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• This is a searchable archive of over 15,000 international media stories published from Oct 2003 - March 2012
• Kenya: CCK to take back unused frequencies
• Rwanda: Parliament radio goes on air
• Radiofax audio archive to mark 20 years since closure
• Swaziland to ban anti-Mswati tweets
• Web address controversy deepens after US warning
• New company building a search engine for television
• EU willing to support Portuguese on Euronews
• Kenya to ban analogue TV imports
• Christian TV Network bosses accused of massive fraud
• Apps could fence in free-range Internet: US study
• China bloggers skirt censors with noodles, Teletubbies
• Polish radio announces end of English on shortwave
• Mali: Soldiers shut down news media
• SES/Samsung to provide free TV broadcasts for Africa
• Sarkozy announces crackdown on Internet hate sites
• CNN granted Finnish terrestrial TV permit
• Children in Sierra Leone get a “radio in a box”
• Taiwan NCC approves satellite licence for Cite Media
• President calls Mauritius TV ‘a tool of government’
• Bangladesh to shut Facebook pages for blasphemy
• Sky reveals NOW TV brand for new internet TV service
• BBC World News added to ERT digital package
• Radio Seagull to use 1395 kHz in daytime from 1 April
• Competition boosts pay TV in ME and North Africa
• Azerbaijan to ban foreign language TV from 1 May
• TDM to broadcast Portuguese programmes on CRI
• Dutch company to set up ISP in South Sudan
• US military rapidly boosting cyber abilities - general
• VoR wins Turkey Journalism Association award
• CICC issues statement about Great Wall TV piracy
• Pirate radio station on the air in Swaziland - or not?
• Syrian activists targeted by fake YouTube
• BBC World Service launches its first live IPTV service
• Obama assails ‘electronic curtain’ in Iran
• English Premier League TV deal could be pan-European
• China provides financial aid to Liberian state media
• BBC Swahili to facilitate dialogue in Tanzania
• BBC Director-General to step down this year
• RFE/RL, Czech Republic announce Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellowship
• Janoubia TV launches Tunisian channel from Europe
• RT’s main YouTube channel down for several hours
• Number of Internet users in Uzbekistan exceeds 9m
• Arabsat and Eutelsat face orbital stand-off
• UK says Iran blocking website in censorship battle
• Ai Weiwei says censors removed his microblog
• Two British journalists held in Libya freed: ministry
• Zimbabwe broadcasting authority defers issuing of radio licences
• Zambia’s Radio Phoenix boss hails airwaves freedom
• Klubrádió wins battle to stay on air
• “Radios are useless when we have nothing to eat”
• France will launch terrestrial digital radio this year
• Iran successfully completes digital broadcast project
• Three landmark editions of Media Network online
• Out-going DG urges state to recapitalize ZNBC
• Zanzibar state media “still government mouthpiece”
• Britain launches social media channels for Iranians
• Georgia’s TV stations face propaganda claims
• A12 schedule of RNW now available on HFCC website
• Sorry for the interruption - configuring new computer
• VOA launches health, business shows in Burundi
• Voice of Nigeria hopes to upgrade Ikorodu SW station
• BBC invests in more international business coverage
• Remembering the Happy Station
• Pozner: Russia not yet ready for public broadcasting
• Cuts lead Greek Public Radio to partial MW switch-off
• MW transmitters of Thessaloniki switched off forever
• BBC suffers cyber-attack following Iran campaign
• Jamaican regulator warns islandwide licence holders
• Voice of Nigeria launches its new shortwave station
• Radio Pakistan listenership increases in FATA
• South Africa seeks to shore up indigenous languages
• Thompson move heralds change at BBC Worldwide
• Pirate station continues to jam BFBS in Cyprus
• RTÉ chooses Eutelsat KA-SAT for its FTA digital service
• Mexican billionaire to finance internet TV network
• Mauritania M.F.M. radio starts test transmission
• Hackers leaks data of Vatican Radio journalists
• Private Zambian radio stations to go national
• Radio St Helena to go off the air this year
• RSF names 12 countries as ‘Enemies of the Internet’
• Eutelsat and Es’hailSat announce joint satellite launch
• BBC Radio 4 pilots US version of News Quiz
• Indonesia eager to increase coverage of state TV, radio
• Ten private TV channels broadcasting to Yemen
• New frequency for VOA English to South Asia
• BBCWS makes first broadcast from new home
• Press TV again reports jamming of IRIB satellite signals
• Zimbabweans to pay more for satellite TV
• Libyan Voice of Tripoli radio broadcasts round the clock
• Mozambique launches second public TV channel
• Petition to pull Limbaugh off AFN gathers steam
• BFBS Cyprus suffers interference from the north
• Suu Kyi says Myanmar officials censored speech
• BBG highlights threats to Journalists in Pakistan, Syria and Azerbaijan
• Sky cuts retransmission fees
• RTI Bouaké resumes broadcasting after ten years
• Workshop demonstrates practical application of DRM
• Vietnam plans multilingual international TV service
• Sharper scrutiny of News Corp Role in BSkyB
• Tonga grants licence for new radio station
• OSCE urges Tajiks to end shutdown of Facebook, sites
• German Internet community cries foul over Google news law
• Earth braces for biggest space storm in five years
• BBC Worldwide appoints MD of Consumer Digital
• UK’s TalkSport to axe all non-sports content
• UK regulator complains about Dutch TV porn
• African Television to launch via Astra 23.5° East
• BBC World News channel back on air in Pakistan
• Facebook goes down in several European countries
• CCTV fire case returns to court
• Japan to upgrade technical facilities of Radio Pakistan
• Family Radio founder: no more doomsday predictions
• Nigeria: OGTV ordered to stop internet streaming
• UK moves towards “three strikes” internet policy
• Sky “doesn’t give BBC kids channels EPG prominence”
• Conflicting reports on fate of popular Egyptian FM radio station
• Italy’s Mediaset re-launches international TV channel
• South Korean teenagers accused of cyber attack
• Syria: US media sanctions ‘violate’ press freedom
• Rwanda’s first private TV station to start broadcasting in July
• Student rejects Limbaugh apology as sponsors flee
• Burma’s opposition leader to give national address
• B’desh govt to monitor coverage of opposition rally
• KBC strike ends, sack order withdrawn
• US hits Syrian state media with sanctions
• Kenya: KBC advertises jobs over strike
• Three South Korean broadcasters to stage joint strike
• BBG ready to drop VOA Cantonese and Tibetan
• Georgia’s Maestro to re-start satellite broadcasting
• Tajikistan blocks access to Facebook, news sites
• Israel heritage TV channel goes to bid
• Anatolia agency to broadcast in three Balkan languages
• Lexus to be first car in Australia with digital radio
• Radio Pakistan “facing Rs2000 million deficit”: DG
• Huge budget increase for AIR/DD in border areas
• Striking KBC staff sacked - website
• Ambassador disputes case for revived RFE Hungarian
• Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren heading to Moscow
• Al Jazeera seals Eutelsat capacity contract
• Tokyo Sky Tree officially completed
• BBC to name wing of new BH after John Peel
• Melbourne radio station closes down suddenly
• Fears for BBCWS independence after funding switch
• Kinshasa broadcaster back after three-month closure
• Kenyan minister orders KBC staff to resume work
• Op-Ed: America’s radios dancing to Putin’s tune in Moscow
• Kenya: KBC employees strike to seek better pay
• UNAMID donates self-powered radios to Darfur’s disabled
• Court hands back broadcasting licence to Klubrádió
• Radio Australia launches new multilingual web and social media services.
• BBC Persian TV in Iran almost doubles audience reach
• BBC World Service at 80: A lifetime of shortwave
• France raps Google’s new privacy policy
• Israel raids Palestinian television stations
• European Parliament receives petition against ACTA
• Dutch campus to get world’s fastest internet
• Radio Australia to resume FM services in Fiji
• Next Sirius XM Radio satellite facing multi-month delay
• SES and GlobeCast sign capacity deal for UK market
• China’s Sina says microblog controls will hurt activity
• MTG to broadcast TV3 across 19 regions in Sweden
• Official Facebook page of Mosaique FM Radio hacked
• Ship’s anchor slows down East African web connection
• Myers Report on BBC Local Radio published
• Dutch-based KBC Radio to broadcast daily in April
• RIP Stanley Leinwoll
• Call for relaunch of RFE Hungarian
• UK regulator plans public consultation on 648 kHz
• ABC Australia MD could be the next BBC DG
• Strikes at two major broadcasters in South Korea
• Chinese netizens flood Obama’s Google+ page
• BBC News App launches internationally for Android tablets
• Syrian state TV broadcasts ‘enemies of Syria’ meeting
• New venture brings RTÉ and TG4 to NI homes
• CNN applies for terrestrial channel in Finland
• Iran’s Press TV says journalists held in Libya
• Al Jazeera wins top British award for news coverage
• New tax proposal to keep Radio Pakistan on air
• British landlady wins football decoder battle
• Netherlands signs cyber crime treaty
• Azerbaijani TV, AZAL websites “hacked by Iranians”
• Kyrgyzstan blocks access to independent news site
• Tunisia court throws out porn websites ban
• ABC hires British consultants to review newsgathering
• EU refers ACTA to European Court of Justice
• New Prasar Bharati CEO wants better presentation
• Shanghai dialect fights to survive in modern China
• Dutch watchdog: 600 sites taken offline in 2011
• NZ Foreign Minister justifies TVNZ snubbing Fiji TV
• Yahoo! seeks to avoid Indian lawsuit over content
• Turkey trains Libyan journalists
• Zimpapers Talk Radio due to launch on 31 March
• AEF media have doubled their audience in three years
• Changes to BBC satellite services on 24 Feb 2012
• OCSE welcomes of Russian public TV initiative
• EBU applauds ITU move to tackle satellite jamming
• Antenna repairs under way in Madagascar
• Press TV signals jammed in Europe, says the station
• Radio Pakistan available by phone to expats in US
• New pressure on jammers of international broadcasts
• Internet again disrupted in Iran ahead of election
• NZ refuses to allow TVNZ news on FBC TV
• Three suspended stations in DR Congo back on air
• Press TV claims US, Israeli cyber attack has failed
• Community radio stations in Chile divided over law
• Iran police clamp down on satellite TV users
• Drastic cuts at Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
• New commercial radio licences in South Africa
• IRIB launches satire show in response to Radio Farda
• SES relocates AMC-3 satellite to 67 degrees West
• Arabsat transmissions jammed from Ethiopia
• VOA Somali programme available in Canada
• Bangladesh bans ‘Banglish’ to protect local tongue
• BBCWS opens doors to celebrate 80th birthday
• Afghanistan reveals strict dress code for female presenters
• Free NK Radio undeterred by N Korean crackdown
• GMA News TV International now in Middle East
• RNW Madagascar off the air following tropical cyclone
• Bulgaria drops online piracy treaty after protest
• EU radio spectrum policy programme at ‘risk’
• South Koreans want increase of TV licence fee
• India: Two high power DRM transmitters almost ready
• International TV Network launches on FreeviewHD in UK
• Merger of RFI and France 24 has been completed
• India won’t censor social media: minister
• BBG publishes 2013 budget request
• Information Ministry reshuffles South Sudan TV, radio execs
• Nostalgia: Wolfman Jack on government radio in Iran!
• China limits overseas TV series imports
• QF Radio to launch new English frequency
• Loosen up copyright law, says Dutch government
• 720 Perth meets 720 Chicago for World Radio Day
• Zimbabwe: Govt intensifies efforts to expand transmission
• Iran chokes Internet at politically sensitive time
• Ethiopian state TV resumes Arabsat transmission after interruption
• Fired because of Facebook
• ABC releases video on ‘top hat’ mast of 3WV Dooen
• Michael Lynton is BBG’s Interim Presiding Governor
• Internally displaced Somalis given radio sets to access information on aid
• Europeans protest controversial Internet pact
• Bangladesh journalist couple stabbed to death
• Free access without app or web? It’s called radio
• BBC to issue global apology for ‘news fixing’ scandal
• Anonymous briefly knocks CIA website offline
• Internet firms aren’t broadcasters: Canadian court
• EBU’s first media director began work on 1 February
• Toronto demo demands return of RAI International
• Ukraine to use DRM to continue national MW b’casts
• EU - public policy has to remain neutral to technological solutions
• Files on Australia Network kept secret
• Malawi government trashes Press Freedom index report
• Lebanon cable providers drop Al Jazeera in fees dispute
• CCTV America starts programming from Washington
• Radio Pakistan inaugurates 100 kW MW tr at Turbat
• Taiwan NCC plans new terrestrial TV licences
• Most TV sets in Azerbaijan not ready for digital
• NHK World Radio Japan to live stream its programmes
• NHK World announces new application for Android
• SES-4 satellite launch re-scheduled for 14-15 Feb
• Hungary’s Media Council extends Klubrádió temporary licence by 60 days
• New Kurdish TV station starts broadcasting
• New report highlights Malawi press freedom challenges
• Another Kenyan pay-TV operator goes bust
• Special marathon RNW Dutch broadcast on 11 May
• CRTC delays CBC licence renewal until after budget
• Iran to launch its own communications satellite(s)
• Deutsche Welle launches new website and logo
• TeleSur closely watched by US
• NHK to sell analogue transmitter facilities
• Australia: ABC funding package delayed till next year
• New FM station opens in Rwanda
• Syria says pro-government TV’s news service hacked
• ‘Ongoing revolution’ at Ondo State RadioVision Corp
• Photos of old Big L MW transmitter to be published
• Iran holding BBC reporters’ relatives hostage: HRW
• Social media saved Africa’s oldest community station
• China integrates two IPTV platforms
• Huffington Post to launch streaming network
• Hungary’s pubcasters “violate European principles”
• Balochistan Chief Minister orders resumption of TV news channels
• Polish Senate pays tribute to Radio Free Europe
• Al Jazeera honoured by Roosevelt Foundation
• EBU members offered free applications to ‘fast-track’ launch of hybrid TV
• France 24 launches connected TV application
• Taiwan to complete TV digitalization process in 2014
• New radio technology for remote Rwanda communities
• VOA looks to future on 70th anniversary
• Pakistan: Baloch nationalists close down broadcasts
• WikiLeaks may move servers to international waters
• New CNN International line-up launches this spring
• Pakistan to reinstate BBC World News on cable
• M7 Group hires extra Astra capacity for Belgian HD
• SES relocates satellite to meet growing demand
• Digital Radio 2012: a ‘visionary’ year
• Radio Azadi: ten years of impact in Afghanistan
• The Dutch are the world’s most active twitterers
• Greek media hit by financial crisis
• Brussels-based Kurdish Roj TV suspended on new satellite
• Europe sets sights on deeper mobile roaming cuts
• Ad breaks of up to 24 mins turn off UAE’s TV viewers
• Deutsche Welle: new website, new corporate design
• DW expands TV programme in Latin America
• BSkyB to launch online TV service to spur growth
• Iranian president officially launches Spanish channel
• EC/EBU back public media in transformation countries
• IBA gives public access to archival treasures
• Broadcasting Board of Governors chairman resigns
• BAZ extends deadline for broadcast licences
• Belarus-TV - 7 years in international broadcasting
• Funeral held for Shabelle Radio director
• Radio Bulgaria confirms former clandestine broadcasts
• New VOA health programme aims at women in Tanzania
• Twitter’s block move ‘collaborating with censors’: RSF
• Wattan TV to broadcast Doha Debates with subtitles
• German public broadcasters seek HD cable carriage
• Guatemalan Mayans take fight to the airwaves
• Fiji signals it may switch Radio Australia back on
• South African regulator refuses TV porn channel bid
• FBI seeking social media monitoring tool
• Twitter to restrict user content in some countries
• Japan govt plants fake TV dramas to fight web piracy
• Bhutan Broadcasting Service launches 2nd TV channel
• Hackers attack Irish govt sites over new web law
• EU takes on Internet giants over use of personal data
• BBC Executive response to Trust interim report on Delivering Quality First
• RSF publishes the 2011/2012 Press Freedom Index
• Irish broadcast archiving scheme approved
• BBC World News increases reach in France
• Indian Govt considers tax holiday for broadcasters
• Russia Today to host Julian Assange show
• Iran to open a new movie channel in English
• Vatican says website gets up to 10,000 hits a day
• Nepali TV station broadcasts by lantern light to protest power cuts
• WikiLeaks founder Assange to launch TV chat show
• India: AIR, DD set to expand reach in tribal areas
• Turkey considers withdrawing support for Euronews
• VOA steps up TV coverage in Burma
• RFI/France 24 merger should be completed this week
• News Corporation entering US Hispanic TV market
• Sun hurls strong geomagnetic storm toward Earth
• BBC Trust opposes local radio cuts
• 3.3 Million TNTSAT receivers sold at year-end 2011
• Turkish media group attracts foreign interest
• News station Radio Cesko “not a priority” of CRo
• Hungarians rally to demand Klubrádió stays on air
• Egyptian TV channel to broadcast parliament sessions
• FM Radio in the Arab World 2012
• Jeroen Soer, co-founder of Radio 10 Gold, R.I.P.
• IBB Director appointed to RIAS Berlin Commission
• Turkish radio station closed down in Greece
• Sri Lanka’s City-FM to become a trilingual service
• Radio Algeria launches new youth station
• Radio Free Asia launches TV news show in Burma
• Global radio experts float new mobile phone standard
• Press TV loses UK licence, claims UK jamming IRIB signals from Bahrain
• Irish TV licence revamp likely to be based on German model
• Megaupload founder up in NZ court after shutdown
• BBG calls for agency restructuring
• ITU Radiocommunication Assembly defers decision to eliminate the leap second
• Eutelsat says Kurdish Roj TV “suspended”
• BBC World News now on Xfinity TV in Washington DC
• Dutch TV firm Endemol “has deal with most creditors”
• New Irish broadcasting charge may replace TV licence
• Campaign to connect St Helena to cable broadband
• BBC World Service Trust becomes BBC Media Action
• Al-Shabaab takes over private Somalia broadcaster
• Hungary: Trial begins in Klubrádió case
• China to expand registration rules for microblog users
• Gunmen kill VOA reporter in Pakistan
• Korean cable TV retransmission fees dispute settled
• Radio Bulgaria official statement about end of SW
• First DTH TV platform in Georgia starts via Astra
• Iran’s Al-Alam removed from Atlantic Bird 2 due to “pressure by Sheikhdoms”
• Security men invade BBC, CNN Lagos offices
• More than half a billion Chinese use Internet
• Radio Free Sarawak launches new format
• US online piracy bill headed for major makeover
• Wikipedia to go dark to protest web piracy drafts
• Ecuador to start radio broadcasts in Amazonian languages
• Bomb threat shuts Cyprus radio & TV for three hours
• Georgian opposition politician plans own TV channel
• News Corporation acquires a stake in Moby Group
• Zimpapers to launch radio station within five months
• Liberian president gives press freedom assurances
• Radio France International hit by new strike
• Korean cable TV operators stop relaying KBS 2TV
• Norway’s TV 2 sold to Danish media group Egmont
• Speak softly and carry a USB stick
• Portuguese analogue TV switch off under way
• BBC considers archive fees for viewers
• CCTV Africa launched in Kenya
• Somaliland closes TV station, arrests journalists
• Jammu & Kashmir govt to review ban on cable news
• VOA expands TV broadcasts to Iran
• Uganda: BBC denies breach of contract with UBC
• BBG condemns signal interference as rights threat
• Radio Bulgaria to leave shortwave on 1 February
• Global shortwave conference extends its scope
• British student can be extradited to US over website
• New copyright laws to establish pan-European broadcast rights
• BBC World News to broadcast on Swedish TV channel
• Babcock gains new BBC World Service contract
• Media Network Newsletter 12 Jan 2012: date correction
• ITU receives Emmy Award for new audio broadcast standard
• ITU endorses DRM+
• French digital TV auction attracts 31 bids
• Thailand: MCOT plans international TV channel
• Press freedom under fire in DR Congo
• BSkyB axes Current TV from its pay-TV lineup
• Belarus Digest calls for more funding for exile media
• Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of jamming satellite broadcast
• RNW management & unions sign redundancy package
• S Africa: Icasa goes to court to stop porn TV launch
• Two more associate members join the EBU
• Roj TV to continue broadcasting, Danish court rules
• Single digital car radio solution unveiled at CES 2012
• VOA’s Deewa Radio goes on satellite TV to Pakistan
• VRT to start English TV offer for foreigners in Flanders
• Korea’s Arirang English FM comes to Sirius/XM
• Iran jamming Al-Jazeera: Arabsat
• Radio Tamazuj officially launches, opens website
• BRMB to be renamed Free Radio Birmingham
• RFI back on the air in DR Congo following suspension
• ABC opens new Brisbane headquarters
• Uganda: BBC/RFI silenced in police mast crackdown
• Norway: Political intrigue surrounds TV2 sale
• South Korea: MBC launches 4 channels on YouTube
• Chávez’s ‘Alo Presidente’ returns to Venezuelan TV
• SLBC to start a round the clock Muslim service
• Bahrain opposition group plans satellite TV station
• PEMRA raids illegal satellite and CD channels
• Iran: ‘National internet’ to replace direct Web access
• RJR - parent company of Radio Jamaica - cuts 31 jobs
• SiriusXM Radio reaches nearly 21.9m subscribers
• BBCWS ‘advert plan’ attacked by former director
• ZBC television monopoly to be maintained
• National Libyan TV begins test transmission
• China to launch 24-hour TV station in New York
• First HD radio station in Bangladesh launched 1 Jan
• VNews to broadcast news in French, Spanish
• RTL to exit Greek TV market
• Global Arabic Bouquet launched on Arabsat-5C
• US asks DR Congo to permit RFI broadcasts to resume
• BBCWS to run ads on some websites and radio services
• Radio VOP challenges BAZ over licence denial
• Canal+ to close French 3D channel at end of month
• Three new CCTV channels in UK on FreeviewHD
• Book review: The Worldwide Listening Guide 5th ed.
• Broadcaster sues over ‘Voice of America’ domain name
• Georgia: Maestro TV cut from satellite link
• Only one-in-three pay licence fee in Poland
• Venezuela telecoms agency closes 27 radio stations in 10 states in 2011
• BBC Radio 1’s official chart show to air on SiriusXM
• Gabon suspends opposition media outlets
• Abkhazia moves to liberalize media landscape
• Sri Lanka, China ink deal to build communications tower
• ELWA Liberia back in full operation by 2013
• Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese language TV networks launch in Guam
• China cuts entertainment TV by two-thirds: report
• New antenna mast at Hoogersmilde will be taller
• Taiwan to reduce Korean TV content on local TV channel
• Belarusian cable operator suspends Euronews
• Spammers propel India to junk-mail top spot
• Rupert Murdoch’s ‘wife’ an imposter on Twitter
• Chinese TV viewers complain about too many ads
• India’s Radio Mirchi to launch brand in UAE
• Cuba not ready for ‘Arab Spring’: dissident blogger
• Egypt denies broadcasting pro-Gaddafi TV on Nilesat
• IBA to suspend purchase of overseas productions
• China launches first 3D TV channel
• Trans World Radio Malawi tagline changes
• Second Mongolian-language TV channel launches
• CRI director-general delivers New Year speech
• Libyan militia chief warns Egypt over pro-Gaddafi TV
• Former offshore radio DJ receives a knighthood
• Radio Pakistan seeks 1.7 billion rupees
• Dutch giraffes to chill to the soothing sounds of pop
• Ian McFarland CDs now available online as MP3 files
• Special DX Test from Costa Rica
• Côte d’Ivoire: Radio, television authority warns against cession of frequencies
• Top 10 most dangerous places for reporters - RSF
• New Year’s Eve live stream direct from Reykjavik
• CCTV9 to be aired on a 24 hr basis in Guyana
• Tokyo’s new communication tower to open on 22 May
• Radio Pakistan hit by financial problems - newspaper
• New Year’s Eve Live
• VOA marks 70th year of US broadcasts to China
• US: Republican’s plan to commercialise PBS
• Radio Tamazuj begins test transmissions to Sudan
• EBU condemns call to abolish Bosnia-Herzegovina’s national broadcaster
• All German TV broadcasters to harmonize audio levels
• Samoa and Tokelau to cross international date line
• BBC Radio 4 reports on Iran’s Press TV
• DR Congo lifts text message ban
• Several German mediumwave stations about to close
• New Islamic Tunisian TV channel
• Syria “most likely” behind Al-Jazeera jamming - paper
• Italian journalist spotlights censorship on Facebook
• EU proposals erode internet freedoms
• Kazakhstan: new law on TV and radio broadcasting
• Bahrain to host Al Arab news channel
• Pur Radio 1 in German/Dutch on 6085 kHz
• Afghanistan broadcast training institute launched
• In skies over Iran, a battle for control of satellite TV
• Launch of SES-4 satellite from Russia postponed
• Bahrain to boost media standards through international accords
• The battle for free speech continues
• Israeli envoy: Media is anti-peace
• Al Jazeera to boost Qatari staff figures
• Kuwait to reopen Al Jazeera TV office
• Maldives military accused of ‘threatening’ media
• Thaicom shifts to function-oriented structure
• Egyptian authorities release blogger
• Dutch DJs raise 8.6 million euros for war mothers
• Pakistan information minister withdraws resignation
• Dutch commercial stations applaud higher pirate fines
• Taiwan TV station parodies N Korean anchorwoman
• RTÉ Player on iPhone and iPad arrives for Christmas
• VRT working on new offer for foreigners in Flanders
• RFI irregular on FM in Congo since Thursday
• A happy and peaceful Christmas to everyone
• Pacific broadcasters appeal to governments for help
• ‘Protest coverage deadly for journalists’ - CPJ/RSF
• Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in surround sound
• Anger in Hungary over radio station closure
• Angolan media watchdog slams state-run broadcasters
• Plug pulled on New Zealand’s Stratos Television
• Foreign TV broadcasting to be forbidden in Azerbaijan
• Japan chooses Ghana for media survey
• Mozambique seminar on community radio
• Dutch radio market shares Oct/Nov 2011
• Bhutanese media honoured by King
• No sense of direction in Egyptian media - consultant
• Radio Malaysia stations should be innovative - official
• Russia’s Medvedev says supports creation of public TV
• World Radio TV Handbook 2012 review now online
• Government-media ties run strong in Serbia
• Turkmen TV/radio satellite channels temporarily suspended
• Malaysian PM launches free satellite service
• SW Radio Africa reach 10 years of broadcasts
• Outcry over Dutch broadcaster’s cannibalism stunt
• ASTRA2Connect now offers 10Mbps
• BBC ‘failing to inform listeners of local radio cuts’
• YLE to get new look next March
• Nigeria launches new broadcast satellite
• Community Radio in Europe want to keep FM, prefer DRM+ not DAB+
• Kim Jong-il dead - full schedule of Voice of Korea
• Zimbabwe: Zimpapers to apply for TV licence
• Pacific Media Partnership Conference kicks off in Tonga
• New Romanian news channel to launch next year
• Bahrain inaugurates new TV channels
• Photos of ex-Hörby SW transmitter in Madagascar
• Israel: IBA licence fee to be cut by 5% in 2012
• Greek pop music blasts from Turkish Cypriot mosques
• Cantonese broadcasts restricted in Guangdong
• France 24 now available through Korean TV portal
• VVD wants deeper budget cuts in public broadcasting
• Poll: Finns support YLE tax
• Iran’s Spanish language TV channel to launch 21 Dec
• Korean researcher wants ‘frequency for human rights’
• Al-Arabiya TV reports “interference” to Nilesat transmissions
• New UK-based Algerian satellite TV channel launches
• RAI International to end production on 31 December
• Finnish political parties approve ‘YLE tax’ from 2013
• Burmese government may air some VOA programmes
• AsiaSat, Thaicom to operate jointly from 120° East
• New income-linked tax to fund Finnish public service broadcasting
• 2012 edition of Radio Stations in the UK
• Syrian-based satellite TV station Al-Rai closes down
• Italy TV frequency auction “would not draw interest”
• Zimbabwe: Debate in parliament exposes broadcasting authority
• China plans tighter film censorship
• Australia publishes media convergence review
• Ugandan minister resigns after broadcast equipment controversy
• Court closes case related to Radio Dabanga
• New media regulator proposed for New Zealand
• High Court orders MBC to pay reinstated staff
• VOA’s “South Sudan in Focus” now on Bentiu Radio
• Eric van Willegen leaving BigL at the end of 2011
• Radio bringing change in Rwanda
• GAO strongly critical of Radio/TV Martí management
• MBC announces plans for second Al Arabiya channel
• World Radio TV Handbook 2012
• FCC adopts rules to control loudness of commercials
• Interactive radio in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• BBC World News launches in major markets across US
• Hungarian media law failings highlighted in hunger strike
• Panama president launches “good news” broadcast
• Al-Jazeera English launches on Google TV and Chrome
• Minister: No plans for merger between SBC and ABC
• Zimbabwe journalists decry poor English on ZBC
• RFI strike against merger with France 24 continues
• NASA launches its own internet radio station
• New Egyptian information minister pledges free speech
• Havana losing grip on social networks
• Philippines: New radio station opens in Puerto Princesa
• Sweden to stop commercial interests in community radio
• Outgoing ABC chairman favours merger with SBS
• Website offers rare glimpse of North Korean TV
• DRC soldiers arrest Dutch journalist
• VOA’s Buenos Días America marks 50th anniversary
• Thailand: Draft of broadcasting master plan ready for board’s consideration
• Main opposition TV channel in DR Congo silenced
• Radio Seagull on 1395 was heard in Canada!
• EBU Director General backs new media law for Kosovo
• Conference to draw top Pacific broadcast executives
• DRM to be major sponsor of ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2012
• Minister orders to drop all charges related to Radio Dabanga trial
• Netherlands pedges six million euros for web freedom
• Kenya: KBC staff demand 500% pay rise
• Danish prosecutors say Roj TV should be banned
• Bangladesh to air transgender reality TV show
• Radiocommunications Agency gets tougher on pirates
• International broadcasters call for action over jamming
• South Africa’s TopTV to sue over porn channel
• Deutsche Welle launches ‘Destination Europe’
• New platforms for global BBC iPlayer trial
• Motion for Zimbabwe parliament to annul radio licences
• Creditors want to take over Dutch TV giant Endemol: report
• Fiji TV subsidiary awarded Solomon Islands’ TV licence
• New trilingual news channel to launch in Malaysia
• ABC unveils BBC-style merger of overseas TV/radio
• Malawi: No salaries for reinstated MBC staff
• TV and radio funding debate continues in Poland
• Rwanda: Radio Salus struggles to get back on air
• Radio 10 Gold starts playing the Top 4000 tomorrow
• Arab Spring ‘boosts BBC ratings’
• RFI begins broadcasting on cable & satellite in Israel
• Uganda: “Minister uses UBC mast for own radio”
• Azerbaijan, Iran to regulate broadcasting in border areas
• ABC awarded new contract to run Australia Network
• Sudan court orders release of detainees accused of collaborating with Radio Dabanga
• China web users criticise new state TV boss
• Websites downed in Russia poll ‘hack attack’
• China Radio International celebrates 70th anniversary
• Russian bloggers fume over pre-election cyber attacks
• WikiLeaks founder says governments ‘curbing’ freedoms
• Former Arrow Dutch FM licence to be re-advertised
• International Radio and Television of Equatorial Guinea goes live on the Web
• EBU drive will bring Hybrid TV into European homes in 2012
• Eutelsat to standardise names of its satellite fleet
• Recordings of David Monson (Brussels Calling) online
• Britain fines Iran’s Press TV
• Internal conflict forces Georgia’s Maestro TV off air
• Latin America: community radio stations under attack
• China’s first 3D television channel launches in January
• Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal will close on 31 Dec
• India: Digitalisation of DD and AIR is a ‘high priority’
• Pakistan may summon BBC as news channel blocked
• VOR brings Russian radio drama to Indian audiences
• Radio VOP charts way forward
• BAZ invites applicants for radio licences for urban centres
• Pakistan cable operators ban foreign news channels
• Pro-CBC group goes to the mat against potential cuts
• New Korean TV channel targets mobile viewers
• Anti-merger strike at Radio France International
• G6 International Broadcasters to work closely together
• Cambodian PM renews attacks on US broadcasters
• China to ban commercials during TV dramas
• West Java radio/TV stations told not to air porn songs
• New online radio relays North Korean propaganda programmes - South paper
• BAZ seeks applicants for television station licence
• Iran to launch eight digital TV channels
• Al-Jazeera building new spheres of influence
• Boss of Radio/TV Martí to appear on C-SPAN
• China state TV gets new boss: Xinhua
• Mauritania opens airwaves to private broadcast media
• UK broadcaster Asian Sound plans Arabic service
• Zimbabwe new radio licences a ‘farce’: Tsvangirai’s office
• Madagascar transmitter tests now completed
• HD+ continues on growth path in Germany
• Zanu-PF supporters awarded Zimbabwe radio licences
• Dutch radio market shares Sept/Oct 2011
• Flemish Ping FM ordered to stop relaying Radio 538
• ZBC to broadcast CCTV News programming
• M7 Group contracts new Astra capacity for Belgium
• Google terminating more products in house cleaning
• ARTICLE 19 highlights satellite jamming
• VOA Web traffic up after Burma eases censorship
• Barbados will not privatise CBC
• Dutch coalition partner opposes broadcasting merger
• Auditor General to investigate Australia Network bid
• Radio campaign to warn against explosives in Libya
• Pakistan shelves ‘obscene’ text message ban
• Kenyan firms in deal for joint broadcast signals
• Azerbaijan public TV’s website hacked
• Central Somalia administration silences radio station
• BBC chief hints at U-turn over local radio cuts
• World Electronic Media Forum makes ‘Accra Declaration’
• Samsung holds final talks on Google TV venture
• Maghreb’s new TV stations face commercial realities
• Montreal Haitian radio silenced by technical problems
• CRTC grants two new Montreal AM licences
• Iran launches first shopping TV channel
• Broadcasters team with ITU to connect Africa
• Azerbaijani language TV channel launched in Canada
• NZ public broadcast shutdown reduces Maori options
• Azerbaijan joins international forum on broadcasting regulation
• BSkyB launches journalism review at Sky News
• Colombia Farc rebel radio station ’shut down’ by army
• Voice of Russia starts broadcasting in Istanbul
• EAC ministers call for zero tariff on digital TV boxes
• Co-director comments on closure of Kol Hashalom
• Police shut down Jewish-Palestinian radio station
• Belarus-TV switches to 24-hour broadcasting
• Euronews to start broadcasting in Azerbaijani
• Illegal satellite dishes cheaper than legal in China
• Malawi: High Court dismisses MBC’s application
• Eutelsat statement on deliberate jamming of satellite signals
• RTÉ could charge licence-payers for online services
• Netherlands “fully committed” to digital radio
• MediaCorp launches pay-TV channel in Indonesia
• Voice of Russia listeners confederation in Pakistan
• Bolivia: Mayor’s supporters attack TV/radio stations
• Law Association of Zambia drops plans to sue ZNBC
• Finnish govt mulls direct public broadcaster funding
• DRM Mix for European listeners
• Seeds of dissent at Egyptian state broadcaster
• CBS Radio to start all-news station in DC area
• Bulawayo’s Radio Dialogue celebrates 10th birthday
• Court gives Liberia broadcasters second chance
• BBG broadcasts reach record audiences
• Madagascar tests may start already on Sat 19 Nov
• BBC World News faces sponsorship clampdown
• Ibrahim Sahin re-elected for second term as TRT head
• Iran, China radio to promote cooperation
• Burundi minister slams private radio station
• Malaysians biggest radio listeners in Asia-Pacific
• Cuba says US behind illegal wireless networks
• Social media platforms reshaping Saudi broadcasting
• Bid to cancel Kenyan broadcast licences halted
• Bahrain TV station struggles as signal blocked
• African Union of Broadcasting conference opens
• Rats damage one of the Bonaire transmitters
• First tests of ex-Hörby transmitter from Madagascar
• African music stars sing for new Vatican CD
• SES’ QuetzSat-1 satellite now operational
• Germany plans second national DAB network
• Tibet’s news media to be bilingual in five years
• Iran arrests BBC Persian service journalist: report
• Joint Sudanese, Egyptian, Ethiopian satellite TV begins trial broadcasts
• £90m grant boosts BBC World Service
• DW offers new TV magazine for Central Europe
• MBC merger meeting postponed to 18 November
• Vietnam under fire over Falun Gong jailing
• All India Radio’s DRM transmission time increases
• KBC Radio will use 7590 kHz for DRM test
• New English-language radio station opens in Vienna
• NATO radio network in Afghanistan
• Councils’ plea to save BBC Somerset’s MW service
• Zambia to sell 45% of ZNBC and other public media
• For and against an ABC-run Australia Network
• OSCE welcomes media legislation reform in Uzbekistan
• ELWA Liberia burns to the ground
• Confusion after US emergency alert test
• Vietnam Falungong jailed over China broadcasts
• Radio Farda host named AIB “International Radio Personality of the Year”
• Al Jazeera Balkans chooses Eutelsat’s W3C satellite
• SatLink adds Ku-band for sub-Saharan Africa
• Russia: new restrictions on foreign radio ownership
• China probes telecom giants for Internet monopoly
• DW and Doordarshan sign comprehensive agreement
• Give Australia Network to ABC: Greens
• Macedonian PM meets EBU Director General
• Al Jazeera Balkans to launch on Friday
• Andorran public broadcaster to quit EBU
• Opposition stations closed ahead of Liberia elections
• Globovisión requests telecoms agency to revoke fine
• DR Congo closes opposition TV station ahead of vote
• CCTV to open studio in Washington DC: report
• Egyptian minister suspends state TV director
• Sky angry at Australia Network tender termination
• US nationwide emergency alert test length reduced
• BBC Bush House equipment to be auctioned online
• BBC Caribbean archives donated to Univ of W Indies
• Major satellite squabble escalates
• Leaks torpedo Australia Network tender process
• KBC Radio to use 7550 kHz for DRM tests
• China’s tech firms back Beijing in controls on Internet
• Libya al-Hurrah TV says having technical problems
• Polish Radio presents new Hungarian uprising website
• Chinese TV soap opera launches in Tanzania
• RUV chief receives white powder through the post
• Google eyes pay television: report
• Venezuelan troops seize radio station equipment
• SW Radio Africa again jammed by Mugabe regime
• BBC to open vast radio archive online
• NUJ calls for vote of no confidence in BBC DG
• Press freedom to be debated at Angolan conference
• Free Radio Santa Cruz is back on the air
• Denmark’s Radio 100 launches classical music station
• BBC celebrates 75 years of television in the UK
• UK: Car manufacturers steer clear of digital radio
• BBG releases strategic plan framework
• Singapore broadcaster to drop DAB on 1 December
• New private satellite channel testing in Algeria
• Eutelsat and MBC Group sign new multiyear contract
• Three Darfuri journalists in jail for one year already
• UK accused of double standards at cyber conference
• Somalia’s Puntland region imposes ban on two UK-based TV stations
• German minority in Poland to get own radio station?
• Malawi to issue TV licences in phases
• BBC TV licence fee may extend to iPlayer
• CCTV to expand overseas operations
• Three CCTV channels launch in Myanmar
• Russian-language broadcasters discuss international co-operation
• Al Jazeera to launch sports news channel
• Belarus: Planning for Life after Lukashenka
• Sir Jimmy Savile, veteran British broadcaster, R.I.P.
• US Christian broadcaster still believes in shortwave
• EWTN launches new television network in Germany
• “We want a radio licence because we are Zimbabweans”
• Opposition TV station in DPR Congo evicted from HQ
• BBC Local Radio adds more than a quarter of a million listeners
• Broadcasting the Barricades: a story from the 1920s
• Unions to ballot members at the BBC on strike action
• Harold Camping retires as head of Family Radio
• NHK to cut monthly TV fee
• BBC and S4C agree future S4C governance
• New TV channel officially launched in Fiji next month
• China to donate radio stations to South Sudan
• Libyan radio has re-started its External Service
• China orders cutback on TV entertainment
• Occupy radio ship - reports untrue
• UN Commission sets global broadband targets
• Eutelsat’s Atlantic Bird™ 7 satellite goes live
• Richard Koziol, former WNYW engineer, R.I.P.
• B11 schedule of RNW now available on the HFCC site
• CNBC Arabia to launch online shows
• Australian govt ‘in a tangle’ over Australia Network
• Los Angeles Times calls Radio/TV Martí ‘anachronistic’
• New SES satellite Astra 1N operational
• Netflix to launch in UK and Ireland in 2012
• Radio 4 longwave ‘could be alive for another decade’
• “We will not be biased” says ZimPapers Talk Radio
• Fujairah Media Group to launch rock station
• Family Radio appeals for financial support
• Egypt TV host suspends show to protest media control
• EBU on the ground supporting Tunisian member
• German government launches channel on YouTube
• Just A Minute to be adapted for TV for 45th anniversary
• Somali workshop on humanitarian reporting
• EBU leadership voices unease over ERTU riot coverage
• Romanian Antena 3 signs affiliation agreement with CNN International
• Baseball is the reason for encryption of Radio/TV Martí
• Al Jazeera English launches in Chicago on 31 October
• Review of digital radio technologies for regional Australia
• BBC executive confused over payments to BSkyB
• RT Debuts on MiND TV Station in Philadelphia
• Venezuelan TV network fined $2.1 million
• Chinese TV channel to take shortcut to US market
• Music icon sets sights on Zimbabwe radio station
• KBC Radio to test in DRM mode
• UNESCO backs 13 February World Radio Day proposal
• National Geographic launches Farsi-language channel
• Channel Television to be sold to ITV plc
• New Greek satellite TV platform launched
• Absolute Radio 60s and 70s prepare for launch in UK
• Bahrain to launch international TV channel
• New State Committee to take charge of Turkmen TV
• Net radio station aims for BBC World Service audience
• Engineers help train Ecuadorian telecoms staff in DRM
• RTÉ Radio announces the RTÉ Radio Player
• CRTC hearing will determine fate of two AM channels
• Germany’s ARD opens bureau in Iran
• Liberian radio station torched
• Malawi opposition TV station given licence in Zambia
• BBC World News and BBC Arabic launch on Gulf Air
• Taliban FM radio on air in Afghanistan
• Dutch internet users keen on security software
• PBS boss Paula Kerger on launching a UK channel
• BBG announces new strategic plan
• BBC America reports best-ever audience ratings
• Tunisian TV chief in blasphemy row says home attacked
• BBC reporter given three years by Tajik court, granted amnesty
• Australian government to amend radio laws
• Japan to help rehabilitate Radio Pakistan transmitters
• Press TV claims it is about to be banned in the UK
• Radio Sawa launches FM broadcasts in Benghazi
• Frontier Silicon announces new DAB/DAB+ software
• ‘Arab spring’ fails to bring media freedoms: press group
• Reporters without Borders opens bureau in Tunis
• RTM, TV Al-Hijrah To collaborate
• FRCN Kaduna on reduced schedule due to disrupted power supply
• Millions of BlackBerry users cut off for third day
• Turner Broadcasting System renews SES contracts
• China orders ban on sex-related ads on radio and TV
• Two new New Caledonia television channels proposed
• BlackBerry users suffer fresh outage
• Tunisia TV station apologises for showing God in broadcast
• RSF evaluates level of press freedom in North Korea
• Chinese microblogging firm launches English service
• Iran: crackdown on satellite dishes tightens
• Sierra Leone gets fibre optic link to Internet
• BBG employee tips led to ‘most improved’ agency
• ESAT launches shortwave broadcast to Ethiopia
• Angola to get high-speed wireless broadband network
• New boss for German media group Bertelsmann
• Voice of Russia plans to produce material in London
• Australia: SBS and ABC to offer content on Xbox Live
• First DRM transmission for Southern Africa
• Tunisia Salafists attack private TV station: official
• Iran frees two ‘BBC collaborators’: report
• US public broadcaster to launch UK TV channel
• Guernsey’s chief minister says AM broadcasts are valued
• Telesat says services on Anik F2 back to normal
• France may open bids for 6 new TV channels - report
• Budget cuts force BBC to scale back foreign coverage
• Eutelsat W3C launched and on way to 16° East
• ZNBC boss sacked
• Azerbaijan to stop analogue TV broadcasts after 2013
• Telesat’s Anik F2 satellite experiences anomaly
• Syria-based TV to air Gaddafi speech later today
• Turkmenistan sentences RFE/RL reporter to 5 years
• Guyana president promises private radio licences before he leaves office
• RTL acquires more TV stations in Hungary
• Istanbul FM TV broadcasts on SES 31.5 degrees East
• Trial of Vietnamese who broadcast into China postponed
• Apple ‘genius’ Steve Jobs dies from cancer
• BBC confirms plan to cut 2,000 jobs
• CRTC says survey of impact of Internet and mobile broadcasting is ‘inconclusive’
• World’s youngest nation joins ITU
• PEMRA, radio channels join hands to help flood victims
• EBU appoints Annika Nyberg Frankenhaeuser as its first Media Director
• New BBC agreement will help staff facing redundancy
• India launches “world’s cheapest” tablet computer
• KBC Radio stops testing on 531 kHz on 7 October
• Algeria’s new media bill “not enough” says ANHRI
• VOA revamps programmes to Haiti
• Microsoft pulls plug on Zune
• US reworks ban on telecoms sales to Syria
• Qatar Foundation Radio unveils new live programming
• Eutelsat announces new satellite for 9° East
• EU court says fans can watch soccer via foreign boxes
• Cuba: Radio/TV Martí texting is ‘cyberwar’
• Yahoo! in online news partnership with ABC
• Singer allegedly banned from Cuban radio stations
• South Africa’s Radio Veritas gets mediumwave licence
• Leaked documents explain events at Al Jazeera
• Radio Free Sarawak resumes transmissions today
• Anti-BBC website set up in Iran - agency
• Radio stations go off-air in Lesotho elections
• Landlord offers Bush Radio breathing space
• N Korea says S Korea broadcasts could spark clash
• Dutch radio market shares July/August 2011
• Radio Seagull testing for six weeks on 1395 AM
• Dutch agencies cooperate to block illegal transmitter trade
• Senate Committee on Appropriations says VOA radio and TV to China must continue
• EU to ask France to reconsider bonus channels
• SES’ QuetzSat-1 satellite scheduled for launch
• Inside the Russian short wave radio enigma
• South Sudan Government says media bills will improve work environment for journalists
• Pictures of DRM receivers at IBC Amsterdam now on flickr
• Yamgo launches RT on mobile devices
• “Live from the BBC Vault” launches on SiriusXM
• Ex-ERTU chief & minister sentenced for corruption
• Côte d’Ivoire’s second state TV to resume broadcasts 3 October
• Lopik FM transmitter power almost back to 100%
• CQ Communications to launch digital editions of all magazines
• Tai Freedom Radio back on the air after mast repairs
• West Africa Democracy Radio wins innovation award
• Dutch-based KBC Radio to test on 6095 kHz
• ‘Resistance’ broadcaster Arrai now in Gaddafi’s graces
• China mulls reforms to tighten grip on media, web
• Zimbabwe: No broadcast licences despite call for applications
• NHK World in HD only for UK viewers from 1 October
• Twitter to set up international office in Dublin
• Syrian Journalists Union condemns EU sanctions against Addounia TV
• More summoned in Iran for BBC ties: minister
• BBC set to axe 150 jobs in Scotland - report
• 3 months community service for Israeli radio pirate
• BBC-BBG joint protest of threats to independent media in Iran
• Armed Forces Network Radio - Iraq closing today
• Al-Jazeera head resigns
• EU court: Germany cannot ban Roj TV broadcasts
• Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation may be scrapped
• Kyrgyzstan suspends carriage of Russian channels
• Caspionet starts broadcasting in North America
• Atlantic Bird™ 7 set for 24 September launch
• Dutch Radio 1 transmissions on 648 kHz end today
• Google+ opens up, takes fight to Facebook
• Thai broadcasters ask NBTC to help end radio exploitation
• Ukrainian journalists protest Kharkiv channel closures
• AK-47 first prize in Somali radio competition for kids
• Libya Resistance news agency created in Venezuela
• Raid on illegal cable TV network in Bahrain
• French TNTSAT: Three million receivers sold
• Verdict for former Egyptian information minister slated for 28 September
• Good turnout may mean more tours at VOA Museum
• Kuwait information ministry to utilize BBC news archives
• Many East Java broadcasters violate regulations
• Algeria to open up television broadcasting
• Denmark to trial digital radio with DVB-T2
• No evidence of criminal involvement in mast fire
• Ten Indonesian radio stations banned for jeopardizing flight safety
• BBC denies Iran media reports alleging detention of staffers
• Arabian Radio Network launches new Farsi station
• Jewish News TV network to launch on Wednesday
• Austria’s ORS expands capacity agreement with SES
• Kazakhstan to launch KazSat 3 in late 2013
• Iran to launch Russian TV channel
• Hong Kong Govt RTHK appointment pledge after row
• Iran arrests six working for BBC Farsi: report
• DRM receivers a huge draw at at IBC 2011
• Back online after some technical problems!
• Dutch Council of State rules out further investigation into public digital services
• Libya: NATO responds to CPJ, but questions remain unanswered
• Doordarshan to have 150 DTH channels by year-end
• Report reveals S Korea’s psyops against the North
• Competition intensifies for Montreal’s AM radio frequencies
• Review of RTÉ radio funding urged
• EBU provides support to Tunisian public broadcaster
• Canada orders broadcasters to turn down ad volume
• Big changes due in ads, revenues at Israel Radio
• DW presents new television services in Arabic
• South Sudan: “Go on air or lose your licence”
• Results of Eurovision TV Lab announced
• Lesotho alert: Suspicious silence on the air - MISA
• Larry Yount, former host of DXing Worldwide, R.I.P.
• Gore in 24-hour broadcast to convert climate skeptics
• Egyptian Minister: Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr shut down for disrespecting law
• Flemish regulator investigates Radio 538/Ping FM deal
• Al-Shabaab warns against listening to radio
• Canal+ Overseas signs agreement with SES at 338°E
• NHK eyes around 5% cut in TV viewing fee
• Bangladesh enacts new broadcast law - report
• S Korea to start broadcasts on unification with North
• Radio Day in Amsterdam: Saturday 12th November
• Yahoo! Maktoob and AIB partner for People’s Choice Award
• CRI audience ratings ‘dismal’ on Boston’s WILD-AM
• Indonesia: Kompas TV launched amid KPI warning
• Free Radio Santa Cruz looking for a new home
• PBC Rawalpindi staff unpaid for 11 months
• English teaching radio programme on SW from Angola
• Lopik FM transmitters now running at half power
• BBG 9/11 programming reaches millions worldwide
• India to accept satellite TV channels from Bangladesh
• Eutelsat says it can’t stop Gaddafi broadcasts
• Admin officer chosen as new RTHK boss
• Azerbaijan to spread TV broadcasting to Karabakh
• Vodacom and Deutsche Welle sign broadcasting pact
• Egypt freezes new satellite TV station licences
• VOA beaming special drought programmes to Horn of Africa
• Former RNW employee heads Libya TV channel
• Thai broadcasters disappointed at lack of representation
• BBC Persian TV now jammed on two satellites
• Kenyan govt won’t compensate set top box owners
• Hala Al-Misrati apologizes to Libyan rebels
• KBC radio to broadcast on shortwave from 30 Oct
• MultiChoice and Pace bring new digital TV options to Africa
• SES And Gazprom partner to provide additional Russian satellite capacity
• Myanmar free-to-air TV market set for shakeup
• WikiLeaks: Botswana invited US troops to guard VOA transmitters
• IBA plans all-news and actuality channel
• Malawi: MBC/TVM merger stopped by High Court
• British Forces Broadcasting Sce launches new website
• LM Radio available on mediumwave from Lesotho
• Malawi media suppressing local content - study
• New Senegal-based TV channel to launch
• South Korean group plans entertainment TV for North
• Israel Media Watch to file petition against station
• VOA Director speaks to NPR
• Australia: Poor reach and product quality make listeners tune out of digital
• Dutch radio market shares June/July 2011
• Kazakh state TV drops Russian-language broadcasts
• South Sudan relocates its capital from Juba to Ramciel
• Interview with head of Polish Radio External Service
• Protest disrupts Israel Philharmonic’s Proms show
• Public broadcasters to strategise at PBI 2011
• SBS to propose launch of Indigenous channel
• Misrata TV uses Gaddafi truck to broadcast
• New DTH platform FreeSat planned for Romania
• Canada: Teen radio pirate given 15 months probation
• Portuguese govt sheds light on media shake-up plans
• BBCWS launches lifeline broadcasts to Horn of Africa
• RTP: there is “every reason” to suspend shortwave
• Cambodian war crimes court accuses VOA of contempt
• WNYC (AM 820) at very low power due to floods
• WikiLeaks says hit with cyber attack
• ‘Vulgar’ Shaanxi radio station shut down
• Broadcasting from Al Arabiya resumed after ‘jamming’
• Google users in Iran targeted in certificate scam
• Digital radio seminar in Brazil
• NHK to launch streaming of domestic radio channels
• Radio 538 now available on FM in Limburg
• Arrow Jazz FM back on terrestrial FM
• Two CCTV channels to launch in Washington DC
• Seven Radio Dabanga journalists still in detention
• South Sudan to introduce new media bills
• Egyptian TV host: “Corruption and censorship worse than under Mubarak”
• Eurovision TV Lab - viewers choose the programmes
• New rules for social media in China
• BBC plans to use 3D and ’super hi-vision’ at Olympics
• Iranian web users rank highest for visits to porn sites
• President orders Sudanese journalists freed
• New Farsi language radio station to launch in Dubai
• US Based BDeshTV starts online BTV news broadcasts
• Kenya: KBC launches 24-hour vernacular station
• DIRECTV launches hurricane information channel
• Minister appoints mediator to settle radio mast conflict
• Cause of Hoogersmilde fire remains confidential
• Details of Radio New Zealand TV plan emerge
• Analogue radio stations in Malta off air on Saturday
• Syria plans new ‘counter-propaganda’ channels
• Radio broadcasts in three Chin dialects worldwide
• Kenyan govt to award third signal distribution licence
• So. Korean TV ‘can now be watched in remotest NK’
• Foreign journalists freed from Tripoli hotel
• Pakistan plans Radio and TV stations in FATA
• VOA HQ was briefly evacuated during earthquake
• Agency uses circumvention tools to advance democracy
• Radio 86 profiled in depth by Finnish newspaper
• FEBC Saipan shortwave station to close by year end
• BBC America launches on Cablevision this week
• Bush Radio urgently needs financial support
• Iran launches Spanish-language Hispan TV
• VOA Somali service on mobile phones in Britain
• Chinese military accidentally confirms cyberwar campaign against US targets
• Malawi Broadcasting Corporation staff threaten strike
• DRM at SET Congress, Brazil
• Libyan state TV goes off air, now under rebel control
• Libyan TV still on air, but state radio reported silent
• Libyan TV anchor issues on-air threat to rebels
• Australian Press Council has plans to expand powers
• Libyan rebels heading for state radio/TV - report
• Malaysia to host World Summit on Media for Children
• Broadcast Partners takes Novec to court over Lopik dispute
• Greek public broadcasting cuts to be announced today
• Beromünster East radio tower demolished
• Russia loses contact with $265 million satellite
• Rampisham transmitter site to close by Christmas
• Papuan community broadcaster spotlighted
• RTÉ criticised for proposed DTT broadcast fees
• FEBA Pakistan launches website
• New US channel will carry international programming
• Thailand: MCOT to air HD satellite TV
• Sky News scores major advantage in race to run Australia Network
• Bulgarian nationalists apply for own TV Channel
• China’s state broadcaster attacks Baidu
• Pulse partners with Al Jazeera to deliver news
• BBC Radio 1 on SiriusXM Internet Radio from 19 Aug
• Myanmar papers lift slogans attacking foreign media
• KBC Radio announces schedule of tests on 531 kHz
• Libya threatens death for unauthorised Thuraya use
• BBC to sell magazines including Radio Times
• BBC reporter goes on trial in Tajikistan
• Turkmen leader orders satellite dish purge
• FM transmissions from Lopik to slowly increase power
• Dutch authorities get tough with radio pirates
• Gambian authorities censor Taranga FM again
• NK installs CCTV, barbed wire near border with China
• RNW websites available again in Saudi Arabia
• BBC Trust approves radio station for 2012 Olympics
• Merlin Media launches 24h FM all-news station in NYC
• Sentech loses chief operating officer
• Communications Fiji to launch third station in PNG
• Ghana: Private TV station launches own news service
• Pro-Ouatarra radio & TV staff become part of RTI
• The trial of Roj TV begins on Monday in Copenhagen
• Bahrain satellite channel jammed, moves to Livestation
• Questions about Saudi blocking of RNW websites
• Australian opposition concerned over TV tender
• China launches communications satellite for Pakistan
• VOA profiles First Caucasus News TV channel
• BBC launches FM radio in Benghazi and Misrata
• Saudi Arabia blocks RNW websites
• New Flags Flying - a new online feature from RNZI
• SBC-led charity raises millions for Horn of Africa
• Riots are English, not UK wide - BBC News chief
• BBC relaunches Tamil website
• Turkey’s RTÜK may stop regulating radio broadcasts
• Yonhap News TV and Russia Today sign cooperation accord
• Radio NZ’s charity status outrages opposition
• MCOT to develop US$335m Thai broadcasting hub
• UAE grants satellite transmission services licence
• Al Jazeera to launch Swahili network in 2012
• Q-music angry about continuing reception problems
• Envoys want NATO answers about strike on Libyan TV
• BBC disowns bogus website
• MP calls for BlackBerry Messenger suspension to calm UK riots
• China says hit by 500,000 cyber attacks in 2010
• Sirius XM drops BBC Radio 1
• ‘West plans new state radio for Libya’ - report
• New Dutch ‘golden oldies’ TV channel
• Sony, Panasonic, Samsung in 3D glasses deal
• Solar flare disrupts RNW shortwave reception
• RTI resumes TV broadcasts in Ivory Coast
• Internews radio network most important information source in South Sudan - report
• Unlicensed broadcasting now illegal in New York state
• UNESCO head condemns NATO attack on Libyan TV
• Jordan Govt allocates US$29.5 million for JRTC
• Libyan official in Cairo to discuss broadcasting of pro-Gaddafi satellite channels
• RTÜK to collect millions in frequency usage fees
• BFBS Radio Belize turns off for the final time
• Technical adjustments to temporary signal on 648 kHz
• Dutch radio stations preparing damages claims
• ‘Up to 2m Canadians may lose TV signals on 1 Sept’
• Somali broadcast employee shot dead outside studio
• Libya: Canada joins NATO’s airborne psyop mission
• NZ 3D rugby screenings canned after poor ticket sales
• Radio Heritage expands to Europe
• Radio Australia trying to attract younger listeners
• KBS hires a visually-impaired news anchor
• Radio New Zealand plans TV service
• Successful DRM+ test in Delhi: report released
• Tallinn TV Gets Another €500,000
• Poland’s TVP1 turns on Dolby Digital Plus
• MBC to sue Finance Minister for withholding its budget
• Dutch Radio 1 to start using 648 kHz on 4 August
• Afghan TV broadcasting Iranian films in Ramadan
• Voice of Russia finally gets London DAB licence in UK
• Kenya: licence holders given 90 days to activate them
• Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack
• Bounce TV for African-Americans launching in Atlanta
• Ghana bid to regulate TV content opposed
• BBC Arabic journalists continue London strike
• Ivorian state TV to resume broadcasting 6 August - French radio
• Japanese broadcasters combine to promote Internet-connected TVs
• Mass redundancies leave press fearful of Hungary’s government
• Al-Shabaab bans viewing of Somali satellite stations
• Egypt military arrests BBC journalist
• China media urges officials to speak to Web users
• Palestinian police to launch own radio station
• RSF condemns NATO attack on Libyan state TV HQ
• Al Jazeera English launches in New York
• ABC Australia axes arts programming - report
• Radio Taiwan International launches new English website
• BBC asks NATO forces to probe Afghan reporter death
• National digital radio on-air in Germany
• BBC journalists strike over job losses
• Dutch Radio 1 to move temporarily to 648 kHz
• BBG official talks of “chaos and confusion” - report
• MBC Group re-launches online TV library
• Closure of Macedonia’s A1 TV station ‘blow to democracy’
• More Zanu (PF) jingles on ZBC
• Rwandan government to table media bills this week
• Radio Television Malaysia to broadcast inside trains
• German MP denounces media ban in Ethiopia
• Foreign service of Radio Afghanistan inaugurated
• Indian newspaper spotlights CRI Tamil Service
• UNAMID demands radio licence in Darfur
• Libyan TV still on air despite NATO bombing
• RNW Africa strengthens ties with partners
• Extreme language damages broadcasting in Ghana
• Modified list of temporary Dutch FM transmitters
• Eutelsat expands into new orbital position
• Georgian government sells management rights over Tbilisi TV tower
• Guinea censors put RFI in difficult position
• BSkyB says Murdoch remains chairman
• Berlusconi’s Mediaset ordered to repay state aid
• Chinese news agency to advertise in Times Square NY
• Six-day strike at BBC Arabic service starts Saturday
• Libya Al-Ahrar TV to broadcast in minority languages
• John de Mol reacquires Radio 538, Radio 10 Gold
• BBC Worldwide launches the BBC iPlayer App for iPad
• BBC staffing row over ‘one year to go’ coverage
• SES contracts new capacity with ITV
• Radio 5 on the air on 1251 kHz from Limburg
• Radio Marina to test from radio ship on 1485 kHz
• Dutch Internet connections fastest in Europe: survey
• RTL Group acquires remaining shares in RTL Hrvatska
• Macedonian TV station declared bankrupt
• Indonesia’s Web users abandoning radio, print: survey
• Lawyer: TV should pay to broadcast Mubarak trial
• Next BBC journalists’ strike on Monday 1 August
• Pakistan cancels licences of six TV channels
• Deutsche Welle TV may open LA HQ in Panama
• PCJ Media launches communications magazine on WRN
• BBC DG rules out closing local radio stations
• Murdoch-backed broadcaster eyes new Persian channel
• DW Director-General presents new focus for Latin America
• Cleanup around collapsed tower will take several weeks
• ZBC asked to respond to hate language allegations
• IRIN radio for Somalia relaunched as Radio ERGO
• Gates Foundation funds community radio in Africa
• Al-Shabaab imposes severe restrictions on Somali private radio station
• Barada TV: renegade broadcasting into Syria
• Zimbabwe continues to lag behind on digitalisation
• Saudi prince and Bloomberg propose Arabic business news channel
• Netherlands Competition Authority conditionally approves acquisition of SBS Netherlands by Sanoma and Talpa
• Daventry Arts Festival celebrates history of BBCWS
• Pacific Public broadcasters seek foreign aid
• Regulator deals blow to Foxtel’s bid for Austar
• Cambodian Prime Minister criticizes VOA, RFA
• Three FM stations in Malawi temporarily silenced
• Guyana: penalties & restrictions in new Broadcasting Bill
• Additional FM frequencies made available in the north
• Dutch radio market shares May/June 2011
• BBC cuts ‘could see return of the test card’ - report
• Greece to gain Macedonian language radio station
• Local non-commercial FM frequencies available in NZ
• “Controversial” Chinese firm loses radio licence in Rwanda
• Dutch-based KBC Radio to test on Burg 531 kHz
• DTT may be victim of Europe’s first radio spectrum policy
• Complete official list of temporary FM frequencies
• RNW team threatened in Sri Lanka
• Chinese firm gets contract to control Kenya distribution
• Radio Pakistan launches new website
• Samsung takes shot at iPad with new Galaxy Tab
• Internet TV offered to affected Digitenne customers
• HK tycoon wins approval for Taiwan news channel
• VOA Zimbabwe programmes on Intelsat 10
• Telex to help defeat web censors
• Belarusian state radio bans politically sensitive songs
• New issue of PD Magazine devoted to international broadcasting
• Burmese journalists warned on exile contacts
• Radio Drenthe now available free-to-air via satellite
• Pirates use silent Sky Radio frequency in SE Drenthe
• Dutch FM update: Lopik back on air at reduced power
• Philippines’ TV5 to launch international channels
• Former Egyptian information minister’s trial live on TV
• Radio Free Libya now audible on FM in Tripoli/Misrata
• Political fury at Dutch broadcasting “chaos”
• Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal to close
• Dutch FM update: Clean-up starts at Hoogersmilde
• DRM Consortium delegation visits Korea
• DW interviews founder of Open Radio for North Korea
• New Australian radio guide released
• Dutch FM update: Lopik eased back on the air
• Dutch FM update: Lopik back on air late Sunday
• Failed BSkyB takeover won’t hit Sky News Arabia launch
• Overheated cables thought to have caused Lopik fire
• BBG Chairman says VOA may launch Balochi service
• Dutch FM update: temporary transmitters activated
• Dutch radio/TV transmissions disrupted by two fires
• Prasar Bharati to auction prime-time TV slots
• Minister accuses ABC of inappropriate lobbying
• Congo DPR govt bans broadcaster favourable to rival
• Tajiks to release BBC reporter who still faces trial
• New high voltage equipment installed at Madagascar
• TVNZ charter abolished
• NUJ says BBC licence deal must be examined again
• France 24 expands its reach in Europe
• New DRM receivers on show at IBC 2011 - Amsterdam
• Australia may review media laws
• Chaos on the Egyptian airwaves
• BBC World Service statement: BBC Persian TV jammed
• News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB
• CPJ calls Egypt’s reinstatement of Information Ministry “a setback”
• HitchHikers Guide to DXing re-released
• VOA to provide Colombia’s El Tiempo TV with daily reports
• VOA reinstates Horn of Africa chief
• WikiLeaks sends complaint against Visa, MasterCard to EU
• New schedule for Radio Dabanga effective 18 July
• Digital radio service roll-out in Italy from October
• BBC World Service audience drops after cuts
• New media company to be formed in St Helena
• BBC publishes Annual Report and Accounts 2010/11
• News Corp withdraws offer to spin off Sky News
• Syria’s secret war against the cyber dissidents
• Egyptian court orders Libyan channels off Nilesat
• Europe’s Christian broadcasters call for better Internet safeguards
• Cyprus explosion disrupts power supply to BBC relay
• Isle of Man parliament to debate BBC coverage of IoM
• Al-Jazeera says its journalists threatened
• BBC journalists due to strike on Friday
• Murdoch scandal could hit Australia Network bid
• Amnesty International launches online TV channel
• ‘AM Mayhem’ film tells story of Power 1490 radio
• Radio Pakistan responds to violence in Karachi
• BBG condemns media attacks in Belarus
• 24/7 news channel part of plans to modernise AIR
• AIR news bulletins allowed on private FM stations
• VOA Horn of Africa chief suspended
• BSkyB shares slump as doubts grow over Murdoch deal
• New novel by former RNW presenter now available
• Gambian state broadcaster goes live on the Web
• Radio preacher Harold Camping sent to nursing home
• USAID cellphone program aims to enhance Afghan media
• Azerbaijan to stop analogue broadcasting in 2013
• France 24 now on Windows Phone 7
• Turkey detains former head of state media regulator
• NUJ members vote for strike action at the BBC
• Zimpapers applies for commercial radio licence
• Netflix to stream movies, TV shows to Latin America
• Google in talks to buy Hulu: report
• Telenor selects Arianespace to launch Thor 7
• Former WorldSpace India employees start new satellite service
• Baidu picks Microsoft for English search
• Astra chosen to deliver signals for Ukrainian DTT
• Al Arabiya looks back at 75 years of Baghdad Radio
• China Central Television seeks journalists in East Africa
• Radio VOP applies for operating licence in Zimbabwe
• Belarus thwarts opposition protests on national day
• Hackers falsely claim Obama dead on Fox Twitter feed
• Launch of Astra 1N satellite postponed until late July
• Russia concerned at US plans for “shadow” Internet
• Dubai TV group to launch two Farsi channels
• South Sudan TV may be cut off from satellite on Independence Day - source
• UN radio on air in Sudan’s Darfur region
• BBC Trust Chairman criticises “toxic” pay of senior execs
• 50 years since first Dan Ingram show on WABC-AM
• Australian government ‘blocked Sky’s bid to run Australia Network’ - report
• Cuban tweeters meet, squawk about Internet
• Philippines’ KBP backs Japanese TV standard
• ZNBC urged to stop ‘flouting the law’
• Angola to have public contest for radio & TV licences
• 15 applications for broadcast licences in Zimbabwe
• RSF: Big improvement for media freedom in Niger
• New book reveals inside story of London pirate’s success
• 10 years ago today BBCWS dropped SW to N America
• VOA opening 24-hour relay in Central African Republic
• RNW budgets cuts to go ahead
• Wachenbrunn 1323 kHz to continue in operation
• Dutch station Kink FM to close on 1 October
• Portuguese austerity plan includes RTP privatization
• Nigeria: ‘70% of citizens can’t afford digital broadcasts’
• Polskie Radio goes mobile for Android and iOS
• Tunisia to approve 12 new private stations
• Scottish Government wants more broadcasting powers
• Google targets Facebook with new social service
• swissinfo readies itself for the future
• UNAMID Radio and Sudan Radio sign broadcast agreement
• Radio Prague celebrates its 75th anniversary
• Fiji FM stations get 10 more days to change frequency
• Hip-hop, texting may help save world’s languages
• Parliamentary vote on RNW motions delayed two days
• MDR to close German MW site in Wachenbrunn
• Pope Benedict XVI to launch new Vatican portal site
• New VOA Africa Health Network announced
• EBU releases study on radio consumption and trends
• IRNA, Bernama stress end of West monopoly on media
• Swazi TV available on satellite from 1 August
• France 24 now on Time Warner Cable in New York
• RSF deplores Tunisia’s failure to issue new broadcast licences
• Israeli ministers delay vote on satellite TV station
• AFN to end terrestrial analogue TV in Japan
• Thousands sign petitions of support for RNW
• Decision on Australia Network delayed for six months
• RNW on low-power FM in The Hague on 27 June
• Dutch radio market shares April/May 2011
• Foreign Minister: RNW still has a future
• Global call – save Radio Netherlands Worldwide
• BBG and South Sudan reach historic agreement
• ZBC studios in a sorry state and out of date
• CASBAA: Satellites “up” across Asia
• Somali militias shut two radio stations
• Reports of RTL closing Marnach transmitter are premature
• Russia’s English-language TV launching documentary channel
• Special RNW Dutch broadcast on 1296 kHz
• AFN Europe back on 873 kHz
• DW Director-General: “We must forge a global alliance for human rights”
• BBC World Service to benefit from additional funding
• Oman to roll-out new, high-power MW transmitters
• Free to Air satellite TV in the Arab World 2011
• BBC1 slips behind ITV1 in international coverage
• BBG members to visit Ethiopia, So. Sudan & Nigeria
• EC concerned at Belgian audiovisual proposals
• The State We’re In wins three awards in New York
• DRM Consortium delegation visits Korea
• China launches new communication satellite
• TVi Europe to launch in Ukrainian and Polish
• Czech MPs plan to cut advertising on main public TV
• How young people in North Korea access South Korean content
• BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast already online
• Planned Maldives Islamic channel launch to be reviewed next year
• Taiwan telecom firm lets Falungong TV use satellite
• An Irish pirate radio station from 1964 recalled
• Azerbaijan creating national radio monitoring network
• New Azerbaijan TV station being built on frontline
• Internet body throws open domain names
• World Refugee Day - exiled media fight on
• Eritrean state TV satellite broadcasts said blocked in USA
• Dutch Public Media - what just happened?
• Kashmir Valley tunes in to optimism
• ZBC reportedly refuses to repay Iran loan
• Al Aan TV breaks communication barriers for Libyans
• Danmarks Radio replaces mediumwave with longwave
• Zimbabwe: Zanu PF MP backs Pirate’ radio stations
• “Very slow” live cruise show a hit on Norwegian TV
• Cabinet announces details of proposed cuts to RNW
• BBC News product launches on connected TV
• DRM+ successfully tested in New Delhi
• Sweden contemplates replacing TV licence with tax
• Thailand’s Red Shirts setting up new radio stations
• Mexico approves HD Radio™ for digital AM/FM
• BBCWS issues statement on Tajikistan reporter
• Bangladesh TV starts televising school classes
• Dutch Internet portal fights demand to pay copyright
• ESAT accuses China of complicity in jamming signals
• ‘Arab spring’ breaks state monopoly on information
• Intelsat to launch four new satellites for Asia-Pacific
• Scientists predict rare ‘hibernation’ of sunspots
• US cable TV giant adding Skype calls
• Tajikistan detains BBC reporter for ‘Islamist links’
• German news channel N24 to launch HD+ channel
• Bulgaria’s Focus Radio to broadcast in South Moldova
• NRK’s longest-ever live broadcast starts tomorrow
• Dutch build bridge between iPhone and Blackberry
• Six contributors to Djibouti opposition station in prison for past four months
• Amendments to Media Law may complicate foreign broadcasting in Russia
• Reality bankruptcy crisis hits Endemol
• China Radio International started in a cave!
• Tallinn Television granted nationwide licence
• Vigra 630 kHz in Norway to close down on 30 June
• Five petitions in support of RNW
• Radio Caroline to leave Sky channel 0199 on 30 June
• BBC Television Centre goes to market
• Decision on future of Australia Network this week?
• Family Radio president suffers stroke
• E.tv Botswana takes Sentech to court over pirated signal
• China vows to crack down on TV/radio sabotage
• Libya frees MBC cameraman after two months
• US finances ’shadow Internet’ to counter repressive regimes
• Nigerian state governor looks back on his clandestine radio days
• New BBC Trust chairman wants to avoid BBCWS cuts
• San Marino RTV to launch on Eutelsat on 13 June
• France 24 sues over on-air ambassador hoax
• Zambian MP says government abusing state-owned media
• Egypt Tahrir inspires new TV channels
• Pan-African radio boss hails Gabon for bringing station back on air
• International broadcasters on US domestic outlets
• Libyan social media help the revolution and NATO
• European Gospel Radio goes live daily
• RNW staff launch petition for support
• Iran’s Press TV says UK is “hell bent” on silencing it
• Foreign pay TV needs licensing in Vietnam
• TV, radio stations’ power losses worry Japan
• Doordarshan’s DTH expansion plans approved
• Netherlands guarantees net neutrality
• The wait goes on - future of RNW not yet decided
• Exit DW, Enter CRI - Victor Goonetilleke comments
• Taiwan mulls school cellphone ban amid cancer scare
• “Need for training new generation of Libyan journalists”
• Egypt’s military rulers to broadcast on their own TV channel soon
• RNW surprised by report on far-reaching cuts
• MEASAT Global buys new satellite
• Commando Solo noted back on 10404 kHz
• New manual for media on disaster risk reduction
• NJ governor blasts public broadcasting as Soviet-style
• China’s Sina to launch English microblogging site
• Radio Netherlands Worldwide changes focus
• Oman: New radio station Merge 104.8 goes on air
• Bahraini revolutionaries launch satellite TV station
• NATO warplanes hit Libya state broadcaster: ministry
• Bringing broadband to the world’s poorest communities
• Uganda: rather broadcast cartoons than cover protests
• ‘New’ BBG documents placed in public domain
• Azerbaijan’s Eurovision victory is “bad timing”
• Google to end support for older browsers
• Commando Solo heard on new shortwave frequency
• Government forces close radio station in Mogadishu
• China PLA officers call Internet key battleground
• Sri Lanka’s first ever multi-channel broadcasting tower
• France restricts mentions of Twitter and Facebook on the air
• Tiananmen Square’s radio “Tankman” remembered
• Veteran CNN and Turner Broadcasting executive named RFE/RL President
• VOA’s TV Ashna signs five-year agreement with RTA
• Taiwan group calls for restrictions on child cell phone use
• Implementation of the N Korean Human Rights Act
• AFN 873 AM transmitter temporarily off air in June
• China rejects blame for Gmail attack
• Seychelles Cabinet to further liberalise broadcasting
• RFE/RL marks 60th anniversary of Czechoslovak Service
• ITU forum highlights radio interference fears
• RNW intensifies cooperation with Deutsche Welle
• Paris international conference supports Tunisian and Egyptian broadcast media
• “VOA Amharic walking a tightrope”
• Rapid digital TV conversion in Middle East and Africa
• Did Antigua relay station increase cancer mortality?
• Poland wants EC to help fund BelSat
• RNW’s José Zepeda honoured in Latin America
• Commando Solo active again on 10404 kHz
• Qatar streams state radio, TV via new website
• First community radio station testing in Bangladesh
• Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat high throughput satellite goes live
• English teaching programmes launch in Sierra Leone
• First DAB+ AM/FM portable radio launched in Australia
• Yonhap News TV, state foundation sign MOU
• Deutsche Welle’s video content now on connected TVs
• Zimbabwe broadcasters ignore radio licences advert
• IBA’s Radio REKA marks 20th anniversary
• A new revolutionary sound for Nile FM
• Libya’s Tribute FM carries on in the face of attacks
• Dubai Media Inc to launch new radio station/magazine
• UWC appeals cancellation of RUI Ukrainian service
• Thaicom gets go-ahead to launch $160m satellite in 2013
• RTL links with Indian broadcaster to launch new channels
• Mortar attack on Misrata kills Radio Free Libya journalist
• Egypt’s Mubarak fined for communications cut
• New charges against former Egypt information minister
• BBG to work with Poland’s BelSat on programming
• Iran vows to unplug Internet
• Zimbabwe villagers refuse to pay ZBC licences
• RDP to suspend shortwave transmissions from 1 June
• Quebec plans to launch traffic radio stations on AM
• Radio Nord Revival announces shortwave frequencies
• SES Astra signs first Italian station at 19.2E
• Christine Ockrent quits post at AEF
• Malaysian Islamic TV channel to go on satellite
• Internet said “down all over Ethiopia”
• Dutch radio market shares March/April 2011
• P4 Radio Hele Norge to prolong national radio licence in Norway
• Zimbabwe to license two private radio stations !!
• Radio Nord Revival weekend 27-29 May
• “Use modern media to spread Islam’s message”: Saudi minister
• Taiwan telecom operator denies Falungong TV charges
• President wants Kazakh TV to broadcast abroad
• Product Review: WRTH Bargraph Frequency Guide
• Radio NZ International budget frozen for third year
• ‘Public’ broadcasts to be more than just a phrase at IBA
• ‘Russia’s Google’ goes public
• Radio Monique 963 ceases broadcasting
• VOV pledges to help Indonesia broadcast in Vietnamese
• Watchdog fines TV channels for pro-Berlusconi bias
• Bill envisages liberalization of Armenian TV broadcasting
• Libya Al-Hurra TV is on its way back
• Internet barons gather at ‘e-G8′
• SES Astra to increase speed of Astra2Connect
• VOA to launch new content distribution service
• India’s DDI may carry more channels
• DRM+ on air in New Delhi
• Foiled attempt to burn Philippine government station
• Serbian state broadcaster apologizes for 1990s “hate speech”
• Penthouse Media contracts additional 3D capacity on Astra
• IBA panel to search for new director-general
• Longtime shortwave evangelist Ed Bousman dies
• Audio/video of NATO’s warnings to Gaddafi forces
• Merge 104.8 scoops top Gulf Marketing Awards
• Nilesat refuses to carry Libya al-Ahrar TV
• Daughter believes Lord Haw-Haw was an MI5 double agent
• The Telegraph puts BBCWS Trust in the spotlight
• Sirius XM pact on subscriber overcharges wins approval
• New Egyptian TV station tackles injustice
• Kenya’s KBC launches Maasai station
• ‘Training could help fight satellite interference’
• ‘Broadcasters not keen on 3D’
• Afghan-Iranian-Tajik TV project still in limbo
• Bulawayo residents bemoan ZBC licences
• UK Foreign Office to review BBC World Service cuts
• Predictor of 21 May Judgment Day to monitor news
• Iran warns corporations about running ads on foreign TV channels
• National media authority shuts down Budapest FM broadcaster Radiocafé
• Radio Pakistan Peswhara launches Torwali programme
• Ex-RNW broadcaster meets sad end in Aden
• Dutch radio ship gets new 15 kW transmitter
• GrootNieuwsRadio using more modern transmitter
• Deutsche Welle announces major shortwave cuts
• Radio Caroline decides to get rid of its EPG slot
• Ukrainian weather forecaster creates a storm
• Mauritania moves to liberalise media
• Al-Jazeera journalist who went missing in Syria ‘free’
• US “made a mistake abandoning shortwave broadcasts” to Central Asia
• NATO reaches Gaddafi forces on Libyan army radios
• Radio Nord Revival soon on air on 603 kHz
• ICT services getting more affordable worldwide
• India’s GSAT-8 launch delayed by one day
• “Dagestanis will enjoy all the modern advances in the field of mass communications”
• Arab League asks Arabsat to block Libyan state TV channels
• The Guardian reports on Benghazi’s Tribute FM
• Azerbaijan dismisses Armenian satellite concerns
• Taliban on Twitter as Afghan rebels enter Internet age
• Australia’s ABC faces budget crisis
• Slovak media goes behind paywall
• Sabco to launch new English radio station in Oman
• Indian communications satellite to launch 20 May
• KFBS Saipan closed down on 30 April: official
• Facebook red-faced after PR attack on Google
• Libyan TV reports more “human shields” at TV, radio buildings
• Azerbaijan keen to cooperate with OCSE on media freedom
• TVNZ commercialised long ago, says minister
• European concerns about commercialization of community radio in Sweden
• New radio listening guides for Asia-Pacific available
• Ethiopia: State broadcaster goes live online
• Czechs and Slovaks celebrate RFE legacy
• Britain offers broadcasting support to Libyan rebels
• Maori Party criticises RNZ’s decision to stop Waatea News
• Fiji’s new spectrum plan allows additional TV network
• DRM+ trial in Scotland ends
• Iran to open a radio station in Azeri in northern province
• Turkish Government agency wants to install filtering software on every computer
• HCJB axes DX Partyline on its 50th anniversary
• Suspicious letter to RNW proves harmless
• Zimbabwe minister calls SWRA, VOP and Studio 7 “illegal”
• RNW receives suspect letter
• Sweden helps development of local radio in Vietnam
• Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion
• Eutelsat signs MOU with Russia’s RSCC
• Information on Misrata available on local website
• New radio station in English launches from Benghazi
• UK abandons ‘aspirational’ target date for digital radio switchover - report
• Arab TV station set for launch in Israel
• WRN North America changes channels on SiriusXM
• Zimbabwe not ready to issue broadcasting licences - MP
• ‘First-ever’ social radio stations to launch in US
• Pakistan bans live broadcasts by foreign channels from Abbottabad
• Welsh Internet station gets mediumwave outlet
• Pakistan FM radio stations start programme for peace
• Libya rebels take legal action to silence state TV
• Indian broadcasters to regulate non-news channels
• Radio New Zealand promised more funding
• Foreign programmes of Belarusian Radio popular
• Ukraine announces new radio and TV tenders
• Thailand’s MCOT signs agreement with KBS
• US sanctions Libya state broadcaster
• China TV stations told no spies or romance: report
• Dutch public broadcasters merge to survive cuts
• NUJ ballots on industrial action against BBC compulsory redundancies
• Radiotelevizija Slovenia renews Eutelsat contract
• Lease denial to Falun Gong TV channel not “politically motivated” - Taiwan firm
• Canadian satellite services ordered to carry local TV stations
• EBU renews agreement with Radio Television of Kosovo
• RDP plans “temporary suspension” of shortwave
• DRM+ showcase in India from 23-27 May
• Lord Patten ‘delighted’ to be chairman of BBC Trust
• Palestinian unity ushers in swift change in media freedoms
• Journalists: Ethiopia hijacked Press Freedom Day conference
• RNW sites inaccessible due to cyber attack
• New MW broadcast to Vietnam starts 15 May
• UK consumers should determine date of digital switchover: Consumers Association
• Afshin Ellian: no human rights without press freedom
• EC to host conference on media freedom in W Balkans & Turkey
• South Sudan journalists hope for media freedom
• Radio dial returns to normal in Christchurch, NZ
• Ownership of TV sets falls in US
• Middle East in decline as global press freedom hits low point
• UN human rights expert hails ‘power’ of Internet
• Captured on Twitter: US raid on Osama bin Laden
• Computer experts warn of bin Laden malware scams
• Dutch radio stations suffer problems on Eutelsat
• RFE’s Radio Azadi goes mobile
• 21 mini FM stations helping Japan quake survivors
• Iran’s Press TV claims signals jammed on satellite
• Decision on future of Australia Network due Monday
• Press freedom anger over Australia royal skit axe
• Nepal: Traffic FM likely to be on air within 6 months
• Myanmar (Burma) strives for satellite communication development
• Radio and TV coverage of Ceremony of Beatification
• Montenegran PM welcomes EBU assistance to RTCG
• Libya says NATO bombed near state TV building
• BBC Ukrainian service has made its final radio broadcast
• RNW moves Hörby SW transmitters to Madagascar
• EBU and partners supporting Tunisian broadcasters
• India expects over 800 more FM radio stations soon
• Historic TVNZ building in Christchurch demolished
• Africa No 1 silenced by Eutelsat over unpaid debts
• Liberia: commercial station Radio Monrovia re-opened
• 17th EBU Radio Assembly to tackle thornier issues facing Public Radio
• New FM radio station in Nalut, Western Libya
• State-owned Uruguayan TV channel hasn’t broadcast anything for 12 years!
• Fiji broadcast media to have new frequencies
• ESAT sends open letter to US State Department
• Iraqi Kurdish opposition satellite TV said jammed
• Thai police warn radio station protesters
• Russia’s Far East switches to digital TV
• RTL Nederland buys Slam! FM
• Radio Free Sarawak back on the air
• Global media coverage of royal wedding in London
• Digital+ launches 3D demo channel on Astra
• Thai opposition decries radio station raids
• SES to invest 34m euros in new control centre
• Sony chases Apple with launch of Android tablet
• BBC has no immediate plans for more Hindi on SW
• Behind front-lines, Libyan rebels escalate media war
• France 24 expands in Asia
• Smart TV to unveil service in Southern Africa
• Free radio station plan for Sabah; Radio Free Sarawak currently off the air
• WikiLeaks: BBC ‘could be part of an Al Qaeda propaganda network’
• “Dot nl” celebrates its 25th anniversary today
• Misrata broadcasters explain how rebels use media
• Libya blames “crusader” bombing for cut in TV signals
• Shortwave numbers stations inspire new musical work
• Thaicom 5 glitch makes case for back-up satellite
• Armed men destroy radio station in north Colombia
• New York Times profiles Belsat TV
• Texas lawmakers considering tax on satellite TV
• New leader overhauls US broadcasts into Cuba
• Ariane rocket launches two telecoms satellites
• Uganda: US ambassador warns against silencing media
• Dutch radio market shares Feb/March 2011
• Many set-top boxes in Australia not HD-ready
• Philippine rock station goes off air, on to Facebook
• Thai TV blackout triggers coup fears
• National Latino Broadcasting to lease four SiriusXM channels
• Pope Benedict makes broadcasting history
• RNW Historical Audio Archive: 50 years of shortwave in Holland
• Experts advise Yonhap’s TV channel to distinguish itself from competition
• Al Arabiya plans English-language Web TV channel
• New Danish radio station will focus on international news
• Obscure Syrian TV station in spotlight over US ties
• BBC considers ’slimmed-down’ news channel
• KBC Radio planning mediumwave tests at night
• New owners to take over Dutch TV company
• British royal wedding to be streamed on YouTube
• EU warns telecom firms against anti-competitive practices
• Subsea cable to double South Africa Internet capacity
• Ivory Coast state broadcaster has new DG
• Voice of Free Libya now has a website in English
• Nile FM announces its “new era of radio”
• Force said deployed near Iraqi Kurdish opposition TV station amid tensions
• Dutch internet domains still increasing in popularity
• New VOA Russian iPhone app available
• Al Jazeera English launches new social media show
• China Radio International signs deal with TRT
• Preston FM leads English side of European radio project
• New Ivory Coast president plans big changes to RTI
• Rwanda: media law to be amended
• David Ensor to serve as Director of Voice of America
• RTM plans to extend Orang Asli service to 24h
• The story of a little-known pirate station in Zimbabwe
• ‘Free Libya’: the media name in rebel stronghold
• Britain and France want UN sanctions against Libyan state TV - report
• WikiLeaks: US secretly funded Syrian opposition TV
• Canada’s right-wing news channel launches 18 April
• Radio Free Sarawak website available again
• Media law passed by Icelandic parliament
• French radio station founder stages sit-in against shareholders
• DSWCI issues latest Domestic Broadcasting Survey
• South Sudan looks to improve state media before independence
• Radio Free Sarawak says it’s being jammed
• HFCC now offers station-by-station schedules
• South East European EBU members meet in Istanbul
• France 24 now available on Android
• Estonia culture minister backs costly ERR building
• “Britain’s imperial ambitions live on”: Voice of Russia
• BBC news becoming more global: director
• Life of former Radio Mi Amigo owner to be made into a movie
• RNW website temporarily out of action on Wednesday
• Quake info radio station ransacked in New Zealand
• Fujairah firm to set up TV, radio in South Sudan
• Commando Solo active again on shortwave
• BBC statement in response to Foreign Affairs Committee report
• Dutch cable TV viewer councils to be scrapped
• Malaysian news portal crippled by cyber attacks
• Casablanca meeting mulls media reforms
• SBC performance boosted in 2010
• BBC World Service cuts must be reversed, say MPs
• Pyongyang to launch “Voice of Korea” website 15 April
• Live stream of Voice of Free Libya 675 kHz
• Malaysian Govt negotiating with Astro on RTM satellite broadcasts to remote areas
• CRI launches radio station in Armenia
• “Kenya needs a broadcast content regulator” - veteran broadcaster
• RNW journalist wins prestigious prize
• Malaysian government to investigate impact of Radio Free Sarawak
• Radio Vlaanderen moves to new Hot Bird transponder
• Hindi radio station in Oman proposed for expats
• GlobeCast to launch HD distribution platform on Eurobird™ 9A satellite
• Ethiopia government denies jamming Deutsche Welle
• Zimbabwe: community radio initiative goes to court over ZBC monopoly
• Russian state finds new way to jam
• RRsat announces new Latin America digital platform
• Dutch regional station rebrands as Arrow Classic Rock North
• ‘Radio and TV Martí should be prime targets for budget cutters’: Council for Hemispheric Affairs
• Christian radio station still running in Ivory Coast
• Deutsche Welle Ethiopian service jammed again
• Radio México Internacional adds English news
• RNW opts for international focus
• NHK plays crucial role warning about earthquakes
• Radio New Zealand touts its news to private sector
• Angola: Government will continue to assist private media
• BBCWS Trust drops proposal for US funding: report
• Radio Free Sarawak causes SW radio shortage
• Korean media seeks ways to enhance emergency broadcasting
• Google to reorganize YouTube channels: report
• BBG Governors testify before House Committee
• Greek journalists begin four-day strike
• RTÉ to offer free TV news to Ireland’s newspaper websites: report
• Libyan state TV announces imminent launch of English-language version
• Bangladesh proceeds on plan to launch first satellite
• Australian indigenous TV channel given funding renewal
• Telenor Satellite moves operations from Bulgaria to Romania
• Quake-hit NZ TV station to resume broadcasts
• Algerian state radio strips top officials of duties
• KPN pulls the plug on mobile TV
• Dutchman takes charge of Doha Centre for Media Freedom
• Controversial Polish media bill signed and sealed
• ICC - Kenya: the role of the media in hate crimes
• Building “suitcase radio stations” in the Pacific
• Somalia: transitional federal government launches new TV channel
• Håkan Widenstedt of the Hörby SW station R.I.P.
• Fire razes AIT/Raypower studios in Jos, Nigeria
• New radio station launched in Azerbaijan
• Libya al-Ahrar TV launched in Doha to defend “Libyan revolution”
• Former Zimbabwe radio DJs launch own UK station
• Egypt’s PM replaces heads of state television and radio
• Pro-Gbagbo RTI broadcasts anti-French messages
• Sudanese protesters take message to airwaves
• RFE/RL’s Polish broadcast archives now available to stream
• RFE contributor committed to psychiatric facility by Turkmen authorities
• RFI English launches new schedule on Monday
• Video: Radio Netherlands Worldwide makes headlines
• Pro-Gbagbo Ivorian television resumes broadcasting
• Voice of the People frequency change at 0400 UTC
• Misrata radio station plans broadcasts in English/French
• New HDTV channels and increased programme supply in Finland
• Ouattara supporters seize RTI in Ivory Coast
• Sudan: youth group launches anti-government radio on shortwave
• VOA teams up with Maputo’s Top Rádio 104.2 FM
• Libya Al Hurra TV now available on Arabsat
• World’s first shower powered radio is launched
• New rules to give Hungarian music a boost on radio
• BBC and Siemens row over website failure
• Nuclear crisis ’stopped time’ in Japan
• Singapore’s MDA launches FM tender
• TV5Monde launches Southeast Asia feed
• SABC 24-hour news channel to miss launch deadline
• US giving BBC a grant for broadcasting to Burma - report
• EU regulators pressure states over TV laws
• HD Radio Alliance launches new website
• Libya Ahrar TV to launch Wednesday at 1630 UTC
• CRI launches global shopping channel
• Al-Jazeera aims to become Balkans news hub
• Zimbabwe Government says lack of infrastructure prevents broadcasting liberalisation
• New radio/TV station mooted for East African Community
• Swedish Radio chiefs publish interactive online book
• Radio Station Belarus doubles output in French
• Free Libyan satellite TV channel to launch from Qatar
• Al Qaeda militants seize control of Yemen radio station
• Radio Kiribati changes mediumwave frequency
• Russia launches new digital theatre TV channel
• Russia moves to permanent ‘daylight saving time’
• Zimbabwe legislators fume over broadcasting delays
• Ambassador says CRI gaining listeners in Pakistan
• Dutch radio market shares Jan/Feb 2011
• Special radio channel for Sri Lankan fishermen
• Zanu (PF) jamming on VOA Studio 7 - report
• Taiwan proposes limits on investment in radio, TV by government, parties
• Yemen says Al-Jazeera shut for ‘false’ footage
• The radio in Bulgaria in the last 10 years
• Tajikistan, Iran ready to launch joint Persian-language TV service
• Ethiopia steps up selective jamming of VOA
• BBC Russian marks end of traditional radio broadcasting
• Sri Lanka to open telecom tower in former rebel-held area
• RTÉ Radio launches its first Android Apps
• Ukrainian lawmaker says BBCWS cuts encourage authoritarianism
• Government of Canada renews investment in CBC/Radio-Canada
• US anger at BBCWS Trust funding bid
• Canção Nova TV expands globally
• BBC Russian radio hits the off switch after 65 years
• Comprehensive Dutch media guide in English available
• Malawi Broadcasting Corporation rebrands
• Cuba says prominent blogger part of US ‘cyber war’
• RFI English programmes to focus on news
• East China province cracks down on illegal TV stations
• Indonesian government to merge RRI and TVRI
• Sony to suspend operations at 5 plants due to parts shortage
• Former REM island ready to be moved to Amsterdam
• Government of Liberia to take over Star Radio?
• Croatian diaspora gets new Nova TV channel
• Singapore’s Rediffusion radio to launch free channel
• Test transmissions on 6170 kHz from Bonaire
• New broadcast satellite planned for Australia/NZ
• BBCWS “to sign funding deal with US state department”
• Google accuses China of blocking Gmail
• Commando Solo now in use on 6877 kHz to Libya
• Media employees protest in front of Egypt TV HQ
• Dutch commercial radio licences extended to 2017
• Poland: New bill proposes 60% Polish music on radio
• Sri Lanka police target illicit radio stations
• Dutch experts dismantle spam network
• Zimbabwe: ZBC rebranding and digitising
• Founder of Libya Alhurra killed by Gaddafi forces
• Philippines’ ABS-CBN launches news app
• Libyan state TV now streaming up to three networks
• Tokyo’s new TV tower survives quake
• BBC DJs raise £2.4m for charity with marathon show
• Former BBCWS chief says government should divert funds to prevent cuts
• Iran’s Arabic TV said “jammed from Saudi Arabia”
• Online study shows many US viewers still prejudiced against Al Jazeera
• Hungarian public broadcasts to be available on single satellite
• Welsh language campaigners disrupt BBC show
• YLE to cut over 150 jobs
• Radio Australia reinforces broadcasts to Japan
• Another strike disrupts Radio France International
• Radio Nikkei simulcasting local radio from Fukushima
• TVNZ launches new online “social TV” channel
• Ford plans DAB for all its British vehicles by 2012
• Libya Alhurra moving into new premises
• Thai webmaster jailed for 13 years
• Google buys Green Parrot Pictures to improve YouTube experience
• “First partisan satellite channel” to launch for Egypt
• Taiwan to set up emergency text message broadcasting system
• Military commando team raids offices at Czech TV
• RNW summer (A11) frequency schedule now online
• New MW transmitter for Angola’s Uige province
• Benghazi radio rap boosts morale
• British parliament debates BBC Hindi service
• Dutch TV reporters leave Japan
• Real Media format no longer available from BBCWS
• Iran cyber army ‘target enemy sites’
• BBC World News marks 20 years of broadcasting
• BBC U-turn over Asian Network closure
• Sky News Arabiya to launch 2Q 2012
• US State Department spokesman resigns over WikiLeaks comment
• Al Arabiya switches to new Nilesat frequencies
• Iran starts building first telecommunication satellite
• WikiLeaks: US concerned about influence of Telesur
• Voice of Russia to help people send messages to quake-hit Japan
• Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Libya
• Zimbabwe: Livestock traded for satellite dishes
• Ivory Coast radio station suspends programmes
• Muslim Brotherhood to launch satellite TV channel
• Yemeni website reports restrictions on access to Facebook, Internet
• Media playing central role in Arab uprisings
• BBC local radio threatened with drastic cuts
• Going green is good business, broadcasters told
• Oman protesters want information minister sacked
• South Korea may allocate mediumwave frequency for broadcasts to North
• Libya Alhurra announces satellite frequency
• SES Astra and Deutsche Telekom combined Satellite-DSL offer
• France gains own version of WikiLeaks
• EU Parliament wants further changes in Hungarian media laws
• BBC Arabic staff attacked in Libya
• MBC TV channels and Al Arabiya jammed
• BBCWS Arabic cuts not as ’severe as planned’
• US public radio chief resigns amid controversy
• Swazi government bans BBC live broadcast in Swaziland
• Asia in Focus at DRM General Assembly 2011
• Washington Times reviews new book on Axis Sally
• RFI unions demand freeze on merger, move, restructuring
• Free Libyan TV channel to launch imminently
• Mitsubishi wins contract to build 2 Turkish satellites
• Pope to answer viewers’ questions on Italian TV
• BBC to create online archives for axed foreign-language services
• BBC launches on FM in Ghana’s Western region
• China to spend US$8 million to increase international reach
• Jordan media protest state meddling, urge freedom
• March meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
• RNW to broadcast via stations in Libya
• CNN Freedom Project launches today
• Radio Nepal to reduce height of Khumaltar tower
• Vietnam hands over radio station to Laos
• BBCWS to retain Hindi evening broadcast
• 50th anniversary of Swedish offshore station Radio Nord
• Radio station project tackles Yemen social issues
• Russian programmes in Estonia have small audiences
• Al Jazeera to air Children’s Channel in English
• Power cut stops Radio France broadcasts
• Gunmen storm Iraqi radio station, halt broadcasts
• Multivision channel signal spread to major Cuban localities
• DhiTV takes Maldives Communication Authority to court
• International radio to be discussed in Serbia on Monday
• Internet disrupted again in Libya
• Kuwait radio stations ‘3 years behind handover date’
• Equatorial Guinea suspends RTVGE French service
• Tajik ruling party to launch radio station
• Radio Free Sarawak announcer says family threatened
• Voice of Russia responds to Hillary Clinton comments
• Iraq allows Al Jazeera to reopen bureau
• AsiaSat launches new DTH platform to Australasia
• KBC says it is “on its knees” over lack of funding
• Christchurch, New Zealand radio services status #3
• EU Commissioner: Praise for WorldDMB and Public Support for Digital Radio
• RFE’s websites blocked in Kazakhstan
• Hillary Clinton says US is “losing the information war”
• BBC and RFI reportedly off air in Ivory Coast
• Al Jazeera satellite frequencies
• Hungarian Supreme Court rules that errors were made in frequency awards
• Astra2Connect now available via existing phone lines
• VOA Launches Internet-based English learning program for Russian speakers
• CPJ: Journalists detained and broadcasts jammed in Libya
• Bali Radio, TV set to hold day of silence on Saturday
• No more commercials on Chongqing TV
• CVC dumps radio for social web
• RNW launches iPhone application in 9 languages
• Voice of Vietnam TV programmes live on the web
• Yahsat to launch its first satellite on 30 March
• Georgia’s Maestro TV resumes satellite broadcasts
• Japan’s new TV tower becomes world’s tallest
• Libya’s LJBC website in English updated again
• Libyan opposition TV channel to go on satellite
• Alhurra broadcasts on Nilesat jammed
• Muslims ask Radio Veritas Asia to modernise
• Libyan authorities accused of jamming RT in Arabic
• AIB condemns deliberate harmful interference to broadcasts in ME and North Africa
• Libyan pro-freedom radio station bombed by regime, reports suggest
• Côte d’Ivoire state TV’s signal restored in capital
• Tunisian journalists strike against censorship
• RT adds 7 million to European audience pool
• Ivorian state TV transmitter damaged in clashes
• N Korea threatens military action over S Korea campaign
• New English language radio show in France
• Eastern Libyan broadcasters revel in new freedom
• Radio broadcasting services in Christchurch status
• Minister claims Radio Free Sarawak is Malacca-based
• Indian TV network plans TV channels in neighbouring countries
• BBC demonstrates ‘a microphone fit for a king’
• Italian court upholds fines on Vatican Radio for excess electromagnetic emissions
• Radio Free Tobruk is on the air - but what’s the frequency?
• BFBS contract to be awarded by competitive tender
• From Our Own Correspondent says farewell to BBC Serbian language service
• Martí Noticias website now mobile-friendly
• Dutch radio market shares Dec 2010/Jan 2011
• Libyan TV reports interference on satellite channel, slams media “campaign”
• Watchdog objects to RTL, ProSieben’s online TV tie-up
• Egypt detains ex-information minister, TV boss
• Gaddafi’s son says state TV/radio is “real and neutral”
• Christian satellite channel suspects Libya behind channel block
• TV3 slams decision to let RTÉ launch five free-to-air TV channels
• Singapore: Tuning in radio stations using your shadow
• Hacking and signal interference of US international broadcasting
• Minister approves five RTÉ channels for DTT service
• Christchurch quake destroys TV building
• Former UK PM’s relative behind Radio Free Sarawak: newspaper report
• Lebanese regulator confirms Libya jamming satellite TV channels
• Frequency change for RNW Dutch to sAMn/Caribbean
• Al Jazeera again streaming live on RNW website
• Iran’s Cyber Army hacks VOA, US-backed websites
• Audio recordings of Libyan radio stations on YouTube
• Sound of Hope expands broadcasts to China
• Libya: 675/1125 kHz now in the hands of protestors
• Philippines: DZRK Tabuk back on the air
• Al Jazeera says Libya intelligence jamming broadcasts
• New shortwave service to be launched
• Libyan protesters storm television, radio stations
• North Korea suspends mobile phone rentals for foreign visitors
• UK government to propose changing to WEu time
• Zambian radio licence blocked due to ‘political ambitions’
• Survey reveals 24 per cent of Zimbabweans using internet
• Bulgaria’s Focus Radio to broadcast VOA English news
• Online video shows history of VOA broadcasting museum
• Iraq Kurd TV attacked after broadcasting protests
• UK abandons plans to switch off FM in 2015
• Dutch radio show celebrates 65th birthday today
• Kyrgyz Parliament radio to broadcast nationwide
• Turkmen president orders launch of new TV channel
• China Daily welcomes cuts in BBC and VOA Chinese
• Gambia: Taranga FM resumes broadcasting after 32 days off air
• ‘BBC World News America’ shifts to BBC World News
• Journalists targeted in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya
• Alhurra TV claims 25% viewership in Cairo & Alexandria during uprising
• VOA Chinese service employees ‘furious’ as end looms - report
• No airtime for Muslim broadcasters in the Netherlands
• Ireland: IBI disappointed by political lack of vision
• Singapore scraps domestic radio & TV licence
• Dutch commercial stations considering FunX takeover
• Nepal bans transmitting programmes without downlink licence
• India’s RCom signs agreement with RNW
• Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA
• BBCWS could return on SW to cover major events
• BBC veteran Tully slams end of Hindi radio service
• Putin scolds Russian customs over racy video
• Chávez speeches amount to 1300 hours in 1999-2010
• Cuba fights US ‘invasion’ on the Internet
• Egyptian media professionals call for disbandment of Information Ministry
• Countdown begins for Intelsat New Dawn launch
• Mongolia hopes to launch satellite by 2015 with Japan’s help
• Radio Seagull to broadcast “The Jingle Special”
• Deutsche Telekom and Sky Deutschland agree TV deal
• Overhaul planned for Australia Network
• Turkey approves broadcasting law on foreign ownership
• China’s microbloggers on new front of Internet battle
• Clinton renews call for Internet freedom
• Deutsche Welle satellite transmissions jammed
• DRM shortwave broadcasts starting soon in Malaysia
• RT expands reach and presence in major US cities
• Sierra Leone: CCNTV launches three new channels
• Azerbaijan endorses program to introduce digital TV
• ARD and ZDF secure HD capacity on Astra
• FY 2012 BBG budget request sent to Congress
• Egypt’s state media squirms in new era
• NHK shows live TV labelling
• Deal signed for Korean firm to replace Tongan radio mast
• More new regional TV channels planned in Azerbaijan
• US reaches out to Iranians in Farsi on Twitter
• Democratic Voice of Burma facing funding crunch
• Britain mulls ban on Peace TV
• Kyrgyz TV channels to occupy frequencies of foreign channels
• The UK’s OneGold finally launches - in Spain!
• Egyptian state media abruptly change editorial stance
• Internet firms to refund users cut off in Egypt
• US Internet censorship fight falling short: report
• China moves to reduce smoking scenes in films, TV dramas
• Russia’s Muslim TV channel starts test broadcasting
• BBC officially announces closure of 648 kHz
• Al Jazeera poised to buy Turkey’s Cine 5 TV station
• Equatorial Guinea prohibits Egypt revolt reports
• Philippines’ GMA Network to launch news channel
• Dish TV India uses AsiaSat for DTH offerings
• 80th anniversary of Vatican Radio - looking to the future
• Pakistan media body raids illegal cable networks, FM radio stations
• Banned UN radio station still on air in Ivory Coast
• ITU says Internet congestion set to worsen
• PNG state broadcaster moves into TV
• Iran ready to set up joint TV station with Tajikistan, Afghanistan
• BBC says Iran jamming its Egypt coverage
• Botswana leaning towards European DTV system
• Voice of Russia to launch on MW in Switzerland
• Egypt’s Channel 5 broadcast cut as army surrounds HQ
• Telenor plans to launch new satellite
• Ivory Coast cancels UN Radio’s broadcasting licence
• VOA launches “blog network”
• Cuba gets fibre-optic cable link to Venezuela
• Dutch regional broadcasters: radio alone is insufficient in emergencies
• Egypt’s NileSat to resume transmission of Al Jazeera
• Eritrean officials panicked by events in Egypt
• UK’s Absolute Radio “considering switching off MW”
• Maria Rørbye Rønn appointed DG at Danmarks Radio
• Free Speech TV to broadcast Al Jazeera English live
• Detained RFE reporters leave Egypt: “We were not treated well”
• Al Jazeera will stream on RNW website until 14 Feb
• Eurobird™ 2A: a new partnership with ictQatar
• Could Commando Solo be used over Egypt?
• AOL to buy Huffington Post for $315 million
• Iran bans foreign cooking shows on state TV
• Roj TV nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
• FARC radio station broadcasts over Ecuador border
• India’s TV signals to be fully digital by 2015
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence closes Northern Fleet TV
• Georgia to switch to digital TV by 2015
• Azerbaijan’s Culture TV will launch on 14 February
• Commentator wants Azerbaijani radio/TV to Iran
• Israeli Cabinet approves increase in number of free-to-air DTT channels
• Rwanda switches to digital TV ahead of deadline
• Al Arabiya launches video uploading service
• Radio consultant: FM will not switch off in Norway
• Iran denounces RNW Farsi website
• Zambian government will not privatise ZNBC
• WikiLeaks: “Iran leaders prefer BBC to VOA”
• Norway sets date for FM switch off
• Two RFE/RL reporters detained in Cairo
• Al Jazeera says Cairo office destroyed by “thugs”
• What’s it like to be a Western journalist in Cairo?
• EBU calls for an end to harassment of media in Egypt
• RNW launches new website in Farsi
• Voice of Russia to launch in London on digital radio
• News crews in Egypt report threats to their safety
• Azerbaijani Internet TV channel to be launched
• EU legal adviser sides with British pub licensee over football coverage
• Radio Prague continues on shortwave from Miami
• Al Jazeera urges Egypt’s Nilesat to resume service
• Microsoft denies Google’s claims of ‘cheating’
• CBC/Radio-Canada outlines strategy for the future
• Gunmen destroy Afghan radio station’s equipment in night-time attack
• Experts in talks on progress of digital broadcasting in Africa
• Lebanese TV station forced to censor Al Jazeera
• Internet restored in Egypt after revolt blackout
• Special shortwave transmissions to N Queensland due to Cyclone Yasi
• Google launches Twitter workaround for Egypt
• MHz Worldview broadcasts extended Al Jazeera English live coverage from Egypt
• Lights out for TV news in Nepal
• Free Belarussian media hope for more EU, US support
• Cotton Tree News radio project seeks new funding
• Hungary govt willing to narrow scope of media law
• Al-Jazeera uses Skype to cover unrest after Egypt tightens media restrictions
• Maldives: opposition to protest against MNBC
• New digital radio system for the Netherlands
• Hungary to respond to EU on media law today
• Award-winning Ebru TV launches broadcasts in Europe
• AIB condemns closure of Al Jazeera Cairo bureau; laments lack of media freedom
• Al Jazeera kicked out of Egypt, Nilesat signal cut
• BBC “wants taxpayers’ money from fund used to help starving in Africa”: Telegraph
• RNW increasing its broadcasts to Egypt
• Ukrainian TV channel to appeal decision blocking expansion
• CEO of Teledifusão de Macau steps down
• Al Jazeera demands Egyptian government stop broadcast interference
• Sudan Radio Service solicits feedback via text messaging
• Big L has closed down its Dutch mediumwave outlet
• RFI to expand editorial coverage of Rwanda
• Egypt cuts Internet, satellite TV and mobile phones
• Cuba warns against illegal satellite use
• Clayton Howard R.I.P.
• Dutch radio market shares Nov/Dec 2010
• Video of BBCWS staff briefing available on demand
• New station plans to take over 648 kHz from BBCWS
• NUJ reacts to “brutal attack on BBC World Service”
• BBCWS cuts language services and radio broadcasts
• New radio station opens for public service in Laos
• BBCWS to lose 650 jobs, five language services
• Georgia launches Russian-language Caucasus TV
• DVB cuts programmes due to funding shortfall
• RNW Bonaire relay station will close in October 2012
• UK gives Murdoch last chance to avoid BSkyB probe
• Media ‘can play big role in mitigating disasters’: UN official
• Radio Prague will broadcast Czech music on Sundays
• UNESCO funds survey of Broadcast Archives in the Southern African region
• BBC announces plans to restructure BBC Online
• Czech commercial news channel Z1 to stop broadcasts
• Hannibal TV resumes broadcasting in Tunisia after short interruption
• US government reduces support for Free North Korea Radio
• ProSieben says disposals begun, outcome uncertain
• Tunisia arrests TV channel owner for “treason”
• Tonga’s BroadCom expected back on air
• Enhanced QF Radio launching today in Qatar
• Venezuelan TV channel seeks return to air
• Sri Lanka to switch off analogue TV signals by 2018
• John de Mol interested in buying SBS TV stations
• Radio Martí hosts on air swap
• Tunisian RNW journalist follows revolution on-line
• Indian government approves 575 new FM channels
• Ivorian media could be indicted by ICC: Ban Ki-moon
• Deutsche Welle Greek broadcasts to continue
• Belarus Digest says transborder broadcasting should use terrestrial transmitters
• Google software for the masses lands in Iran
• China’s Baidu edges ahead in top online market
• Discovery HD Showcase and Animal Planet HD launch in Ukraine
• First Hmong satellite TV station launches on 4 Feb
• Radio Mashaal needs more young listeners - director
• Armenian TV owner escalates dispute with government
• Tighter focus, cuts, ordered at Deutsche Welle
• UK plans radical rethink of media regulation
• France 24 iPad app hits 150,000 downloads
• BBC DG warns over future of free-to-air broadcasting
• International campaign in support of independent North Korean media
• ManekiTV ruled a violation of Japanese copyright
• Russia to launch Muslim TV channel
• Saudi Arabia bans blogging without permit
• Zimbabwe state-controlled publisher proposes to move into broadcasting
• TVNZ prepares to launch new youth TV channel
• Gambian authorities close another radio station
• CRI Launches new media broadcasting network
• Radio Farda active on new 1314 kHz via Al Dhabbaya
• BBC Monitoring announces cuts in response to Spending Review
• Radio Prague’s shortwave site to be closed
• BBC Arabic Service journalists strike tomorrow over rosters
• Zimbabwean NGO threatens legal action over broadcasting licence
• Pro-Gbagbo security arrests two over “sabotage” at Ivorian state media
• Another new religious shortwave station for the US
• Tunisian TV channel resumes Adhan broadcasting
• Ex-minister calls S4C/BBC funding plans ‘unlawful’
• SES Astra expands in Central and Eastern Europe
• Turkish organisations say law needed to tackle hate speech on Internet
• French radio service launched today in Qatar
• ESAT launches global appeal for $1 million
• Radio Pakistan announces major digitization project, new transmitters
• CRI FM channel to help boost Pak-China ties: ambassador
• Gambia bans only independent radio station airing news
• T-Hrvatski Telekom books three Eutelsat transponders
• Cuba eliminates Spanish-CNN from cable TV
• ZNBC FM service in Kapiri Mposhi still off the air
• EBU appeals to Hungarian PM to ensure media pluralism
• EU triples its financial contribution to Euronews
• Russian-language satellite TV to resume operations in Georgia
• State to finance update of Moscow TV tower
• Lithuania remembers 1991 Soviet crackdown
• Ofcom says News Corp-BSkyB deal needs probe-BBC
• Fujian Radio & TV Centre officially opened on 1 Jan
• Uganda will issue no more analogue TV licences
• Taiwan’s NCC to look into radio station’s dual broadcast
• Belarusia’s Avtoradio closed down for ‘extremism’
• Radio México Internacional will add English/French
• New AIBD website launched
• Governments continue to dominate terrestrial TV channels in the Arab World
• ABC Queensland goes national during flood emergency
• Ex-BBC presenter wins age discrimination case
• RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin to depart
• Kirstine Stewart appointed Executive Vice-president, CBC English services
• Ghana to start issuing digital TV licences in March
• UN urges end to hate broadcasts in Ivory Coast / Ouattara’s station now streaming online
• BBG continues strategic review
• BlackBerry maker says will filter porn to meet Indonesian rules
• Nearly all young Dutch use a social network site
• WikiLeaks might move to Switzerland
• India to allow more foreign investment in FM radio
• TV3 objects to RTÉ digital terrestrial TV plans
• Korean Unification Ministry to launch Internet broadcasts in 2011
• RTVE stops broadcasting bullfighting on TV
• Carl Watts, Voice of Russia, R.I.P.
• BBG may increase hours of airborne TV to Cuba
• Turkey to allow 50% foreign ownership in broadcasting
• Thousands rally for Armenian TV station facing closure
• Autonomous republic in Azerbaijan switches to digital TV
• Chinese set up giant TV screen in Harare showing Zanu (PF) jingles
• Miami’s Radio Paz becomes EWTN affiliate
• WikiLeaks: Sri Lanka asked Norway for help to legalise Voice of Tigers
• Radio México Internacional resumes operation
• New Israeli system gives public early-warning of missile attacks
• Saudi Arabia announces new Web publishing law
• Albanian pay-TV platform extends Eutelsat contract
• Yahoo! adding interaction to Connected TV
• Bermuda TV channels off air for non-cable TV users
• China pours billions into satellite services for rural radio and TV
• Chinese TV channel turns back clock with ‘red’ programming
• France says EU action needed on Hungary media law
• French company makes ’smart’ car radio for Internet Age
• DRM+ trial in the UK in first quarter of 2011
• International religious broadcasters to hold funding symposium
• Latvian president protests state TV’s failure to play anthem after New Year’s speech
• 17 fired at Miami’s Radio Paz; local programming cut
• Winds fell radio station tower in Surigao del Sur
• Radio and Television Slovakia to be led by Miloslava Zemkova
• Firefox now more popular in EU than Internet Explorer
• ZBC fails to pay workers on time again - newspaper
• US rapper targeted in Hungary’s new media law
• Charlotte AM station ready in case of terrorist attack
• Voice of Vietnam sets out targets for 2020
• Radio Fana to offer new services from new HQ
• IRIB says Britain’s freezing of Press TV accounts is illegal
• China International Broadcasting Network to be launched
• “Noor” Islamic Radio launched in Cameroon
• All India Radio/Doordarshan urgently need more trained technical staff
• BBC Afrique to broadcast New Year’s Eve special
• BBC increases digital radio coverage of UK in 2010
• Skype could be designated illegal in China
• Voice of Russia chairman sees multimedia future
• Fewer journalists killed in 2010, more kidnapped
• North Korean TV airs British soccer film
• Turkish Government to charge up to 215 euros for importing TVs, radios
• New Korean satellite for HD and 3D broadcasting
• Happy New Year 2011
• Radio Slovakia International to continue on shortwave in 2011
• WINB expanding schedule from 1st January
• Radio and TV Martí broadcasting Globovision’s Alo Ciudadano
• Russia: Dagestani rebels reportedly launch new “official” website
• Lou Josephs’ guide to New Years Eve live
• Franco-German Arte TV to get more French funding
• Illegal satellite TV via broadband closed in Shanghai
• Arirang signs MOU with Korea Radio Promotion Agency
• Review of World Radio TV Handbook 2011 online
• DMI broadcasts Dubai’s New Year celebration live and offers world TV stations a free signal
• Indian Government plans amendment to Prasar Bharti Act
• Spirit Radio to launch on FM in Ireland on 27 January
• CNN+ to stop broadcasting in Spain tonight
• Tallinn’s famed TV tower makes comeback in tourism
• Uruguay adopts Japanese/Brazilian terrestrial digital broadcasting standard
• IRIB claims BBC Persian TV is losing Iranian audience
• Court rules against digital experiments by public broadcasters
• Parliament proposes reduced budget to MBC
• Pakistan to launch ‘indigenously-developed’ satellite
• Eutelsat’s KA-SAT satellite successfully launched
• Offices of two Warsaw-based TV, radio stations searched in Belarus
• New digital children’s TV channel launches in Russia
• Japan may enlist S Korean radio stations to contact abductees
• Citizen journalists in Belarus tell election story to VOA
• Georgia’s Maestro TV resumes broadcasts
• RSI will continue its daily programmes on WRN
• CCTV launches in Dubai and São Paolo
• Russian engineers plan to extend Internet to space
• Serious Request 2010 raises record amount for AIDS orphans
• EU presses Hungary on media law
• Jonathan Moyo may bounce back as Zimbabwe’s information minister
• Georgia’s Maestro TV suspends broadcasts
• Slovak president again refuses to sign law on merger of public TV and radio
• Ivory Coast state TV cut off in some areas
• Turkmenistan to launch new national TV channel
• Millions affected as Skype goes down
• Radio Mi Amigo Gold to broadcast 36-year-old tapes on 1 Jan
• Live streaming for Pope’s Christmas mass
• New version of RSF Chinese-language website online
• Reporters Without Borders hosts WikiLeaks mirror site
• Viewing breaks from 3D TV ‘necessary’
• Al Jazeera may be broadcast in Connecticut soon
• Hilversum’s Media Park given go-ahead to expand
• ‘World’s first’ glasses-free 3D TV hits stores in Japan
• BBC Broadcasting House redevelopment completed
• Digital TV broadcasting postponed in Hungary
• Prasar Bharati CEO suspended
• WilkiLeaks: Britain tried to limit operations of Press TV
• China state newspaper launches search engine
• BSkyB welcomes EU green light for NewsCorp takeover
• New EU website to help fight human trafficking
• I Love CBC petition aims to save the CBC
• WRTH 2011 received today - review to follow
• Dutch radio market shares Oct/Nov 2010
• Hungary passes law boosting govt control over media
• Venezuela passes media, Internet-muzzling law
• Swindlers operating in Polish TV market
• Armenian TV company to sue regulator over failed bid
• BBG seeking contractors for cell phone messaging services in closed societies
• Residents vow not to pay ZBC for services they can’t get
• Globovisión could be forced off the air by new law
• ILS Proton launch of KA-SAT satellite delayed
• New public HDTV channel to be launched in Russia
• Radio Prague will issue QSL cards for the internet!
• Telewizja Polsat renews Hot Bird™ contract
• RNW Classical apps available!
• Vanuatu public broadcaster warned by new government
• Fight for control of media in Ivory Coast
• e.tv Africa launches in Zimbabwe on DStv
• CRI Launches FM Service in Budapest
• US Senate approves bill to extend LPFM nationwide
• Dutch and Kenyan DJs raise funds by fasting
• BBC DG says British impartiality rules are outdated
• CRI signs agreement to launch Urdu service on FM in Pakistan
• Aung San Suu Kyi to appear weekly on VOA Burmese call-in
• Dutch TV Lab experiment goes Europe-wide
• Sri Lankan TV to go fully digital by 2017
• Anger as two independent TV stations fail to win Armenian digital licences
• Larry King ends CNN stint with nostalgia and family
• South Korean shortwave radio stations join hands to target North Korea
• Last-minute deal paves the way for DAB+ in Germany
• Talpa and TMG interested in buying SBS Nederland
• French culture minister tries to stem infighting at France 24 TV
• All-volunteer Amsterdam media impress China
• WikiLeaks: Iranian reformist says VOA Farsi TV too negative
• Radio New Zealand releases iPhone application
• CNC World to extend coverage from 1 Jan 2011
• No gag at PNG’s NBC says acting managing director
• SES Astra wins new business at 31.5 degrees East
• Private broadcasters to NK need S Korean support
• SES drives satellite connectivity in Africa
• Australian media chiefs back WikiLeaks
• New radio station launches in Saudi Arabia
• Closed Palestinian broadcasters say regulations unfair
• CCTV To Launch CCTV Air Channel
• Media watchdog critical of Tonga radio closure process
• WikiLeaks: Ethiopian intelligence chief calls VOA Amharic ‘biased’, but praises DW
• swissinfo.ch launches iPad application in 9 languages
• HD Sound available for all live BBC Radio 3 programmes online - but for UK only
• Sangsad TV goes into operation on 25 January
• Internal dissension over public broadcasting savings
• Slovenians reject new media law amid low turnout
• Ivory Coast: Gbagbo’s rival opens own radio station
• TRT plans to launch TV channel in English next year
• RTI hosts exhibition showcasing 100 years of sounds
• WikiLeaks supporters’ group abandons cyber attacks
• WikiLeaks dissidents to launch rival OpenLeaks project
• Belsat TV celebrates third anniversary
• Doordarshan, AIR employees call off three-day strike
• Belize government muzzles TV station
• NHK teams up with YouTube to offer content online
• RTM told to make bold changes to recapture people’s interest
• Venezuelan govt plans law to regulate the Internet
• Dutch teen arrested for pro-WikiLeaks cyber attacks
• Greenland closes SW and MW on 11 Feb 2011
• UK Parliamentary motion supports Radio Caroline on mediumwave
• Australian terrorism code for broadcasters to change
• Radio Prague to end shortwave transmissions
• RNW’s Robert Chesal wins Journalist of the Year award
• Foreign media websites apparently blocked in China
• Frontier Silicon moves to ensure DAB+ success in Germany
• News Corp channel rejects Iran shutdown report
• France 24 to launch in India
• Private Indian stations ‘may carry only AIR news’
• Dutch public broadcasters host WikiLeaks mirrors
• NHRCK says S Korea should provide frequencies for broadcasts to North
• BBC announces new DAB transmitter for London & SE
• WikiLeaks: Letterman more effective than Alhurra
• Venezuela government takes stake in anti-Chávez TV
• Entrepreneurs plan to revive Air America San Diego as “Liberty One Radio”
• Houston World TV network on air in 2011
• The Two Bobs discuss the end of mediumwave in Switzerland
• Frequency change for VOA French to Africa via MDC
• Experienced broadcaster joins RNW supervisory board
• Four NK exile broadcasters hold joint press conference
• Teledifusão de Macau development plan in the works
• Pacifica Radio to broadcast news from Al Jazeera English
• Danish court orders unfreezing of Roj TV accounts
• Al Jazeera to broadcast in India
• RFE President meets Kazakh PM, discusses media freedom
• EBU criticizes “dangerous initiative” to drop TV licence fee in Romania
• Kenyan broadcasters boycott KBC digital deal
• France Télévisions launches digital public broadcasting for Réunion Island and Mayotte
• Botswana storm disrupts private radio stations’ transmission
• Maldives 2011 budget does not include MNBC
• WikiLeaks: Qatar ‘uses Al-Jazeera as bargaining chip’
• WikiLeaks: UK briefing on Iranian jamming
• Tonga Media Council offers support after radio station shut down
• Three new Dutch mirror sites for WikiLeaks
• WikiLeaks: Bolivian president ‘manipulates media owners’
• Ivorian authorities jam UN radio
• Voice of Russia coming to Chennai
• China disrupts NHK report on Nobel Prize ceremony
• RNW budget to be moved to Foreign Ministry in 2013
• RSF condemns WikiLeaks ‘hounding’
• The Disco Palace moves from Bonaire to Montsinery
• TVE Internacional widens scope and quality
• Southern Africa Selects DVB-T2
• Palestinian Authority orders closure of TV station in Ramallah
• Anorak heaven on Boxing Day (26 December)
• Ivory Coast blocks foreign news channels in wake of election
• S Korean rights panel to discuss resumption of anti-Pyongyang broadcasts
• China builds national IPTV network
• Albania seeks China’s help to digitalize TV broadcasting
• Kenya decides to upgrade its DTT system, affecting 30,000 consumers
• Hong Kong government announces support for RTHK
• IBA opens ‘Quiet Shabbat Frequency’ for religious Israelis
• EBU concerned over working conditions and independence of Chinese media
• Big L back on the air on 1395 kHz
• Wikileaks: Former Austrian Ambassador suggested Euronews in Farsi
• Wikileaks: US embassy says CBC is ‘anti-American’
• BBC to launch iPlayer globally
• Hungary DTT coverage to reach 95% by year-end
• Radio Slovakia International confirms closure of shortwave service
• World’s first broadcast of backward compatible 3D TV
• UK radio group plans anti-DAB ad
• BBC Worldwide appoints Philip Vincent as Chief Financial Officer
• ORF screens old episode of lottery show
• KBS launches multilingual subtitle service
• A Catholic radio network for Central America
• EU announces Google antitrust probe
• Voice of Lebanon to resume radio broadcast amid ownership battle
• New Caledonia gets digital TV
• Canada blocks channel’s plans to cut music videos
• Medvedev’s address to parliament to be broadcast to 100 countries
• MW/LW coordination meeting in Minsk next month
• Dutch Public Broadcasting suspends plan for Radio 7
• More Mandarin TV channels launched in Australia
• UK-based Sky News to launch Arabic service
• Nilesat to take Iran’s al-Kawthar off air
• Cairo-based Al-Baghdadiya TV ends Iraq operations
• Wikileaks website under cyberattack
• Afghan Air Force delivers radios to Balkh province
• Three new BBC transmitters along the A9 in Scotland
• Ethiopia TV Returns to MHz Networks in DC area
• Eutelsat insists it never helped Tehran practice censorship
• Indian broadcast staff plan second strike
• EBU welcomes EU Parliament’s resolution on PSBs in the digital era
• China extends broadcasting reach
• UK regulator revokes four adult channel licences
• RTÉ gets green light to redevelop Donnybrook site
• Democratic Voice of Burma available inside country!
• Belarus TV doesn’t show presidential candidates to Belarusians abroad
• Satellite radios XM, Sirius Canada to merge
• Australia’s international broadcasting commitments under question
• Changes at the top of Ghana Broadcasting Corp
• ‘Significant reduction’ in services and jobs at BBCWS
• Dutch radio market shares Sept/Oct 2010
• Voice of Korea on Yeonpyeong shelling
• Polish Radio and TV under one banner?
• 3D TV drama takes off in Japan
• Nigerian public media workers suspend strike
• China Central Television opens office in Moscow
• Sudanese Catholic radio station off air after storm
• Azerbaijan announces tender for former BBC frequency
• UK commercial radio groups refuse to promote DAB
• ITV Granada launches on satellite in Asia
• Russia Today says its TV crew arrested by US police
• BBC World Service cuts announcement delayed
• Updated public file for HFCC B10 now available
• Korea’s KBS to raise licence fee
• Australia’s SBS to launch Mandarin TV news
• Russian TV channel begins to broadcast in China
• South Africa withdraws draft broadcasting bill
• Government announces tender for Australia Network
• Kremlin meeting on developing television and radio broadcasting
• AIR, Doordarshan employees begin 48-hour strike
• Pan-European 3D channel Brava3D starts on Astra
• RFE broadcasts from Hungarian revolution digitized
• VOA journalist named one of Ukraine’s most influential women
• Croatia’s third satellite pay-TV platform now testing
• Iran’s Press TV in breach of UK Broadcasting Code
• Eutelsat’s KA-SAT on track for 20 December launch
• Channel Islanders unhappy with digital offering
• Android TV launches in Sweden
• Islamic radio broadcasts to be expanded in S Arabia
• Guinea: supporters of presidential candidate attack radio station
• ZNBC now relaying its 2nd network on main channel
• RTHK Director of Broadcasting to step down
• TV channel part owned by Murdoch, gets threats in Iran
• Radio Pretoria licensed after 17-year wait
• RNW and NRC Handelsblad win prize for investigative journalism
• TVNZ rolls out high quality streaming TV on demand
• Broadcasters back African content exchange
• Slovak radio signs agreement with government on financing for 2011
• Top officials committed to ‘IBA World’ venture
• Radio Azadi launches interactive SMS service in Afghanistan
• TiVo to launch its product in Scandinavia
• R Omdurman transmitter used to jam R Dabanga - IWPR
• First DRM+ trial in the Asia-Pacific region
• Radio Australia to use Kranji relay from next week
• Kosovo’s Radio KIM has its mains power cut off
• CBC/Radio-Canada urges CRTC to ensure satellite TV access to local stations
• French Radio London has launched
• Bulgaria’s DVB-T conversion postponed to 2015
• Someone has stolen the audio equipment for 1395
• First government radio station in Paktika goes live
• Public views invited on RTÉ digital proposal
• Vandals force BBC Radio Wales 882 kHz off air
• Sri Lankan government to establish a media authority
• Bringing local television to Solomon Islands
• RNW production nominated for prize
• BBG broadcasts attract large audiences in key countries
• Iran to help Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corp go digital
• Swedish firm to launch pay TV service in Kenya
• Tanzania: official calls for informative TV, radio programmes
• BBC and Discovery Communications announce new partnership
• Russia Today launches new multimedia portal
• Radio Free Sarawak goes on the air
• ZBC faces collapse as managers plunder - report
• Jamaican Broadcasting Commission wants to make payola a criminal offence
• BBC joins US military handing out free radios in Afghanistan
• NUJ offers to suspend BBC pension strikes
• Scottish FM L107 goes off the air after tx ‘hijack’
• Zimbabwe: New broadcasting licences not coming soon
• Big L 1395 must wait for a new generator
• Cuts will see BBCWS scaled back - industry magazine
• Jamaican radio/TV stations could soon be asked to pay licensing fee to regulator
• Shortwave listening on the Fringe tonight
• Sudan temporarily blocks website of UN’s Miraya FM
• BBC Urdu launches single number for mobile news
• EBU backs digital radio switchover across Europe
• Broadcasting Board of Governors to meet 19 Nov
• Rome Research Corp awarded new contract by BBG
• Anne Frank’s father heard again as RNW audio joins web exhibit
• Garrison radio to compete for BFBS contract in 2013
• Kyiv TV and Radio Channel deprived of broadcasting licence
• Minister proposes extending FM licences to 2017
• RT launches via Sky New Zealand
• Walkout may disrupt Finnish television service
• Celebrate Radio’s ‘Reaching Up’ joins WRN Europe
• Liquid antenna turns sea water into signal
• Noel Curran announced as new Director-General of RTÉ
• IPI criticises Hungary over media secrecy law
• Nilesat takes five Eutelsat transponders at 7° West
• Vanuatu media row over radio licence application
• Deutsche Welle facing far-reaching reforms
• Egyptian state TV obliged to allocate time for all political parties
• CNC English channel begins broadcast in North America
• Sudan accuses Radio Dabanga staff of working for ICC
• BBC journalists’ strike knocks flagship shows off air
• Dutch public broadcasters agree budget savings
• Nepal Government revokes 77 broadcast licences
• Hong Kong Govt approves three DAB radio licences
• Indian Govt wants to block illegal foreign channels
• BBC World Service cuts risk 300 jobs
• ZNS 1540 hopes to be back on air next Tuesday
• New offshore radio book: “Death of a Pirate”
• Additional mediumwave transmitters for Spirit Radio
• Big L 1395 kHz off the air due to generator problem
• German police swoop on neo-Nazi Internet radio station
• B10 HFCC data files now available for download
• Arab satellite channels keep increasing
• Broadcasters urged to fight satellite interference
• RNW Dutch to North America frequency change
• CBC/Radio-Canada kicks off one-year countdown to 75th anniversary
• Radio Waddenzee/Radio Seagull double DVD
• EBU conference gives adrenaline boost to digital radio
• TRT launches new satellite TV channel
• Yahoo! and Samsung expand Internet TV territory
• Sudan closes Darfur radio, rights group offices
• Public service broadcaster hits back on internet issue
• Russian broadcasters to have their own website
• China Radio International launches in Mexico
• Dutch public service broadcasters ‘should stop internet activities’
• Zambian president orders ZNBC to employee his relatives
• BBC Burmese to add extra transmissions 7-10 Nov
• Danish party calls for ban on Arab TV channels
• Time clock wreaks havoc at Channel 1, Israel Radio
• Russian-language radio festival under way in Moscow
• Al Jazeera and RSF slam Morocco curbs
• Estonian minister calls Tallinn TV ‘an example of the city’s vanity’
• Voice of Russia plans more FM stations worldwide
• BBC journalists to strike in November over pensions
• Eutelsat statement on loss of W3B satellite
• Zimbabwe police on shortwave radio sets raid spree
• Georgian media reform under debate
• Dutch public broadcasting employees launch campaign against cuts
• CRI expands its FM coverage across Nepal
• Merging Slovak Radio and TV would bring savings
• EC wants to boost Euronews TV channel
• Australia: ABC boss defends online services
• Sound archives of Europeans’ gulag deportation to go online
• Johannesburg broadcasting tower in disrepair
• Senior Chinese official highlights radio/TV cooperation with Albania
• RFI back on the air in Rwanda
• ICRC launches Red Cross radio archive project
• Indonesia’s RRI gets new head
• Asian pay TV to lose US$2 billion to piracy: survey
• New RNW radio season: focusing on features
• New BBC/DW DRM channel for South Asia
• RNW frequency schedule Winter 2010/2011 online
• Côte d’Ivoire state-owned radio, TV goes online
• RNZI/RA shortwave off air for antenna maintenance
• Launch of new Korean broadcast satellite around Christmas
• New Irish Christian station to launch in January 2011
• Sony presses ’stop’ on Walkman in Japan
• DJ Ferry Maat hoping to start new radio station
• Launch of Al-Jazeera Balkans delayed
• Five Nigerian TV channels launch for diaspora in US
• France 24 to distribute its French channel in Asia
• RTL2 to launch in high-definition in Germany
• Egyptian fundamentalists plan Islamic satellite
• Welsh party leader calls for govt rethink on S4C plan
• Brazil pushes African nations to use its digital standard
• Egypt considers starting moderate Islamic channel
• Radio of Hajj Awareness starts broadcasting
• Fujairah Media takes major stake in JazzRadio Berlin
• US conservatives blast NPR for firing news analyst
• US television broadcasters block Google TV
• Ghana to host Africa’s first DTT Broadcasting Academy
• Al Jazeera hopes to be on Indian TV soon
• New director of Radio Belgrade
• Prestigious Award for RNW producer in Nigeria
• Dutch radio market shares August/September 2010
• Nigerian president approves automatic licences for community radio operators
• VOV Traffic Information broadcasts on TV
• Myanmar gets new flag, official name, anthem
• Euronews to launch Persian service on 27 October
• NPR fires analyst over comments on Muslims
• Egypt stops TV channels, Islamic trend seen a target
• BBC Complete Sound Effects Library now available on Sounddogs.com
• NUJ condemns the Government’s “attack on the BBC”
• Welsh TV Authority launches Judicial Review
• Oman to set up public authority for TV, radio
• Dutch body told to reallocate Islamic TV licence
• ITU estimates two billion people online by end 2010
• EU drops in latest press freedom rankings
• Danish court cancels freeze of Kurdish TV’s accounts
• CIS Regional Communications Union holds meeting on MW/LW synchronization
• Russian Orthodox TV channel starts broadcasting in Europe, Middle East and America
• BBCWS to be funded from domestic licence fee
• Radio 10 Gold back on mediumwave!
• AIR External Service to get new MW transmitters
• Media ethics training ‘essential’
• BBC launches HD Sound for radio
• Mob attacks Kuwait TV station over royal “insult”
• New FM station launches in Riyadh on Friday
• ZNBC to use satellite for nationwide distribution
• ABU highlights radio’s role on environment
• BBCWS could lose up to half its staff: press report
• Police raid silences Mexican community radio station
• Dutch public broadcasting relatively inexpensive
• N Korea threatens to attack S Korea propaganda sites
• Former BBCWS drama boss criticises axing of plays
• DW-TV ties up with Xinya to create Chinese content
• Egypt tightens TV broadcast rules before election
• BBG expresses grave concern for journalist on trial in Uzbekistan
• ABS signs deal for new satellite
• Rival says Dutch Radio 1 could manage on less money
• YLE sacks newsreader over beer gag
• KBS board fails to agree on scope of licence fee increase
• N Korean agency apparently opens foreign-language website
• Pakistan’s PTV may launch two new channels
• France 24’s Arabic channel goes to 24 hours
• Radio Era Baru regains Indonesian licence
• RFI back on the air in DR Congo after 15 month break
• Russian TV channels in Belarus closed for ‘preventive maintenance’
• BBC DG announces reduced Executive Board
• How will cuts affect the impact of BBCWS?
• Weblog has resumed following short break
• Sierra Leone’s Radio Democracy back on air 6 Oct
• Amateur radio DXpedition to Bonaire Oct 10-24
• London 2012 Olympics radio station plan scrapped
• Egypt bans airing of court sessions
• Christian Caryl new head of RFE Washington Bureau
• Mexico’s Televisa invests in US Hispanic network
• Sudan suspends Monte Carlo Doualiya on FM
• CHSC AM-1220 signs off for the last time
• YLE threatened with funding cuts
• Foreign Service Journal October issue focuses on US international broadcasting
• Talk Radio Europe now available in Majorca
• California AM station highlights DX report from Finland
• RT now available on cable in Chicago
• Eutelsat W3B satellite on track for 28 October launch
• Radio Nacional improves signal on Angola/DRC border
• Chair & Vice-Chair of RFA Corporate Board announced
• TDF starts industry consultations on mobile TV standard
• EBU urges Slovak government to retain licence fee
• BBC reportedly invites Sudanese minister to discuss radio ban
• Voice of Russia available on 87.7 FM in New York City
• DJ Ferry Maat receives Lifetime Achievement Award
• BBC unions cancel strike on David Cameron’s big day
• Vietnamese private television market booming
• BBC Turkçe’s TV programme now broadcasts five times a week on NTV
• Demolition of Juelich transmitter site
• Austrian Military Radio Society 50th anniversary
• RNW to be financed from Foreign Affairs budget
• French radio host talks himself out of an interview
• Dutch radio market shares July/August 2010
• BBC, NHK successfully test Super Hi-Vision TV
• New Sri Lankan TV tower at Kokavil almost ready
• Arab World Cup coverage jammed from Jordan: report
• RFI responds after attack by Hugo Chávez
• Sierra Leone: Radio station receives threats
• Red-shirt radio station allegedly jammed by Thai govnment
• BBG chairman announces “new direction” for US external broadcasting
• Broadcasting and broadband ‘must complement each other’
• Radio Maria seeing worldwide success
• Cambodian minister backs media for the Khmer Krom
• Bayerischer Rundfunk ends shortwave broadcasting
• Editorial independence and more funding for public broadcasters, say MEPs
• Internet media group rebukes censor-seeking Turkish journalist
• BBCWS English, Persian, Somali and Urdu radio now available in US on any mobile phone
• Radio Australia Shepparton off air on 20 October
• Zimbabwe exile broadcaster to halt news via SMS
• Nigeria’s Ekiti State reopens broadcast stations next month
• Parliament of India to get new independent TV channel
• Egyptian minister calls on TV officials to avoid sectarian incitement
• Court delays ruling on Athens International Radio
• Iranian minister admits to growing popularity of opposition TV
• New TV channel set to improve image of N Caucasus
• US company installs mediumwave triplexer in Taiwan
• New news programme launched by TWR-UK
• Egyptian lawyers sue Nilesat over Shia TV channel
• RNW wins three awards at New York Festivals
• PBC Jamaica still without board and CEO
• New book predicts failure of DAB Digital Radio
• New FM station launches tomorrow in Tunisia
• UK radio pirate jailed for sparking terrorist alert
• Equatorial Guinea state TV channel refurbished
• ICT project to connect African schools
• Ethiopian PM uses old US law to justify jamming VOA
• Ukrainian TV station defies court ruling and continues to broadcast
• YouTube wins piracy case against Spanish TV station
• BBG confirms appointment of García-Pérez to OCB
• Croatian minority in Serbia protests HRT’s withdrawal from Belgrade
• REM Island to arrive in Amsterdam next spring
• Voice of Vietnam Traffic Channel to go nationwide
• CBS Studios International partners with AFN
• Footballer Adebayor to set up radio/TV station In Ghana
• New hybrid TV package launched in Belgium
• Terrestrial broadcasting crucial for the sustainability of TV and radio broadcasting in the digital era: EBU
• Pakistan government defends media freedom
• Union says SABC must play only African music
• Cuban-American lawyer in line to head Radio/TV Martí
• Council to rule today on status of foreign-language radio station in Athens
• End of 64-year-old Japanese programme from Russian Far East
• WGY Albany simulcasting on FM
• Broadband access needed to secure a million jobs: EU
• Surinamese govt plans to merge public radio/TV
• More Iranians turn toward opposition satellite channel
• Australia’s Ten network promises more prime-time news
• AM station in Cebu returns to air after 10 years
• Somali Islamists clash over control of seized radio station
• Ugandan president promises to re-open radio station
• Two radio stations in Mogadishu taken over by Islamist rebels
• Maldives govt claims TVM/VOM are just trademarks
• Al-Jazeera to launch Balkan regional TV in 2011: report
• Voice of America expands Sudan programming
• Russian TV channel broadcasting again in Tajikistan
• China eyes closer ties with Philippines state television
• BBG opens board meeting for first time via Webcast
• Al-Arabiya TV chief withdraws resignation
• 93 employees could be let go at ZNS Bahamas
• RFE’s Pakistan broadcasts boosted to 9 hours a day
• BBC licence fee to be frozen for 2011
• Bangladesh to launch broadcast satellite
• Election Night on Radio Sweden
• UK govt says no decision on News Corp-BSkyB review
• Front man quits planned conservative news channel in Canada
• Al-Arabiya TV chief resigns
• MP3-enabled radio launched for developing world
• Gabriel Iván Barrera R.I.P.
• UK Foreign Secretary backs BBC World Service
• Australia’s Nine Network to launch new channel
• UK government report criticises digital radio plans
• Unions announce two 48-hour walkouts at BBC
• Free ZNBC and don’t regulate media, IPI tells Zambia
• 30 Years of Saudi Television’s Channel Two
• BBC chairman to stand down next year
• Small-scale DRM shortwave video service announced
• HCJB plans to build new SW site in Ecuador
• VOA launches new TV programme to Afghanistan
• Indonesia’s RRI to expand overseas broadcasts
• International Community Radio Taipei expands reach
• Scottish government plans new digital TV network
• Jammu & Kashmir bans Iran’s Press TV
• iPhone users can watch live broadcasts of Xinhua TV
• Journalist argues against budget cuts to BBCWS
• ZBC uses police to demand payment of licence fee
• All Australians to get digital free-to-air TV
• RTÉ abuses its position, claim rivals
• Iran launches free entertainment channel in Arabic
• BBG to stream open meeting to the public
• French Radio London to launch in November
• Long wait for broadcasting licences in Swaziland
• Falkland Islands to get local TV service
• PBC/CRI hold talks on enhanced cooperation
• Sentech to test alternative TV standards
• Brunei to end analogue TV in 2014
• IPI honours Radio Okapi with 2010 ‘Free Media Pioneer’ award
• Foreign Secretary reassures MPs over BBCWS Burmese
• Pacifica Radio in talks to air Al Jazeera in major US markets
• BBCWS may axe broadcasts to Myanmar: report
• British TV host Piers Morgan replaces Larry King
• Malaysian radio station sacks DJ over race discussion
• Google to start TV service in US this autumn
• Sky Deutschland warns UK pub users
• Intelsat 15 expands Orion Express TV platform
• Somalia: Universal TV owner faces charges
• Dutch spending more time on the Internet
• EU should be communicated better, say MEPs
• AIR FM Delhi launches to cover Commonwealth Games
• Swedish broadcasters not allowed to “promote” Facebook
• Radio VOP encouraged to stay on shortwave
• BBCWS secures Premier League commentary rights for its African services
• ISAF Commando Radio in Kabul increases coverage
• YouTube opens Life in a Day video gallery
• Iran to launch iFilm TV on Eid-ul-Fitr
• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation sacks MD
• ZNS 1540 signal restoration likely to take 30 days
• NZ aftershock forces radio station’s evacuation
• New satellite TV channel broadcasting to Iran
• New Dutch public broadcasters launched today
• Sri Lanka to set up Broadcasting Authority
• China launches broadcasting satellite
• Brazil’s future in spotlight of BBC Brasil and CBN co-production
• Polish Radio’s 85 years of broadcasting exhibition
• Radio VOP Turns 10
• Swiss govt proposes cutting subsidy to swissinfo
• Internal strife at France 24
• ABU admits 2 new members
• China to launch Sinosat-6 within next few days
• Zimbabwe resumes jamming SW Radio Africa
• More Tamil And Chinese programmes on Malaysia’s TV2 next year
• BBC Burmese Service marks 70 years on air
• New private TV station launched in Senegal
• Radio Veronica launches new online rock station
• BBC had “massive bias to left”: director general
• CRI gets better FM frequency in Perth, Australia
• Dutch radio market shares June/July 2010
• RadioTime acquires TuneIn Internet radio iPhone app
• BBC staff vote massively for strike over pensions
• Radio Caroline to replace masts on Ross Revenge
• Denmark plans terrorism charge against Kurdish TV
• Malaysia awards its first community radio licence
• Amazon seeking to launch TV, movie subscriber service: WSJ
• bbcrussian.com and GZT.RU sign content partnership
• 67 Danmarks Radio employees laid off
• Special DRM transmissions to Brazil today
• Ghanaian technical committee on digital broadcasting presents report
• Pro-Taliban mullah broadcasts illegally in Pakistan
• Suspected grenade explodes at Thai radio/TV HQ
• Special offshore radio tribute broadcast tomorrow
• Bulgaria’s bTV Media launches own radio group
• Swiss HD Radio project dead
• N Korea accuses S Korea of blocking access to Twitter
• India to set up FM services in Bihar
• ABU urges members to help Pakistan floods victims
• S Korea’s LG to stop production of cathode ray tube TVs
• CRI to get FM airtime in Pakistan
• LJBC goes to court over copyright infringement
• China favours development of media cooperation with Iran
• Maldives: MBC takes government to court over assets
• Al Shabab developing own media capability, warns Somali Government
• Radio/TV Martí director resigns
• Car bomb explodes outside Mexican TV station
• BBC Radio Ulster presenter offers SatNav voice
• East Timor joins International Telecommunication Union
• New DG for Slovenian Radio and Television
• People issues ‘the biggest digital challenge’
• Chairman suggests YLE could be split up
• ABU adopts early warning system recommendations
• Vietnam, Russia to work on multimedia services
• Time Warner acquires Chilevisión from President Piñera
• Mysterious Russian ‘buzzer’ radio broadcast changes
• RTÉ Radio coverage of All Ireland finals 2010
• Currently about 2,700 online radio stations in Germany
• Radio Maryja under scrutiny from Poland’s National Broadcasting Council
• CRI to set up 61-language “converged” platform
• China plans to merge 1,000 broadcasters: state media
• RTL returns to first-half profit on TV ad rebound
• Tineke de Nooij back on the radio after 10 years
• Radio Pakistan to broadcast special conference on flood crisis
• Toshiba to launch first 3D TV without glasses: report
• N Korean government not behind social media sites
• Al-shabab takes over FM station in Mogadishu
• Russia’s first independent radio station turns twenty
• New director for Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation
• Record number of Iranians visit Radio Farda website
• Cambodia adopts Korea’s DMB for mobile broadcast
• German Sky television seeks cable tie-ups: boss
• Maldives president ratifies broadcasting bill
• Saudi Arabia may launch official TV, radio to issue fatwas
• RTR-Planeta to resume broadcasts to Tajikistan
• More about the Chairman of the BBG
• Turkmenistan reshuffles leadership of national TV
• UN diplomatic correspondent says “Western broadcasts should be expanded”
• North Korea joins Facebook - agency
• New foreign-language radio station from Bethlehem
• Dutch media fundraiser for Pakistan disaster
• NHK engineering supremo says broadcasters ‘must develop new technologies’
• Azerbaijan’s private TV channels could be financed by state
• Radio Qur’an in Mauritania fights religious extremism
• Government of Canada supports radio broadcasting in northern Saskatchewan
• NOS: fewer broadcasting organisations rather than fewer networks
• Reliance-CBS announce new TV channels for India, South Asia
• Kenya-Somali radio launches in Mogadishu
• Appeal for memories of the trawler Ross Revenge
• US congressman expresses support for Greenville B
• Horsheed Media deputy director sentenced to 6 years
• Turkey’s TRT launches Albanian, Bosnian TV news
• Ethiopian Television back on Arabsat
• France web portal back online
• Puntland police storm Horseed Media FM station
• Radio Station Belarus to launch in French/Spanish
• Axis Sally: The American voice of Nazi Germany
• Conference in Uzbekistan on digital broadcasting
• BBC Somali programmes resume on Shabelle radio
• RT first Russian channel to get Emmy nomination
• Mexican TV network suffers explosives attack
• Digital radio trial begins in Darwin
• N Korea joins Twitter to step up propaganda offensive
• Philippine president orders radio stations to play more Filipino music
• Blowing up a Cold War era radio tower
• P J O’Rourke - ‘RFE, freedom of speech, & liberty’
• International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran says IRIB ‘acts as arm of intelligence apparatus’
• CRI starts FM broadcasting in Niger
• The Economist looks at international broadcasting
• New Dutch Muslim broadcaster loses licence
• Car bomb wrecks Colombia radio station
• The Two Bobs talk to Jeff White
• Classic Media Network on the air via PCJ Media
• TWR now in Spanish instead of Creole at night
• Radio Pakistan to set up FM transmitter in Khairpur
• Sky TV’s financial troubles cloud Bundesliga season start
• Workers start rebuilding Chinese TV tower: state media
• Vintage TV launches in the UK with GlobeCast
• State media channels in Maldives rebranded
• Hungary’s president signs laws on new state-owned media structure
• Radio Pakistan employees donate to flood victims
• Former Hungarian stations plan to regain frequencies
• India plans improved broadcast signals in J&K
• Google has computers seized by police in S Korea
• Memories of B92 during Yugoslav war of 1990s
• Pakistan shuts down two TV stations
• Estonian Public Broadcasting launches news in English
• North Korea registers YouTube account - South report
• SPLM slams halting of BBC radio relays in Sudan
• New mediumwave transmitters planned in Cuba
• News Corp sells stakes in Chinese TV channels
• QBS to air foreign-language programmes on Ramadan
• Radio Farda part of West’s ’soft war’ against Iran, book says
• Sudan suspends BBC broadcasts on FM
• Croatian Radio and Television plans drastic staff cuts
• All India Radio Leh severely damaged by flash floods
• “Scituate’s radio station helped save the world”
• Iranian Green Movement to launch TV station
• Head of CBC/Radio-Canada English services quits
• Public broadcasting could be undermined by change - NZ Labour Party
• Webcams from Russian construction sites available on Internet
• CBA board appoints new Secretary-General
• ProSieben, RTL to collaborate on online TV platform
• Radio World looks at the Falkland Islands Radio Service
• Netherlands’ media heartland sounds job alarm
• Winds destroy towers of WWVA in Wheeling WV
• New shortwave receiver coming from Sangean !!
• UK regulator playing statistical tricks to boost DAB - analyst
• Qu’ran radio to be launched in Mauritania
• Satellites launched to serve Africa and Mideast
• Israel sues former ‘Black Panther’ for operating pirate radio station
• ACMA determines parental lock standard for digital television receivers
• Senate Appropriations Committee wants to keep IBB Greenville on the air
• Zimbabwe’s MDC takes Zanu (PF) jingle case to Zuma
• Planned Bangladesh parliamentary channel hits delay
• Beijing to resume broadcast exercises
• Switzerland in Sound adds vintage feature material
• Radio offers lifeline to Pakistan as crisis worsens
• French pay radio acquires WorldSpace assets
• Blackberry jammed?
• Think tank suggests BBC be funded by subscription
• Norwegian-Russian local radio cooperation
• Russia to have weekly TV programme about Azerbaijan
• Iran to launch two new overseas TV channels
• Azerbaijan to launch Internet TV channel for diaspora
• Plaid Cymru leader wants more broadcasting devolution
• 20 years of free media in Poland
• Hardcore porn screened in Indonesian parliament building
• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation to be split up
• Radio Taiwan International celebrates 82nd birthday
• Army seizes home of anti-Chávez TV group shareholder
• IARUMS to concentrate on cleaning-up 40 metres
• Sri Lankan crackdown on illegal religious radio stations
• BBC to launch new channels in India
• NUSOJ calls for opening of Somaliland broadcast space
• RFE/RL to broadcast US sports coverage?
• AWR selects its financial officer as new president
• Switzerland’s global voice turns 75
• Private TV station torched in Sri Lanka capital
• RTÉ gets government approval for DTT plans
• Probe under way into illegal radio station in southwest Sri Lanka
• Armed men in DR Congo cut TV/radio signals
• Slovak Television told to reduce its costs
• US military pays Afghan media to run friendly stories
• Afghan government shuts down TV station
• UK’s Ofcom to scrap broadcaster airtime rules
• AU mortars reportedly destroy equipment of Somali radio station
• SES Astra cooperates with Sogecable on HD in Spain
• Ethiopian Satellite Television jammed again
• More than 800 new FM stations planned in India
• Operating illegal FM stations is ‘terrorism’ in Pakistan
• blinkx partners with BBC World News
• Former Zimbabwe minister claims VOA Studio 7 breaks ITU rules
• Somali Islamic group cracks down on TV sets
• ITU Interop event highlights IPTV interoperability
• Bangladesh to launch parliamentary TV channel
• Arab support for full Palestinian membership of ITU
• Kenyan government to pay off KBC’s debt
• Wikileaks founder defends release of Afghan war files
• Irish national broadcaster RTÉ could be privatised
• Changes to advertising law on Swedish TV
• Taiwan plans to allow parties and military to hold 10% of electronic media
• Iraq suicide bomber kills three at Al-Arabiya TV
• Palestinian minister: Pirate stations will be shut down
• BBG/IBB seeking outlets for VOA Spanish TV programme
• TDM-Macau ’seeks to bridge information gap’
• Armenian independent TV station uncertain about future
• Pakistan “has no plans to impose curbs on free media”
• India planning TV channel for rural population
• RTL sells UK TV channel Five to press baron
• Haiti Red Cross takes to the airwaves
• Ambitious US wireless broadband scheme unveiled
• Mena Internet users spend more time online than watching TV
• TRM adopts strategic guidelines proposed by EBU
• Radio Australia to launch Palau FM service
• Digital radio trial commences in Canberra
• BBC unions prepare for strike ballots
• Dutch radio listening figures for May/June 2010
• Islamic TV and radio channels in Spanish planned
• Radio Thailand changes its URL
• Planned Fiji offshore station may use a Dutch ship
• EU clears Sky Italia bid for Italian TV frequency
• Bolivia signs up to adopt Japanese digital TV system
• Al-Shabaab establishes more radio stations in Somalia
• Chávez to put representative on opposition TV board
• Last transmission of Uruzgan FM on 30 July
• EC approves long-term funding mechanism for France Télévisions
• EC approves new tax-based funding system for RTVE
• Australia Network signs China TV deal
• Sky considers bid to broadcast Australia Network
• Togo, China sign broadcasting agreement
• Georgia: GPB outsources Russian-language channel
• Somalia: Ahlu Sunnah orders radios to stop ‘pro-Al-Shabaab broadcasts’
• Sudan to stop BBC FM broadcasts in some cities
• English-language radio Nile FM gaining popularity
• Offshore radio station plan for uncensored Fiji news
• University satellite channel launches in Gaza
• Egypt’s public radio: is anyone listening?
• Internet TV company helps break Beijing’s censorship
• Ireland says it has no plans to switch off FM services
• BBC Persian now available on four satellites
• Globovisión president considers political asylum
• Full 3D TV in Korea ‘likely in 2-3 years’ - KBS Head
• News broadcasts on terrorism in Turkey to be regulated
• Armenia to announce tenders for broadcast frequencies
• MI5 endorse ‘ring of steel’ for Broadcasting House
• New English-language radio station planned in Brussels
• Latvian parliament passes broadcast language law
• President’s daughter, 16, ‘new face of Tajik TV’
• French Foreign Ministry probes fake website
• Eutelsat and ictQATAR select builder for new satellite
• ESAT resumes service after 24-day disruption
• Vatican Radio rejects radiation claim
• Gwyneth Williams named Controller of BBC Radio 4
• RTÉ to use satellite for digital rollout in remote areas
• ZBC ordered to play Zanu (PF) propaganda jingles
• Vatican Radio again accused of increasing cancer risk
• First Khampa Tibetan dialect channel opens in SW China
• BBC launches re-designed news website
• Super-accurate computer clock created in Australia
• BSkyB in talks to launch Arabic news channel
• US court orders review of broadcasting indecency rule
• Burundi: China to build conference centre for RTNB
• Georgian broadcaster loses case against Eutelsat
• Broadcast Australia releases 3D TV white paper
• MediaCorp launches news channel on YouTube
• A billion Chinese speakers get easier access to Internet
• ABC Australia to launch 24h news channel next week
• Israeli PM dreams of 24h multilingual news network
• Philippine army launches FM station in Negros Occidental
• Latvian MPs endorse limitations on non-Latvian language broadcasting
• Kim Andrew Elliott OpEd: “Radio Free of Bureaucracy”
• France 24 in French launches across US on 14 July
• French regulator approves new head of public TV
• UAE unplugs TV viewers with illegal encryption codes
• Fidel Castro to appear on Cuban television and radio
• Face-saving compromise lets China, Google do business
• BBC Monitoring faces ‘grim’ cuts - report
• BBG publishes profiles of new members
• Antenna Hungária testing 3DTV without glasses
• Pakistan to launch “Youth FM” radio station
• Italian media on strike over bill to curb wiretapping
• Vatican Radio helps start first Christian radio station in Holy Land
• France 24 TV joins Turkish satellite platform
• UK abandons 2015 date for digital radio switch
• Frequencies for Netherlands-Spain World Cup final
• Malaysia’s Astro to show World Cup final in 3D
• Dutch Muslim broadcaster unable to pick director
• BBC announces plans for digital radio
• Dutch TV breaks viewing records for semi-final
• Southern Chinese oppose banning Cantonese on TV
• BBC loses FM licence in Dubai
• Afghanistan gets first 24-hour news TV channel
• Space Systems/Loral to build new Hispasat satellite
• Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed to launch TV news channel
• Delay over extension of Dutch FM licences
• Interview with Gambian pro-democracy station staffer
• Frequencies for Netherlands-Uruguay on 6 July
• Iran TV chief’s visit to the Netherlands cancelled
• BBC Annual Report 2009/2010 available for download
• RFI launches Swahili service today
• New DG appointed at Bangladesh Betar
• French court probes satellite shutdown of NTDTV
• Clinton urges Armenia to revise new media law
• Blunder forces BBC staff out of BH - report
• CRI launches radio channel in Sri Lanka
• European public broadcasters call for media freedom
• Undersea cable set to boost West Africa broadband
• Al Jazeera English named “Best News Channel” at annual Freesat Awards
• Croatian Radio Television gets supervisory board
• Delegation of Armenian Public Television prevented from arriving in Baku
• TV Martí premiers primetime specials on DirecTV
• HK to impose new licence conditions on TV stations
• Japanese not keen to go four-eyed for 3D TV - survey
• Viasat to provide coverage of English premier league in Denmark
• House of Representatives permanently authorizes RFA
• RT begins 24 hour broadcasts on UK’s Freeview
• Three Dutch public broadcasters announce merger
• All India Radio tender notice for DRM transmitters
• US Senate confirms BBG nominations
• China’s Xinhua launches English news channel
• Frequencies for Netherlands-Brazil on 2 July
• Protests against NOS invitation to head of Iranian TV
• VOA and Pakistani cable news station unveil joint TV project
• Amnesty International publishes new report on media repression in Cuba
• ERT workers take over entrance to radio building
• Vatican launches worldwide Catholic radio/TV directory
• Inflammatory ME TV channels circumvent French media regulator’s ban
• Report finds media freedom declining in former USSR
• Azerbaijan will not license Internet TV and radio
• Google awaits China decision on business licence
• Al Jazeera to launch nationwide in UK on Freeview
• Estonian Radio to broadcast in Azerbaijani/English
• France 24 TV boosts distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa
• New TV channel in UK to target over 50s
• US military provides ‘radios in a box’ to Afghans
• RTÉ cuts digital TV coverage
• New AIBD Director named
• Frequencies for Netherlands-Slovakia on 28 June
• Cable operators in Macedonia in trouble for broadcasting World Cup
• Palestinian fans turn to Israeli TV for World Cup
• Arabsat 5A is successfully launched
• BBC Afrique covers Guinea elections with partner Liberté FM
• Sabah information and broadcasting complex ready by year end
• Saudi Arabia to acquire DRM-ready 250 kW HF transmitters
• RFI unions’ talk of “disastrous” performance denied by French radio’s managers
• New Hong Kong radio station wants to be digital-only
• EBU and EC discuss modernization of copyright licensing
• New DRM broadcasters’ user guide released
• Jordan trade unions urge France to revoke Hamas TV ban
• Dutch radio listening figures April/May 2010
• Success of Mäori Television under scrutiny
• France Inter fires controversial satirists
• Critics say proposed Hungarian media reform stifles press freedom
• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation MD suspended
• AFN to end terrestrial TV signal in Belgium/Germany
• Wegener® receives $480,000+ order from BBCWS
• SLBC English to Asia to be broadcast live on the Web
• Hamas calls on Egypt to broadcast TV channel
• Hamas TV remains on air as it appeals French ban
• ZNBC will be off shortwave for at least five months
• China helping Ethiopia with ESAT jamming - report
• OSCE calls on Turkey to stop blocking YouTube
• Vietnam News Agency opens new TV channel
• Japan Times contributor launches attack on BBC
• BBC Antarctic midwinter broadcast available online
• RNW English to S Africa not on air on 24 June
• EchoStar launches HDTV service in Taiwan
• 1929 broadcast featuring Thomas Edison recovered
• Somalia: GBC radio resumes operations
• Burmese World Cup fans angered at telecast failures
• SABC shatters South African viewership record
• Pakistani FM stations establish peace community
• North Korea to air Portugal match live
• New West Bank FM station focuses on women’s issues
• India’s Reliance Broadcast signs TV deal with CBS
• Amnesty International launches radio campaign for Burma
• Dhaka asks radio, TV channels to use ‘pure’ Bengali
• Ethiopia expels VOA journalist
• WCBS-FM New York’s most listened-to station
• Arrow heard again on 828 kHz
• Australian government invites industry submissions on future direction of Australia Network
• Sarkozy in London for 70th anniversary of WWII appeal
• 2010 declared Radio Year in Pakistan - minister
• Polish radio to stream live election night special
• North Korea moves quietly onto the Internet
• Tougher action against Dutch pirate radio stations
• Irish commercial TV ad time set to increase
• Kenyan broadcaster loses frequencies in ownership battle
• Niger unions threaten to take World Cup off air
• World Cup fever boosts 3D TV sales in South Korea
• Sackville residents hear RCI via household appliances
• Audience of Dutch Radio 1 increases five-fold for World Cup match
• Le Monde suggests method to filter out vuvuzelas
• New English Canadian TV news channel planned
• Nagoya-based multilingual radio station to close in September
• Thai government mulls buying opposition broadcaster
• Namibian MPs want more funding for NBC
• France 24 expands coverage in North America
• BBC investigate vuvuzela-free option - report
• North Korea secures World Cup broadcast deal
• Hong Kong football fans tap into China’s TV signal
• Hamas TV protests imminent halt of Eutelsat broadcasts
• Egypt and Al Jazeera tussle over World Cup TV feed
• Niger radio in rebel area back on air after two years
• BVN/RNW satellite change to the Americas
• Arirang TV and Mexico’s SJRTV sign broadcast agreement
• Power blackouts enrage Zambian fans
• Malian private radio stations carry live World Cup commentaries
• Was ITV HD World Cup car ad break sabotage?
• Venezuelan authorities try to arrest Globovision head
• New licence regime for Kenyan radio, TV
• Media history series on BBC Radio Three this week
• EBU calls for re-think of drastic cut in Croatian licence fee
• WorldSpace may aim for SA radio market again
• Extra frequencies on the air for World Cup coverage
• Tunisian radio launches new portal
• Britain’s ITV scores an own goal at the World Cup
• Media accuse Burundi radio station of promoting hate
• Dutch viewers complain about World Cup vuvuzelas
• North Korea airs illegal broadcast of World Cup opening match
• New DRM HF transmitters for Australia and Malaysia
• US Senator’s report criticizes vacancies on BBG
• SW key to reaching Pacific audience - RNZ head
• BBG statement on press freedom in Iran
• AFN secures rights to televise World Cup
• Lebanese media council says Sawa, BBC FM transmission “illegal”
• UK commercial radio stations challenge BBC plans
• German states agree to reform TV licence fees
• UK regulator looks at offensive language on TV and radio
• Eutelsat awards contract to build W6A satellite
• BBC Global News director speaks to journalism.co.uk
• New free sports TV channel to launch in Sweden
• North Korea won’t get World Cup TV feed from South
• Press TV accuses BBC of “sabotaging its broadcasts”
• RadioTime/Dension offer the world’s radio stations on a USB thumb drive
• Inmarsat wins the UK’s top engineering prize
• Botswana TV drops satellite during World Cup
• Court ruling trashes Springer’s German TV plans
• VRT journalists on 24-hour strike
• Extra RNW shortwave frequencies this evening for election coverage
• Ukrainian opposition TV channels stripped of frequencies
• What kind of news do YOU want? Tell the EBU
• Saudi Arabia launches website to stream live TV/radio
• BBC Essex uncovers disgraceful state of former Marconi building
• REE commences DRM broadcasts to North America
• Dirty vents cause CyBC sickness
• World’s first talking TV now a reality
• Israeli government mulling international news channel
• 81 foreign TV channels seek downlink permit in Nepal
• Voice of Russia expands its use of FM in India
• Critics call for an end to TV licence fees in Germany
• Malaysia awards licence to develop T-DMB services
• KBS to shed 20% of jobs by 2014
• Fruitful DRM+ Symposium in Germany on VHF Band III
• France urged by EU to end “incitement to hatred” of Al Aqsa TV broadcasts
• Egypt’s Islamic TV extends reach with new languages
• Smelly studios and fleas cause Cyprus TV walkout
• SLBC revises its External Service schedule
• Arabsat Badr-5 successfully launched
• Viasat to distribute Norwegian TV 2 premier league HD channels
• BSkyB to pay £160 million for Virgin basic channels
• Eritrean state TV channel changes satellite frequency
• Radio ghost mystery at former RAF station
• Chile’s president fails to sell TV station
• BBCWS secures live World Cup commentary rights in English and Swahili
• RT gets 100 million views on YouTube
• Macao to revise press & broadcasting laws
• ABU President joins UN Broadband Commission
• Radios being confiscated in Zimbabwe - report
• All-day classical music station launched by RNW
• Paraguay adopts Japanese digital TV standard
• China Radio International gets FM coverage in B’desh
• Pro-democracy movement considering shortwave broadcasts to Iran
• DR board split on which network to close
• Inventor Trevor Baylis to open £8m innovation centre
• Paraguay plans to strengthen public media
• 50% budget cut for Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas
• Testing of DTT in Ireland to begin in October
• YLE’s administrative council ponders licence fee rise
• Contract awarded to build Azerspace/Africasat-1a satellite
• Sirius XM Radio announces 2010 World Cup coverage
• CBC/Radio-Canada rolls out LED lighting in TV studios
• Shabelle Media Network moves to safer location
• Etisalat launches 3D TV service in UAE
• STAR Radio Liberia clarifies shortwave hours
• Germany’s SWR starts DRM transmissions on 711 kHz
• Pakistan restores Facebook, Internet restrictions remain
• Somalia: Islamist group threatens TV station
• Special Dutch broadcasts on 5910 kHz this week
• S Korea delays resumption of propaganda broadcasts
• RFE/RL president promotes new station in Pakistan
• Radio Mi Amigo opening relayed on 1395 kHz
• NRC International ends RNW partnership
• Radio Australia interviews new CEO Mike McCluskey
• New Ethiopian opposition television station jammed
• Al-Jazeera anchorwomen quit in clothing spat: reports
• Japan’s NHK to bring forward end of analogue satellite broadcasting
• Online petition launched to save swissinfo
• Report: Head of IRIB admits to satellite jamming
• NASB launches International Shortwave Survey
• Bulgarian President vetoes Radio and Television Bill
• Dutch radio listening figures March/April 2010
• Eurovision song contest feels the pinch
• DRM Consortium sends letter to UK House of Lords
• Ethiopia jams Deutsche Welle before and during elections
• Al-Jazeera to launch Sarajevo-based channel - reports
• RTL to launch bidding process for UK TV channel Five
• EPL in Norway moves from Canal+ to TV 2
• Taiwan to restrict sales of broadcast gear in move against illegal radio stations
• New TV station in Tonga plans to return to air next week
• BBC launches new iPlayer with links to rival sites
• N Korea to block border if South resumes broadcasts
• Venezuela’s Chávez launches interactive blog
• Over 80% of Japanese families have digital TV receivers
• Brazil launches international TV network
• BBC Trust finds iPlayer fulfils audience expectations
• Radio Mi Amigo returns to the air on Costa del Sol
• Record audience for BBC international news services
• RTL Nederland extends catch-up service to mobiles
• Dublin’s Q102 gets new ten-year contract
• North Korea threatens to fire at loudspeakers
• Africans to launch new Arabic-language TV channel
• Liberia’s Star Radio reactivates its shortwave service
• SES, Intelsat face interference from failed satellite
• Google bringing web to TV set
• Somali Islamists storm Mogadishu radio station
• Thai troops silence red-shirt radio broadcasts
• RNZI funding frozen for 2010/2011
• Extra RNW transmissions for Dutch general election
• UK launches “scrappage scheme” for analogue radios
• Eritrea raps “external forces” for jamming its radio, satellite transmissions
• RNW journalist injured in Bangkok violence
• South Sudan rebukes UN radio over rebel interview
• New Chief Executive for ABC Radio Australia
• Astra 3B satellite scheduled to launch tomorrow
• Radio Bar-Kulan expands to 16 hours a day
• Dutch Royal Library highlights Radio Veronica
• Weblog on hiatus until 20th May
• Eutelsat signs deal to operate Qatar’s first satellite
• Virtual protests in Tunisia against web censorship
• 20 jailed for CCTV tower blaze
• Australian TV show teaches Aboriginal language
• ITU and UNESCO announce top-level global Broadband Commission
• S Korea may resume loudspeaker broadcasts to North
• Korean government looks to the telecoms future
• RNW’s Vanessa Mock to present 2010 AIB awards
• Dispute in Jamaica over government’s media plans
• Mozambican government launches public debate on new broadcasting bill
• US to improve Pakistan radio signals in tribal areas
• Democracy Radio in Taiwan raided again by police
• Broadcast Partners wins contract to run Dutch public FM transmitters
• Jonathan Marks interviews launch director of Radio Bar-Kulan
• VOA launches Digital Frontiers project
• DRM tests from Brazil on 26040 kHz
• NHK, GlobeCast sign distribution deal
• RTL more than doubles first quarter operating earnings
• All MediaCorp radio stations can now be heard online
• Mauritius-based Arabic TV for Africa to launch 20 May
• President launches official Dominican Republic TV
• CBS, CNN may combine news operations - report
• Bulgarian Parliament approves changes to TV and Radio Act
• Digital radio trial to begin in Canberra
• Shuttered Armenian TV station to try Internet broadcasts
• Alarm raised over takeover of Bulgaria broadcasting unit
• CBC seeks to revolutionize energy consumption
• Rwanda: RTLM founder dies in jail in Benin
• Groups protest awarding of last Budapest FM frequency
• Senators call for Radio/TV Martí to become part of VOA
• VOA addresses Ethiopia on World Press Freedom Day
• International broadcasters obstructed in countries with little or no press freedom
• DRM Consortium launches new-look website
• ’Terminal’ cuts loom at BBCWS - Sunday Times
• UAE suffering pay-TV piracy on a large scale
• RSI reduces shortwave hours during summer months
• Deutsche Welle expands FM reach in Bangladesh
• Radio Free Asia responds to media freedoms survey
• Media Network Vintage Vault: Queen’s Day 1987
• UK’s Islam Channel plans to expand services abroad
• Miami Herald looks at repression of media
• Xinhua English TV starts trial broadcasts tomorrow
• VOA launches broadcasts to Horn of Africa on Arabsat
• RNW shortwave frequency change 2359-0030 UTC
• BBG says blog comments on broadcasts to Iran ‘uninformed’
• Thai government displeased with Thaicom
• “Millions of N. Koreans listen to foreign radio broadcasts” - US academic
• IRIN Radio gets the thumbs up in Somalia
• Monte Carlo Doualiya now on FM in Dubai
• Taiwan illegal radio stations down to 8: Premier Wu
• Colombian army dismantles FARC radio station
• Al-Shabab denounces VOA & BBC Somali Service chiefs
• Voice of Nigeria launches new website
• US Senators urge more measures to circumvent Iranian censorship
• Pan-Nordic TV channel proposed
• CRI now broadcasting in Indonesia via Radio Elshinta
• 24 FM stations in Pakistan refused permission to broadcast BBC Urdu news - report
• Bangladesh shuts down opposition-owned TV channel
• Venezuela’s Chávez joins Twitter
• VT Group given award for flood efforts in Thailand
• Ekho Moskvy targeted by pro-Kremlin activists
• Somalia: Minister admits administrative error over FM frequency
• NGO to get airtime on Yemen goverment radio
• New website for 1395 AM goes live
• Saudi billionaire plans to launch own news channel
• Dutch radio and TV advertising on road to recovery
• Taiwan’s TNTV launches English TV news online
• Blogger.com platform said to be blocked in Iran
• Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’s deficit increases
• China’s CCTV 9 switches to become English-language news channel
• Washington Post “discovers” CRI relay in Galveston
• BBG contracts Harris to modify MW transmitter site in Afghanistan
• Kosovo journalists condemn disabling of transmitters
• SES Astra launching Europe’s first 3D demo channel
• Pakistan to allow Indian TV channels
• Singapore regulator inviting expressions of interest to operate a FM radio station
• Italian-funded NATO radio launches in Afghanistan
• Call for minute’s silence for murdered journalists
• Dutch radio listening figures February/March 2010
• Ukraine OK’s broadcasting two Russian TV channels
• Voice of Tibet says China ‘jamming’ quake condolences
• New draft bill to regulate Swaziland broadcasting
• Jamming of Eritrean radio continues - BBC Monitoring
• Zimbabwe: empty promises for free expression - HRW
• EU takes first step towards single digital market
• 3 Bethlehem TV stations reopened
• Romania’s TVR might restart broadcasts to Moldova
• President ratifies Maldives Broadcasting Corporation Bill
• Puntland says it will open TV and radio station
• Former Radio Sutch DJ to stand in UK election
• Somalia Government threatens to close radio stations complying with Islamist militant music ban
• Radio Australia transmitter maintenance 21/22 April
• Yemen & Somalia sign media cooperation protocol
• KTR-Kyrgyzstan appeals for help
• Kenyan radio stations warned over signal violations
• Taiwan bans five more illegal radio stations
• Bakiyev supporters seize Kyrgyz TV station: report
• Sky News Australia signs agreement with China
• VOA Director refutes press allegation about VOA PNN
• SES Astra signs capacity agreement for South African pay TV
• AIR orders two high power transmitters for DRM
• Thailand: red shirts launch new radio station
• Media rights group cautions that independent media in Somalia may disappear
• Taiwan cracks down on underground radio stations
• Ebbing sunspot activity makes Europe freeze
• Pakistan: PBC financial crisis forces cuts in hours
• RNW partners with WRN to launch “Radio With Pictures”
• Australian indigenous TV gets 12 months funding guarantee
• British architect campaigns to save rusting Russian radio tower
• Motorists to get A1 Radio Scotland service on A9
• Saudi officials mull English-language Shari’ah TV
• BBC to reinstate FM broadcasts via SLBC
• Somali Islamists ban radio advert jingles
• Two more additions to Media Network Vintage Vault
• UK’s Ofcom deregulates commercial local radio
• Iran’s IRIB rejects jamming claim by ITU
• Dutch-authored radio play on VOA explores life under Khmer Rouge
• Voice of Russia plans to increase DRM broadcasts
• Lhasa People’s Radio Station to debut on 1 May
• Foreign firms allowed to compete for Israeli Arabic TV tender
• Yemen privatizes radio and television
• Pro-democracy Ocean Voice radio raided by Republic of China and forced off the air
• France 24 expands coverage in North America
• Zimbabwe: ZBC to launch Channel Two on 1 May
• Disagreement over planned board for RTHK
• SABC Radio to broadcast only local music for World Cup
• Azerbaijan, Georgia coordinate digital TV frequencies
• Deutsche Welle starts FM tests in Bangladesh
• Zambian MP bemoans collapse of ZNBC radio one signal in rural areas
• Ocean Voice Radio: illegal radio network in Taiwan
• Azerbaijan to declare tender for new TV channel
• Sharp says to launch 3D televisions by summer
• Somali govt plans contract to air BBC and VOA
• Indian government approves country’s digitalisation plan using DRM
• ZNBC workers want to remove acting DG
• Thai troops retake opposition TV station
• Somalia’s al Shabaab takes BBC off air
• Thai protesters march on satellite station
• Estonian National Broadcasting to publish news in English
• HFCC A10 operational schedule now available
• RFE/RL president meets Karzai, senior Afghan officials
• Japanese broadcasters pin hopes on online radio
• Thai authorities shut down protesters’ TV station
• Kyrgyz national TV station damaged by protestors
• Radio Habana Cuba expands use of 5040 kHz
• BBC Russian brings its multimedia content to Belarus
• RNW websites and blogs offline due to technical failure
• Protesters storm state radio/TV HQ in Kyrgyzstan
• National ethnic radio network for US
• Stop using English, China tells TV stations
• Strike by YLE technical staff cancels programmes
• Romania invests 4.5m euro in Moldova’s media
• Fiji regime plans new law to curb media
• Maldives Broadcasting Corporation bill passed
• UK regulator “trying to phase out AM frequencies”
• Macedonia name issue “resolved by June” - report
• BBC generates clean electricity for Ascension Island
• Russian-language broadcasters form international association
• France’s M6 sues over TF1 buying channels - report
• Fewer, but stronger, language services from Swedish Radio
• Christian radio station goes on air in Basra
• Dutch Freedom Party: scrap RNW and public TV
• New bill raises foreign media ownership ceiling in Turkey
• Farmers Voice Radio to be launched this year in Africa
• Turksat to sign contracts for new satellites
• TRT launches its long-awaited Arabic TV channel
• News Corporation sells Russian radio stations
• CRI celebrates 60th anniversary of broadcasts in 4 ASEAN languages
• Islamists order Mogadishu radios to stop playing music
• France 24 accuses Iran of blocking its website
• GoDaddy will stop registering new China domains
• Australian TV ownership rules may change
• EBU offers support for Teleradio Moldova
• Independent TV channel suspended in Kyrgyzstan
• Contract to operate IBB Tinian and Saipan relays
• Sierra Leone wakes up to new public broadcaster
• DRM radio format expedient for Russia, Moscow says
• Public backs RTHK proposals
• ZBC’s Bulawayo studio faces collapse
• Malaysia’s RTM urged to ‘return to the people’
• French broadcaster launches new channel in Vietnam
• BBCWS partners with Zain for easy WAP content access across Africa
• Burma launches TV channel targeting global audiences
• Property tycoon aims to rejuvenate Hong Kong’s oldest TV station
• Digital terrestrial TV debuts in Peru
• Voice of Russia gets FM presence in India
• Mauritania to get private broadcasters
• Indonesia: Falun Gong Radio station back on air
• Russian state TV slammed for tardy coverage of blasts
• Google says China’s “great firewall” blocked search
• Kenya launches educational digital TV, radio channel
• Al Jazeera to buy Sarajevo broadcaster Studio 99
• Media Network Vintage Vault: Numbers stations
• Brazil aims to set South American digital TV standard
• VOA says Ethiopia may be blocking its website
• SLBC launches new programme for expats in S Korea
• BBC bows to newspaper concerns, delays mobile apps
• Shams Radio wins Saudi FM licence
• 7 injured by TV station blasts in Bangkok
• Radio Romania International resumes weekly podcast
• Russia drops two time zones to boost economy
• Australian government backs public broadcasters
• Fiji extends media censorship
• New DRM Steering Board leadership elected
• ITU calls on Iran to stop jamming
• DVDs are the new medium to enlighten North Korea
• China playing by its own rules
• Swaziland Public Broadcasting Bill 2010 finalized
• Dutch radio listening figures for Jan/Feb 2010
• Bulgarian National Radio suspends some mediumwave transmissions
• Palestinian journalists praise decision to reopen radio stations
• Indonesia shuts down Falun Gong radio station
• New RNW shortwave/mediumwave schedule
• VOA launches website for Russian mobile phone users
• Eutelsat statement on BBC/VOA/DW Persian
• SBS “falling short on multilingual objectives” - MD
• Finnish Parliament group leaders put off YLE funding row
• RNW to increase cooperation with NOS
• New shows added to Media Network Vintage Vault
• Trial over CCTV tower fire opens in China
• Radio Havana Cuba now on the 60 metre band
• VOA Amharic now available via satellite
• DRM minimum receiver requirements published
• Free North Korea Radio correspondents use satphones
• VOA launches Internet-based English lessons in Farsi
• Stones hurled at Sri Lankan broadcaster’s office
• Minister opposes YLE financing from national budget
• ZBC demands licences at road blocks
• Somali minister reportedly says new UN-funded radio is “illegal”
• Drama at GTV delays midday news for 25 minutes
• Indonesia launches radio journalists association
• Taiwan to auction broadcast licences
• Chinese media hit out at Google
• EU ready to act on Iran satellite jamming - draft
• PM says Ethiopia plans to jam VOA broadcasts
• US imposes sanctions against Hamas TV station in Gaza
• BBC DJ who championed world music dies
• Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations establishes secretariat in Bulawayo
• Google, Intel, Sony team up on Google TV platform: NY Times
• Digiturk renews Eutelsat contract until 2021
• WBU-ISOG honoured for fighting satellite interference
• Eutelsat lodges complaints over Iranian jamming of satellite signals
• SIBC back on the air following power blackout
• France, UK, Germany ask EU to take anti-jamming measures against Iran
• SuperPower Nation - an experimental BBC global conversation
• BBC Global News staff face cuts in management shake-up
• Campaigners meet over Radio New Zealand funding
• Saudi university’s anti-terror Internet channel to become satellite channel
• DRM tests to Europe by The Disco Palace on 6015 kHz
• Indonesian broadcasting jamboree opens
• Liberty ends WorldSpace radio deal talks
• Copyright: EBU calls for “strong rights, easy access”
• Radio Sweden to become an Internet-only station
• Pakistan Senate body wants ban on controversial foreign programmes
• Bosnian Serb PM orders boycott of Croat broadcaster
• Berlusconi in probe over TV talk shows - source
• Finnish minister backpedals from broadcasting law delay
• BBC Kyrgyz service also suffering interruptions
• Two million minutes of rare audio at PBC under threat
• Georgia president rebukes TV channel for fake invasion newscast
• New satellite channel begins trial broadcasts in Sudan
• Venezuela’s Chávez calls for Internet controls
• RFE/RL Kyrgyz programmes off the air in Bishkek
• Yemen minister under fire for moves to gag media
• CNBC to open editorial hub in Bahrain
• Russia to expand radio broadcasting to India – Putin
• DW interactive radio project starts in Afghanistan
• China warns Google not to stop filtering web searches
• Yemen seizes Arab broadcasters’ equipment
• New YLE financing on hold
• Book review: Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World
• Fashion TV rapped over bare breasts in India
• Senator seeks to boost Radio Free Asia broadcasts
• Most Dutch local broadcasters receive too little from the council
• Europe’s top court urged to address Italy’s media pluralism gap
• Russia ready for television exchange with CIS countries
• SABC News International to be scaled back
• NRK executive hopes for Sami TV channel
• VOA launches special pre-election programming to Sudan
• Nostalgia on 13 March: Radio Veronica on 1395
• Malawi’s national broadcaster in financial trouble
• Indonesian Falungong radio station fights pressure to close
• Twitter introduces new service to prevent abuse
• IAB rejects measures against Venezuela’s RCTV
• Group calls for left-wing radio station in East Jerusalem
• US eases Iran, Cuba, Sudan sanctions to allow Web services
• Finnish minister proposes €190-195 public broadcasting tax
• DW Bengali to be heard on FM in Bangladesh
• Russia’s Traffic Radio on the air in Finland
• RNZI using only one shortwave transmitter
• Google testing TV search service with Dish Network: WSJ
• RNW sends two mobile radio stations to Chile
• Radio and TV transmitters break down in Namibia
• Illegal decoders enable many Africans to watch SABC
• Venezuela denies request to launch two anti-Chávez cable channels
• Sun to disrupt AFN TV, radio signal in Europe
• DRM test transmission of The Disco Palace on Monday
• TVNZ donates equipment to Pacific TV stations
• Women take over Sky News on Monday
• Language experts to monitor Turkey’s Kurdish channels
• Boss of Radio/TV Martí defends stations against critics
• New mediumwave transmitter on the air in Myanmar
• VOA Amharic broadcasts jammed in Ethiopia
• First in-car Web radio announced by MINI
• Radio Mi Amigo celebrates fifth birthday on 1395 kHz
• Belgian police raid offices of Roj TV
• Taiwan to host world indigenous media conference
• Police shut down ‘unlicensed’ Hebron radio stations
• Vatican TV station to broadcast in HD
• CRI believes it’s reaching Houston, but isn’t - paper
• Union of Asian DXers publishes bulletin #149
• Media Network Vintage Vault launched
• Ivory Coast allows France 24 TV station to restart
• Israeli MP calls IBA Arabic TV ‘an enemy within’
• New system will unite DAB and FM so listeners can choose stations by name
• No new expat radio stations to be licensed in UAE
• British broadcaster ITV returns to profit
• Zambian government plans to turn TV licence into levy
• New satellite TV bouquet for Angola
• New Japanese bill calls for revision of Broadcast Law
• Media Guardian interviews CRI’s Susan Osman
• BBC confirms plans to cut back website, close radio stations
• New radio station launches broadcasts to Somalia
• NBC Papua New Guinea replacing MW/SW with FM
• Brazil leans on South America to adopt its digital TV standard
• More programmes and news in Romany from Swedish Radio
• VT Group wins transmission contract with R. Australia
• English Premier League to launch new TV channel
• Irish radio stations angry at ‘unjustifiable’ levy
• Iran to launch joint TV station with neighbours
• Zambian satellite broadcaster considering porn package
• Rotana wins third Saudi FM radio licence
• Save Radio New Zealand protest in Auckland on Monday
• US troops to be allowed to use social networks
• BBC to close half its website, cut radio stations: report
• Kano State installs digital transmitters for Radio Kano
• Kurdish Roj TV wins right to broadcast in Germany
• Finance ministry backs swissinfo budget cuts
• Dutch radio listening figures for Dec/Jan released
• Cable theft in Kyrgyz east hits foreign broadcasts
• Ugandan president promises a Baruuli radio station
• BBC World News America to broadcast live from Cuba
• EU confirms it is probing a trio of Google complaints
• Marja van Bijsterveldt is acting minister responsible for media
• SABC to cut jobs in a bid to reduce costs
• Heads of Turkey’s broadcast watchdog sentenced
• Illegal radio stations operating in West Bengal
• Twitter tweets integrated into Yahoo! search results
• Embrace change, radio broadcasters told
• Setanta plans to try its luck in Asia
• “Voices From Afghanistan” exhibition opens at The Library Of Congress
• Israel launches new radio station for West Bank settlers
• Israel moves forward on plans for Arabic TV channel
• Internet TV channel officially launched in Azerbaijan
• Indonesian radio station says China behind closure
• Anti-Chávez RCTV plans new international channel
• Georgian Public Broadcaster to broadcast daily TV news for national minorities
• BBC Siemens staff ballot for industrial action
• Nigeria set to issue community radio licences
• Cote d’Ivoire takes France 24 TV off the air
• Sveriges Radio frequency change due to interference
• China PLA officer urges new Internet control agency
• Herzog: Israel cannot lose public broadcasting service
• Iran police chief says BBC/VOA are run by MI6/CIA
• Sudan TV briefly stops satellite transmission 19 February after facing jamming
• Special DRM transmissions to Delhi next week
• Veronica founder ‘Bull’ Verweij dies at 100
• Eutelsat considers Asian expansion options
• News Corp sells its Bulgarian TV business
• Finland’s YLE appoints new Director General
• TV for Slovaks abroad expected to begin this year
• BBC Creole service stopped broadcasting on 12 Feb
• SeeSaw joins Internet TV race in the UK
• EBU calls on Bosnia-Herzegovina to act on public broadcasting
• Radio New Zealand could cut overnight programmes
• Somali region bars locals from listening to BBC
• BBC Russian in new partnership with MSN
• NHK World now available in Hawaii
• Botswana TV may be dropped from satellite
• VOA Persian broadcasters reportedly accuse boss of poor editorial judgement
• Sudan’s Miraya FM launches new programming
• Radio Martí mediumwave transmitter disturbs marine communications
• Fashion TV accuses Iran of jamming broadcasts
• Activists drop radios to mark birthday of Kim Jong-Il
• Burma’s state-run broadcaster set for makeover
• US diplomat claims former owner of RTLM is in Kenya
• Vodafone reveals ‘world’s cheapest phone’
• Governor wants to change name of Guam to Guahan
• Czech MP writes to US counterparts over work conditions in RFE/RL
• Eutelsat renews jamming complaint & seeks ITU help
• Deutsche Welle showcases news app
• IRIB to launch Spanish and Urdu TV channels
• New edition of Radio Stations in the UK available
• Broadcasting in Nauru upgraded with Australian help
• Afghan paper accuses Tolo TV of being US tool for anti-Iran propaganda
• SLBC to resume broadcasting BBCWS programmes
• Intelsat 16 to expand DTH services in Latin America
• Japanese radio stations to trial broadcasts on Net
• Swedish company prepares to enter Kenyan TV market
• New Web radio station promotes ethnic Alaskan culture
• Haiti: Partnership between Internews and RFI
• Satellite television to Iran blocked
• Knighthood for RNW Africa journalist
• “Voice of England” to air Sat/Sun 2200-2400 UTC
• Radio Taiwan International starts daily webcast
• Europe’s first DIVX®-enabled digital TV service launches in Austria
• Iran to shut down Google email service - WSJ
• IBA announces more layoffs, programming cuts
• China holds 71 responsible for TV station fire tragedy
• What does the future hold for US broadcasting to Cuba?
• Burma TV international channel begins trial airing
• Chinese state TV says sorry for towering inferno
• Berber TV channel promises new voice for Morocco
• The Disco Palace launches broadcasts in DRM
• Rwanda Television to benefit from Japanese grant
• Greek TV station fined over ‘provocative’ weather forecaster
• NZ Government considering more Maori TV frequencies
• Zambia: ZNBC shortwave transmitters break down
• Turkmen president reprimands Communications Minister, fires TV boss
• OneGold launches test version of website
• BSkyB says sells ITV stake after antitrust ruling
• FCC official reports on media situation in Haiti
• Radio Tirana Online now streaming at 64 kbps
• SES World Skies to develop orbital slot at 67° W
• Power problems force Nigerian state station off air
• Australia Network in talks over broadcasting in China
• MTG acquires 50% of Russian DTH platform
• EC urges Lithuanian regulator to modify broadcast licensing regime
• CRI launches China’s first Estonian,Lithuanian websites
• CanalDigitaal expands HDTV at 23.5 degrees East
• Australia’s multi-cultural SBS may launch 24/7 news
• Georgia turns to US for Russian-language channel broadcasts
• Radio Pakistan stops VOA’s Pashto broadcasts after Taleban threats - paper
• Dutch Public Broadcasting wants to launch a new radio network
• R. Australia using new relay sites after Darwin closes
• Botswana’s only private TV station goes national
• ‘Unlicenced’ digital broadcasting begins in Ukraine
• RIA Novosti neither ’sponsor’ nor ‘backer’ of Russia Today - statement
• Venezuela allows four TV channels to resume cable broadcasts
• Radio Metropole in Haiti “running out of steam”
• India puts foreign investment curbs on mobile TV
• Local press and politicians react to Greenville closure plan
• First Caucasian TV takes Eutelsat to court
• BBG provides more background on new Spanish programme
• All India Radio orders digital mediumwave transmitters
• EU approves increase in Irish broadcasting fund
• Opposition attacks Belarus Internet crackdown
• Content ‘the key for shortwave broadcasters’
• Shortwave broadcasters back monitoring network
• DRM+ field trials in Germany in VHF Band III
• Broadcasting Authority of India to be created soon
• New mediumwave transmitter inaugurated in Enugu
• Armenian TV channel to broadcast all over Russia
• Spain’s public TV ratings rise after ads dropped: data
• Cooperation pledged on RTÉ signal in Northern Ireland
• RNW sends ‘Radio in a Box’ to Haiti
• VOA & Radio Martí launch joint news programme
• More on the BBG’s FY 2011 budget request
• The Union of Asian DXers is back !!
• VOA cuts in President’s proposed FY 2011 savings
• Eutelsat denies Kremlin pressure to cut Caucasus TV channel
• Trans World Radio to launch on DAB in NW England
• BBC releases new archive material on Lord Haw Haw
• Dutch-based Persian language website hacked
• ‘First Caucasian’ satellite broadcast suspended
• Two unprofitable AM stations close in Montreal
• Twitter boss says ‘told’ of China block
• Radio Prague schedule from 1 February
• Video journalists shed light on forgotten stories
• Vancouver’s AM 650 goes Russian in February
• Dutch radio stations back on air from 16 degrees East
• DD, AIR services to be fully digitised by 2017
• South Korea to provide hit TV series abroad free
• China builds world’s largest mobile multimedia broadcasting network
• BSkyB to broadcast world’s first 3D football coverage
• Amos-5i satellite starts operations over Africa
• Britain’s ITV appoints Royal Mail boss Crozier as CEO
• Radio Pakistan to launch new language services to Nepal and Sri Lanka
• UN radio service in Haiti begins “earthquake preparedness” broadcasts
• US Senator: Pull plug on Radio/TV Martí
• Dutch radio stations hit by satellite technical fault
• Dutch radio listening figures Nov/Dec 2009
• EBU could suspend services to Hungarian member
• EBU has talks on funding of Polish members
• RRSat Launches new platform for Iberia on Hispasat
• Iran’s Al Alam TV says taken off air by Arab operator
• Free North Korea Radio gives airtime to N. Koreans
• CNN looks at Commando Solo operation in Haiti
• Internet companies voice alarm over Italian law
• RCTV Internacional: government leaves us no options
• Serb/Albanian stations in Kosovo form network
• EC clears annual financing regime for Dutch public service broadcasters after amendments
• China to rebuild inferno-hit tower: state media
• SES Astra signs capacity agreement with Rai
• Sales of flatscreen TVs in Europe to break record
• New blog focuses on communications in Haiti
• Zimbabwe’s ZBC TV2 fails to launch, will be “coming soon” - ZBC PR
• Venezuelan TV chief defends suspension of TV Chile
• BBC Connexion Haiti producer explains challenges
• Satellite TV ‘making humans invisible to aliens on other planets’
• Venezuela’s RCTV discusses ways to get back on air
• Eutelsat signs major contract with MultiChoice Africa
• RTÉ plans for Ireland’s digital TV service
• CNBC now free to view for all BSkyB subscribers
• Arab ministers slam US congress satellite decision
• Radio Canada joins social-media experiment
• Turkmenistan reprimands broadcasting ministers
• Venezuelan TV broadcasters blacked out
• Pakistan government says it has jamming equipment
• VOA Site B in Greenville gets local TV exposure
• BBC launches a Creole service to Haiti
• New 1395 website to be launched soon
• Air America to close, files for bankruptcy
• Pakistan’s PBC launches 24-hour FM music channel
• Dutch donate nearly 83 million euros for Haiti aid
• Parliamentary commission does not support merger of Latvian State Radio and Television
• IBA furious at “Radio Israel” name
• Media merger won’t mean radical changes for RRI: lawmaker
• ABC-Australia to launch 24-hour news channel
• Radio remains most popular medium in Finland
• BSkyB loses another court appeal over ITV stake
• SIBC drops nighttime relays of BBC to save money
• TWR-Asia renews cooperation with SLBC
• RNW broadcasting Dutch radio fundraiser for Haiti
• UN radio in Haiti back on air with French support
• US military delivers radios to Haiti quake survivors
• Tajikistan ready to launch joint TV station with Iran, Afghanistan
• Radio Netherlands partners AIR for co-production
• TRT’s Arabic TV channel to launch next month
• China’s Baidu sues US company over cyber attack
• Microsoft to cut time it holds Internet search data
• Radio Prague continues on SW with one transmitter
• Euronews to launch Persian and Turkish editions
• Azerbaijan to complete switch to digital TV in 2012
• Haiti’s Radio Lumière stays on-air, all programming “outdoors”
• TWR Bonaire relaying 4VEH Haiti on mediumwave
• BBC Indonesia re-launches as multimedia broadcaster
• Pakistan declares 2010 as the Year of Radio
• Egyptian TV channel helps bring Vietnam’s image to Arab world
• OSCE says Turkey blocking 3,700 websites
• RFI launches daily programme to Haiti
• Haitian broadcasters getting back on the air
• ITU recommendation to control volume variations in TV programming
• Proposed Web video restrictions cause outrage in Italy
• Pennsylvania Guard deploys broadcast aircraft to Haiti
• VOA on FM frequencies “throughout” Haiti
• BBCWS broadcasts special lifeline programming for Haiti
• PCJ Media compiling personal messages for Haiti
• China’s online population swells to 384 million
• Bonaire to continue VOA Creole relay next week
• Ears to our World sends wind-up radios to Haiti
• Tunisia about to launch EU-funded radio programme
• ABC & Sky to contest contract to run Australia Network
• Malaysia’s Measat brings Africasat-2 into service
• Internews helps in Haiti
• RT starts live broadcasting from Washington DC
• Intersputnik and Eutelsat announce long-term capacity agreement
• Danubius wins lawsuit in Hungary over licence loss
• Media Association Jamaica offers to set up FM station in Haiti
• Intelsat provides communications infrastructure to Haiti
• RFE/RL launches radio station in Pakistan’s Pashtun heartland
• VOA Creole using 1180 AM, pre-empting Radio Martí
• Azerbaijanis residing in Turkey open TV channel
• ITU joins international effort to assist Haiti
• SES World Skies donates satellite capacity in support of relief efforts for Haiti
• BBC joins international protests against Iranian TV interference
• Strasbourg Connection’ at Radio Romania
• Spain’s public TV ratings rise after it drops adverts
• TRT-Turkey withdraws from ratings system
• Extended VOA broadcasts to Haiti
• Chinese websites warned of more cyber-attacks
• Uganda: Ssuubi FM back on air
• Estonian public TV to go widescreen this summer
• Sudan expands use of MENOS Satellite News Exchange System
• CBC and e-Radio complete successful test of smart appliance technology
• Spain to shut down up to 3,000 illegal radio stations
• HCJB programme co-host Helen Howard dies at 89
• RNW Madagascar resumes full schedule on 17 Jan
• Bangladesh plans 24-hour news TV channel
• Sirius Canada exceeds one million subscribers
• IBB to award new contract to operate Saipan/Tinian
• China to construct Bolivia’s first satellite
• Chávez asks Venezuela TV to make ’socialist soap operas’
• NBC moves Jay Leno’s show from prime-time
• Vietnam to establish its own social network
• RTVE eliminates all advertising from its programming
• ABU appoints new Secretary-General
• Lebanon asks US to reverse ban on Hezbollah TV
• RFI adds two English broadcasts to its live stream
• China to launch AIDS radio programme: state media
• Strike looms at IBA - management considering lockout
• French NATO unit launches radio station for Afghans
• Vietnam helps Laos build radio-TV station
• New IBB technical director appointed
• France eyes ‘Google tax’ on Internet ads
• BBCWS Director predicts huge growth in mobile phone news services to Africa
• Journalist death toll up in 2009
• Britain sets broadband tax plans in motion
• WorldSpace India team appeals to PM for intervention
• CRI on AM in Galveston may be just a test
• RFI unions call “indefinite” strike from 7 January
• New satellite TV station launches in UAE
• Nostalgia: Armed Forces Vietnam Network
• Opening World Cup match to be shown in 3-D
• Communications Authority to be established in HK
• Budapest court rules frequency awards unlawful
• New range of Internet radios launched in US
• Argentine radio station run by teenagers
• Digital TV boost for rural Australia
• Morocco reschedules launch of first Amazigh TV channel
• China Radio International now on AM in Galveston
• International broadcasters on Iran’s ’seditious’ list
• Georgia’s new Russian-language TV channel launches
• Talpa sells Radio 10 Gold to RTL Nederland
• British PM asked to ban Mojahedin-e Khalq broadcasts
• New iPhone application allows users in Iran to send content to VOA
• China Xinhua 24h news network launches
• SABC board up in arms against new CEO
• RTM, private media urged to increase Malay language usage
• Deutsche Welle latest target of Iranian jamming
• AsiaSat 5 selected for DTH service in Vietnam
• Saudi Arabia to name FM licence winners
• BBC criticised for spending millions on art
• VOV traffic information channel launched in HCM City
• FM stations in Burma taking listeners from shortwave
• RT launches 24/7 broadcasting in Spanish
• Vienna’s New Year’s concert broadcast to 72 countries
• CRI received nearly 3 million letters/emails in 2009
• BFBS Radio 2 returns on 11 January
• Airtel DTH replaces WorldSpace radio channels
• Iran expands world TV broadcasts with new channel
• Happy New Year to all our readers
• BBG statement on interference of broadcasts to Iran
• German private channels to go to EU over licence fees
• Endemol’s Big Brother plans enrage Brits
• Dutch queen’s Christmas message upsets Web users
• How ISAF uses radio to reach Afghans
• Ecuador TV station returns to air after suspension
• Indian satellite radio policy to be put on hold
• Wikipedia founder seeks more African languages
• National Internet TV station launches in China next week
• Georgian public TV funding linked to GDP
• HCJB Australia special broadcast in German today
• WorldSpace will exit India on New Year’s Eve
• Italian police silence ‘voice of God’
• Dutch DJs raise over 7 million euros for charity
• Happy holidays to all our readers
• Environmental TV channel launching in Vietnam
• VOA to drop morning broadcast in Bengali
• Tropical storm disrupts Kenyan radio fundraiser
• French radio technicians end strike after some pay concessions
• Beijing pressures Asian countries to silence SOH
• Frequency change for Deutsche Welle via Bonaire
• Ecuador suspends signal of private TV channel
• ArabSat/NileSat to broadcast TRT Arabic-language channel
• Burmese ethnic groups plan shortwave broadcasts
• English TV channel in Korea to increase live programming
• TATV showcases Turkey and Turks to American audience
• Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation launches live streaming
• Russia’s CTC Media to launch Broadcasts in North America
• Korea Communications Commission considers allowing 24h broadcasting
• RFI now available by phone within France
• BBC Scotland Hogmanay show to be available worldwide
• BBC Persian television broadcasting despite interference from Iran
• RTBF International confirms dropping shortwave
• New digital TV journal launched
• Dutch radio listening figures Oct/Nov 2009
• Technicians’ strike disrupts French radio broadcasts
• US radio network files for bankruptcy protection
• Hong Kong digital TV coverage to expand
• Polish MPs want to extend TV production quotas
• KBC to launch FM vernacular stations in Kisumu
• 12 FM radio stations opened in Yemen
• WorldSpace may go mute in India: report
• EU Parliament criticizes Azerbaijan on media curbs
• Czech Republic upholds licence fee
• Twitter hacked by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’
• Kokavil transmission tower in Northern Sri Lanka to be in operation soon
• Pakistan satellite TV channels exceeding ad limit
• Prasar Bharati Chairman’s resignation accepted
• Sierra Leone parliament approves broadcasting bill
• Bauchi Radio Corporation off the air in Nigeria
• Appeals start in Hungarian radio frequency case
• RFI to give up FM stations in Portugal and Serbia
• US Congress satellite decision angers Middle East
• US State Department revamps website in Web 2.0 push
• European Parliament to debate Bulgaria’s proposed referendum on Turkish newscasts
• BBC dismissed Led Zeppelin as ‘unconvincing’: archives
• World Radio TV Handbook 2010
• Dutch Muslim TV recognises Ahmadiyya sect
• RFI-Sofia journalists slam “murky broadcaster sale”
• NBC Universal Channel launches broadcasts in Turkey
• Press Now and NPS help rebuild Georgian radio station
• RFI-Sofia changes hands, name and programming
• MISA Zimbabwe speaks on shortwave radio stations
• LG Electronics aims to sell 400,000 3D TV sets next year
• Azerbaijan to launch two telecommunication satellites in 2011-2012
• Report: 20% of TVs shipped in Europe next year to have Internet capability
• Saudi Arabia to launch new TV and radio channels
• EC accepts Microsoft commitments to give users browser choice
• SLBC celebrates its 84th anniversary today
• Two Latvian TV channels to go digital in 2010
• Second TV station For Zimbabwe
• Australia defends controversial Web filter
• Venezuela assembly launches its own radio station
• BBC Russian launches one minute video news bulletins
• Happy 90th birthday to Cliff Michelmore
• Lesotho to migrate from analogue to digital TV broadcasting
• RTLM journalist jailed for life over Rwanda genocide
• RNW’s Earth Beat programme to air in India
• New 1000 kW mediumwave transmitter in Bangladesh
• World Radio TV Handbook 2010
• China blocks Sun TV signal in content crackdown
• IBB planning weekly TV show for Latin America
• Radio Prague on its shortwave future
• China’s broadcasting watchdog urges websites to solve copyright problems
• Zambian president advises ministry to give Muvi TV national licence
• PBC ‘blocks’ VOA Pashto - report
• German government split on public broadcasting fees
• RFI confirms dropping of several languages
• UK authorities close pirate stations in Huddersfield
• ORTT to call tender for last free Budapest radio frequency
• EBU calls for stable of funding of Polish public broadcasting
• Iranian Arabic-language TV said back on Arabsat satellite
• Another ex-Radio Caroline DJ speaks to press
• SES Astra to offer Astra2connect in the Middle East
• Big L 1395 to premier new PAMS jingles
• German oldies station adds 603 kHz in Berlin
• Rwandan leader concerned by dominance of DR Congo radios
• Free North Korea Radio founder wins award
• Botswana Government reply to Zimbabwe complaint
• Medvedev: digital broadcasting in Russia by 2015
• Proposal to change funding scheme for public TV in Georgia
• Kenya begins migration to digital broadcasting
• VOA ramps up SMS alerts for worldwide audience
• Top executives at South Korea’s MBC offer to resign
• YLE reserves HDTV channel
• United Nations Television joins Livestation
• India: BIG 92.7 FM and BBC World Service join hands
• New premium sports channel to launch in Finland
• Laos builds regional radio & TV transmitting stations
• Italy approves commercial launch of DAB+ digital radio
• EC opens investigation into funding of RTVE
• Message to commercial companies posing as readers
• France puts digital radio on hold
• House of Lords debate on Future of the BBC
• Botswana ignores Zimbabwe’s threats over VOA
• EBU: Funding cuts endanger public service media
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• Azerbaijan may ban TV channels that broadcast “anti-Azerbaijani” programmes
• Journalist says Nepal’s non-registration of FM frequencies is risky
• UK’s Channel 5 signs deal with YouTube
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• VOI re-launches to provide viewers with “just news”
• New Cambodian media outlets slated for next year
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• Libyan official denies “Saddam” satellite channel broadcasting from Tripoli
• ORF launches second HD channel on Astra
• BBC newsreader joins China Radio International
• Big L/KBC Radio now testing on 1395 kHz
• VOA: Complaints about ‘pirate’ radio stations inaccurate
• RTÉ announces expansion of digital radio network
• Japanese TV to end analogue cable in 2015
• IRIB websites hacked
• French government agrees to cut tax on broadcasters
• Norway: digital terrestrial TV network completed
• Ecuador’s Correa supports bill to regulate media
• Google to let publishers limit free website access
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• Italy raps News Corp over channel delay claim
• Chechen presidential advisor suggests “Radio Caucasus”
• Four MediaCorp stations relaunch on the Internet
• Bulgarian business group acquires RFI-Sofia
• BBC Kyrgyz launches TV co-production
• News Corp delays Italy channel, awaits gov’t OK
• Deputy Minister says Zimbabwe has capacity to licence 94 radio stations
• Sirius, Liberty could do WorldSpace deal
• RNW makes programme for Colombian hostages
• SES orders four new satellites
• ‘Saddam TV’ begins broadcasting in Iraq
• Latvian Radio to cut employees; TV to cut salaries
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• Canadian government agrees more funding for TV5
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• Iraqi Kurdish opposition group to launch terrestrial TV station in Kirkuk
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• US Senator wants to eliminate Radio/TV Martí
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• Malta to get new digital radio channels next year
• New Bulgarian government to change digital plan
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• Emmis to exit Hungary after losing radio licence
• Russian broadcast satellites contract awarded
• Copenhagen 24/7: interactive TV livestream launched
• Singapore’s MediaCorp to launch new radio channel
• Korean President to appoint new KBS chief despite opposition
• Fiji strips licences from broadcasters
• PCJ Media special about radio in Africa
• Iran “trying to wage media battle against US” - VOA
• Radio France Internationale opens Southern Sudan relay
• Government should not control the media - Tsvangirai
• Radio 538 to start its own TV channel
• Obama taps former Bush aide for BBG post
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• Turkey concerned at Turkish airtime cuts in Germany
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• EBU to hold DRM Conference next week
• Polish survey shows drop in number of Internet users
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• DW signs cooperation deal with Mongolia’s MNPRT
• Russia’s Kola Sami Radio in financial trouble
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• BBG says its broadcasts still attract large audiences
• Sierra Leone: NATCOM warns defaulting stations
• BBC News appoints its first Social Media Editor
• Eutelsat and ABS strike agreement for 75° East
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• RSF to provide financial help to anti-Pyongyang radio stations
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• UTV to consider bidding for news contracts across Britain
• Al-Alam resumes broadcasting on new satellite
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• Venezuela claims Colombian army signal blocking its National Radio
• Tom Lodge talks about real life on the North Sea
• ZBH suspends three for leaking information
• Al Gore’s Current Media cuts 80 jobs
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• Azeri paper says Radio Liberty resumes broadcasts on Turksat
• Cambridge Consultants announce new ’spectral sensing’ radio technology platform
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• JRTVC joins Euromed-news consortium
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• NTDTV takes Eutelsat to court over broadcast termination
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• Greece: ERT president resigns
• RNW Indonesian frequency change
• Venezuelan Press Block says government controls over 700 media outlets
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• Making jingles and tunes is a true profession
• New four-tower antenna system for Marathon
• Australian radio station outs Lula impersonator
• China media should boost party image, official says
• Malta and China to cooperate in broadcasting
• Hungary’s Sláger Rádió looks to new frequencies
• Radio Australia Burmese service launches
• VT broadcasts Polskie Radio shortwave output
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• Kim Jong-il sacks Central Broadcasting Committee chairman
• EBU urges rethink of cuts to Hungary’s public broadcaster
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• Hungary’s ORTT head resigns in wake of licence announcement
• Radio Australia service to Burma launches
• Return of 1395 kHz delayed by a few days
• Middle East FM radio broadcasting services boom
• Manx Radio has highest audience reach in British Isles
• Continent TV - new satellite pay service for Russia
• BBC Trust agrees 25 per cent cut in BBC senior management pay bill
• Nepal’s Tarai Television resumes operation
• RTM should strengthen its TV programmes - minister
• Quality of TV transmissions in Ghana about to improve
• CBC gets OK to convert Whitehorse AM signal to FM
• West Africa Democracy Radio on Eurobird 1
• European Commission wants airwaves freed by move to digital TV to work for swift economic recovery
• European Commission approves ORF quality agreement
• Leading Hungarian radio networks lose licences
• Belarus president grants tax exemption to national broadcaster
• Malawi: Convicted boy broadcaster to get own station
• New Executive Director for Radio Nepal
• CNBC and Seoul Broadcasting System to launch Korean business channel
• Taipei to ease restrictions on Chinese media in Taiwan
• Radio Television Malaysia to sell its audiovisual products
• China’s broadband users top 99.33 million
• VOA anchor ranked in Top 100 most influential women in Ukraine
• Somali government launches strong FM station in Mogadishu
• France Télévisions signs contract to broadcast all France 3 regional channels on satellite
• The Voice of America: Origins and recollections
• Armenia has Internet audio news in 13 languages
• EBU says Kosovo television “media arm” of ruler
• Financial crisis threatens BBC Ascension Island relay
• Pacific broadcasters agree to share material
• BFBS Afghanistan launched today
• New director appointed for International Radio Serbia
• Broadcasters in Fiji suspended from CBA
• Korea to help Cambodia launch mobile TV service
• Model of Azerbaijan’s national satellite to be presented in Baku
• New SW radio station launches in Nanning, China
• Mobile phone giant Nokia sues Apple over patents
• CCTV launches broadcasting in Maldives
• Classical radio station launches in UAE tomorrow
• Dutch radio listening figures for Aug/Sep 2009
• SLBC Jaffna Regional Service to go national
• Pro-Zelaya stations in Honduras resume broadcasting under close control
• U2 to stream entire concert live on YouTube
• Digital broadcasting symposium in Moscow a success
• Radio Bulgaria launches new website
• RSF Press Freedom Index 2009 published today
• American Samoa radio station honoured for tsunami efforts
• Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal confirms end of SW
• TV Brasil preparing international channel
• The ICC launches a new outreach programme
• Radio Mada Internationale to change frequency a day early
• Germany’s ARD and ZDF plan April 2012 analogue switch-off
• KBS to provide Korean language lesson on international flights
• Switzerland plans commercial launch of HD Radio
• Irish broadcasting sector set to receive funding boost next year
• TRT launches tourism and documentary channel
• Cyprus dialect banned on Turkish Cypriot TV
• Voice of Russia starts broadcasting in cell phone format
• China seeks to enhance broadcast coordination with developing countries
• Radio Mada Internationale back on shortwave
• Family Radio plans tests via Madagascar
• BBG members testify on US international broadcasting into Iraq and Afghanistan
• Maldives national broadcasting corporation bill sent to committee
• Britain’s Channel 4 to broadcast on YouTube
• Finland makes fast Internet connection a right
• English pubs foreign satellite verdict due on 4 Nov
• Belgium to close international TV channel RTBF Sat
• TV channel for ethnic minorities licensed in Romania
• ADXB-OE QSL-Action in cooperation with Radio Slovakia International
• New shortwave provider for Polish Radio
• VOA launches FM station in Hargeisa
• Eutelsat strengthens its position in Poland
• Ian Wallace, My Music panellist, dies aged 90
• Venezuela, Cuba to start laying fibre optic cable
• VOA boosts broadcasts across Pakistan on AM and FM
• Dutch TV viewers watching fewer different channels
• Malawi broadcasting experts apply for radio licence
• RTR-Planeta produces special version for Ukraine
• Ethiopia’s state-run TV to expand coverage
• Sky News launches live online broadcast feed
• Broadband Internet to cover Bulgaria by 2013
• EBU’s international broadcasters appoint RNW’s DG as new chair
• Radio Prague threatened with shortwave closure
• Magyar Televizio selects Eutelsat’s Eurobird™ 9A satellite for broadcasting across Europe
• Networks offered free footage from English-language Russian channel
• VOV officially broadcasts in Co Tu ethnic language
• Argentine lawmakers to seek changes in media law - report
• Vatican Radio & RVA in transmitter airtime swap
• German private broadcasters to launch HD With HD+ on November 1, 2009
• Big L looking to recruit ‘unpaid volunteer DJs’
• Sky launches new UK music download service
• Bernama to exchange radio & TV programmes with CRI
• Zelaya supporters blast Honduras media crackdown
• AFN radio signal in Naples resumes
• CCTV Russian begins broadcasting in Kyrgyzstan
• Radio Sweden to stop issuing QSL cards
• Argentina’s senate approves media bill
• Big L says it is returning to 1395 kHz on 1 November
• 2010 Defense Authorization Bill includes $15m for BBG
• Community radio triumphs over big broadcasters in Washington
• VOA Somali permitted to resume operations in Puntland
• Ivory Coast to get human rights broadcasting service
• TDM-Macau launches satellite channel
• French Arab-language broadcaster said ill-served by new holding company
• Radio Seagull to begin daily broadcast in London
• Head of RFI details anticipated deficit, action taken to cut costs
• Lowered restrictions greatly expand SAT-7’s potential audience
• Voice of Russia profiled on Daily Telegraph website
• Radio Heritage Foundation praises Samoa tsunami broadcasters
• RFE/RL confirms new broadcast to Abkhazia and South Ossetia
• Denmark’s 100 FM will continue in limited form
• Dutch Muslim broadcasters pull the plug
• TV news channels explode in Europe but future unsure
• EWTN founder awarded top honour by Pope
• Taliban winning the new media War 2.0?
• England’s World Cup qualifier exclusively on Internet
• Mike Ahern R.I.P.
• Taiwan investigates interruption of NTDTV signal
• Radio Liberty to start broadcasts for Abkhazia and South Ossetia - report
• Premiere Radio Networks launches “London Calling”
• UAE radio group eyeing revenue growth in 2009
• HAARP scientists create ‘artificial ionosphere’
• TRT plans more non-Turkish domestic broadcasts
• VOA audiences can now get news with Stitcher.com
• Irish commercial broadcasters criticise choice of chief for new Broadcasting Authority
• Puntland bans local stations from rebroadcasting VOA Somali
• FEBC back in full operation in the Philippines
• CBS to launch UK television channels
• Argentina: Upper House signs Broadcasting Bill draft tomorrow
• Honduras: censored Radio Globo quadruples listeners by going online
• Disaster alert radio developed in Canberra
• Extra RNW Indonesian broadcasts due to earthquake
• Latest Dutch radio listening figures: 100%NL marches onwards and upwards
• RNW Arabic service via Radio All for Peace
• Outlandish TV station could become public broadcaster
• YLE chief’s job on the line following bribery allegation
• More international oversight of Internet in new agreement
• Singapore sets up body to prevent cyber-attacks
• Senate may change Argentine broadcast reform
• Mobile TV service launches in Polish capital
• Radio St. Helena Day 2009: Saturday 14 November
• BBC to relaunch website with focus on social media - Media Guardian
• UK Internet ad spend overtakes TV for first time
• RNZI schedule change from 17 October 2009
• Shuttered Honduran radio resumes broadcasts on Web
• New tough media rules in Kenya to be opposed
• SES World Skies’ NSS-12 satellite arrives at launch base
• All-English radio in Korea falls below expats’ expectations
• 18 million UK homes will need to retune Freeview TV boxes
• Court orders RFI to change job cut plan
• Joint declaration by VOA/BBCWS/DW/RFI/RNW
• AIB announces judges for 2009 International Media Excellence Awards
• New shortwave/mediumwave frequency schedule published
• Talpa decides to pull out of Danish radio market
• British broadcaster Mike Read “declared bankrupt” - report
• “Swedish TV too American” says EU
• Banned opposition radio station in Sierra Leone goes to court
• Broadcasting union and BBC heading for clash over BNP
• Pirate radio operator banned from London roof tops
• UNHCR and BBC team up to warn people about Gulf of Aden risks
• Chávez tightens Venezuela broadcasting control
• Polish radio station sues rival for plagiarism
• Honduran troops shut pro-Zelaya radio station - director
• New Chinese high-definition TV channels launch tomorrow
• KVTT Christian radio switches from FM to AM
• Vietnam News Agency plans international TV channel
• China to build, launch satellite for Laos
• The Voice of Peace returns as an Internet station
• Radio Pakistan Lahore back on mediumwave
• Georgian president says country has licensed opposition TV
• BCI welcomes research on digital radio in Ireland
• New private TV station launches in Malawi
• VOA Kurdish via Madagascar frequency change on 1 October
• Ghanaian government expresses concern about operations of GBC
• New wave of censorship in Honduras
• Finances dominate CBC/Radio-Canada public meeting
• Switzerland set to allow alcohol ads
• Jordan’s lack of appreciation of public service broadcasting
• Slovakia: Commercial DVB-T broadcasting to start at the end of 2009
• Classic Hits is fastest-growing radio format in US
• CRI Online launches six language services
• Japan’s TV standard promoted at Lima conference
• Broadcasting in Kurdish to be allowed on Turkish private TV stations
• Football: EBU wins TV rights for Euro 2012
• Microsoft’s Bing increased US search share in August
• Trans World Radio broadcasts continue from Bonaire despite tower repairs
• blinkx partners with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Japan ponders broadcasting watchdog
• Polish premier regrets management conflicts at public TV
• Libyan Government to launch website in English
• RTHK to be “public service broadcaster”, but remain under government control
• UK regional TV news needs new funding - Ofcom
• Application to make use of 18 unused mediumwave frequencies in South Africa
• Georgia chooses 36° East for first DTH platform
• Eutelsat about to double capacity at 36° East
• Zimbabwe: Radio VOP Listenership up
• Egypt boosts digital AM radio signals
• English Premier League clamps down on illegal web broadcasts of matches
• Holbrooke calls for countering Taliban propaganda
• Ministry threatens to fire ZBC managers
• Radio Australia celebrates 70 Years
• Argentine lower house approves media reform law
• BBC Trust announces changes to BBC Worldwide governance
• Officer declares foreign radio stations “at war” with Zimbabwe
• Murdoch’s Sky Italia sues Berlusconi’s Mediaset
• Qatar Foundation Radio set for October launch
• Dutch Public Broadcasting will get less money from government
• Kenya to start testing digital TV in October
• Canal Digitaal to launch new HD channels on Astra 23.5 degrees East
• Netcom Africa signs service expansion deal with SES World Skies
• TVP launches free-to-air platform on Astra
• Argentina’s opposition parties reject Broadcasting Bill despite modifications
• XM Canada reaches royalty agreement with key players
• Radio Pakistan plans a number of new mediumwave transmitters
• We’ve changed our appearance, but it’s business as usual!
• Eurobird 1 technical problems at 28.5 East appear to have been solved
• Experts accuse Zambian Information Minister of double standards
• Bolivian President seeks ITU support to launch satellite
• Problems with Eurobird 1 at 28.5 degrees East
• UK broadcasting regulator to investigate Muslim TV channels
• Indonesian Palapa D satellite reaches preset orbit
• Chinese broadcaster CCTV launches four more channels to Europe
• Russia’s digital broadcasting program may be approved in November
• DRM Receiver Profiles released at IBC 2009
• BBC plans to make iPlayer available to other broadcasters
• SES to provide broadband connection to African market
• WNYC to Launch WQXR on 105.9 FM on 8 October at 8pm
• Pathfinder Launches Premium DTH Service across Nigeria
• NHK Global Media Services launches HD platform on Intelsat network
• Big US media companies join up to study TV audiences
• BBC1 to launch new regional TV football programme
• European broadband grows to 135 million subscribers
• Former BSkyB boss Ball in talks on ITV job - source
• Independent commission reports on RNW’s performance 2004-2008
• Vietnam to launch second orbital satellite by 2012
• Finnish public broadcaster proposes four percent licence fee rise
• Televisa contracts with Intelsat for expanded international distribution
• Sirius FM-5 satellite has been placed into service
• Nicaragua’s radio stations struggle to stay on the air
• DRM Consortium to present complete global standard at IBC
• TF1 digital deal faces in-depth probe - watchdog
• Bangladesh to licence more private TV channels
• Eutelsat statement on launch of W7 satellite
• SES Americom-New Skies satellite division becomes SES World Skies
• South Korean president denies allegations of media control
• SABC closes five international news bureaus
• Zambia: State warns My TV to cease broadcasting Muvi TV programmes
• Bidding process for national radio & TV licences begins in Nigeria
• Global certification standard announced for Internet radios
• Radio Pakistan goes off air in Khairpur
• Turkey plans to allow private Kurdish-language radio and TV - report
• Misunderstanding prompts Zambian government to probe Muvi TV
• World’s first DMB-Radio Profile one compliant tuner released
• Chávez minister vows more Venezuela radio closings
• Samsung: LED TV sales to grow at least five fold in 2010
• Nepal government stops issuing new FM licences for 9 districts
• Radio Pakistan resumes Balti/Shina programmes to northern areas
• Broadcasters asked to raise climate change awareness
• Lord Haw Haw’s microphone sold for £8000 at auction
• Nigeria: presidency directs NBC to license more broadcast networks
• Dutch radio listening figures: 100%NL continues to gain market share
• China’s Central TV to launch broadcasting in Russian
• Sony to launch 3D TVs next year: report
• An evening with Johnnie Walker in Redditch on 9 September
• DRM system enhancement approved by ETSI
• Honduran radio condemns intentional fire in its station
• RFI again affected by strike action over job cuts
• UK pirate station moves to 1395 kHz every weekend
• Zimbabwe govt will issue TV and radio licences soon - minister
• North Sea Classic Rock becomes Rock Planet
• State TV in North Korea airs more commercials
• YLE marks 50 years of news on Finnish TV
• EU probes French subsidy for public television networks
• Medvedev launches YouTube channel
• Simon Dee R.I.P.
• Radio the Voice of Vietnam launches East Sea broadcasting services
• Journalists want Ghana’s GBC to become a real public broadcaster
• Argentina adopts Japanese digital TV standard
• Bulgarian TV station campaigns against Turkish news broadcast
• Vandals destroy radio station’s equipment in São Paulo
• Radio Mi Amigo to broadcast on 1602 kHz on Sunday
• Chávez to broadcast Aló Presidente over Colombia border
• WorldSpace asset purchase agreement terminated
• Sri Lanka TV transmission to go digital using DVB-T system
• Digital terrestial television opens for the civil society in Denmark
• Tunisian television goes digital
• Al-Jazeera to launch sports news channel
• Danmarks Radio to reintroduce English news on its website
• DRM+ field trial in Germany
• New European initiative merges TV with the power of the Internet
• Rwanda to have digital broadcasting by next year
• BBC marks 70th anniversary of WWII with new Archive collection
• UN Peacebuilding Fund may withhold support to SLBC
• Radio Taiwan International affected by Typhoon Morakot
• South Korea to start multicultural radio station
• Army breaks into Radio Bethlehem 2000, confiscates its equipment
• Lord Haw Haw’s microphone to be auctioned
• North Korea builds up telecom service: state media
• No Direction Home? Dylan could be SatNav voice
• Satirist, not Pyongyang, behind North Korean Twitter feed
• Kazakhstan’s first Islamic TV station launched with Ramadan
• Radio Pakistan Lahore is loud, clear - not silent - PBC
• Pakistan’s PBC launches English music station
• Decision on funding for YLE to be made next week
• Macra to help out private media in Malawi with digital migration
• George Woodard - a life dedicated to shortwave radio
• 4,500 Thai radio stations register to go legal
• BBG reacts to the release of VOA stringer Rahman Bunairee
• Iran’s Karrubi to set up satellite TV network - website
• Sierra Leone broadcasting act keeps public media under state control
• Reconstruction of Kokavil transmission tower begins in Sri Lanka
• Radio Pakistan Lahore goes silent on mediumwave
• Radio Veronica 1974 will also be on DAB in London on 31 August
• Peru to promote Japanese digital broadcasting system
• Guinea Bissau: Catholic and Islamic radios in joint programming
• Radio Hello 106.4 FM to air BBC’s Tamil programming
• Premier Christian Radio to go national via DAB in UK
• BBC Prime to rebrand as BBC Entertainment
• Third national TV news station to launch in Romania
• Pentagon Channel to launch on Ustream.tv
• DJ reunion marks end of Caroline Exhibition on IoM
• Saudi radio to start broadcasting in Turkish from 22 August
• DR Congo stations threatened with closure for retransmitting RFI
• Ugandan FM stations told to reduce broadcasting hours
• ZBC staff threaten to strike over unpaid salaries
• Radio Caroline to broadcast on 531 kHz from 28-31 August
• IBB and HCJB testing DRM shortwave via Greenville
• Vietnam Television opens bureau in US
• Ondas Media agrees satellite radio content deal with Rotana
• Angola to expand radio, television signals to S. Cunene province
• US Olympic committee delays TV channel plans
• Saudi TV investors warned on offensive programmes
• Estonian coalition favouring private TV channels at the expense of ETV
• New DVD: Television under the Swastika
• US plans to fight Taliban’s propaganda in Afghanistan - NY Times
• VOA Statement on detention of stringer Rahman Bunairee
• Russia’s Media-One to partner with oligarch - source
• North Sea Classic Rock “to broadcast on DAB” from November
• Atlantic 252 day in Trim, Ireland, on 12 September 2009
• US tests system to break foreign Web censorship
• CRI English service now available on mobile telephones
• Final 2 hours of Radio Veronica 1974 on 558 kHz on 31 August
• Yemen official says new TV channel threatens ties with Kuwait
• Thaicom to launch broadband satellite Internet service in India
• Spanish government approves digital TV law
• Radio Azadi to host historic Afghan presidential debate
• Amsterdam’s Magic Jazz now 24 hours a day on 1557 kHz
• New bilingual news channel to launch in India
• REM Island to be rebuilt as a restaurant in Amsterdam
• Burundi: State radio goes live online
• News in Te Reo Maori begins in the Pacific
• HCJB moves up end date of shortwave broadcasts from Ecuador
• Azerbaijan prepares to build its first communications satellite
• Independent Serbian-language TV station to open in Kosovo
• Two new TV channels launched in Kenya
• Namibia’s NBC English radio service joins MultiChoice
• Radio Australia to launch new service to Burma
• SABC and unions sign wage deal
• Xinhua and Shanghai Media Group sign new cooperation deal
• CRTC issues licence to Radio de la communauté francophone d’Ottawa
• Dropping of evangelical satire show criticised
• London’s Royal Opera House using Twitter to compose opera
• Radio Republik Indonesia to cooperate with community stations
• New friend for Facebook: FriendFeed
• UN lawyer says Venezuela’s draft media law is oppressive
• VOA now relayed by 13 local Haitian stations
• Radio station gives voice to remote Afghan province
• Pakistan Muslim League calls for halting Indian TV broadcasts
• Taliban launch new propaganda mouthpiece in southern Afghanistan
• Sierra Leone parliament passes bill to make SLBS a public broadcaster
• Australian broadcasters promote digital radio
• Some BBC local radio football commentaries on DAB only
• Kuwait issues tender for new mediumwave transmitter
• Watching the news with Iranian Press TV
• RFI signs mobile broadcast deal for five US cities
• Venezuelan parliament backs off media-related offences bill
• Bulgaria’s Darik Radio to launch TV channel
• Radio, TV Martí to cut 35 positions - Miami Herald
• Iraq mulls website ban, fuels censorship fears
• Polish Radio external service confirms end of longwave 198 kHz
• Vanuatu: South Pacific nation’s first online broadcaster
• Free radios to perk up India’s “untouchables”
• Middle East Christian satellite channels to merge
• AsiaSat 5 set for launch on 12 August
• North Korean media makes rare slip-ups during Clinton’s visit
• Interim board says enough money available to pay SABC staff
• Guidelines for local language broadcasting launched in Ghana
• Special SW transmissions during HFCC/ASBU Conference
• Dutch station 100%NL claims for damages caused by FM pirate
• RadioShack to launch new brand known as “The Shack”
• Ecuador to nationalize radio, TV stations
• Venezuela: Chávez supporters storm TV station
• New UK-based commercial radio station plans to use 1395 kHz
• Hezbollah TV given permission to broadcast into Australia
• IRIB will not broadcast Shajarian works
• Venezuela begins shutdown of 34 radio stations
• Another new shortwave service to Iran mooted
• Central African Republic: Website for state broadcaster
• IPS revises its forecast for solar cycle 24; next maximum in 2013
• TV Romania to double satellite capacity at 16° East
• BSkyB to launch 3D TV in 2010
• Zimbabwe broadcasting infrastruct