Posts from ‘February, 2011’

Muslim listeners in a northeastern Indian state have told Catholic international broadcaster Radio Veritas Asia, based in the Philippines, to keep pace with modern technology.
“Technology is far more advanced today, and we cannot be content only with radio programs on the shortwave”, said Asraful Haque, one of the 200 people who attended the annual meeting [...]

Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti
Moscow, 28 February: The Arabic service of Russian [state] news channel Russia Today (RT), Rusiya Al-Yaum, which broadcasts an open signal via Nilesat (AB4) satellite, is being jammed in Libya, the channel’s press service reported on Monday [28 February].
“There have been attempts to jam Rusiya [...]

The Association for International Broadcasting, the industry association for international TV, radio, mobile and online broadcasting, has expressed its concern at the continuing disruption to transmissions of a number of its members.
Deliberate, harmful Interference has been noted to the satellite transmissions of Alhurra, Al Jazeera and Deutsche Welle since unrest began in a number of [...]

Arabic news channel Al Arabiya is reporting that a local radio station in Misurata, 125 miles east of Tripoli, has been bombed by military helicopters. It is unclear at this stage whether anyone has been injured.
The radio station has reportedly been broadcasting pro-freedom messages since Misurata fell into the hands of Libya’s anti-government rebels last [...]

Côte d’Ivoire’s state television has resumed terrestrial broadcasting in parts of the commercial capital Abidjan, hours after its transmitter was damaged during fighting between groups loyal to the internationally recognized winner of the presidential poll, Alassane Ouattara, and incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo, leaving many people in the commercial capital, Abidjan, unable to watch it.
Television Ivoirienne [...]

Hundreds of journalists and technicians of Tunisian state television have gone on strike against the continued censorship of their work. “We want all the pressure and any censorship on our work to stop. We want to work freely,” said one of the journalists. The strike leaders said on Saturday that the strike will last until [...]

RT, the Russian English-language news channel has added 7 million viewers to its potential audience in Europe, by launching its 24/7 broadcast on the largest cable networks in France and Belgium.
In France, RT began broadcasting through Numericable, the largest cable television provider in the country with a reach of over 3.6 million viewers. In Belgium, [...]

Many people in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largest city, had no access to state television today after a transmitter was damaged in fighting between forces loyal to incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and rival groups. RTI state television in the world’s top cocoa grower has backed Gbagbo in a three-month struggle for power with Alassane Ouattara after a [...]

North Korea will fire across a land border with South Korea if Seoul continues its anti-North psychological campaign, the North’s official media said today ahead of a joint military drill between the United States and South Korea. South Korea’s military has been dropping leaflets into North Korea about democracy protests in Egypt as part of [...]

The Flattery Show is the first English language radio chat show aired in the south west of France and a flagship Sunday evening programme broadcast on Radio Coteaux in the Gascony region. The show is presented by American Patricia McKinnes and Irishman John Slattery, who take over the airwaves at 5pm and finish at 7pm. [...]

When Muammar Gaddafi demanded to make a speech in the middle of the night, engineers at Benghazi’s state radio station were terrified. If a hastily arranged broadcast had problems it could cost them their lives.
Since anti-Gaddafi forces shook off the “Brother Leader’s” four-decade rule in the eastern third of the country, broadcasters in Libya’s second [...]

A complete list of AM and FM radio services in Christchurch with updates on their current status is now available. Many studios are located in the CBD, are damaged and no longer accessible and several locally based stations [such as Plains FM] are no longer broadcasting. Main transmitter sites are operational, but several local low [...]

Sarawakians are being urged to report Radio Free Sarawak (RFS) - which has been highly critical of the state government - to the police, home ministry or the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to enable an investigation to be carried out. Said State Information, Communication and Culture Deputy Minister Joseph Salang: “If in the [...]

India’s Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd is in the process of launching television channels in neighbouring countries such as Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives. The company has already launched a general entertainment TV channel - Big CBS Prime - in partnership with CBS Studios International in India and two new channels - Love [...]

Anyone who has seen the film The King’s Speech will know that the microphones used for broadcasting by the Royal Family in the 1930s didn’t look anything like those used by ordinary mortals. That’s because the BBC designed special “royal microphones”, in ornate art deco cabinets.
The BBC still has one, locked away in a cupboard [...]