Posts from ‘January, 2012’

Intelsat has also suspended broadcasting Kurdish Roj TV reportedly under pressure from the United States, Brussels-based Roj TV, which holds a Danish broadcasting licence, said on 31 January.
Citing a statement from Roj TV directors, the report said the station resumed broadcasting on Intelsat which it referred to as a Greek company - but that one [...]

European Union lawmakers are seeking to further ratchet down the fees mobile operators charge users when they travel abroad, according to a draft plan seen by Reuters, taking aim at a lucrative source of industry profit.
The EU Parliament is pushing for much steeper reductions in so-called roaming fees than those proposed last year by European [...]

The largest TV broadcasters in the UAE are showing up to 76 commercials in a single break, prompting viewers to switch stations, according to data from the Emirates Media Measurement Company (EMMC). “People leave during a long ad break,” said Chris O’Hearn, EMMC’s general manager.
The longest single ad break observed earlier this month was 24 [...]

Deutsche Welle (DW) will be launching its completely redesigned website on 6 February. The multilingual, multimedia online portal will be available at www.dw.de. “The new website encompasses everything that DW has to offer – articles, audio, video and interactive content,” said DW Director General Erik Bettermann. “DW.de is a source of reliable information from Germany [...]

Deutsche Welle (DW) will be expanding its Spanish television service for Latin America from two to 20 hours daily, starting on 5 February, 2012. At a press conference today in Berlin, DW Director General Erik Bettermann said the new lineup for viewers between Mexico and Tierra del Fuego is part of a comprehensive reform process [...]

BSkyB, Britain’s dominant pay-TV group, is to launch an online offering to enable it to better take on the likes of Lovefilm and Netflix, following some signs of slowing growth at its main satellite business. BSkyB said today it would launch the new service to tap in to the 13 million homes which do not [...]

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today officially launched Iran’s latest foreign-language news channel, a 24-hour satellite broadcaster aimed at Spanish speakers worldwide. “Viva España, viva America Latina,” he said in Spanish at the end of a televised speech to dignitaries attending the launch ceremony in Tehran.
The state-funded channel, HispanTV, has already been test-broadcasting since mid-November from its [...]

The European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, Stefan Füle, has met with the President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Mr Jean-Paul Philippot and Director General Ingrid Deltenre. They discussed the potential for cooperation between the EBU and the European Commission on capacity-building of the public media in both Enlargement and ENP [European [...]

Close to 20,000 programmes and songs dating from before statehood until recent years have been digitized by the Israel Broadcasting Authority and are now accessible at www.iba.org.il/zemerivri. Some of the items are extremely rare and have faded from public consciousness. But for some listeners they may be of great significance for any number of historic [...]

Walter Isaacson has resigned as Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The Washington Post reports that Mr Isaacson, whose authorized biography of Steve Jobs was a bestseller last year, said in his resignation letter that he is “taking on another big writing project, so I won’t be able to give the BBG the time [...]

The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has extended its deadline for applications for free to air local commercial radio broadcasting service licences from 31 January 2012 to the 29 February 2012.
The application fees for the potential broadcasters are US$9,500 and include an initial fee of US$2,500 and a fee of US$7,500 for the public enquiry. [...]

On 1 February 1 Belarus-TV celebrates its 7th birthday. Today its broadcasting geography includes 246 cities in 12 countries of the world, and the potential audience is about 200 million viewers.
Belarus-TV is developing together with new technologies. In the near future it will change its name and logotype and will appear under the brand Belarus [...]

Hundreds of mourners, including journalists and civil society today attended the funeral of Shabelle Media Network director Hassan Osman Abdi in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Mr Abdi was shot and killed by two armed men on Saturday afternoon. He was 30 years old, a father of two daughters and a son.
No group has so far [...]

The latest edition of the English DX Programme from Radio Bulgaria - the last one to be broadcast on shortwave - confirms that it used to broadcast clandestine stations: “We should mention that from the 1960s to the 1980s, Bulgarian shortwave transmitters were used to broadcast programmes of Radio Moscow and three stations of the [...]

Women and young girls in Tanzania are talking about critical health issues on a new VOA radio show called Crossroads: Healthy Decisions for the Youth. The 30-minute Swahili language programme examines crucial health-related decisions made by young girls, decisions that could impact their lives forever.
The premier edition of the new weekly show, which airs at [...]