Posts from ‘May, 2010’

German public broadcaster SWR has today started DRM transmissions of its SWR cont.ra service on 711 kHz from its site in Obereisesheim.
(Source: DRM Software Radio Forums)
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Pakistan restored access to Facebook today, nearly two weeks after closing the popular networking site in a storm of controversy about blasphemy, but still restricted hundreds of online links. A contest organised by an anonymous Facebook user calling on people to draw the Prophet Mohammed to promote “freedom of expression” sparked a major blacklash and [...]

The Hizbul Islam rebel group today threatened Universal TV and ordered the closure of its offices in the country. The governor of the group for Mogadishu, Moallim Hashi Mohamed Farah, held a press conference and ordered the closure of all the offices of Universal TV in Somalia accusing of it of blasphemy. “From today on [...]

On Tues-Fri this week there will be a special relay of a popular Dutch domestic network Radio 2 programme from NCRV on 5910 kHz at 1500-1700 UTC towards the French Alps. The programme is called Knooppunt Kranenbarg. This week it includes reports from Alpe d’HuZes in France where famous Dutch people are climbing the best-known [...]

South Korea has delayed plans to begin anti-North Korea propaganda. Experts speculated that two factors - the safety of South Koreans working at the joint Gaeseong Industrial Complex in the North and rising tensions on the peninsula - probably prompted the government to weigh the timing of the execution of the psychological operations (PSYOPs).
The Ministry [...]

In the midst of the controversy regarding the decision to ban YouTube and Facebook, RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin visited Pakistan for five days to discuss media freedom. Mr Gedmin’s trip focused on Radio Mashaal (”torch” in Pashto) - RFE/RL’s new Pashto-language station in the tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Mr Gedmin visited the station’s [...]

The opening hour of Radio Amigo’s broadcasts to the Costa del Sol will be relayed by the Dutch mediumwave transmitter at Trintelhaven on 1395 kHz at 0900-1000 UTC tomorrow, 1 June.
(Source: www.1395.eu)
Related story:

Radio Mi Amigo returns to the air on Costa del Sol

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The partnership between Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the international website of daily NRC Handelsblad is set to end in mid-June. NRC has been under new ownership since last year. Newly appointed Publishing Director Hans Nijenhuis told NRC staff on Wednesday that the company will focus on the printed papers nrc.next and NRC Handelsblad, and is [...]

Mike McCluskey took up his new role as CEO of Radio Australia today. He’s been with the ABC for 25 years and is not only passionate about radio, but has a keen interest and knowledge of the Asia Pacific Region. Rob Sharp spoke to Mike McCluskey to find out about his vision for Radio Australia.

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Text of press release issued by management of new Ethiopian opposition satellite television station, ESAT, published in English by Ethiopian opposition website Ethiopian Review on 30 May

For the past three days and intermittently before that, [new opposition] Ethiopian Satellite Service (ESAT) broadcasts in Ethiopia have been interrupted due to undetermined electronic interference. Following preliminary investigations, [...]

Five female news presenters at the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera satellite television channel have resigned over conflicts with management over dress code and other issues, a journalist there said on Sunday. “This collective resignation is not motivated just by the growing pressure on the presenters concerning their dress code, which was evoked by the media,” said the [...]

Text of report in English by Japan’s largest news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, May 30 Kyodo - Japanese public television network NHK has decided to cease analogue television services via broadcasting satellite at the end of March next year, about four months ahead of schedule, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday. By advancing the timetable and [...]

swissinfo must not fall victim to government cost-cutting, say many high-profile Swiss around the world in a petition to save the multimedia Internet portal. Among the 1,500 people to have backed the petition so far are Walter Kälin, the United Nation’s representative for internally displaced persons, and Alfred Defago, Switzerland’s former ambassador to the United [...]

“In a surprise confession, Ezatollah Zarghami, Head of state-run Iranian Broadcast Company, during a speech on Thursday to a group of war veterans, admitted that Iranian government indeed sends illegal satellite jamming signals against foreign broadcast satellites. Zarghami lamented: ‘Our own Alalam (Arabic broadcast by Iran) was removed from Nile Sat and Arab Sat in [...]

The National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters in the US has launched a Shortwave Listener Survey, which is now online. The purpose of the survey is to gather demographic and other information about shortwave listeners in North America and around the world. Questions deal with listener preferences regarding shortwave stations, programming, receivers, DRM and much more. [...]