Posts from ‘September, 2011’

The Dutch Radiocommunications and Customs Agencies have pledged to cooperate in tackling the trade of illegal broadcasting equipment in Europe. The goal of this collaboration is to stop at the border the import of transmitters that do not comply with European regulations.
“Hazardous transmitters interfere with the regular use of frequencies, such as radio or TV [...]

The media freedom website BBG Watch reported that the Senate Committee on Appropriations has rejected the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) proposal to end VOA radio and TV broadcasts to China and criticized the BBG for the lack of transparency. The committee recommended $740,039,000 for US international broadcasting operations, for the operating and engineering costs [...]

The European Commission (EC) will ask France to review its stance on the “bonus channels” it plans to grant big broadcasters to offset the costs of a transfer from analogue to digital TV, according to an EC reasoned opinion obtained by Reuters. The country’s big broadcasters such as TF1, M6 and pay TV operator Canal+ [...]

SES has announced that the QuetzSat-1 satellite will be launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on board an ILS Proton Breeze M rocket at 00:32 am local time on September 30th, 2011 (September 29th, 2011 at 20:32 pm CEST, 14:32 pm EDT).
The QuetzSat-1 spacecraft, manufactured by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), is an all Ku-band (32 [...]

Wired Magazine carries a long article about the msterious Russian radio station UVB-76 nicknamed “The Buzzer” on 4625 kHz, which has been around for at least 30 years, but has recently been behaving very strangely.

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The work environment for journalists in the Republic of South Sudan will improve once the media bills are enacted, the Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Ustaz Mustafa Biong Majak has said. Addressing information officers yesterday at the ministry’s headquarters, Mr Majak acknowledged that the conditions under which the journalists currently practise [...]

Pictures from IBC 2011 showing DRM’s successful receiver showcase can now be seen on flickr.
(Source: DRM Consortium)
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RT, the Russian English-language news channel, has launched on mobile TV network Yamgo. The round the clock live news channel will be available globally on Smartphones, iPad and Tablets devices. The Yamgo TV network delivers live TV to mobile devices worldwide using a 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi connection. RT is the latest addition to a [...]

Sirius XM Radio has announced that it will launch “Live from the BBC Vault,” the new series featuring concert broadcasts from the extensive and wide-ranging BBC Radio archive.
“Live from the BBC Vault” will feature two different performances each week on various SiriusXM channels. SiriusXM listeners will hear classic performances recorded over the past 40 years [...]

The Cairo Criminal Court today sentenced former Minister of Information Anas al-Feqy to seven years in prison and former chief of the country’s National Radio and Television Broadcasting Union (ERTU) Usama al-Sheikh to five years in prison over corruption charges. The two were accused of waving the fees to Egyptian satellite channels for airing a [...]

Abidjan-based Television Ivoirienne Chaine Une in French, the state-owned, government-controlled television, at 1405 gmt on 27 September carries a commercial saying that its second channel, RTI 2, will resume broadcasting on 3 October.
(Source: Television Ivoirienne, Abidjan, in French 1400 gmt 27 Sep 11 via BBC Monitoring)
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The power of the FM transmitters at Lopik carrying Radio 1, Radio 2, 3FM, Radio 4, BNR and Q-Music is almost back to 100% on all frequencies. But there is still a lot of infighting behind the scenes as the various parties involved argue about who is responsible for the situation. Transmission provider Broadcast Partners [...]

CQ Communications, Inc. will launch multi-platform digital editions of all of its magazine titles before the end of 2011, Publisher Richard Ross, K2MGA, announced today. Those titles include CQ Amateur Radio (CQ magazine), CQ VHF, Popular Communications and WorldRadio Online. Many CQ book titles are already available in digital form on CD.
“The digital editions will [...]

Tai Freedom Radio provides a beacon for the people in Shan State in Burma. It is the radio broadcasting operation for the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), the political wing of the Shan State Army (or SSA). Tai Freedom Radio was established in 2002, and it has a team of more than 10 broadcasters, [...]

West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) based in the Senegalese capital Dakar has received the 2011 Knight-Batten Awards for innovations in journalism administered by J-Lab, a Centre of American University’s School of Communication at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Though four other top international media outlets also received prizes alongside WADR at the Washington ceremony, WADR is [...]