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• Chines 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
• Public broadcasting service for Ukraine in 2010: expert
• 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
• Sale of RFI-Sofia confirmed
• VOI re-launches to provide viewers with “just news”
• New Cambodian media outlets slated for next year
• Ex-TV tycoon plans new channels to challenge Georgian government
• Digital telecoms taking a revolution to Russia
• Radio Dabanga most popular station in Darfur
• 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
• Women’s make-up illegal on Iran TV: state TV chief
• 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
• UK digital radio sales hit 10 million mark
• Saddam ordered Radio Free Europe attack in Prague
• Canadian government agrees more funding for TV5
• Bulgaria tycoon shuts down TV news channel
• More government money for swissinfo.ch?
• BBC chief predicts smaller corporation after 2012
• Palestinian police shut West Bank radio station
• Al Jazeera gets nod to broadcast in Canada
• Bankrupt DJ Mike Read to sell £1m music collection
• Tweakers.net is Dutch website of the year
• Dutch radio listening figures Sept/Oct 2009
• Iraqi Kurdish opposition group to launch terrestrial TV station in Kirkuk
• Eutelsat W7 satellite delivered into orbit
• BBC holds talks over floating commercial arm: report
• US Senator wants to eliminate Radio/TV Martí
• Dutch classical music audience found too old
• Ondas Media to broadcast RTL Radio
• Malta to get new digital radio channels next year
• New Bulgarian government to change digital plan
• RTB and RRI discuss resolving technical problems
• Honduran TV channel says de facto govt blocks signal
• 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
• BBC Arabic sports bulletins to air on Egyptian radio
• Turkey concerned at Turkish airtime cuts in Germany
• Press Now opens first mobile radio station in Afghanistan
• EBU to hold DRM Conference next week
• Polish survey shows drop in number of Internet users
• YouTube connects ‘citizen journalists’ with media outlets
• DW signs cooperation deal with Mongolia’s MNPRT
• Russia’s Kola Sami Radio in financial trouble
• Chinese SW radios available on NK black market
• 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
• Antenna Hungária signs broadcast contracts for new national radio stations
• Pakistan: Govt believes in freedom of private, state media - minister
• Azeri broadcasting council criticizes programming
• RSF to provide financial help to anti-Pyongyang radio stations
• Aboriginal broadcaster denies financial reports
• UTV to consider bidding for news contracts across Britain
• Al-Alam resumes broadcasting on new satellite
• Panjab Radio to be UK’s second national Asian station
• 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
• Lou Dobbs leaving CNN, does not reveal plans
• Family Radio tests via Madagascar at 1200 UTC have ended
• Azeri paper says Radio Liberty resumes broadcasts on Turksat
• Cambridge Consultants announce new ’spectral sensing’ radio technology platform
• YLE’s cost-cutting plan may cut channels
• Swazi Government to table five media draft Bills
• RTVE President Luis Fernandez resigns
• JRTVC joins Euromed-news consortium
• United Radio launches India venture
• NTDTV takes Eutelsat to court over broadcast termination
• Vietnam & South Korea in joint broadcasting project
• Broadcast plans give French overseas territories greater visibility
• Vietnam willing to help Cambodia develop telecoms
• Zambian president urges media to avoid being used as destruction tool
• Bulgarian sets himself alight over TV Turkish news
• Digital pathway for community TV in Australia
• Greece: ERT president resigns
• RNW Indonesian frequency change
• Venezuelan Press Block says government controls over 700 media outlets
• AM stations top New York breakfast ratings
• Confusion over schedule of RA’s Burmese broadcasts
• 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
• New TV and radio stations launching in Sri Lanka
• Kim Jong-il sacks Central Broadcasting Committee chairman
• EBU urges rethink of cuts to Hungary’s public broadcaster
• Reporters Without Borders calls for more international support for Korean exile radio stations
• Russia: State radio in Chechnya goes live online
• Berlin Wall Anniversary: DW-TV broadcasts 24 hours live from Berlin
• ASEAN+3 to expand regional media cooperation
• Big L International now estimating 14/15 November for relaunch on 1395 kHz
• Iran’s Al Alam TV says dropped by Arab satellites
• Grenade explosion at Honduran radio station
• UTStarcom awarded contract to provide radio & TV in Sichuan, China
• Radio Caroline on new satellite frequency
• Tabloid-style TV to hit Dutch screens
• ABC chief seeks massive funding boost
• Hungary’s ORTT signs contracts for radio frequencies
• Radio Seagull on 558 kHz in London from 0200-0400
• Losers in Hungarian radio tender to sue regulator
• Eutelsat W7 satellite due for launch on 23 November
• Al-Jazeera English to launch on FM in Qatar
• Iran’s first digital TV channel airs documentaries
• Georgia mulling Caucasus broadcasting
• Radio Liberty begins broadcast in Abkhazia, S Ossetia
• Loss of AFN Services at Volkel Air Base
• Korea Communications Commission says global appeal key to broadcasting bids
• South African draft bill seeks to scrap TV licences
• Sky Deutschland Increases HD Capacity On Astra
• Pakistan to tighten broadcast laws
• Microsoft launches Internet TV in Korea
• Internet addresses to expand to non-Latin scripts
• New Norwegian satellite in orbit
• 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 infrastructure in dire need of revamp
• Bulgarian radio station fined because Madonna speaks English
• Nautel to provide eighteen 25kW AM transmitters to Argentina
• BBC Trust approves local services proposals
• US radio & TV personality Reverend Ike dies at 74
• BBC and CNN now free to report from inside Zimbabwe
• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation to drop shortwave/mediumwave
• Åland Islands outraged by Finnish-language radio announcements
• Microsoft and Yahoo! announce Web search deal
• Thaksin to launch ‘Voice TV’ network
• RAI to withdraw RaiSat channels from Sky Italia - sources
• Ukraine to host international digital broadcasting conference
• BBC deal to share video content with newspapers angers rivals
• Iranian musician sues IRIB for broadcasting his works
• British movie about Poland’s Radio Maryja in production
• New transmitters and digital archives of SLBC declared open today.
• Future of International Radio Serbia remains unclear
• Kenyan Citizen TV and radio to start broadcasting in Burundi “soon”
• Radio Oranje launches on 30 July
• Setanta Sports to have new service targeted to Ireland and UK
• Congo suspends all Radio France International FM transmissions
• BBC Russian launches online archive of key historical radio moments
• No extremist websites left in Russia - expert
• Digital TV in Denmark creates headaches for local stations
• Korea Communications Commission to encourage new TV channels
• Russian TV channels start broadcasting in Latin America
• HD Radio becomes a fashion accessory - in The Spoof!
• Former Austrian Radio presenter laments closure of English service
• News Corp plans shakeup at STAR: report
• China’s CCTV launches Arabic channel tomorrow
• Superfast Internet goes live in East Africa
• Global Radio and Arqiva conclude landmark UK DAB deal
• Algeria to change working week to Sun-Thurs
• End of BBCWS/RFI on FM in Hungary?
• Number of German online radio stations growing rapidly
• Guatemalan president launches new weekly radio show
• Dutch radio listening figures for May/June 2009
• South Korean all-English radio to expand nationwide
• ARD radio stays at Number 1 in Germany
• Kenyans start receiving SMS daily news from VoA’s Swahili Service
• Malaysia plans guidelines for foreign TV programmes
• Media bills trigger scuffles in Korean parliament
• 200 new transmitters for All India Radio approved
• GlobeCast delivers Russia Today to networks throughout Asia
• Deutsche Welle to broadcast educational programmes in Kerala
• French culture minister denies aim is to do away with RFI
• Australian radio stations unite for digital promotion
• German free TV group to launch three HD channels on HD+
• RFI Serbo-Croat service objects to planned abolition
• Palestinian Authority lifts ban on Al Jazeera
• Sudan: Radio Rumbek FM-98 back on air for five hours a day
• International Radio Serbia signs new contract with ministry
• Walter Cronkite R.I.P.
• Philippine Daily Inquirer launches new AM station
• Zambian government to consider increasing funding to ZNBC
• Swiss Broadcasting Corporation seeks government licence fee action
• UK’s DMGT to close analogue Teletext service early
• Google’s profits rise amid economic slowdown
• India drawing up satellite radio policy
• Passport to Word Band Radio® ‘in limbo’ - publisher
• China Radio International launches new service for mobile devices
• Voice of the People discontinues 1700-1800 UTC broadcast
• Technical issues: slow performance, but everything works eventually!
• Palestinians ban Al-Jazeera over plot allegations
• Nigerian public media workers adamant on strike
• Broadcasting of Internet TV in Slovakia to be regulated
• Nepal government may revoke unused FM licences
• South Africa: Workforce sets two-day ultimatum to SABC
• Yukon to extend CBC’s lease on AM transmitter site
• International Radio of Serbia may have to drop six languages
• NY Times selling radio station for $45 million
• Reporters Without Borders accuses Sri Lanka of Internet censorship
• BBCWS extends reach by expanding as a multimedia broadcaster
• Cyprus public broadcasting staff on strike
• New HK radio station postpones launch for “technical reasons” - daily
• Chinese merchant buys UK TV channel
• VOA Museum board seeks funding
• Nigerian state radio and TV stations join national strike
• Danish broadcasters praised for increasing Danish programming
• Azerbaijan to launch digital television broadcasting in 2-3 weeks
• Shortwave radio stations for North Korea face hardships
• RFI strike suspended for summer
• Venezuela steps up control of television and radio
• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation “on verge of collapse”
• Niger’s president stiffens controls on media
• Two new FM radio channels to launch soon in Burma [Myanmar]
• US Olympic Committee to launch TV network in 2010
• RTÉ admits digital TV launch delay
• First DRM+ demo in Band I in Paris next week
• “Coordinated” cyber attack disrupts government, VOA websites
• Finnish minister says YLE to remain under Parliament’s control
• Polish Radio 2 on strike
• National Geographic Channel to launch free-to-air in Arabic
• Radio Free Asia wins top award
• Radio Ecclesia denied national reach by Angolan minister
• DRM Consortium response to Digital Britain report
• SABC clarifies media reports about 10% wage offer
• New programmes in J&K to counter ‘anti-India propaganda’
• RNW websites and blogs offline Wednesday at 0400-0430 UTC
• Iran judiciary told to confront hostile satellite TV
• Hondurans mount ‘tele-coup’ to counter one-sided media
• Radio Netherlands Worldwide wins international radio prizes
• Georgian opposition TV station receives satellite broadcasting licence
• China Radio International now on mediumwave in Hawaii
• The Ian MacRae interview: once a radio pirate, today a radio teacher
• Military boot camp for Chinese Internet junks
• RTÉ urges Irish government to allow licence fee increase
• Former Vatican Radio director dies at 76
• Venezuela to remove broadcast licence from 240 radio stations
• BBCWS to offer Romanian-language current affairs radio programme in Moldova
• Use more new media platforms, Asian broadcasters urged
• Two new Media Network reviews on the RNW website
• Iran’s IRIB says EBU acted unprofessionally
• First dance music radio station on DRM for Asia
• Changes to RNW2 schedule from 0000-1400 UTC
• NHK Radio Japan takes new bouquet of WRN services
• Uzbekistan launches network of regional non-governmental radio stations
• Communication Commission of Kenya reclaims unused frequencies
• Prime Minister Balkenende speaks to RNW about international politics
• Niger radio & TV group suspended for broadcasting opposition call
• Presenter Nick Ferrari quits Press TV over ‘bias’ after election
• YLE DG says Digita’s profits ‘raise questions’
• Norkring België wins DTT licence in Flanders
• BBC to launch two channels on broadband in South Korea
• US Special Operations Command plans more airborne FM broadcasts
• China delays mandatory Internet filter software - Xinhua
• SES Astra signs long-term contract with BSkyB for 24 transponders
• Coup supporters in Honduras suspend Telesur TV service
• China state news agency to air in Europe: official
• FCC changes FM translator rules to allow rebroadcast of AM stations
• Russia to launch Sirius FM5 satellite from Baikonur
• Apologies to anyone receiving ‘proxy error’ messages
• BBCWS broadcasts on FM in Belgrade in 19 languages
• New CD set from Ian McFarland and DXer.ca
• Nigerian minister set to probe abandoned radio projects
• New CBA report reveals limited nature of UK ‘international’ news
• UK pirate Radio Albatross being heard in the Netherlands
• BBC World Service available across India on mobile phones
• Thousands march in Venezuela over opposition TV station
• US Senate approves new FCC chairman
• Russia to invest in Angolan broadcasting satellite project
• Congo neighbours sign media control agreement
• Voice of Maldives AM service interrupted by fire
• Europe’s public broadcasters call on Iran to remove obstacles to journalists
• Korean mobile TV audience reaches 22 million
• Minister says BBC risks indefinite ban in Rwanda
• Portuguese government blocks Portugal Telecom’s TV deal
• South African Broadcasting Act to be amended
• Family Radio tests from Bonaire start tomorrow
• RFE/RL & VOA to expand reach into Afghanistan-Pakistan border region
• Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings to open new TV channel
• International Radio Serbia and CRI sign cooperation agreement
• 100%NL the big winner in latest Dutch listening figures
• Swedish Radio to discontinue broadcasts in Belarusian
• Russian president’s decree guarantees 8 free television channels
• AU mission to start radio station in Somali capital - Ugandan report
• TRT planning TV broadcasts in Armenian
• Unsigned musicians star on new UK radio station
• Use of censorship circumvention services soars in Iran
• Iran jams foreign satellite news in bid to isolate public
• Setanta goes into administration, UK broadcasts to cease
• International Media: AIB launches 2009 search for creativity
• ABU starts new collaboration on Early Warning Broadcasting Systems
• Dutch commercial stations get six-year licence extension
• Ultimatum for quarreling Muslim networks
• Radio 10 Gold will not be given licence for Arrow’s FM frequencies
• BBG increases broadcasts in Persian to Iran
• Scottish Premier League withdraws from deal with Setanta
• HCJB Global German producers launch Vozandes Media
• Hackers attack Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting website
• MEASAT launches new satellite
• Sri Lanka’s tallest broadcast tower to be built at Kokkavil
• Nicaragua opposition denounces cancellation of radio frequency
• BBC switches to Flash for live streaming
• Polish Upper House votes to scrap TV, radio licence
• Voice of Vietnam signs cooperation deal with CNN
• Romania braces for switchover to digital television
• Setanta Sports loses rights to FA Premier League
• BBC adds more satellites for its Persian TV service
• Greene’s Insite is back for a new season!
• Chinese TV employees suspended following Tiananmen broadcast
• BBCWS to conduct special midwinter broadcast to Antarctica
• Canada: Windsor residents seek injunction against CBC
• Google launches English-Persian-English translation tool
• Spanish media group to appeal against government pay DTT plans
• Indonesia: Single broadcast regulator urged
• Beijing to recruit “tens of thousands” of Internet supervision volunteers
• Radio ministry spreads in Sudan
• Internet most popular information source in US: poll
• IOC awards Olympic Games media rights to ASBU
• Broadcasters ‘must adapt to survive’
• Two senior IBA officials resign alongside its chairman
• Report cites continued weaknesses in US broadcasting to Cuba
• Broadcasting Bill set to pass in Irish parliament
• Intelsat to refresh its satellite fleet serving the Asia-Pacific region
• World media turn to Twitter, emails to defy Iran reporting ban
• Director of International Radio Serbia/Radio Yugoslavia resigns
• UK Govt. report says national radio stations to be DAB-only from 2015
• Regional and national community television on DTT in Denmark
• Radio Zamaneh reports difficulties getting information from Iran
• Twitter delays maintenance to allow Iran coverage
• Iran News Network shows footage of pro-Mousavi rally in Tehran
• New frequency for BVN/RNW on Hotbird satellite at 13° East
• BBC says its satellite broadcasts being disrupted from Iran
• US switches to all-digital TV
• Local radio station in Ethiopia ordered to drop VOA programming
• Britain to unveil plans for digital future this week
• RTÉ drops programmes to cut costs
• Access Industries submits rescue plan to Setanta
• China’s CCTV to revamp news
• French government plans to rewrite Internet piracy law
• Danish commercial stations to benefit from digital radio
• Burmese junta “expands ethnic radio programmes for propaganda”
• Georgian journalists: Russia “jams Georgian FM Radio Channels”
• French push European standards for digital TV in Philippines
• Sky News to launch in High Definition in spring 2010
• Free to air satellite TV channels in the Arab World reach 474
• RFI broadcasts to east of DRCongo stopped for “security reasons”
• Venezuela’s high court rejects Globovisión suits against government
• TV Southasia beaming news to Pakistan
• Chinese authorities “standing firm” over Internet control software
• CCTV to launch Russian language channel
• IBA chairman resigns, throwing reform into doubt
• Bookmarking Media Network items on the RNW website (update)
• Report says Setanta Sports may stop broadcasting this week
• CBC listeners concerned about loss of Whitehorse AM signal
• Burmese junta clampdown on radio listeners
• Radio Shabelle director killed by gunmen in Somalia
• The third media sector recognized and supported in Austria
• Political ads on television rejected in Norway
• VOA expands broadcasting to Pakistan border region
• EBU appoints new Director General
• First Islamic educational radio station to launch in UK
• German public broadcasters reduce Web offerings
• Deutsche Welle to launch educational radio project in Afghanistan
• Colombia: RSF helps threatened community gay radio station
• Obama steals spotlight on Middle East TV
• Brazil includes DRM in digital radio evaluation
• SES Astra launches new HD offer in Germany
• Adopt new media or fail, broadcasters told
• Canada will not regulate online broadcasters
• Top EU official questions ‘peace journalism’
• IBB to renew contract with Arabsat
• Arrow Classic Rock and Arrow Jazz FM outline future plans
• Tibet launches online broadcasting services in three languages
• Trade publication Radio & Records closes
• Satellite failure disrupts TV broadcasts in Turkmenistan & Russian FE
• Fourth week of strike against redundancy starts at RFI
• China blocks access to Flickr and Twitter
• BBC’s international news services attract record global audience
• Media Network pages on website temporarily unavailable
• Angola: diplomat calls for creation of African TV channel
• Gambia Radio and Television Services launch on satellite
• RTÉ on the brink of going bankrupt - newspaper report
• Chávez interrupts four-day TV talkathon
• Zimbabwe: ZBC workers accuse managers of looting
• Radio Birdsong to fall silent on UK DAB
• Strong interest in DRM+ amongst Indian FM broadcasters
• BBC World Service now on FM across Tobago
• Arrow Classic Rock and Arrow Jazz FM to be relaunched
• SES Astra joint venture sees Middle East satellite TV demand rising
• RadioTime opens UK office to meet growing worldwide demand
• BBC Archive celebrates 150th anniversary of Big Ben
• Kenya Broadcasting Corporation faces massive debt
• BBC and Aljazeera English win Freesat Awards
• RFI German department writes to Sarkozy and Merkel
• Radio Pakistan Skardu transmitter should be more powerful - minister
• The FM mullahs and the Taliban’s propaganda war in Pakistan
• Indigenous TV network launches programming initiatives
• Teledifusão de Macau to launch satellite TV channel
• Vatican Radio goes commercial
• RAI signals substantial investment in DTT
• BBC Worldwide launches new channels on YouTube
• New board at Dominica Broadcasting Corporation
• SABC in talks with government
• Serbia to switch to digital broadcasting by 2012
• Dutch radio listening figures March/April 2009
• Magic Jazz begins test transmissions in Amsterdam on 1557 kHz
• Brazil to include DRM in its 6-month evaluation of digital systems
• Iran’s Press TV to expand
• SABC asks government for 2 billion rand bailout
• BBC mediumwave DRM tests reveal problems after dark
• US satellite network brings Middle East news to Americans
• RRsat expands access to Africa via Telstar 11N satellite
• Kurdish Roj TV allowed to broadcast in Germany
• Illegal analogue TV stations spur Vietnam to go digital
• Korea’s Arirang TV fighting for survival against KBS World
• Panama chooses IBOC over DRM as digital broadcasting standard
• Funding secured for Israel’s Persian radio service
• RFI personnel vote to extend strike
• Radio Caroline to broadcast from the Ross Revenge this weekend
• Eutelsat W2A satellite at 10 degrees East goes live
• ‘Hot’ transmitters keep AFN radio Naples off-air
• Trevor Baylis OBE to be awarded honorary doctorate
• Voice of Vietnam inaugurates its new radio house
• Shortwave radios sell for premium in Sittwe, Burma
• TVE sports director dismissed over censorship
• Algerians mourn loss of free satellite TV
• Sinhalese service of CRI to be rebroadcast via SLBC
• NASB urges development of simple, inexpensive DRM receivers
• Korea plans digital-only TV areas from next year
• Doordarshan seeks private partners for mobile TV
• RFI staff continue strike over the weekend
• Complete inventory of Arrow stations up for ‘negotiated sales’
• Fiji’s military rulers plan own TV channel
• Japan takes digital TV broadcasting battle to South America
• Acting US FCC head wants shorter broadcast licences
• Helsinki Times features English-language radio in Finland
• German satellite TV service Premiere rebrands to Sky
• Eurovision Song Contest now available on iPhone
• Saudi Arabia to regulate websites, privatise TV
• Censorship of Fiji media could continue indefinitely, says regime
• Chávez seeks to shut down Venezuelan news channel
• Rwandan authorities ready for BBC suspension talks - with conditions
• Australia’s ABC and SBS receive government funding boost
• French Internet piracy bill clears final hurdle
• RFE/RL Afghanistan reporters win journalism prize
• Some RFI personnel on strike - social plan suspended
• Swaziland regulator still scrutinising radio broadcast applications
• Radio, TV Martí to retool, downsize - Miami Herald
• BCI awards DTT contracts to One Vision
• BBC names first Muslim head of religious programmes
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty opens new HQ in Prague
• Canadian Government threatens CBC with further $50 million cut
• Radio Pulpit goes to court in effort to get national licence
• Fiscal year 2010 budget request for US international broadcasting
• BBC Tamil launches morning news programme
• President of Radio Free Chosun used to be pro-North Korea activist
• CRTC seeks views on allowing Al-Jazeera TV in Canada
• Clarín group alleges further interference to its transmissions
• CRI launches FM broadcasting in Canberra
• Radio New Zealand wins Station of the Year award
• Illegal TV transmissions closed down in Ho Chi Minh City
• Al-Hiwar TV resumes transmission, blames “Arab situation” for jamming
• Vinasat-1 business plan ‘progressing according to schedule’
• More English-language radio stations to open in Korea
• Al-Hiwar satellite TV off-air after ‘deliberate jamming’ - paper
• Bahamas broadcasting minister says ZNS needs restructuring
• Indonesian Government adopts DAB family as Digital Radio standard
• A third of Canadians to lose free TV signals under broadcaster plan
• RTL sees considerable profit decline in 2009
• New Tang Dynasty Television now available on RCN
• RFI trade unions calls for strike over job-cut fears
• Sierra Leone to launch public broadcasting corporation
• DR Congo shuts down one of RFI’s FM transmitters
• Banned US radio presenter says he will sue Britain
• WRMI to Produce AWR’s Wavescan in Miami
• Cuban government Government steps up jamming of Radio Martí
• Stars and Stripes explains how US troops use radio in Afghanistan
• HCJB Global wins 1 kW FM transmitter from Broadcast Electronics
• Mauritania opposition slams state ‘propaganda’
• 6 ASEAN broadcasters form Smart Alliance
• Israel’s Bezeq to merge with satellite TV unit YES
• First DAB+ radio stations launch in Australia
• Media urged to raise awareness of human rights violations
• World Press Freedom Day 2009
• Qatar Foundation radio station preparing to go on terrestrial FM
• Eutelsat launches Tooway™ Internet access service in UK
• Japan urges Philippines to adopt its digital TV standard
• Murdered Sri Lankan journalist wins UNESCO prize
• New TV transmitters to broadcast TRT-1 in Azerbaijan
• Weekly newsletter sent out following delay
• Portugal Telecom launches free digital TV service
• IRIN radio freelancers in Somalia win UN prizes
• Bad weather delays Belgian amateur radio Rockall expedition
• All of SR International’s programmes move to one channel in Stockholm
• International Radio Serbia employees fearful for station’s future
• Roj TV broadcasting interrupted by technical problems
• Thailand to legalise and regulate community radio
• The Dutch national anthem returns to domestic radio
• US Supreme Court upholds FCC’s TV profanity crackdown
• Arrow Classic Rock drops all its DJs
• Nigerian Television Authority launches IPTV channel in US
• Indonesian government accused of bowing to Chinese pressure over broadcasting licence
• Serbia’s shift to digital broadcasting to cost estimated 100m euros
• IBA to provide daily TV newscast in US on MHz Networks Worldview
• Libya takes over TV channel linked to Gaddafi son
• Mexico wants AM stations to move to FM
• AFN Naples confirms it went silent on Monday
• swissinfo attracts more Swiss abroad
• BBC Arabic partnership with MSN Arabia goes live
• Malaysia: RTM begins broadcasts in threatened Kenyah language
• Radio Netherlands Worldwide expands in India
• BBC and Commercial Radio announce partnership plans
• Abu Dhabi Media to launch Arabic pop station
• US Congress proclaims 25 April Willis Conover Day
• Georgian opposition to broadcast ‘alternative news’
• AFN radio may go silent in Naples
• Profile of Radio Yerevan’s Kurdish announcer Kereme Sayed
• Rwanda suspends BBC Kinyarwanda programme
• NY man sentenced to 5 years for broadcasting Hezbollah TV
• Federal employees vote BBG as worst agency to work for
• France 24 TV ups daily Arabic broadcasting
• Amnesty International urges NATO to probe deadly Serb TV bombing
• BBC launches new FM relay in Bangui, Central African Republic
• TDF special DRM transmissions 23/24 April to Mexico City
• RFE/RL Azerbaijani service and VOA now on Turksat
• Radio 538 is again the market leader in the Netherlands
• Irish DTT contractor pulls out citing economic circumstances
• Polish Radio to end broadcasts on 198 kHz in August
• New low power mediumwave licences issued in Poland
• Togo broadcasters forbidden to let public express views on air
• Pro-Ravalomanana media in Madagascar forced off the air
• SES Astra and Yahsat start Middle East satellite company
• Adobe’s Flash video player leaps from Web to TV
• NASA to beam planet’s images for Earth Day
• Arianespace to launch Japanese satellite JCSAT-13
• China Radio International now relayed via Finland on mediumwave
• Thai security forces crack down on anti-govt radio and TV stations
• US psyops seek to prevent Taliban use of radio and Web
• Latvian State Television could be forced off rthe air by budget cuts
• SES Astra switches off Astra 5A satellite
• RNZI to broadcast Oceania Under 17’s football coverage
• Steps being taken to improve SW transmission of Radio Pakistan
• Radio Australia transmitters stay in Fiji to stay shut for a month
• Report warns more than 50 UK local radio stations could close
• Writer and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud dies at 84
• Fearing difficulties, Fiji Times rejects RNZI ad
• WRN confirms involvement in getting Radio Mada on shortwave
• DRM tests from FEBC Saipan
• Fiji shuts down ABC Radio Australia transmitters
• Eutelsat’s Kabelkiosk moves to Eurobird™ 9A
• BBC adds Russian radio channel to Nokia application
• Russia’s Channel One broadcast to stop in Ukraine by 1 June
• Zimbawe: ZBH set to launch community radio stations
• China to build digital cultural service system in 2 years
• Nepal: Private TV channels return to normal airtime routine
• Iraq files lawsuits against TV station, newspaper
• Taliban partially lift ban on cable TV broadcasting in Swat valley
• NZ Government pulls plug on digital broadcasting review
• Somalia: Al-Shabab silences radio station
• Malagasy National Radio has a new director
• Turkish Armenians can’t understand TRT’s Armenian broadcasts
• Nostalgia: The Grenada revolution online
• Pakistan to advance clocks by one hour from 15 April
• New Indian bandplan includes provision for DAB
• Digital Radio awareness ads to begin in Australia on 13 April
• ABU launches new website
• Spain to issue digital pay TV broadcasting licences
• BFBS Radio launches in the UK on DAB from 20 April
• “We are ready for 2010″ – SABC
• New French DTT package available on Atlantic Bird™ 3 from June
• Radio Mada Internationale on the Web
• VOA launches new Home Page
• BBC told to rein in commercial activities
• Lebanon’s MTV returns after seven years off air
• UK’s ZEE Radio to close at end of April - report
• China cracks down on Internet broadcasting
• Roj TV to face closure if PKK links proved
• Finnish working group would scrap YLE licence fee - report
• Arqiva to take full ownership of Digital One DAB multiplex
• German DJ breaks world endurance record
• BBCWS shelves television expansion plans - Media Guardian
• LA radio station enters marketing agreement with Mexican company
• Radio Dabanga adds English news to its website
• Radio Hargeisa back on shortwave with higher power
• Tribesmen riot after suspected Taliban destroy radio station
• Former BBG chairman wanted additional AM station in Afghanistan
• New TV channel to start broadcasting in Azerbaijan in September
• Tajikistan takes last Russian TV channel off air
• China orders tighter controls on online videos
• Indian mission in Dubai to launch radio programme
• Industrial action over BBC South Asian services called off
• Turkish state radio begins broadcasting in Kurdish, Armenian
• Voice of Nigeria’s new station should be ready before 1 October
• RNW plans more international cooperation
• WRN now available on Sirius XM Radio on XM channel 135
• Argentina: Puzzling interference to broadcast media in Clarin group
• Zimbabwean human rights lawyers threaten to sue ZBH
• Danish prime minister finally moves to shut down Roj TV
• VOA broadcasting via FEBC transmitter in Seoul
• Google trims 200 marketing and sales jobs
• Another ‘pirate special’ on BBC local radio
• Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal back on mediumwave
• New DRM receiver unveiled
• Only five radio broadcasting applications submitted in Swaziland
• Ministry to hold consultative conference on media law reforms in Zimbabwe
• Twitter to try money-making methods
• Canadian Broadcasting Corp slashes 800 jobs; cuts affect RCI
• Voice of Russia radio to add broadcasts in Ukrainian, Georgian
• Digital radio rollout proposed for regional Australia
• India described as ‘a major success’ for DRM consortium
• New 7 MHz frequencies for AIR take effect from 29 March
• New VOA Khmer TV programme to launch on Cambodian state TV
• Dutch radio listening figures for Jan/Feb 2009
• China arrests 12 after TV complex towering inferno
• Saudi clerics want women banned from TV, media
• Nilesat and Eutelsat sign strategic agreement to develop 7° West
• China to replace failed satellite made for Nigeria
• “Radio can lead North Korean people to change their society”
• EU, RSF promise funds for radio broadcasts into North Korea
• Two new Algerian TV channels launch: Tamazight and Qur’an
• KCBS celebrating its 100th birthday
• Euronews to launch Turkish language service
• Tribute website to Ireland’s Radio Nova launched
• TRT Avaz goes on air in Turkic world
• New clandestine station broadcasting to Madagascar
• SLBC to offer airtime to private sector to cut financial losses
• Argentina’s president seeks to reform broadcasting law
• TRT launches radio and TV broadcasting in Armenian language
• BBC Trust approves BBC budget for 2009/10
• EBU renews service agreement with RTK Kosovo
• EBU hosts Digital Radio Summit
• Turner to launch new pay TV channels in Australia
• 40 years of Radio Veritas in Asia
• Thaicom permitted to rent space on foreign satellite
• Salaries of CBC executives to be frozen
• Eutelsat participates in live satellite-delivered 3D-HD demonstrations
• Turkish state TV to launch Arabic-language channel
• DRM Consortium plans the way forward with India and Russia
• Pakistan government says it will not restrict media
• Yemeni Radio DG would like to broadcast to foreign countries
• European broadcast standard recommended for Philippines
• Azerbaijani international TV channel ‘not for domestic consumption’
• BBC journalists to strike over threat of compulsory redundancies
• Real offshore radio returns to the Netherlands for two weeks
• US government, MTV use animation to fight human trafficking
• UK Conservatives would freeze BBC licence fee
• Algeria to launch religious TV station
• RTÉ to begin daily shortwave service to the Irish in Africa
• Russia and India both decide to adopt DRM
• Eutelsat commissions new W3C satellite for 7 degrees East
• ‘Many reasons for radio to go digital’, says Australian CEO
• Cyprus: BFBS fans continue to mourn stations demise - newspaper
• Malaysia: Minister says RTM plays role in preserving culture
• Pakistani president cracks down on media - broadcasting minister resigns
• AWR to broadcast FM programmes in Israel
• Scotland’s pirate radio DJs look back on the original Radio Scotland
• Sirius XM to roll out iPhone app in second quarter
• Bosnian TV One ceases satellite broadcasting over unpaid Eutelsat bill
• Polish media bill targets former neo-Nazi head of TV
• VOA audience in Russia ‘obliterated’ by BBG - Free Media Online
• swissinfo celebrates ten years of Swiss news
• AO9 RNW frequency schedule now online
• RTL Nederland sees 20 percent drop in profits
• Dick Speekman, former host of DX Jukebox, R.I.P.
• Several parties want the FM frequencies vacated by Arrow Classic Rock
• Deutsche Welle set to cut Russian to Central Asia - AlertNet
• Voice of Vietnam to broadcast weekly Brazilian music programme
• Company controlled by Noah Samara buys WorldSpace
• Content the spur, broadcasting symposium told
• Broadcasters ‘must go ahead with digital migration’
• SES to temporarily move Astra 2C satellite to 31.5 degrees east
• Sudanese company installs FM radio station in Ethiopia
• Arrow FM stations must definitely close by midnight tomorrow
• Chinese advisor calls for improved broadcast coverage in border areas
• Dominican Republic ‘among the world’s radio, TV leaders’
• Madagascar opposition head in hiding, radio/TV stations off air
• Israel Radio cutting mediumwave broadcasts - Jerusalem Post
• Radio Romania International broadcasts to Africa from 29 March
• New names for the two halves of BBC Southern Counties Radio
• BBC Radio 4 to broadcast documentary about UK radio advertising
• SES Astra expands cooperation with Globecast to African market
• Indonesia aims to go digital by 2016
• Poland’s Cyfrowy Polsat pay-TV platform increases Hot Bird™ 9 capacity
• Malaysian government ‘may pay most digital costs’
• Zambian government urged to waiver duty on broadcasting equipment
• Azeri official says BBC transmitter deal annulled
• RNW and Voice of the People work together on Zimbabwe special
• RTR-Planeta expected to resume broadcasting in Tajikistan soon
• Swedish media giant announces merger of Bulgaria broadcasting assets
• France: GlobeCast launches African satellite TV service
• German broadcaster Pro7 sees ‘very difficult’ 2009
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation delays new digital radio service
• ZNBC purchases new shortwave antennas
• Radio Dabanga adds a third frequency from tomorrow
• Guinea-Bissau: Media foundation reports radio stations ordered closed
• Broadcast Electronics to supply transmitters to China
• Bulgarian National Radio launches new regional station in Vidin
• Kenyan regulator plans to cancel 150 inactive radio licences
• South Korean city of Busan launches first all-English radio station
• Germany’s non-stop broadcasts to the world – Mar 2, 1939
• Zimbabwe: New radio broadcasts from UAE
• South Korean broadcasters escalate protest against media reforms
• Radio Okapi celebrates its 7th anniversary
• Yemen to join GCC Radio and TV Institution
• £10million Afghanistan radio station faces the axe - Sunday Mirror
• Tom Edwards reflects on his offshore radio career
• Trans World Radio launches on Freesat in the UK
• Four Russian TV channels allowed to broadcast in Ukraine
• New English-language radio station planned for Moscow
• WorldSpace assets sale postponed again
• Antigua’s ABS plans to go digital on mediumwave
• FRCN Kaduna gets 200kW mediumwave transmitter
• Dutch radio listening figures Dec 2009/Jan 2009
• Peter Horrocks appointed new BBC World Service Director
• Digital Britain discussion site goes live
• Radio Caroline to broadcast ‘The Boat That Rocked’ exclusive
• Mending the disconnect between mobile operators and broadcasters
• Azerbaijan: Turkic world television to launch on 21 March
• BBC South Asian service personnel to strike tomorrow
• Georgia TV station at eye of media freedom storm sold
• Eutelsat doubles its capacity at 9 degrees East
• Arrow appeals to listeners for donations to stay on air
• Trans World Radio plans to upgrade AM transmitter in Estonia
• TRT pulls plug on Kurdish speech by deputy
• Gmail breakdown affects users worldwide
• SES Astra further strengthens 23.5 degrees East orbital position
• New DRM Receiver announced
• New DTT service planned for Philippines using DVB-T standard
• Jamaica Broadcasting Comission continues to clean up airwaves
• CRI Newsradio now also on shortwave
• Dubai’s Coast FM lays off all its DJs
• Radio Australia gains big audiences on FM compared to shortwave
• BFBS cuts continue: Cyprus loses breakfast show
• BBC’s secret war with offshore radio stations
• Press freedom body to launch new radio station
• Eritrean opposition station Radio Asena also broadcasts in Arabic
• Deutsche Welle hoping to switch to FM in Bangladesh
• Five more arrested over CCTV blaze
• Taiwan to host next indigenous TV conference
• Broadcasting Commission of Ireland signs contract for multi-city FM service
• New broadcaster aims to awake the Netherlands
• BBC Trust decides not to overrule D-G over charity controversy
• Pirate BBC Essex returns to the air this Easter
• CCTV to launch online TV station
• EC wants public broadcasters to motivate citizens for June vote
• New Tajik-Afghan-Iranian TV network under discussion
• DAB a finalist in the Fiasco Awards
• Swazi radio licence applicants ‘must promote local talent’
• Al Jazeera applies for licence to broadcast in Canada
• Eutelsat’s Hot Bird™ 9 satellite goes live
• Six projects of Pakistan’s Information Ministry discontinued
• BBC management to renegotiate its broadcasting in Azerbaijan
• Liberty to invest US$530 million in Sirius XM Radio
• Sri Lankan police launch probe into Tamil Tigers’ TV station operations
• WRN appoints new managing director
• EC clears Dutch regulator’s proposal to enhance competition in the broadcasting markets
• Deutsche Welle DG says station reaches 86 million weekly
• Dutch government withdraws FM licences of both Arrow stations
• Sudan gives green light to UN radio for Darfur
• German Premiere TV says it sees profit in 2011
• DRM consortium to hold workshop in New Delhi
• EBU commissions a new animated corporate logo (EBU and Eurovision)
• EU Member States on course for analogue terrestrial TV switch-off
• Jamaica’s Broadcasting Commission defends clampdown on vulgarity
• RTM’s digitalisation programme not a white elephant - minister
• Head of Turkmen TV reprimanded by president for poor quality
• Council of Europe adopts declaration for Community radio and TV
• VOA Burmese service launches new TV programme
• BNR Nieuwsradio to seek additional finance from its listeners
• SLBC still broadcasting BBCWS English programmes
• France 24 Live TV on iPhone via wifi
• China to launch Russian-language TV channel this year
• CIA World Factbook to become a Web-only publication
• Twelve held after China state TV complex blaze
• Sölvesborg mediumwave transmitter in Sweden still off the air
• Successful launch of Express-AM-44 and Express-MD-1 satellites
• Serbian radio & TV broadcasts to go digital by 2015
• Nearly 700 US TV stations to end analogue service next week
• Film about the HFCC/ASBU B08 Conference now available online
• Satellite mogul offers troubled Sirius a lifeline: reports
• China prosecutors probe television complex blaze
• Hong Kong media mogul to launch Taiwan news channel
• Cuban dissidents urge US to keep Radio/TV Martí
• Sri Lanka defends selective use of BBC programming on SLBC
• BBC announces content deal with MSN across Latin America
• Eritrean opposition group to start shortwave broadcasts on 16 February
• BBC suspends FM broadcasts via SLBC following “interference”
• Former CRTV General Manager held accountable for mismanagement
• Swedish mediumwave transmitter on 1179 kHz currently off air
• Satellite fault cuts off Chinese TV programmes
• New radio station launches tomorrow in Azerbaijan
• HD Radio trials in Vietnam this week
• Two Irish radio stations breached contract on programming
• Pakistan Television is now officially ‘debt-free’
• Estonian National Broadcasting is forced to cut salaries
• Malaysia: Keningau FM radio accessible worldwide
• Editor-in-Chief of Vatican Radio’s German department profiled
• First DAB+ transmitters arrive in Australia
• Chinese-built radio-television building inaugurated in Brazzaville
• US troops in Afghanistan use radio to help tune out Taliban
• GAO Report says Radio/TV Martí has only tiny audience in Cuba
• FEBC develops long-term plan to reach Muslim communities
• Asia Pacific Telecommunity and ABU sign memorandum of understanding
• RNW establishes disaster service
• Radio HornAfrik’s director assassinated
• High Frequency Co-ordination Conference taking place in Tunisia
• First broadcast from new RFE/RL headquarters
• Russia’s Platforma HD boosts capacity on Eurobird™ 9 satellite
• Eutelsat and partners launch satellite broadband in France
• Madagascar: Most radio stations in capital resume broadcasts
• VOA Special English broadcasts programme about Willis Conover
• TRT allows non-Turkish language TV commercials
• Alhurra TV planning to launch Middle East news programme - report
• Palestinian Hamas-Al-Aqsa TV to broadcast from Beirut
• Mobile TV trials underway in Australia
• Thai government may act against ‘political’ radio stations
• Modern Times Group to launch new free TV channel in Denmark
• Harris Corporation provides new Saudi radio/TV transmitters
• Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister clarifies stance on foreign broadcasts
• UK Government says DAB to be the primary platform for radio
• Dutch radio listening figures Nov/Dec 2008
• Full search facility restored on this blog
• RDP Internacional launches DRM transmissions on 31 January
• Eutelsat says performance of new W2M satellite unsatisfactory
• France to help Madagascar rehabilitate damaged national TV, radio
• IAEA chief snubs BBC over Gaza charity appeal
• Arrow to start talk station in second quarter of 2009
• Latvian Radio in financial difficulties
• Turkey to launch TV channel in Turkish for Europe, Middle East, central Asia
• RTÉ to broadcast shortwave test transmission
• Radio Nationale Malgache ransacked by opposition supporters
• ABU shortwave group to publish new journal
• Pakistani army to jam Taliban radio in Swat Valley
• Sri Lanka government plans to cancel LTTE radio licence
• 30 radio and TV stations in Uganda to lose licences
• Bob Shennan appointed Controller, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music
• VOA increases boadcasting to Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province
• Islamic Conference of Information Ministers to consider new satellite channel
• University of Kinshasa to operate radio station
• BBC under fire over Gaza charity appeal
• UK retailers can boost DAB signal in-store to maximise sales
• Arab States Broadcasting Union plans to admit private sector
• Radio Tatras International final hour Sunday 25 January at 2200 UTC
• Iran warns BBC Tehran staff not to help Persian TV
• Lebanon’s MTV to return after seven years: report
• Asian Star Radio to launch on Sky Digital
• Georgia wants Turkey’s TRT to broadcast in Georgian
• RSS feed and search back in operation
• Pakistan to ask India to air Pakistani TV channels
• New Astra 1M satellite ready for operation
• ABU-HFC Shortwave Coordination Conference begins in Kuala Lumpur
• UDD satellite TV station begins broadcasting in Thailand
• Radio Nacional de Angola and VOA link up for inauguration special
• England and Wales to get national prison radio station
• IRIN Somali radio service expands airtime on shortwave
• “New NHK World” launches on 2 February
• France/Italy: Eutelsat, Telespazio sign Hot Bird-RAI contract
• Swaziland’s SBIS prepares to face commercial competitor
• New UK digital radio stations expected to launch in 2009
• Tall towers removed from HCJB’s site in Ecuador
• SES New Skies’ NSS-9 satellite preparing for launch
• BBC World Service wants to launch Urdu TV channel - report
• Vatican to get own YouTube channel
• AFRTS planning worldwide TV, radio survey
• Malawi’s Joy Radio successful in judical review
• Astra 5A satellite taken out of service following ‘technical anomaly’
• Radio Caroline launches new iPhone player link
• Tahiti viewers to get 10 free channels after digital switch
• BBC Arabic TV goes 24/7 from Monday
• BBC World Service and GlobeCast launch Persian TV
• Indonesia’s Tanjungpura Military Command launches radio station
• FCC chairman Kevin Martin to resign
• Radio Sweden/SVT to change transponders on Eurobird 9
• BBC World Service Trust appoints new Director
• Nigerian minister wants NTI radio station to use shortwave
• Radio France Internationale to cut 200 jobs in “modernization” drive
• First digital shortwave transmitter of AIR launched today
• .eu domain passes the 3 million mark
• Obama ceremony to be beamed to Europe in High Definition TV
• Laz the latest to ask for ethnic TV broadcasts in Turkey
• Fiji Broadcasting Corporation hit by floods and power cuts
• TDF - special DRM transmissions to Finland
• WRN provides satellite services for Sky launch of Zee Radio
• The Weblog is working normally again
• Beijing to expand its international media activities
• Al Jazeera Arabic currently using mediumwave
• Turkey’s Caucasians lobby for TV broadcasts in mother tongue
• Medium Wave Circle launches new low rates for European members
• China to hand over satellite “Simon Bolivar” to Venezuela
• Power cuts force Nepali TV channels to cut transmission hours
• Azerbaijani police detain opposition activists for radio protest
• VOA Urdu shortwave frequencies have been restored
• French regulator takes Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV off the air in Europe
• The Weblog is currently being reconfigured
• No more BBC World News on DVB-T in Italy
• SES Astra and Globecast distribute Orange TV over satellite
• ‘TV and PC boundary dissolving’ - Microsoft chief
• Turkish regulator to extend broadcasting time of private stations in Kurdish
• BBC Persian announces TV channel launch date
• Kenyan president approves ‘press freedom muzzle’
• Kano State 2009 budget includes purchase of 500 kW AM transmitters
• China has over 50 million web bloggers - Xinhua
• Taipei’s National Communications Commission holds licence hearings
• ‘Pro-Tamil’ broadcasting station attacked in Sri Lanka
• Ongoing technical problems - limited updating for the time being
• RTM to introduce regional TV news for Sabah and Sarawak
• IPTV era begins in South Korea
• Malaysia plans to launch Chinese-language TV channel airing local content
• “Sinhala announcer for LTTE radio” arrested in northwestern Sri Lanka
• Hamas accuses Israel of interrupting its radio, TV broadcasts in Gaza
• Open future for Northern Star International Broadcasters AS
• Palestinian activists reportedly jam Israel Army Radio - Press TV
• Community television goes national in Scandinavia
• France Telecom says under-sea cables to be back in service by 4 Jan
• Happy New Year 2009!
• Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation to open new TV channel
• Tonga TV station to sue government over damage
• Second man pleads guilty to airing Hezbollah TV
• Under-pressure ETA ends 2008 by bombing Basque TV building
• Malawi private radio station threatened with closure for failure to pay licence
• Power shortfall leads to FM station closures in Nepal
• TRT to launch satellite TV channel in Armenian
• Radio Televisyen Malaysia launches disaster unit
• New TV channel to launch in Cambodia
• Azerbaijan bans foreign radio broadcasts on local frequencies
• 35 years of Radio Mi Amigo to be celebrated with special programmes
• Voice of Vietnam signs cooperation agreement with Lao National Radio
• Malawi government minister tells opposition to open their own station
• Pakistani army in Kashmir wants resumption of 24h mediumwave service
• More details of radio/TV plans for Falkland Islands
• Huge price reductions in Germany for TechniSat MultyRadio DRM receiver
• Pakistan’s PBA to set code of conduct
• Global financial crisis forces RTL to abandon Serbian move - reports
• Korea’s Educational Broadcasting System faces budget cut
• TVE Internacional moves to new frequency on Hotbird 8
• BBC Persian Service “conducting illegal activities” - Iranian minister
• Ukraine allows 13 Russian TV channels to broadcast in country
• North Koreans reportedly cracking down on radios and DVDs
• New all-news radio stations to start broadcasting in Bulgaria in 2009
• Enforcement action against Citizens’ Radio in Hong Kong
• Ho Chi Minh City radio to broadcast in foreign languages
• 357 private TV channels uplink from India
• Enugu State Government approves 1 billion Naira for radio/TV upgrade
• Maldives President establishes National Broadcasting Corporation
• Korean broadcast unions to strike against media legislation bills
• Nigerian government agencies clash over proposed 2.5 GHz reallocation
• New York City man pleads guilty to broadcasting Hezbollah TV
• Mali’s ORTM launches satellite TV service for North America
• Former DG of Radio Pakistan dies
• Christmas speech by Ahmadinejad prompts outcry in UK
• Serious Request campaign raises 5.6 million euros
• Guinean soldiers said to have ransacked national broadcaster’s offices
• Ten thousand posts and counting…
• Worldspace owes $2 billion
• ORF launches TV ‘catch up’ service
• Five major media bodies in Nepal form alliance to protect press freedom
• Belsat applies to Belarusian foreign ministry for accreditation
• Falkland Islands Radio Service starts Internet streaming
• Latest Dutch radio listening figures: resurgence for Radio 10 Gold
• TV Record of Brazil to broadcast via SES New Skies satellites
• Southern Sudan: new radio station to be launched in early 2009
• Military says it’s in charge of Guinea following death of President
• German pay-TV Premiere unveils 450 million euro capital increase
• Sudan affected by huge Internet cable damage
• Middle East satellite revenues exceed US$ 750 million
• After HDTV, 3D television is the next major step forward
• China celebrates 50th anniversary of television broadcasting
• Internet Media Device Alliance formed
• Special Christmas shortwave broadcasts from The Mighty KBC Radio
• Dutch radio DJs start six-day charity fast
• Mideast Internet services disrupted
• North Korea: “Information control” crumbling rapidly - Open Radio president
• China ‘bans broadcasters’ websites’
• HDTV interoperability testing set for June 2009
• Hot Bird™ 9 & W2M satellites on track for launch on 20 December
• Special live worldwide broadcast from China on Thursday
• Disney to launch TV channel in Russia
• Irish Government tests emergency broadcast procedure
• Malaysian public urged to report on radio stations using ‘rojak’ language
• BBC Russian channel launches on YouTube
• Radio Liberty broadcasts partially resume in Kyrgyzstan
• Herman van Gelderen named RNW Africa desk project manager
• World Economic Forum invites public to participate in debates
• North Korea inaugurates 3G cellphone venture: state media
• GrootNieuwsRadio says donations mean immediate bankruptcy avoided
• New TV channel for Eastern Europeans in Dublin area
• Broadcasting Control Organization of BSEC member states to be established
• Virgin Media launches super-fast broadband service in UK
• BBG seeking information on provision of SMS services
• Angola launches first private TV channel
• Radio Sweden adds “Christmas frequencies” for English to Europe
• Modern Times Group launches Viasat1 in Ghana
• Somalia: Islamists in Kismayo silence radio station for playing music
• Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation accused of disrupting air traffic
• The BBC “has secret deal to secure cash until 2033″ - Sunday Times
• Zambian minister says government not planning to regulate media
• Vietnamese government to ‘regulate’ blogs
• Commercial digital radio launched in Australia
• ITU agrees new global standard for fully networked home
• Deutsche Telekom adds 2500 radio stations to T-Home Entertain
• Chechen TV-Radio Corporation starts satellite broadcasting
• Radio and TV Martí launch redesigned website
• GrootNieuwsRadio stops its programmes for financial reasons
• NBC mulls Japan broadcast satellite channel: report
• China-Cambodia Friendship Radio launched
• BBG defends strategy of privatizing and outsourcing public diplomacy efforts
• BBC links up with ITV and BT for a common approach to broadband TV
• SES Astra signs agreement for distribution of Astra2Connect in the UK
• RTM & CRI sign cooperation agreement
• BBC/DW’s new DRM service launches ahead of schedule
• Google, YouTube to promote human rights in North Korea
• President of NOS criticises Italian broadcasting system
• BBC World Service available globally on Nokia phones
• Arab Radio and Television Network extends Hot Bird™ capacity to 2020
• A-Span, Australia’s answer to C-Span, launches on 20 January 2009
• More international news channels launch in UK
• Georgian Public Broadcaster relaunches as Channel 1
• Father Christmas gets his own radio station in France
• RFE/RL protests removal from Kyrgyz airwaves
• Radio Free Afghanistan wins Paralympic reporting award
• Bulgarian newspaper says sale of transmitters to ORF is ’scandalous’
• National Grid Broadcasting agreement signed in China
• Wind-powered radio stations operating in Southern Sudan
• ‘The Boat That Rocked’ trailer released
• Astral Media to roll out three more Virgin Radio stations in Canada
• ORF subsidiary buys Bulgarian transmitter network
• BBC hopes to resume Kyrgyz broadcasts as soon as possible
• BBC, Ethiopian Radio, TV Agency launch new partnership
• Radio Dabanga website now live
• Mongolia: Public radio and TV streams live on the Web
• Can anyone help with technical information on an old Philips transmitter?
• SES Astra signs agreement with Dutch Agriculture Federation for satellite-based high-speed Internet access
• Kyrgyz national broadcaster reportedly suspends BBC programmes
• TV Martí looking for new partner in Miami market
• Viacom, owner of MTV and Paramount, to scrap 850 jobs
• Zee News ties up with VOA
• Protesters demand dismissal of Kyrgyz state TV, radio chief
• Radio Free NK wins Reporters Without Borders Media Prize
• Dutch public broadcaster NOS will bid for Olympic Games rights
• Indian state considers restricting live broadcasting during emergencies
• Vladimir (’Vova’) Rubinstein MBE R.I.P.
• IOC rejects EBU’s bid for rights to Olympic Games 2014 & 2016
• Council of Europe concerned at Azeri plan to ban foreign radio broadcasts
• Talpa Radio pays 2009 licence fee for its Danish station 100FM
• Kyrgyz national broadcaster suspends Radio Liberty programmes
• SES Astra to broadcast MTVNHD in France
• Germany tests Internet on broadcast spectrum
• ZNBC seeks funds to upgrade transmitters
• Italy’s Berlusconi accused of conflict of interest
• Taiwan looks set to abandon DAB
• VOA broadcasts obituary of former director who introduced Special English
• DMS Broadcasting in Cayman Islands revamps websites
• Tourism Radio to launch in New Zealand
• Kenya Communications Amendment Bill to encourage professionalism
• UEFA pays broadcasters for Euro 2008 blackout, says German report
• Malaysian Information Ministry suggests promotion of Murut language
• Talpa Radio loses licence fee appeal against Danish government
• Comments now working again
• Worldwide bloggers win prizes in BOBs competition
• Twitter messages feed major news channels
• Home Retail buys Alba, Bush trademarks
• Korean media union attacks ownership rules change
• New bill to overhaul broadcast rules of Turkish radio & TV
• Korea’s all English radio channel to launch on 1 December
• Sri Lanka destroys Tamil Tigers radio station - but leader speaks on Internet
• Radio Kano to get new DRM-compatible mediumwave transmitter
• New public TV channel proposal for Kosovo minorities wins wide support
• Lesotho plans to change state broadcaster into public service broadcaster
• Ghanaian regulator told to “stop radio stations from transcending their boundaries”
• IRIB to launch sports TV channel in 2009
• Shock Dutch TV show wins Emmy
• Tests commence for new DW/BBC DRM service due to launch next year
• Rwandan Minister claims RSF report on press freedom is biased
• Ethiopian rebel group launches new website, to launch radio station
• ASEAN makes progress on digital broadcasting implementation
• BBC World Service Director Nigel Chapman to leave BBC after 31 years
• US BBG responds to Public Diplomacy Council statement
• French public media on strike against reform plans
• BBC Thailand relay station back in operation
• Long dominant public broadcaster falls on hard times
• All India Radio to build at least 100 low power FM relays in North East
• Five Belgian French-language channels to broadcast on Hot Bird™
• ABU Technical Committee backs emergency warning systems
• Radio Monte Carlo Booming in Tbilisi - but who’s behind it?
• CNN to start live broadcasts from Abu Dhabi in 2009
• New developments on NTDTV’s Freedom Satellite for China initiative
• Vietnamese Government donates third FM station to Cambodia
• Canadian Government tells CRTC to think again on Ottawa licences
• Digital television available to 80% of Belarusians by 2011
• BBC Trust rejects local video proposals
• US Public Diplomacy Council publishes proposals for reforming international broadcasting
• HCJB begins a new series of DRM test transmissions
• Educating young minds ‘a key to media freedom’
• Plans announced for right wing public broadcaster in the Netherlands
• Turkey: State broadcaster TRT’s website broadcasts in 30 languages
• Liberian Broadcasting System goes nationwide with Chinese help
• Veteran US journalist appeals to Obama to restore VOA
• French digital TV on satellite offer TNTSAT tops 750,000 households
• TRT to launch its Kurdish TV channel on 1 January
• Malaysian minister: State broadcaster to increase ethnic programming
• NGO needs FM transmitter and technician for the Gaza Strip
• Somalia: Puntland authorities reopen Radio Gaalkacyo
• TVB-Hong Kong starts new digital channel
• Minister give his support to the threatened Concertzender
• California fires put Santa Barbara radio stations off the air
• South Africa’s Radio Pulpit awarded broadcasting licence after 27 years
• WorldSpace UK goes into liquidation
• Dutch radio listening figures for September/October 2008
• Tunisia launches two private TV stations to combat fundamentalism
• Radio addresses to go high-tech in Obama presidency
• Rohde & Schwarz introduces new radios for faster HF data exchange
• Somalia: Radio Gaalkacyo closed down
• Tajikistan launches its first 24-hour news TV channel
• Al Jazeera English moving away from launch phase
• Dutch classical music channel threatened with closure because it’s too popular!
• Today is Radio St Helena Day!
• WorldSpace reported to have closed UK uplink centre
• Russian premier proposes boosting financing for CIS radio station
• Modification to BBCWS temporary schedule via Madagscar
• New German-language TV channel launches on Astra
• Germany cancels licence of Turkish TV station Kanal 7
• English-only radio station to debut in Korea
• IBM teams up with BPL provider to offer services in seven US states
• Passport to World Band Radio 2009
• FRCN Kaduna new transmitter world’s best - Executive Director
• ‘Technical problems’ shut down Nigerian satellite
• RNW and All India Radio cover Amsterdam India Festival
• ANC relents on political involvement in appointment of SABC board
• Badung and Denpasar have no spare frequencies for more radio stations
• The Voice of Russia starts broadcasting in Iraqi Kurdistan
• Shortwave stations and international broadcasters website updated
• Syria-backed Palestinian Authority satellite TV station launched
• Wave Media granted Hong Kong mediumwave radio licence
• Easier times for Swedish commercial radio
• Radio station in Guinea suspended indefinitely
• CCTV’s French channel widens audience
• BBC relay in Thailand likely to be out of action till next week
• Group plans to set up new TV station to serve English/Scottish borders
• Nigeria’s Cross River State to have new statewide broadcasting system
• Uncertain times for digital radio in Ireland
• Invitation to join the Global Panel of Radio Netherlands Worldwide
• Astra 1M satellite successfully launched
• The Times criticises BBC’s decision to reduce on-air Russian broadcasts
• Radio Chaska 95 FM in India signs partnership with RNW
• BBC World Service temporarily broadcasting via RNW Madagascar relay
• Official radio in Moldova’s rebel region in dire situation - paper
• Dutch Arrow group denies it is in serious financial difficulties
• EBU opposes detailed EU rules on funding of public service broadcasting
• Sri Lankan media groups to challenge new restrictions
• Russian TV stations granted reprieve in Ukraine
• State-owned Botswana TV channels in breach of broadcasting laws
• Strike by employees of former Radiobras
• European Commission to review public service broadcasting rules
• Kurdish-Arabic radio station ordered closed in Mosul
• Hungary: new media law to offer more cash in exchange for stricter controls
• Cable operators in southeast Ukraine refuse to disconnect Russian TV channels
• Azerbaijani Opposition parties oppose ban on foreign radio stations
• UK TV channel Five now available free to air on Astra 2D
• First TV channel for gay men to go on air in Germany
• RTÉ postpones plans to launch TV channel for expats in UK
• RTÉ to launch five national digital radio services
• English FA chiefs declare war on US website’s illegal broadcasts
• Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to start on 31 March 2009
• Russian TV channels dropped from cable in Ukraine
• Russian regional TV company suspected of illegally broadcasting Radio Liberty
• Andrei Bystritsky appointed as the new president of Voice of Russia
• Radio Kiribati in technical and financial trouble
• Azerbaijan to end VOA, other foreign broadcasts on local radio
• DW-TV expands Arabic programming to 12 hours daily
• UK regulator asks BBC for more details about plans to help rival public broadcasters
• US tech giants join move to protect freedom of speech online
• Afro 105.3 FM all English radio to launch in Ethiopia
• New Voice of Nigeria transmitting station in Abuja ready in Q1 2009
• New Zealand PM backs TV channel for Pacific Islanders
• Egypt fines broadcaster that aired Mubarak protest
• ABC “not up to engaging with the neighbours” - The Australian
• New RTA radio station opens in Badghis province
• Radio Netherlands Worldwide launches Arabic radio programme
• Liberia Assembly of God Church launches US$125,000 radio project
• More rural areas in South Africa to access TV, radio services
• Union leaks Radio France Internationale plans for change in language services
• BBC Persian TV has no permission to work in Iran - minister
• B08 shortwave broadcasting season starts tomorrow
• WorldSpace Chapter 11 ignores India
• New Zealand online content site launched
• Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation chief assures staff that problems will be solved
• A24 Media signs agreement with two new Kenyan broadcasting partners
• Berlin to lose pioneering multicultural radio station
• Radio France International strikes against public media reform
• SW Radio Africa changing frequency on Sunday 26 October
• 55 HD channels now on Astra
• China extends foreign media freedoms
• Turkey ‘to start Kurdish broadcasts in January’
• Democratic Voice of Burma radio to increase airtime, change frequencies
• RNW Winter frequency schedule 2008/2009 now online
• Radio Romania International to use new DRM frequency in winter period
• No sign of special broadcast from North Korea today
• Ofcom Chief Executive tells Europe to speed up regulation
• Malawi’s Joy Radio back on the air
• Major DRM Broadcasts during Africast exhibition
• BBC technology programme “discovers” DRM
• Turkey’s Kurds perturbed by delay of promised Kurdish broadcasting
• Malawi shuts down ex-president’s private radio station
• Illegal radio stations mushrooming in Taiwan despite clampdown
• WorldSpace files for bankruptcy protection
• Over 6,500 TV channels in Europe, UK in top spot
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation defends radio programme cuts
• BBC World Service launches news programme for and about South Asia
• Dutch radio listening figures for August/September 2008
• 120th Anniversary Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: free downloads offered
• GTV Ghana launches new French learning programme
• Canadian regulator to examine broadcasting in the new media environment
• Australian Senate extends digital radio deadline
• Happy 60th birthday to the New Zealand Radio DX League
• Veteran broadcaster John Simpson sees bleak future for BBC
• Belarus KGB returns seized equipment to Radio Racyja journalists
• DRM website introduces separate section about DRM+
• Fibre-optic broadband trials to begin in UK next summer
• Radio New Zealand International break in transmission
• Uganda’s Broadcasting Council not effective regulator - lecturer
• Nigerian minister says switch to digital broadcasting is imperative
• Trans World Radio to reach remote areas of Kenya
• Radio art plays to the tune of visitors’ shadows
• Ondas Media signs deal with BMW for in-car satellite radio in Europe
• Big L to be taken over by a “newly formed company”
• Iran and Turkey agree to closer media ties
• YouTube starts running full-length CBS shows
• Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation starts a new radio service
• Voice of America launches FM service in Sierra Leone
• Nigeria’s Ebonyi State to build modern radio/TV stations
• Absolut Vodka sues Britain’s Absolute Radio for trademark infringement
• Continental Electronics under new ownership
• Britain’s Channel 4 axes radio projects
• Public service broadcasting ‘under threat’ in Taiwan
• Former Sky News presenter Bob Friend R.I.P.
• Britain’s Big L is now an Internet-only station
• BBC reinforces its Russian online output, changes radio schedules
• KBS World Radio to offer Korean lessons in 10 languages
• Lack of funding thwarts Malawi’s state broadcasting network
• Niger releases RFI reporter held over rebel links
• Voice of Vietnam launches H’Mong language service
• New Astra 1M satellite to be launched on 31 October
• Romanian Television launches two new channels
• BBC launches world news bulletins on American PBS network
• NHK decides not to lower viewer fees until fiscal 2011
• All India Radio starts regular DRM tests to Europe
• VOA launches weekday TV programme for Africa
• New US broadcast to Darfur reported
• Two new Eutelsat satellites due to launch at end of November
• Riyadh Najm re-elected WBU-TC Chairman
• Radio Taiwan International one-day schedule change on 10 October
• Russian opposition leaders ask US not to cut Russian-language broadcasts
• Free Media Online accuses US Public Diplomacy Chief of giving misleading answers
• Britain gets a new broadcasting minister in cabinet reshuffle
• BBC planned reassuring message for nuclear war: archives
• EBU launches the world’s most complete website of classical orchestras
• New DRM Project Director appointed
• BBC’s Indian Ocean relay station marks 20th anniversary
• BBC to launch six new YouTube channels
• Sirius adds some XM channels to radio service
• RTL Nederland announces job losses in reorganisation plan
• Radio Taiwan International in crisis over government interference
• Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation to commission new SW antennas
• VOA restructures Bosnian, Hindi, Serbian, Macedonian, Russian broadcasts
• French international news channel head “temporarily” quits his post
• BBC World Service on DAB+ in Malta
• MISA-Zimbabwe issues statement on proposed ITC Bill
• BSkyB loses appeal over its stake in ITV
• Korea, North: Officials reportedly listen to foreign radios
• “Europe, personally” radio project launched
• Slovakian and Czech operator of Skylink doubles Astra capacity
• DRM+ demonstration today in Kaiserlautern
• TVNZ, YouTube to present election debate
• House of Representatives passes Webcaster Settlement Act
• OSCE says Armenia should lift moratorium on licensing broadcasters
• Radio Televisyen Malaysia to introduce regional TV
• BBC Radio 4 launches new weekly media show on 1 October
• BBG “blocks use of AM frequency in Moscow for VOA Russian” - Free Media Online
• European Parliament supports alternative and community media
• VOA to carry presidential debates live
• UK government says it will speed up broadcasting review
• United States helps Georgian radio, TV stations get back on air
• Radio New Zealand celebrates sixty years of international broadcasting
• Dutch radio listening figures for July/August 2008
• Poland’s governing coalition disagrees over new media bill
• Real.com begins to stream France24
• Korea leads the world with broadband Internet
• Radio Sweden frequency change to antenna fault at Sackville
• RTL Group to take over Alpha Media Group in Greece
• Venezuela working on Radio of the South project
• Dutch Radio 5 to broadcast documentary about Abie Nathan
• Azerbaijan: Pan-Caucasus TV channel mooted
• Catalan broadcaster TV3 stops HDTV transmissions
• BBCWS Director says closing Romanian service was his own idea
• Radio Twit guide now available for radio pro’s
• Radio in wartime: The man who duped Hitler (book review)
• Happy 80th birthday Bob Thomann
• Czech Radio launches new websites to mark 40th anniversary of August 1968 events
• Niger’s largest broadcaster restarts after month suspension
• Canadian Conservatives say they’re committed to French language TV
• Noah Samara willing to step down as WorldSpace CEO and Chairman
• German radio station to air show in Latin
• RNW distribution changes in North America
• RFE/RL launches new Belarusian TV news programme
• Reporters Without Borders website blocked again inside China
• VOA audience numbers climb in Pakistan
• Zimbabwe parties agree to unban media outlets
• Turkey’s state TV to broadcast in Kurdish, Persian, Arabic in March
• South Asian radio programming coming to N California’s South Bay area
• Nigeria to blacklist dormant broadcast stations
• Details of Radio St Helena Day 2008 confirmed
• SE Texas FM stations carrying news talk programming normally on AM
• Launch of Europarltv, the Web TV of the European Parliament
• Media Guardian interviews Director of BBC Global News
• New Dutch public broadcaster for Muslims planned
• Police in Equatorial Guinea attempt to seize opposition party’s radio transmitter
• DW and BBCWS to jointly launch DRM news and current affairs stream
• Sierra Leone to get new TV station, SLBC to take over Radio UNIOSIL
• SES Astra creates new broadband company
• International Network Distribution extends capacity contract with Intelsat
• BBG workshop highlights sophistication and growth of Web censorship
• Israel’s Supreme Court to rule on nationalist radio station
• The Peace Channel, a global online TV website, is launched today
• WRN launches on DAB+ in Malta
• New AFN mediumwave transmitter goes live in Germany
• Livestation partners Deutsche Welle
• Sirius XM chief: regular radio “sucks”
• Australia: ABC head pushes for digital ‘democracy’ channel
• BBCWS announces new Head of French and Great Lakes services
• Access to Russian TV channels restored in Georgia, websites still unavailable
• Montsinery / TDF French Guiana special DRM transmissions to Mexico
• New Russian HDTV platform launches on Eurobird™ satellite
• Google and HSBC back African Internet project
• TRT plans to expand number of broadcast languages
• Broadcasting Commission of Ireland awards Classic Rock licence
• Busan in South Korea plans to open English-langage radio station
• The Last Night of the Proms on DRM
• Initial plans announced for 2009 NASB-DRM USA annual meeting
• Pro-Tamil Tiger TV channel launched in Europe - Sri Lanka website
• Insight Central Europe has come to an end
• Proposals for improvements of licensing of broadcast media in Tajikistan
• RTÉ Radio to broadcast on shortwave on 7 and 21 September
• Radio still the most important medium in Sierra Leone
• Dutch Minister against EU intervention in public broadcasting support
• Australia’s SBS seeks more government funding
• Interference to broadcasters’ satellite signals ‘on the rise’