Posts from ‘December, 2010’

Shanghai has cracked down on three illegal satellite TV companies that sent signals via broadband to clients’ homes. This appears to be a new way of providing illegal satellite services in Shanghai, a senior official of the city’s radio, film and television watchdog said yesterday.
The companies linked servers to satellite receivers and provided the service [...]

Korea’s global channel Arirang TV today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Radio Promotion Agency. The two will work together to develop the Korean broadcasting industry and improve the national brand image.
During the meeting, the two organizations pledged to cooperate on promoting Korean programmes to overseas markets and strengthening the domestic media [...]

My review of the 2011 edition of the World Radio TV Handbook has been published, and is available on the main RNW website.
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To mark the ringing-in of 2011, Dubai Media Incorporated today announced it will broadcast to the world the impressive fireworks display that will benefit from the iconic Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, as its centerpiece. Viewers will be able to follow live broadcast of Dubai’s celebration on a live stream on DMI’s website.
Sara Ahmed [...]

The Indian Government plans to bring an amendment to the Prasar Bharti Act to ensure that it serves the objective of Public Service Broadcasting. In an exclusive interview to All India Radio, the Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Mrs Ambika Soni, while identifying the challenges for the Broadcasting Corporation of India, said a Group of [...]

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has signed an eighteen month sound broadcasting contract with Spirit Radio Limited (trading as Spirit Radio) for the provision of a quasi-national Christian and religious sound broadcasting service on the AM band with low-power FM transmitter stations.
The initial contract will allow the station broadcast to the cities of Dublin, [...]

Spain’s all news channel CNN+ will cease broadcasting at midnight tonight (2300 UTC), said a spokesman for Spanish media group Prisa, which launched the station in 1999 as a joint venture with Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner. The closure of CNN+ is an indirect consequence of the sale by heavily endebted Prisa of [...]

After its closure in 2007 for fire safety violations, Tallinn’s TV tower will be revamped as tourist attraction with 5.5 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund. “Since its inception, Tallinn’s TV tower has been a symbol of the capital,” said Riina Roosipuu, director of the tower’s managing foundation.
The 314-meter tower, Estonia’s tallest structure, [...]

Uruguay will adopt a Japanese and Brazilian digital TV standard known as ISDB-T, instead of European rival DVB-T, Foreign Minister Luis Almagro announced yesterday. Uruguay will joins most of Latin America in signing on to the ISDB-T format, a variant of a Japanese system ISDB that was developed by the Brazilian government. The abbreviation stands [...]

The London-based Persian service of British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Persian, is gradually losing its audience inside Iran, says an IRIB official in Tehran. According to the most recent poll, BBC Persian is less popular now among Iranian viewers than it was eight months ago, said Hassan Abedini, managing director of the Islamic Republic of Iran [...]

The district court in Amsterdam has ruled that the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Marja van Bijsterveldt, failed to investigate thoroughly the market effects of four new digital public broadcasting services that she recently approved. The court therefore upheld the objections of the trade associations of newspaper publishers (NDP), commercial broadcasters (VESTRA) and commercial [...]

The Maldives parliamentary budget analysis committee has proposed to allocate Rf95 million (US$7.42 million) to Maldives Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) in the 2011 state budget. The committee findings presented to the parliament in today’s sitting show that the corporation proposed a Rf138.85 million (US$10.7 million) budget. The committee, however, cut down the budget to Rf95 million [...]

Pakistan will launch its first indigenously-developed communication satellite on 14 August next year from a facility in China, an official said today.The new satellite with a lifespan of 15 years, has been developed with technical and financial assistance from China. It will be launched on the country’s Independence Day in 2011, Paksat General Manager Col [...]

The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M rocket supplied by ILS. Lift-off of Eutelsat’s 6.1 tonne satellite took place on 26 December at 21.51 UTC. After a 9-hour 12-minute flight, the launcher released KA-SAT into geosynchronous transfer orbit. Acquisition of the satellite’s telemetry signal by [...]

Text of report by Belarusian privately-owned news agency Belapan
Minsk, 26 December: Law enforcement officers raided the Minsk offices of two Warsaw-based broadcast media outlets on 25 December. The raids targeted the offices of European Radio for Belarus and the Belsat television channel. European Radio for Belarus, which has an official bureau in Minsk, said [...]