Posts from ‘November, 2011’

Tbilisi-based Maestro TV’s broadcasting was suspended on this morning after a conflict between the owners of the station and founder of its managing firm Erosi Kitsmarishvili.
Mamuka Glonti, founder of Maestro TV and owner of its 15% shares, said that this morning Mr Kitsmarishvili, accompanied by about ten unknown persons “broke into the television station’s premises [...]

Community radio stations across Latin America are increasingly faced with problems of censorship and physical violence. Reporters Without Borders has issued an alert, drawing attention to the increasing attacks on these stations during October and November. The problem is especially alarming in three countries: Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.
The causes, and those responsible for the attacks, [...]

China’s first 3D television channel will air on a trial basis on 1 January 2012, and go into official operation during the upcoming Lunar New Year Festival in late January, according to government authorities.
“We have officially started preparations for the country’s first experimental 3D TV channel and have issued two technical guidelines on the production [...]

Guido Schotmans writes: Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal (RVi) will cease to exist after 31 December 2011. That also means that the Wolvertem transmitter (near Brussels) operating on 927 kHz will be switched off on 31 December at 23:59:59 hours local time. Norkring is the owner of the transmitter. It is unclear if they will put airtime [...]

India’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni has said that her Ministry has accorded high priority for the digitalisation of Doordarshan and All India Radio, AIR reported on its website. Mrs Soni added that adequate funds have been allocated to the umbrella organisation Prasar Bharati for that purpose.
The minister also said support is also being [...]

Pakistan said today it was looking at summoning the BBC to demand an explanation over a documentary about the Taliban that has left the BBC World News channel blocked nationwide. Cable operators pulled the channel late Tuesday amid anger over NATO air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The move raises concerns about censorship in [...]

Russian classical literature is now brought to Indian audiences across air waves in a revival of a Soviet-era project of building cultural bridges between the two nations. The Voice of Russia has begun producing and broadcasting radio dramas based on the works of famous Russian playwrights. It has already aired several plays by Anton Chekov, [...]

Radio VOP Executive Director John Masuku has said the company’s board is discussing what action to take after it was denied a licence to operate a commercial radio station by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ). Mr Masuku said Radio VOP’s board was yet to come up with a concrete resolution on the way forward [...]

The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has invited applications for 14 commercial radio licences, to be dotted around the country’s major urban centres.

Read the story from SW Radio Africa

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The All Pakistan Cable Operators Association declared today that they will shut down all foreign news channels airing “anti-Pakistan” content from tomorrow. The decision to shut the channels comes after a media uproar both locally and abroad following a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops near the Afghan border.
During a media conference in [...]

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is stuck in a “stranglehold” as Conservative MPs attack the broadcaster and threaten to end or decrease its funding, a broadcast watchdog says. Spurred on by recent controversy over the CBC’s compliance with Access to Information laws, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is launching a satirical, wrestling-themed campaign in support of [...]

A new broadcasting station has been set up in South Korea to air its original programmes exclusively for smartphone users, the channel, Sonbadak TV, said today. Sonbadak TV, named after the Korean word for “palm,” is the world’s first channel to pump out programming on a regular basis only for mobile TV viewers, it claimed.
The [...]

An indefinite strike began on Monday at Radio France International. Unions fear that the proposed merger with France 24 will destroy the editorial independence of RFI, which the management denies. This week, formalities for the merger are due to be completed. The unions say that they fear that RFI will be killed off in order [...]

The Group of Six (G6) International Broadcasters met in Kyoto on 21 to 23 November 2011, and issued the following Joint statement:
“All members of the Group of Six agree on our shared values of freedom of expression, democratic principles, the strengthening of human rights and free, open and independent media.
“To this end the G6 members [...]

In recent month, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has made a number of public speeches against broadcasters VOA Khmer and Radio Free Asia for critical coverage of his government. “Go ahead, broadcast my speeches,” he said at a ceremony to inaugurate a bridge in Kampot province earlier this month. He asked the crowd to point [...]