residents with an in depth knowledge [...]

Unionized workers at Korea’s largest broadcaster KBS were today escalating opposition to the nomination of a former presidential adviser as their new chief, ahead of his official appointment by President Lee Myung-bak. According to Yonhap News, the KBS board of directors nominated Kim In-kyu, chairman of the Digital Media Industry Association, as the TV station’s [...]