Posts from ‘August, 2010’

The expansion of broadband Internet in Germany has strongly increased both the number of online radio stations and overall use. By the end of April 2010, there were already about 2,700 German online radio stations – approximately 700 more than in 2009. Today, about half of all online radio stations are available on mobile phones.
With [...]

Poland’s National Broadcasting Council intends to audit the output of the controversial Radio Maryja station, founded by ultra-conservative Father Tadeusz Rydzyk. Father Rydzyk has been asked to provide the council with radio recordings from 9 to 15 August. The council has the right to look into the radio station’s archives under Poland’s media law, though [...]

Text of report in English by China Radio International (CRI) website on 25 August
China International Broadcasting Network (CIBN), run by the state-owned radio station China Radio International [CRI], has recently been approved for establishment by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television [SARFT]. This international new media broadcasting network will feature 61 languages [...]

China plans to merge about 1,000 regional radio and television networks into a single national cable television network company, state media reported today. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said the new company would be formed by year’s end and would expand into mobile TV and online videos, the China Daily newspaper [...]

The biggest commercial broadcaster in Europe, RTL Group, today announced a return to profit in the first half of the year thanks to a better-than-expected rebound in television advertising. RTL, part of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, expressed optimism about its outlook for 2010, with chief executive Gerhard Zeiler saying the Luxembourg-based group “will achieve significantly [...]

Tineke de Nooij, one of the first female presenters on Radio Veronica in its offshore radio era, will be back on the radio from Monday 6 September after a decade of ‘radio silence’. TinekeShow on Radio 5 Nostalgia will be broadcast by Omroep MAX, the public broadcaster for 50-plussers, on Mon-Fri at 4pm-6pm (1400-1600 UTC). [...]

lslamabad, 24 Aug (APP): Radio Pakistan will broadcast special conference on flood crisis by its wide network comprising medium waves and FM 93 and FM 101 at 8 p.m. on Wednesday (Aug 25). PBC Gilgit, Skardu, Larkana and Multan will also broadcast the conference live.
The Head of the USAID, Dr Rajiv Shah will be the [...]

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba plans to market the world’s first 3D television that does not need special glasses later this year, a report said today. Toshiba will unveil three models of the television, which will cost several thousand dollars, before Christmas, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.
The company has developed a new system that emits a number [...]

According to a Forbes report, the North Korean government might not be entering the bright new world of social media after all:
A North Korea government official tells Forbes that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, as reported by thousands of publications worldwide. The accounts are run by government [...]

The Islamic adminstration of Al-shabab in Mogadishu has taken over the control of local FM radio station called Holy Qur’an Radio in the Somali capital Mogadishu, the director said yesterday. Mohamed Abdiwahab Abdullahi read a letter from the administration of Al-shabab for Bandir region to the journalists saying that from that day Al-shabab had taken [...]

The Echo of Moscow radio station, the pioneer of independent media in Russia, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Established in 1990, the radio station was the first in the Soviet Union to provide alternative news and opinions.
No wonder that as early as 1991 they were threatened with being banned from broadcasting – not by the [...]

A brief statement from State House in Freetown has indicated that Sierra Leonean writer, journalist, librarian and human rights activist Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell has been appointed Director of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation, subject to parliamentary approval.
He was born in 1965 and was educated at Birch Memorial Secondary School, Makeni, and Milton Margai Teachers College [...]

More than a million people inside Iran circumvented aggressive censorship and logged on to RFE/RL’s Persian-language website  in July through a proxy server, a system ensuring the anonymity of its users. It was the first time Radio Farda’s proxy server recorded a million visits since it was put in place in April 2009. In addition, [...]

Cambodia today adopted the digital multimedia broadcasting service invented and developed by South Korea as the nation’s standard mobile broadcasting method. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said Cambodia plans to commercialize the DMB service, which is currently being tested, by the end of this year.
The country’s telecommunications and broadcasting regulator has been providing the DMB [...]

German pay television Sky Deutschland is seeking tie-ups with cable operators to counter incumbent rival Deutsche Telekom, Sky boss Brian Sullivan said in an interview published today. Sky, which has been losing clients at a rapid pace, is “in advanced talks with several cable operators” such as Kabel Deutschland and Unitymedia, “but also with other [...]