Posts from ‘March, 2010’

French television studio and distributor Groupe Canal+ officially debuted its satellite channel K+1 in Vietnam recently with support from the national TV Vietnam Television. At a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Groupe Canal discussed the launch of K+1, the first exclusive premium TV channel of K+, the opening of the first K+ store, [...]

BBC World Service is partnering mobile network operator Zain, in a collaboration that will provide Zain users with quick and easy access to BBC content via mobile Internet. Zain has now added BBC World Service banners to nine of its mobile portals across the continent. Users in Nigeria, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Chad, Congo, Malawi, [...]

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
[Xinhua: "Myanmar Launches Int'l Channel, Targeting Global Audiences"]
Yangon [Rangoon], March 31 (Xinhua) - Myanmar [Burma] International TV (MITV), which is also MRTV-3 channel, started airing its regular programme on Wednesday, targeting international audiences.
The MITV beams documentaries and current affairs on [...]

Wang Zheng, now the biggest shareholder of Asia Television Limited (aTV) said he would transform Hong Kong’s oldest TV station into an Asian CNN. “My long-term goal is to make it into an Asian CNN in twenty years. My mid-term goal is to create a truly independent media organization that dares [...]

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
Soccer aficionados in Peru can enjoy better television coverage of this year’s World Cup as their country on Tuesday started transmission of digital TV signals. Television viewers in the capital city and the nearby town of Callao will be [...]

The Voice of Russia has entered into the Indian commercial FM space through a partnership with national player- HT Media’s Fever 104 FM and Siliguri based Radio High 92.7 FM. These two FM channels are currently broadcasting a daily two hour infotainment program titled “With love from Russia” between 0000-0200 hours IST without mentioning “Voice [...]

The Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz has announced the imminent opening up of the airwaves in his country, the African Press Agency (APA) has learned from a reliable source in Nouakchott. Speaking during a surprise visit to state-owned Mauritania Television on Tuesday in Nouakchott, Ould Abdelaziz said that opening up the [...]

The banned Indonesian radio station in Sumatra accused of supporting Falun Gong activities resumed broadcasting on Tuesday afternoon after Indonesian communication authorities shut down the station and seized its broadcasting equipment last week. Radio Erabaru said it is defying the government and saw the measure as illegal because a dispute is still proceeding at the [...]

Russian media Tuesday sharply criticized state television for its tardy coverage of the Moscow metro suicide bombings, after channels took up to three hours to report news of the attacks. While news agencies and radio stations broke the news 20 minutes after the first explosion at Lubyanka metro station at 7:56 am, none of the [...]

Just three hours after initially commenting on the cause of recent disruptions to its search service in China, Google offered a new explanation on Tuesday. Google said in an updated statement that changes it made to its search code, which it had initially cited as the cause of blocked searches in China, had been made [...]

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki today launched the country’s digital education TV and radio channel at the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) in Nairobi. Speaking at the launch, the President said that the educational channel will enable the Government to provide expanded high quality transmission through the schools broadcasting programmes.
KIE Director Mrs Lydia Nzomo in her [...]

International television network Al Jazeera will buy Sarajevo-based broadcaster Studio 99 with a view to establishing a regional center for the Balkans in the Bosnian capital. Al Jazeera will take over the radio and television channel from the Sarajevo city government, which acquired it several months ago under a plan to establish a public broadcaster [...]

The latest addition to the Media Network Vintage Vault is an edition of the radio show from 1990. Jonathan Marks writes: “In the course of its life as a radio show, we covered the mystery of the numbers stations in between the broadcast bands on several occasions. The first time we devoted most [...]

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) website
Rio de Janeiro, 29 March: The Brazilian government wants all South American countries to adopt Brazil’s standard of digital television so that the continent will have the same digital TV system, Brazil’s official news agency Agencia Brasil reported on Monday.
Brazilian [...]

The Voice of America (VOA) said yesterday that Ethiopia may have blocked its website in a move which may lead to further US criticism of its closest ally in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia holds national elections on 23 May, and international press freedom advocacy groups say the government is intimidating and harassing journalists ahead [...]