Posts from ‘July, 2010’

India is a key growth market and the BBC Worldwide Channels are already working on widening the reach of its channels and introducing new ones in the country, a senior official said, The Times of India reports.
Darren Childs, Managing Director of the BBC Worldwide Channels, said: “We have identified India as a high-growth market and [...]

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has called for the opening of the broadcast media space in Somaliland following a peaceful and a democratic transition of power in the recent presidential election on 26 June 2010.
For many years, Somaliland has constitutionally recognised media freedom and the establishment of independent media. However, the authorities have [...]

Pac-10, a college sports conference which operates in the western United States, may soon be known by radio listeners in Eastern Europe and beyond. Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott held a conference media day in New York City this week, outlining his plans to expand coverage of the conference. He announced that the organisation will be [...]

The Adventist World Radio board has selected the ministry’s vice president for finance, Dowell Chow, to serve as its new president. He first joined the ministry in 2005 and has served as its vice president for finance. Mr Chow replaces Benjamin Schoun, who last month was appointed a general vice president of the Seventh-day Adventist [...]

Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, swissinfo’s predecessor, a shortwave radio service from the Swiss Broadcasting Corp., transmitted its first signal round the world. To celebrate the station’s rich history as the “voice of Switzerland abroad”, swissinfo has compiled excerpts of some of the more memorable programmes, interviews and reader pictures collected throughout the years.
“Dear Swiss [...]

Unidentified attackers set fire to a private television station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo today after smashing editing equipment, police said. About a dozen men stormed the Siyatha television studious in Colombo and exploded a petrol bomb after systematically destroying equipment inside the news room studios, a journalist from the station said. “The station [...]

Irish public broadcaster RTÉ has received the government go-ahead for its plans to introduce digital terrestrial television (DTT) across Ireland. A week after it emerged that the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) is to shelve the commercial tender for DTT, Communications Minister Eamon Ryan said yesterday that RTÉ would push ahead with its €70m scheme.

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Text of report published by Sri Lankan newspaper Daily Mirror website on 29 July
An investigation is under way as to how an illegal radio station operating from Beruwala managed to broadcast its programmes island-wide via the FM frequencies, officials told Daily Mirror online.
According to police sources the radio station was operating from a mosque [...]

Armed men cut television and radio signals owned by the opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one media head in Kinshasa said yesterday. “Men in plain clothes but armed” ordered staff at the broadcasting centre to cut the signal for Canal Kin Television (CKTV), Canal Congo Television (CCTV) and Radio Liberty Kinshasa (RALIK), the [...]

The public service broadcaster Slovak Television (STV) has been told it will have to reduce its costs. It was challenged to do so by the Supervisory Commission of STV because of lower advertising revenues and lower collection of concessionaire fees paid by viewers.
The broadcaster reports rising costs of preparations to switch from analogue to digital. [...]

The Upshot news blog writes: Buried among the 92,000 classified documents released by WikiLeaks yesterday is some intriguing evidence that the US military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble in Iraq: Paying local media outlets to run friendly stories.
Several reports from Army psychological operations units and Provincial Reconstruction Teams [...]

The Afghan cabinet has closed a private television station, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. The government’s closing on 27 July of the Emroz (Today) television channel, owned by Afghan parliament member Najibulla Kabuli, is unprecedented.
Mr Kabuli told Radio Free Afghanistan by phone that the government’s decision to shut down his TV station was politically motivated. [...]

Britain’s commercial broadcasters got a boost on today when media regulator Ofcom said it would scrap rules forcing them to sell all their advertising airtime, which had weighed on prices. Ofcom said in a statement that it would lift the rules ahead of the next television airtime deal in the autumn as part of its [...]

Text of report by privately-owned Somali Shabeelle Media Network website on 27 July
Mortars fired by Amisom [African Union's Mission in Somalia] troops have this morning destroyed equipment belonging to Somaliweyn Radio station. The destroyed equipment were left behind by the Al-Shabab Movement during their recent raid of the station.
The director of Somaliweyn radio station [...]

SES Astra announced today that it is further intensifying its cooperation with the Spanish pay-TV operator Sogecable and supporting the development of its High Definition (HD) direct-to-home (DTH) offer. As part of the cooperation, SES Astra is providing two additional satellite transponders to Sogecable in 2010 at its prime orbital position 19.2 degrees East.
Sogecable is [...]