Posts from ‘August, 2010’

The website of BBC Russian - bbcrussian.com - and GZT.RU, one of Russia’s top ten online news portals, today announced a new agreement that will enable international news seekers to access a variety of Russian-language video content from bbcrussian.com, direct from the GZT.RU website.
The deal with the online news portal will make BBC video and [...]

Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR) yesterday completed the round of layoffs that has been awaited with trepidation for quite some time. The result is that 67 employees have been laid off, while 37 employees have accepted severance packages.
“This is a sad day for DR. We have to take leave of a large number of [...]

There will be a special DRM transmission from Bonaire to Brazil today, 31 August, in connection with the MOMAG 2010 Congress in Vila Velha. The schedule is as follows:

1100-1300 UTC 15745 kHz
1300-1500 UTC 17525 kHz

DRM transmission details:

Power: 120 kW DRM
Antenna: AHRS 4/4/1
Azimuth: 133 degrees

Modulation:

1100-1400 UTC = RNW Spanish
1400-1500 UTC = RNW Portuguese

Technical details:

Mode B
MDC: [...]

Ghana’s National Digital Broadcasting Migration Technical Committee on the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting in the country, presented its report to Minister of Communications Haruna Iddrisu on Monday. The 24-member committee was inaugurated in February, this year, to develop policy guidelines to consider Ghana’s shift from analogue to digital broadcasting.
Edmund Fianko, Secretary to the [...]

Driving on the six-lane motorway between Peshawar and Islamabad, every commuter can listen to the illegal FM radio broadcasts of a local molvi (mullah) - known for his close affiliation with militants of Swat, Bajaur and Mohmand tribal agencies.
Last week, driving from Islamabad toward Swabi on the M-1 and listening to FM 93 - a [...]

A suspected grenade exploded in front of Thailand’s national TV centre today in an attack the government said was intended to sow panic in Bangkok, which remains under emergency rule. No one was injured by the explosion in front of the building housing the National Broadcasting Services of Thailand, the third attack on the state-run [...]

Tomorrow, 31 August, Stichting Norderney, in collaboration with Offshore Radio, will present a special day of live broadcasts under the title “The day the music died” from the Museum Rock Art at Zekkenstraat 42 in the Hook of Holland. A number of former offshore radio presenters will be presenting programmes from 1000-2000 Dutch time (0800-1800 [...]

bTV Radio Group, the new brand of the Bulgarian media company bTV Media Group, will unite six radio stations that have been established on the Bulgarian market in the past few years. bTV Media Group owns the largest private TV station in Bulgaria, bTV, as well as cable channels bTV Comedy, bTV Cinema, PRO.BG, RING.BG [...]

Plans for a five-station HD Radio project to launch next month in Switzerland have been called off, reports radioworld.com. It reports that Markus Ruoss, owner of Sunshine Radio and head of the HD Radio project, speaking today at the SwissRadioDay, said that due to a lack of a partner in Zürich (the largest media market [...]

North Korea accused The South today of  blocking its people from accessing online social-networking sites launched by the North. Pyongyang opened a Twitter account on 12 August after its foray into popular video-sharing website YouTube, prompting a game of online cat-and-mouse with Seoul which has struggled to stop its citizens following The North’s official website, [...]

The Indian government will shortly set up FM radio services at the India-Nepal border in Bihar to counter the popularity Nepali channels enjoy in the region. This comes soon after it moved to buttress the strength of Indian radio and television signals along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir. The government last week cleared [...]

Pakistani broadcasters are calling members of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) to help the floods victims in the country. Public broadcaster Pakistan Television Corporation’s Managing Director Arshad Khan said: “We appeal to all ABU member networks to prepare and telecast or broadcast special programmes - whether it is fundraisers, special events, telethons, entertainment programmes, etc [...]

South Korea’s LG Electronics said today it would no longer produce bulky cathode ray tube televisions for domestic sale due to falling demand and the end of analogue-based broadcasting services. LG, which started manufacturing TVs in 1966, will also stop selling the CRT TVs once existing inventories are gone, a spokesman told AFP. It will [...]

To implement an MOU signed during the visit of President Asif Ali Zardari to China in July this year, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) and China Radio International (CRI) have signed a statement of collaboration  for cooperation between the two organizations. Under the statement of collaboration, the two organizations agreed on an exchange of staff boost [...]

The Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation (LJBC) recently sued a Toronto resident named Abdalla Saleh in US District Court for Northern California, alleging copyright infringement. The seven-page lawsuit, filed on 20 August, said Mr Saleh allegedly uploaded six videos to YouTube and one to blip.tv that included “numerous copyrighted works owned by” LJBC.
All of the videos [...]