Posts from ‘February, 2012’

Disabled people of Darfur need full access to information, particularly from radio. That was the objective behind the provision of 30 wind-up and solar-operated radios to the El Fasher Association for the Disabled today organized by Radio-TV El Fasher, the state broadcaster.
The wind-up radios were a gift by the Communications and Public Information Division of [...]

The municipal court of Budapest through a Tuesday ruling facilitated a broadcasting licence for Klubrádió, in a suit filed by the radio station against the Hungarian media authority NMHH. Klubrádió sued NMHH after it had won a bid for the 92.9 MHz frequency in Budapest, but the authority refused to conclude a broadcasting contract. In [...]

Radio Australia – the international broadcasting service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) - has launched new multilingual web and social media services.  Targeting audiences in Asia and the Pacific, the new digital services bring greater immediacy in coverage of breaking news, major stories, activities and events as they happen in and around Asia and [...]

New figures published today reveal the reach of BBC Persian TV has nearly doubled in Iran - rising by 94 per cent from 3.1 million in 2009 to 6.0 million - despite an intensifying campaign of censorship and intimidation by the Iranian authorities. Overall global weekly audience estimates for the BBC’s international news services in [...]

The BBC World Service - which marks its 80th birthday today - was broadcast only on shortwave back in 1932. Today, audiences on FM, digital radio and the internet are growing fast while shortwave is in decline, but for millions it remains a lifeline.

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France on Tuesday demanded that Internet giant Google postpone rolling out its new privacy policy two days before it comes into effect as it appears to break European Union data protection rules. “A preliminary analysis shows that these new rules do not respect the requirements of the European data protection directive,” said the National Commission [...]

Israeli soldiers raided two Palestinian television stations in the occupied West Bank today, seizing transmitters the military said were interfering with air traffic communications. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad visited one of the stations, Watan TV in Ramallah, and said the Israeli operation was “oppressive and monstrous” and violated “all international laws”.
The Israeli military said [...]

A petition calling on MEPs “to stand for a free and open Internet and reject the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)” was received by the European Parliament today. The petition had been signed by almost 2.5 million people from all over the world.
“Receiving a petition supported by more than 2 million people places [...]

A Dutch university will soon have the fastest internet connections in the world on its campus. From March, the University of Twente in the east of the Netherlands will raise its online speed to 1 Gbit per second, according to users’ association Studenten Net Twente (SNT).

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Fiji’s military government has agreed to allow Radio Australia to resume its FM services inside the country. In 2009, the Fiji Ministry of Information shut down Radio Australia’s two transmitters, one in Nadi, the other in Suva. Ministry officials and soldiers escorted local technicians to the transmitters and ordered them to be switched off.
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Sirius XM Radio’s next broadcasting satellite will remain on Earth several months longer than expected to address a technical concern on the spacecraft, according to a company spokesperson.  “The planned launch of [the] Sirius FM6 satellite has been delayed in order to confirm its readiness status,” Patrick Reilly, a Sirius XM spokesperson, said in a [...]

SES announced today that it has signed a new long-term multiple transponder contract with GlobeCast. The capacity on Astra’s future replacement fleet at the 28.2 degrees East neighbourhood will be used by GlobeCast to serve its wide range of television and radio clients seeking to address the UK and Ireland.
With its fleet of Astra satellites [...]

Chinese web giant Sina warned today that government requirements for microbloggers to register their real names before posting messages will hurt activity on its popular social networking site. Sina chief executive Charles Chao said more than 40 percent of new registered users for its Weibo site had failed verification screenings since the Beijing city government [...]

Modern Times Group (MTG), the international entertainment broadcasting group, today announced that it has increased the number of regional broadcasts for its terrestrial TV3 channel in Sweden from 6 to 19. The same programming content is broadcast across all of the regions but separate advertising has now been included in each regional broadcast. MTG has [...]

The official Facebook page of Mosaique FM, Tunisia’s most popular radio station, was hacked yesterday night by a group calling themselves “Fallega.” According to Eya Frioui, a reporter at Mosaique FM, the page, boasting nearly five hundred thousand fans, was hacked yesterday at 8:00 pm.
According to Ms Frioui, this is not the group’s first attempt [...]