Posts from ‘March, 2010’

The following information appeared on the SLBC website dated 28 March:
“The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation has taken measures to air a new programme which address[es] audience in South Korea. Chairman of the SLBC Hudson Samarasinghe says the organization targets 75,000 [sic] Sri Lankans working in South Korea. ”
“The programme is broadcast through City FM Service [...]

The BBC has delayed launching mobile applications delivering its news and sport free to devices like Apple’s iPhone after newspapers expressed concern about direct competition. The Newspaper Publishers Association had asked the BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, to examine proposals it feared could harm efforts by commercial rivals to succeed with their own mobile [...]

Text of report in English by Saudi newspaper Arab News website on 28 March
Jedda: Shams Radio Consortium won the Kingdom’s fifth FM radio licence on Saturday with its 60m-riyal [16m US dollars] bid.
The government has received a total of 331.5m riyals for issuing five FM radio licences.
Riyadh Najm, undersecretary for engineering affairs and supervisor [...]

Seven people were injured in a series of explosions at TV stations in the Thai capital of Bangkok on Saturday night. The violence appears to be part of anti-government demonstrations. Bangkok police say a grenade was launched from the road in front of the army-run Channel 5 TV station at around [...]

Radio Romania International (RRI) has resumed a weekly podcast in English, with an RSS feed. RRI’s programme, broadcast on Sunday at 1700 UTC, will be available on the WRN servers and also on podcast directories, such as iTunes and Juicer.
(Source: Radio Romania International)
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Russia reduced the number of its time zones to nine from 11 today after President Dmitry Medvedev said this could make the nation more manageable to run and boost its economy. Mr Medvedev said in a state of the nation address last November that the sprawling nation ought to reduce the number of its time [...]

The Australian government has ruled out weakening the public broadcasting sector to relieve the pressures facing commercial media, ABC News reports. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told the told the Australian Broadcasting Summit in Sydney that the government would not step back from supporting the ABC and SBS, both of which it funds.
Some commercial media companies [...]

Fiji’s military-backed government has extended the regulations used to censor the country’s media until the end of April, ABC News reports. Fiji’s public emergency regulations (PER) were put in place on 10 April last year after the military-backed regime scrapped the country’s constitution. Under the regulations, all local media outlets are censored with a ban [...]

The DRM Consortium has elected its new leadership for the next two years and agreed its broad strategy based on continuity, development and growth of the DRM standard worldwide during its General Assembly held at the headquarters of Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) in Hilversum.
The Steering Board, which runs the DRM Consortium and sets its strategy [...]

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) today called on Iran to stop jamming foreign radio and television broadcasts, following European complaints. ITU spokesman Sanjay Acharya said that  “interference emanating from the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran…  appear to be of a nature which is forbidden under radio regulations.” The ITU’s radio regulation board “urged [...]

Anti-Pyongyang leaflet campaigns have gone digital, with activists flying out balloons carrying DVDs across the inter-Korean border to show North Koreans what they may be missing. Lee Min-bok, a defector from the North who leads a group that started the leaflet campaign using balloons, said his group began sending propaganda DVDs along with paper leaflets [...]

On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Indonesian authorities closed down Radio Erabaru in Batam, and confiscated its equipment. The official reason was that it did not have the correct licence, but most observers agree with the station’s claims that the real reason was increasing pressure from the Chinese government.

Read my article on the main RNW website

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Swazi Minister for Information, Communications and Technology Nelsiwe Shongwe, told Parliament this week that the Swaziland Public Broadcasting Bill 2010 was being finalized by the Attorney General and would soon be presented in Parliament for debate. MPs then urged the Minister to submit the Bill within the next six months.
The Minister further told Parliament that [...]

The Dutch radio listening figures for Jan/Feb 2010 have been published by research bureau Intomart GfK. Radio 538 has returned to its position as market leader, but only just, as public network Radio 2 is a mere 0.1 percent behind. It was a good month for the public broadcasters: the market share of news and [...]

The Director General of Bulgarian National Radio, Valeri Todorov, spoke to Bulgarian MPs from the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Civil Society and Media and introduced to them some of the anti-crisis measures [to tackle the national budget deficit of an estimated 750 million euros] undertaken by the national radio. The main focus is the temporary [...]