As cuts in international broadcasting continue, we note that it’s exactly 10 years ago today (1 July 2001) that the BBC World Service dropped its shortwave broadcasts to North America and the Pacific Rim. At that time, Radio Netherlands still had a sizeable shortwave audience in North America...
Text of press release from Voice of America on 30 June
Washington DC: Voice of America’s popular French and English language news and music programmes will air 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the Central African Republic’s capital city, Bangui, with the launch of VOA’s new station 101.7...
The number of Free to Air (FTA) satellite channels targeting the Arab region continues to grow. The FTA landscape had a major growth of 438% in the number of FTA satellite channels between January 2004 and April 2011. Based on Arab Advisors Group research, by April 2011 the total number of...
Belgian authorities may soon issue back off Brussels call after the European Commission (EC) has expressed concern regarding proposals by the Belgian regulators to open up broadcasting markets.
Specifically, the EC is asking the Belgian regulators to take full account of market developments in...
Even though the last rites had been read for SeeSaw, the online TV VOD aggregation service may not yet be in its grave with private equity firm Criterion Capital Partners said to be poised to make a purchase.
According to reports in UK national newspaper the Daily Telegraph, the investment...
An increase in television viewing is one aspect of the shifting media landscape in the Middle East and North Africa in reaction to political turbulence in the region, according to a new study from Omnicon Media Group and covered by the Kipp Report.
During the first quarter of 2011, the average...
Australian pay-TV provider FetchTV, which delivers content straight to televisions using a broadband connection and a set top box, has selected Hostworks to ensure its website maintains high availability and an enhanced user experience.
FetchTV will benefit from technology investments...
Norwegian public broadcaster NRK seems to have struck the right chord with a five-day long Hurtigruten live broadcast covering the famous sea route along the Norwegian coast.
In what is probably the best example of ‘slow TV’, NRK broadcasts the whole trip live minute by minute for 134 hours...
Published: 09.50 Europe/London, June 20, 2011
Media Broadcast, a company of the TDF Group and service provider to the broadcast and media industry, has been selected by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) to conduct a DVB-T2 technical trial in the city state.
This technical...
Published: 09.25 Europe/London, June 20, 2011
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting has announced that it has signed a contract with Space Systems/ Loral for the construction and delivery of its new geosynchronous communications satellite to be called Thor 7 and positioned at 1 degree West. The new...
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Despite the best efforts of Sky, Virgin Media and lately the BBC, new research is predicting that 3DTV will struggle to ignite the mainstream UK TV market.
The research from Informa Telecoms & Media is a crushing blow from an industry that seems to be collapsing under its weight of...
19.06.2011
*Private Spice (13.0°E) ---> ok
*C+NL all keys ---> ok
*Teleclub all keys ---> ok
*Buls@t all keys ---> ok
*Sky Italia all keys ---> ok
*Austriasat 19.2°E ---> ok
*TV Globo ---> ok
*Mediatech ---> ok
*RAI 13°E ---> ok
*1+1 International (4.8°E)...