Posts from ‘September, 2010’

The long-waited coalition agreement for a new right-wing minority Dutch government has been published. There is still one more hurdle to jump before the government can be formed: The Christian Democrat (CDA) members still have to approve CDA’s participation, which they are expected to do during a tense and crowded congress on Saturday.
But there [...]

It was not as embarrassing as US President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 open microphone gaffe, “We’ll begin bombing Russia in five minutes,” but French journalist Jean Pierre Elkabbach still felt ashamed enough to stay off-air for a while.
After a debate with Economy Minister Christine Lagarde on his weekly political talkshow on France’s Europe1 radio, M. Elkabbach [...]

The Dutch radio market shares for July/August 2010 were published today by research bureau Intomart GfK. The regional public broadcasters saw their cumulative share rise by 0.6 percent. Amongst the national stations, the biggest fall was for Q-music, which lost 0.5 percent. 100%NL lost a further 0.3 percent, and its share is now 0.9 percent [...]

The BBC sent a Super Hi-Vision TV broadcast of a band gig to Japanese public broadcaster NHK yesterday in a successful transmission test of the experimental digital video format. The Super Hi-Vision TV signal has a higher resolution than the current generation of high-definition plasma displays.
NHK’s powerful optical data transmitter inside the Super Hi-Vision camera [...]

The Kokavil transmitting tower in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka will be ready for television, radio and other broadcasts within the next couple of months, Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Media and Information W B Ganegala told the Observer Online today.
He said the erection of the new transmission tower, replacing the old television [...]

Coverage of this year’s World Cup football finals in South Africa by the Al-Jazeera satellite television was jammed from Jordan, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported in today’s edition. “Mysterious jamming of TV broadcasts of the summer’s World Cup by the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera has been traced to Jordan, which appears to have retaliated angrily after [...]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has accused the Caracas correspondent of Radio France Internationale (RFI) of lying and trying to destabilise his regime during a press conference broadcast live on national television. RFI’s management responded by inviting Mr Chávez to an interview.
Mr Chávez’s outburst came after a question from RFI Spanish service’s correspondent Andreína Flores during [...]

The management and staff of Freetown-based Radio Democracy are living in a state fear after receiving frequent threats from some unknown persons. Radio Democracy has been off air for the past three months after being evicted from their premises by a court order, following their inability to pay their rent which was outrageously increased by [...]

Text of report by Thai newspaper The Nation website on 29 September
Newly revived red-shirt [opposition] community radio FM 102.75 based in Bangkok claim the government is interfering with their transmission through signal jamming and the act is a breach against their constitutional right to communicate.
“We have been threatened and this shouldn’t have taken place,” [...]

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Walter Isaacson last night announced a new direction for US international broadcasting that “seizes on the latest media tools and technology to stay one step ahead of those who seek to repress free information around the world.” As Chairman of the BBG, Mr Isaacson oversees RFE, VOA, Radio Free [...]

Creating an environment for broadband and broadcasting to complement each other is the key to realising a beneficial information society, the President of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Yoshinori Imai, has said. He told the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development in New York that broadband and broadcasting each had its own distinctive advantage.
“What’s at [...]

The Catholic broadcasting company Radio Maria continues to grow worldwide, now present in 54 nations with 65 new broadcasting stations in various languages. Recently, the Catholic chain has been welcomed in Switzerland, Slovakia and Ukraine. Three new broadcasting stations in the United States have also been incorporated to the Global Family of Radio Maria: in [...]

Cambodian Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said yesterday that he would support local Khmer Krom activists in establishing media outlets to publicise their community’s interests, so long as these efforts did not damage the Kingdom’s relationship with Vietnam. Khieu Kanharith met yesterday with Thach Sang, president of the Cambodia-based Khmer Kampuchea Krom Friendship Association.
The minister [...]

German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) will end its shortwave broadcasts on 1 October 2010. From 1949-2005, Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast in analogue mode on 6085 kHz, and in 2005 this was changed to a DRM relay of the news channel B5 Aktuell. Bayerischer Rundfunk has now decided to cease shortwave broadcasting to save costs.
The [...]

Public service TV and radio channels in some EU Member States stand in need of proper financial backing as well as safeguards for their independence, says the European Parliament’s Culture Committee in a draft resolution adopted today. These broadcasters also need to boost their presence on the internet to reach out to young people, say [...]