Posts from ‘December, 2009’

In the Netherlands, the annual Serious Request charity campaign fronted by three DJs has raised over seven million euros for the Red Cross. The aid organisation will use the money to prevent and combat malaria. Development Cooperation Minister Bert Koenders pledged three million euros of government money to support the campaign.
Serious Request has been running [...]

I wish all readers of this blog the compliments of the season. Our normal service will continue through the Christmas and New Year period, though there’s likely to be less media news due to a large number of our regular sources being on holiday.
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A special Vietnamese TV channel on the environment and natural disaster prevention, response and mitigation, VTC14, will begin officially broadcasting on 1 January 2010.  The information was released by the Vietnam Telecommunications Company (VTC) at a press conference in Hanoi today. The launch is part of VTC’s implementation of the national strategies for natural disaster [...]

With effect from 1 January 2010 the Voice of America is dropping its morning broadcast in Bengali at 0130-0200 UTC on 11500 and 15205 kHz. VOA also plans to change the time of its evening broadcast in line with Daylight Saving Time in Bangladesh. Details are awaited.
(Source: DXAsia)
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RNW is one of the Dutch supporters of Ghetto Radio in Nairobi, Kenya, which this year has been holding its own version of Serious Request, a fundraising event in parallel with the annual event organised in the Netherlands by Dutch public network 3FM. Three DJs have been broadcasting live from a special constructed studio called [...]

Technicians at Radio France have ended a strike over pay after “progress” was made on their demands, AFP news agency reported on 23 December, quoting trade union sources. Managers announced a return to work at midnight on 23 December with Radio France stations, particularly France Inter and France Info resuming normal scheduling in the “hours [...]

As the Chinese regime negotiates free-trade deals with Taiwan, it is also extending its long arm to restrict freedom of the press on the neighbouring island. Sound of Hope (SOH), an independent radio network headquartered in the United States, has been warned by its carrier in Taiwan that its contract could be terminated. SOH contracted [...]

From 1 January 2010 the frequency for Deutsche Welle’s broadcast in German to Australia and New Zealand at 0800-1000 UTC via Bonaire will change from 9885 to 9785 kHz.
(Source: RNW Programme Distribution)
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Ecuadorean authorities yesterday took the Teleamazonas private channel off the air for three days in a move likely to fuel concern among President Rafael Correa’s critics over press freedom under his leftist government. Mr Correa has in the past called for Teleamazonas to be shut for transmitting false information and has lashed out at private [...]

ArabSat and NileSat have agreed to help the Turkish government launch an Arabic language television station as part of an initiative from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to improve Turkey’s relations with the Arab world.
TRT, the state-owned Turkish broadcasting authority, will start broadcasting the channel at the beginning of 2010. In January 2009, TRT [...]

Burma News International (BNI), an umbrella organization of ethnic media groups, says that it is developing plans to set up shortwave radio broadcasts in ethnic languages. At least 10 languages would be broadcast in 15-minute daily programmes, according to Khin Maung Shwe, the BNI secretary of development. Meanwhile, BNI said it plans to ask ABC, [...]

Arirang TV, an English-language TV network based in Seoul, said today it plans to increase real-time news and in-depth programming next year to give viewers a more accurate view of Korea, according to Yonhap News.
Operated by the Korea International Broadcasting Foundation (KIBF), Arirang TV will add three daily news programmes including an 8 pm show [...]

A group of Turks who have been living in the US for many years are making programmes promoting Turkey and Turkish people for Turkish-American Television, or TATV. Their programmes, broadcast by more than 60 public television station, draw great interest from Turks and Americans.

Read the story at hurriyetdailynews.com

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Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has started live streaming of its broadcasts. A PBC official told Daily Times that programmes of National Broadcasting Service (NBS) could now be listened to live on the Internet. NBS is a dedicated Current Affair Channel of Radio Pakistan which broadcasts news bulletins, sports news, business updates and stock market reports, [...]

CTC Media, Russia’s leading independent media company, today announced the launch of international broadcasting under the CTC brand in North America through the DISH Network Corporation, one of the country’s largest pay-TV providers with 13.6 million subscribers.
The international version of CTC will be a 24-hour family entertainment channel with a programming grid consisting of CTC [...]