Excerpt from report in English by pro-Ethiopian government Walta Information Centre website on 11 February
Addis Ababa, 11 February: Ethiopian Television’s [ETV, State-owned] Arabsat broadcast that had failed for the past few weeks due to technical problem has resumed transmission.
ERTA’s [Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency] Deputy Director-General in charge of Media Technology, Haileab Abraha, said having [...]
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Ethiopian state TV resumes Arabsat transmission after interruption
Fired because of Facebook
People who post their opinion on Twitter or Facebook do not always expect serious consequences as a result. However, photographs, videos and messages posted on social media are increasingly grounds for dismissal, lawsuits or even prison sentences. Dutch lawyers report an increase in legal disputes following ill-advised use of social media.
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ABC releases video on ‘top hat’ mast of 3WV Dooen
When it comes to beaming radio waves across vast distances, the Dooen transmitter is world class. Standing 201 metres tall with a 19 metre wide capacitive ‘top hat’, the 3WV mast in western Victoria stands out in the vast flat landscape that stretches below it.
Celebrating 75 years of service, the occasion of World Radio Day [...]
Michael Lynton is BBG’s Interim Presiding Governor
Following the departure of Chairman Walter Isaacson, the US Broadcasting Board of Governors yesterday unanimously approved BBG member Michael Lynton as its new interim presiding governor. “It is a pleasure to work with this multi-talented, bipartisan board, and an honour to be elected to help lead the organization,” Mr Lynton said. “We are each committed [...]
Internally displaced Somalis given radio sets to access information on aid
Text of report by privately-owned Jowhar news portal
The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia’s [TFG] Posts and Telecommunication has begun the distribution of up to 6,000 radio sets meant for internally displaced people in Mogadishu. The distribution of the first 1,000 radio sets started in the Badbaado camp which is the biggest in Mogadishu and was [...]
Europeans protest controversial Internet pact
Tens of thousands of people marched in protests in more than a dozen European cities today against a controversial anti-online piracy pact that critics say could curtail Internet freedom. Some 41,000 people rallied in Germany, including 16,000 in Munich and 10,000 in Berlin, against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which [...]
Bangladesh journalist couple stabbed to death
Two prominent television journalists in Bangladesh were brutally stabbed to death today at their home in the capital Dhaka, police said. The motive for the slaying of the husband and wife, who worked for private television, was unknown, police said. They were killed early yoday at their apartment while their six-year-old [...]
Free access without app or web? It’s called radio
On World Radio Day, 13 February 2012, UNESCO will remind the world that there is a medium which reaches parts that other media can’t reach.
Radio is still a vital form of communication because a radio station can be set up much faster, and at much lower cost, than a terrestrial or satellite TV station. Radio [...]
BBC to issue global apology for ‘news fixing’ scandal
The BBC will today apologise to an estimated 74 million people around the world for a news fixing scandal, exposed by The Independent, in which it broadcast documentaries made by a London TV company that was earning millions of pounds from PR clients which it featured in its programming.
BBC World News viewers from Kuala Lumpur [...]
Anonymous briefly knocks CIA website offline
The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was briefly inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline. “CIA Tango down,” a member of Anonymous said on @YourAnonNews, a Twitter feed used by the group. “Tango down” is an expression used by the US Special Forces [...]
Internet firms aren’t broadcasters: Canadian court
Internet service providers are not broadcasters, and don’t need to adhere to strict rules designed to boost Canadian content on domestic television and radio, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday. The decision is a victory for telecommunications and Internet companies, including Bell Canada, Telus, Rogers Communications, Cogeco Cable and Bell Aliant, and a [...]
EBU’s first media director began work on 1 February
Annika Nyberg Frankenhaeuser, the first Media Director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), officially took up her position on 1 February. The new Media Department will be formed in the coming months and is a consolidation of the activities of the Television and Radio Departments, News Services, EBU Training and a new Media Lab. EBU [...]
Toronto demo demands return of RAI International
At the Consulate General of Italy in Toronto, Italian-Canadians have held a demonstration to protest the end of production of RAI Internazionale’s programming for markets abroad. The entrance hall was crowded with demonstrators displaying posters and requests to reactivate two programmes especially: Gran Sportello Italia and Italia chiama Italia – RAI Internazionale’s two most-watched programmes.
In [...]
Ukraine to use DRM to continue national MW b’casts
The National Radio Company of Ukraine (NRCU) plans to continue broadcasting on mediumwave with the help of DRM transmitters. Two channels of Ukrainian radio will go on broadcasting on mediumwave with new DRM digital radio transmitters; this was stated by the Chairman of the State committee for television and radio broadcasting [...]
EU - public policy has to remain neutral to technological solutions
The European Commission has said that the future of radio distribution will be multi-platform and public policy has to remain both neutral in terms of technological solutions and sufficiently flexible to adapt to future evolutions. This has emerged from the response of European Commission to the letter sent by The Community [...]
