Russia to expand radio broadcasting to India – Putin

Russia is ready to expand radio broadcasting to India in local languages, Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin stated during his video link with India. “ I’m glad that India is interested in what is going on in Russia and the features of the Voice of Russia are popular”, Vladimir Putin said answering one of the [...]

DW interactive radio project starts in Afghanistan

The Afghan radio station Ariana FM started broadcasting Deutsche Welle’s radionovela “Learning by Ear” on Friday, 5 March, 2010. Germany’s international broadcaster has planned 50 episodes – each 15 minutes long – in the two national languages Dari and Pashtu. The radio dramas have been made with young listeners in mind. Deutsche Welle Director General [...]

China warns Google not to stop filtering web searches

China today warned Google that it would face  “consequences” if it stopped filtering its search results, after the firm threatened to leave the country over cyberattacks and web censorship. The comments from the Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, came after the US Internet giant said it was prepared to leave the world’s [...]

Yemen seizes Arab broadcasters’ equipment

Two pan-Arab news channels said today that the Yemeni authorities had seized broadcasting equipment from their Sanaa bureaux by force because of their coverage of the growing unrest in Yemen’s south. A government official told state media that Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and the Saudi-owned channel Al Arabiya did not have proper authorisation for the [...]

New YLE financing on hold

New administrative arrangements and financing reforms for the public service Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE, have been put on hold. The Minister of Communications, Suvi Lindén, announced yesterday that decisions on reforms will be put off until after new Parliamentary elections. Plans had called for the introduction of a public broadcasting service fee, paid by all households, [...]

Book review: Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

British newspaper The Independent has published a review of a new book by Jeffrey Herf, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. The book mostly chronicles German radio broadcasts to the Arab world during the Second World War, but it also covers German propaganda directed at Turkey and Iran, as well as Italian propaganda [...]

Fashion TV rapped over bare breasts in India

Fashion TV was due to be pulled off the air in India today after falling foul of obscenity laws by broadcasting bare-breasted models during a show last year, officials said. The satellite channel has been suspended for nine days starting today and will be blocked from 7pm local time (1330 UTC), the Information and Broadcasting [...]

Senator seeks to boost Radio Free Asia broadcasts

A top US senator introduced legislation yesterday aimed at boosting US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA), citing disappointment at the pace of democratic reforms in key target countries. “Certain governments still believe in blocking uncensored news from their citizens,” Senator Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement. On [...]

Most Dutch local broadcasters receive too little from the council

The majority of local broadcasters in the Netherlands receive insufficient financial support from the council. A good deal of the councils do not pass on the full amount that they receive from the government to support their local broadcaster. That’s according to Ilja Geukers from the Organisation of Local Broadcasters in the Netherlands (OLON). Since 1 [...]

Europe’s top court urged to address Italy’s media pluralism gap

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s control over television broadcasting in Italy goes against European democratic standards, the Open Society Justice Initiative argued in a brief filed today with the European Court of Human Rights. The Italian broadcaster bringing suit, Centro Europa 7 srl, has been denied access to the airwaves for almost a decade. “This case highlights [...]

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