Posts from ‘February, 2010’

Excerpt from report by French news agency AFP
Abidjan, 22 February 2010: Broadcasting by the France 24 television channel was “suspended” in Cote d’Ivoire on Monday [22 February] for “unprofessional treatment of information” about recent “political news” in the country, the Ivorian media regulator announced.
The National Audiovisual Communications Council (CNCA) adopted a “preventative measure” regarding [...]

Sveriges Radio (Radio Sweden) has changed its frequency for the Swedish broadcast to East Asia at 1200-1230 UTC due to interference from a jammer on the old frequency of 9380 kHz. From today the frequency has been changed to 11550 kHz.
(Source: Sveriges Radio)
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A senior Chinese military officer has called for a new national body to enforce Internet controls, while China faced fresh claims today about the source of hacking attacks that hit search giant Google. People’s Liberation Army Major General Huang Yongyin said China needed to keep pace with the efforts of other big powers to fight [...]

Israel’s Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog, who was in charge of the Israel Broadcasting Authority in the past, says the government must work to solve the crisis in the IBA.  “The State of Israel cannot stay without public broadcasting. Having the public discourse in Israel controlled exclusively by commercial media based on ratings means that [...]

Iran’s police chief on Saturday again warned citizens against cooperating with foreign media, and accused the BBC and Voice of America of serving British and US intelligence services. “All those who work with foreign services by sending them news, reports, pictures and films should know that their behaviour is monitored,” Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam said in [...]

Text of report by private Sudanese newspaper Al-Ra’y al-Amm on 20 February
Sudanese National Radio Television Corporation has announced that its satellite transmission of the National TV was stopped at 6:00 p.m. yesterday [19 February] in order to change the frequencies on Arabsat satellite (2B) on (12578.77).
The stoppage continued for 10 minutes after it had faced [...]

Some special DRM transmissions have been arranged for the Radio Asia 2010 Conference, to be held from 22-24 February in New Delhi. This year’s conference looks at the digital future of radio with its overall title ‘Journey to the Digital Land’.
The BBC will broadcast three hours in DRM every day from 22-26 February from 04:29:30 [...]

One of the great characters of Dutch broadcasting, Henk (’Bull’) Verweij, has passed away at the age of 100. In 1960, together with his brothers Dirk and Jaap, the Hilversum businessman set up Radio Veronica, which broadcast from sea until 1974. In 1972, Verweij was found guilty of being one of the people behind the [...]

The European satellite operator Eutelsat is considering development opportunities in Asia provided they have the potential to be profitable, the company’s general director said today. “We are paying attention to existing opportunities” in Asia “but we will not act unless they allow us to carry on with our profitable growth model,” Michel de Rosen told [...]

Media giant News Corp said today it has agreed to sell its Bulgarian terrestrial TV business, bTV, for US$400 million (294 million euros) in cash to leading regional broadcaster Central European Media Enterprises (CME). CME is the main broadcaster in Central and Eastern Europe. News Corp said the sale was part of its plan to [...]

Lauri Kivinen was appointed as the new Director General of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) today. He takes over from Mikael Jungner beginning on May 1. YLE’s Board of Directors decided unanimously on the selection this afternoon. Lauri Kivinen, 48, is now Head of Corporate Affairs, Nokia Siemens Networks. He has worked for NSN and [...]

Slovak Deputy Prime Minister Dusan Caplovic expects the launch of television broadcasts for Slovaks living abroad will take place this year, his spokesman Michal Kalinak told the TASR newswire on 15 February. Mr Caplovic met the director of the Slovaks Living Abroad Office, Vilma Privarová, to discuss television broadcasts for Slovaks abroad and the meeting [...]

According to a blog posting on “Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities” the final broadcast of the BBC’s special Creole service to Haiti was last Friday, 12 February.
Related story:

BBC launches a Creole service to Haiti

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Online TV service SeeSaw launched yesterday in the UK*, offering 3,000 hours of content from Channel 4, Five and older BBC programmes in a bid to grab a slice of the internet TV market from broadcasters and Google’s YouTube. The free platform also has programmes from independent producers, but has no content from commercial broadcaster [...]

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said today that the situation of public service broadcasting in Bosnia-Herzegovina is deteriorating dangerously. It called on the country’s Parliamentarians to implement a recent media law and said Bosnia-Herzegovina could be isolated from the rest of Europe because of delays in digitalization.
“A media law in line with European standards came [...]