Posts from ‘April, 2010’

The Somali insurgent group al-Shabab has rebuked the chief of VOA’s Somali Service and his counterpart at the BBC. Speaking at a Mogadishu mosque last Friday, an al-Shabab official labeled VOA Somali Service chief Abdi Yabarow and BBC Somali Service chief Yusuf Garaad Omar as murtadeen, or one who abandons the Islamic faith.

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The Voice of Nigeria has launched a new website, which looks much better than the old one. The new shortwave transmitter site, which was due to be ready by 1 October 2009, appears not to be in operation yet, as according to the schedule only a single frequency is currently in use. Unfortunately there are [...]

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued a symbolic message to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) on Tuesday, urging its members to support “Internet censorship circumvention measures” in Iran.

Read the story in the Hillicon Valley blog

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Olemic Thommessen and Mats Johansson, two conservative politicians, one from Norway and one from Sweden, have published an signed article in the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter demanding the founding of a pan-Nordic cultural TV channel - aimed at increasing the understanding between the Scandinavian nations. The channel could look like [...]

As of 20 April 2010, China Radio International’s Indonesian service is broadcasting daily on FM through these Elshinta Radio stations across Indonesia:

Jakarta 90 FM
Bandung 89.3 FM
Tegal 99.9 FM
Semarang FM 99.1 FM
Surabaya 97.6 FM
Medan 93.2 FM
Lampung 88.5 FM
Palembang 103.7 FM

Programmes are on the air (local time) at 2030-2100 and 2200-2230 daily.
(Source: Borneo Listeners’ Club)
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Pakistani newspaper The Nation says it has has learnt reliably that 24 out of 34 BBC partner stations in Pakistan have been refused permission to broadcast BBC Urdu news. According to the paper, the Chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), Malik Mushtaq, said that the 24 stations had [...]

Bangladesh has shut down an opposition-owned television channel for violating the country’s telecommunications law, ignoring reporters’ tearful pleas live on air, regulators said today.
The popular Channel 1 was taken off the air late yesterday after its licence was cancelled, the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission said. After the channel defaulted on a loan, its bank auctioned [...]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will soon join the ranks of politicians on the popular micro-blogging site Twitter, under the profile @chavezcandanga, Minister of Public Works Diosdado Cabello said yesterday. “Comrades: @chavezcandanga has been booked, we will soon get messages from our commander that way,” Cabello wrote on his own Twitter account @dcabellor.
The firebrand leftist leader, [...]

Support services company VT Group, which transmits the BBC World Service, has been presented with the Professional Services Award at this year’s BBC Global News Reith Awards for its exceptional effort in protecting the BBC Asia relay station in Thailand from severe flooding and maintaining transmission.
The site, located in the Nakhon Sawan province in Northern [...]

Pro-Kremlin youth group Rossia Molodaya said on Friday that it would try to close down liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy on Victory Day. The campaign, labeled “Hands Off Our Victory!” calls for Ekho to stop broadcasting on 9 May. Activists began an Internet petition and said they would picket the station’s office daily, starting today.
The [...]

Bar-Kulan Radio, the recently-inaugurated station broadcasting to Somalia from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, has, through no fault of its own, become embroiled in a dispute with Codka Nabada FM, a privately-owned station in Mogadishu. The two stations are both using the same frequency, 98.0 FM.
Yussuf Gelle, the director of Codka Nabada, says that “Everybody in [...]

Media Women Forum (MWF) signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Yemen General Corporation for TV and Radio on 12 April 2010. In accordance with the memo Modern Yemen (MY), the MWF Radio Production Unit, will broadcast its programmes through all radio stations.
This step, which introduces MWF as the first independent NGO that is able [...]

The long-awaited new website for the Dutch transmitter on 1395 kHz ( branded as 1395 AM) has gone live. This website will replace the current website of KBC Radio, which contains a lot of out-of-date information. It isn’t clear whether it will also replace the Big L website in the UK, which is rarely updated [...]

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has said he may start a regional news channel, borrowing from the business model of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Sky News while broadcasting different content in West Asia. He said he wants the channel to compete with the Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera satellite channels. “It is something I will be [...]

Radio and TV advertising in the Netherlands is making a good recovery following the economic crisis. According to latest figures from market research company Nielsen, the television spend in the first quarter of 2010 was 3.6 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2009, at 580 million euro. Radio grew even more, with a [...]