Posts from ‘June, 2010’

A new Director has been named for the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD), the Kuala Lumpur-based training institute. He is Yang Binyuan, Deputy Director, Office of International Cooperation and Head of the Chinese Language Promotion Division of China Radio International (CRI). The decision was made at an AIBD executive board meeting in Kuala Lumpur [...]

The following shortwave/ mediumwave frequencies will be available for coverage in Dutch of the World Cup football match between the Netherlands and Slovakia which will be played tomorrow (28 June) between 1400 and 1545 UTC:
1000-1700: 1296 kHz to Benelux
1200-1700: 5955 kHz to Central Europe
1300-1700: 7235 kHz to Germany
1300-1700: 9595 KHz to Great Britain and Ireland
1200-1700: [...]

Macedonia’s Council of Radio Diffusion (RDC) will press charges against cable operators for illegal rebroadcasting of the World Cup 2010. The Council made the decision at its latest session, after monitoring the cable operators which rebroadcast programmes.
“We will press charges against cable operators, which dare to rebroadcast entire programme packages, which haven’t been registered in [...]

Frustrated by the poor reception of World Cup matches on Al-Jazeera, West Bank resident Ziad Yunis has dropped the Pan-Arab satellite channel in favour of Israeli TV. Following several days of disappointment at the start of the tournament, the 30-year-old now watches the matches on mute and listens to running commentary in Arabic on the [...]

The second Arabsat satellite of the fifth generation (5A), was launched successfully this morning from French Guyana by the Ariane–5 rocket . Arabsat 5A, manufactured by French companies Astrium and Thales, will operate fom an orbital position of 30.5 degrees East.
Khalid bin Ahmed Balkheyour, President & CEO of Arabsat, stated that “We are very thankful [...]

BBC World Service is to join forces with its re-broadcasting partner in Guinea, Liberté FM, to cover the country’s presidential election on Sunday 27 June. Special reports and analysis by the BBC’s French for Africa service, BBC Afrique, will culminate on Sunday 27 June with BBC Election Night Live, from Conakry. The special programme is [...]

Construction work on the RM67.8 million [US$20.85] Sabah Information and Broadcasting Complex is expected to be completed by the end of the year, a slight delay from the original schedule which was in mid-August. Secretary-General of Malaysia’s Ministry of Information Communication and Culture, Datuk Kamaruddin Siaraf, said the delay was due to technical factors which [...]

Continental Electronics will supply four 250 kW HF DRM-ready transmitters and associated equipment to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Information (MOI) through First Gulf Company of Riyadh. First Gulf will construct an entirely new HF station where the transmitters, antennas, and other equipment will be installed at the existing Al Khumra site outside Jeddah. The [...]

Text of report by French news agency AFP
Paris, 25 June 2010: The trade unions at Radio France Internationale (RFI) - SNJ, FO, SNJ-CGT and SNRT-CGT - spoke on Friday [25 June] about the “very serious situation” in which the radio finds itself, both from a financial point of view and from the point of view [...]

“Taipan” Albert Cheng Jinghan, whose company Wave Media was issued with a licence to operate an AM radio station in Hong Kong in 2008, says he wants his radio station to broadcast in full digital mode. Mr Cheng said that when his application for digital radio broadcasting is approved, he will return the AM radio [...]

On 24 June 2010 the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) met with European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services. Michel Barnier, to discuss the EBU’s proposals on copyright modernization in the context of the upcoming EU copyright initiatives.  The EBU welcomed the Commissioner’s initiatives on copyright in the Digital Agenda.
Public service broadcasters are investing substantially [...]

The DRM Consortium has produced a new up-to-date Broadcasters’ User Guide intended to provide a source of relevant and authoritative information on the full DRM Digital Radio broadcasting system. It is aimed at broadcasters considering the transition from analogue to digital broadcast in the AM and VHF broadcasting bands using what many believe to be [...]

Jordan’s Islamist-dominated trade unions urged France today to revoke an “unjust” decision to block broadcasts by the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa television channel for alleged incitement. “The unjust ban will kill Palestinian voices of freedom that seek resistance to the Zionist occupation,” said a letter addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy handed in by union representatives to [...]

The Dutch radio listening figures for April/May 2010 were released today by research bureau Intomart GfK. The overall market shares are based on diary entries from 10,505 respondents aged 10 years and above. Sky Radio continues its long term trend of losing market share, but perhaps more surprising is a further drop by Q-music, which [...]

British media studies researcher Richard Turner is keen to find out why Mäori Television has such growing appeal to a non-Mäori audience. Just six years after it went to air, the station is already a world leader among indigenous broadcasters and potentially an inspiration to others, Mr Turner says.
He is at Massey University’s Albany campus [...]