Posts from ‘October, 2010’

Al Jazeera has denounced the suspension of the network’s operations in Morocco. In a statement today, Al Jazeera said that the closure of its bureau in the capital, Rabat, would not change the network’s editorial guidelines. “Al Jazeera is committed to an editorial policy based on the principal of providing alternate opinions,” the statement said. [...]

Although the Estonian Ministry of Culture has issued a broadcasting licence to allow the appearance of Tallinn TV, Minister Laine Jänes thinks that “there are plenty of high quality TV channels in Estonia. Tallinn boasting its own TV channel is just a waste of taxpayers’ money”. In Ms Jänes’ opinion, Tallinn TV is an example [...]

In an article entitled “The Voice of Russia is a universal radio” marking the station’s 81st birthday, Andrei Bystritsky writes on the Voice of Russia website: Our radio has many FM stations in the CIS – around 90 in total. There is FM broadcasting in the Balkans, in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Afghanistan, Turkey and many [...]

BBC staff belonging to one of the broadcaster’s biggest unions voted in favour of staging two 48-hour strikes in November in a row over pension proposals, the National Union of Journalists said today. The NUJ, the corporation’s second-largest union, said BBC journalists will walk out on November 5-6 and November 15-16 in protest against plans [...]

Eutelsat Communications has announced the loss of the W3B satellite following an anomaly which was detected on the satellite’s propulsion subsystem after its launch by an Ariane 5 rocket. W3B was scheduled to be located at 16 degrees East to replace Eutelsat’s Eurobird™ 16, W2M and Sesat 1 satellites. With the loss of W3B, the [...]

Zimbabwe police in Mashonaland East have launched a blitz confiscating shortwave radio sets parcelled out to villagers by non-governmental organisations campaigning for the freeing of the airwaves. Information obtained by Radio VOP on Thursday indicated that the police had been raiding homesteads starting with Murehwa centre in search of the “offending” SW radio sets, in [...]

Georgian Parliament Speaker David Bakradze said on Tuesday that his country is currently debating new draft legislation that addresses issues such as the need for full transparency of media outlet ownership and the financing of media organizations, the Civil Georgia website reported. “Society should have full and comprehensive information about media owners, who is behind [...]

A group of Dutch public broadcasting employees has launched a campaign against cuts in public broadcasting. The new government wants to cut the annual budget by 200 million euros by 2015. “That’s a quarter of the budget of public broadcasting. It really touches the core of broadcasting,” said reporter Sander ‘t Sas, one of the [...]

China is preparing to take the programmes of China Radio International (CRI) to Nepali listeners across the country through local FM stations. Officials at the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) in Kathmandu said CRI has already acquired ‘downlink’ permission to rebroadcast its programmes across Nepal. The station has also established a bureau in Kathmandu [...]

Merging of the public radio and television would save the state at least €1.65 million in 2011, claims the Slovak Culture Ministry in the introductory report to the draft bill on the Radio and Television of Slovakia. Minister Daniel Krajcer (SaS) says this would help to stop both public broadcasting corporations slipping deeper into debt.

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As part of a renewed communication strategy, the European Commission is planning to boost pan-European TV channel Euronews, giving the broadcasting company extra funding to establish a bureau in Brussels. “The Commission will explore options for a more sustainable financing of Euronews. The building up of a Brussels studio for Euronews will be encouraged,” reads [...]

The Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Mark Scott, has defended the organisation’s growth in online services. There has been public criticism of the ABC’s expansion into online opinion with sites such as The Drum, the comment and analysis portal on the ABC’s website.
But Mr Scott told a Senate committee the website was meeting [...]

A project by Russian and central European historians called “Sound Archives of the Gulag”, recordings of the stories of scores of deportees, will be available online in March, organisers said. The project has gathered some 160 accounts by people of their sorrowful experience of being deported to the gulag, the penal labour camps in the [...]

One of Johannesburg’s iconic landmarks, the Sentech broadcasting tower near Auckland Park, is literally falling apart. Bits of concrete are flaking off the 237 metre-tall structure. The tower is in a state of disrepair thanks in large part - it’s suspected - to acid rain that has rusted steel reinforcements in the tower. However, Sentech [...]

A senior Chinese official has called for further cooperation with Albania in broadcasting and television, saying the media could act as bridge for friendship between the two peoples. Liu Yunshan, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks while meeting with the director-general of Albanian Radio [...]