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There will be more Chinese and Tamil programmes over Radio Televisyen Malaysia’s (RTM) TV2 channel from next year. Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said TV2 would also feature more programmes that portray the lives and aspirations of the people in Sabah and Sarawak. “Next year, we will have new programmes [...]
The BBC’s Burmese radio service, the first broadcast media in the Burmese language, marks its 70th anniversary today. The milestone is being celebrated in Mae Sot, Thailand, a border town across the Moei River from Burma, with the distribution of free Hello monthly journals. Although the Voice of America Burmese service and two stations in exile [...]
Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour, who owns a major media group in Dakar, has launched his private television station after a difference with the authorities over its finance. TFM (Television Futurs Medias) is a cultural channel that went on the air on Wednesday evening with a debate among diplomats, business people, musicians, politicians and officials. “The television [...]
Radio Veronica has launched a new online station: Veronica Rock Radio, which broadcasts the best rock hits of all time 24/7. It will play music from bands such as Nirvana, Queen, The Police, Led Zeppelin and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Veronica Rock Radio is available online at radioveronica.nl and also on mobile phones. Several [...]
The director general of the BBC admitted today that his organisation had been guilty of a “massive bias to the left” but said “a completely different generation” of journalists now works at the broadcaster. Mark Thompson told the right-of-centre Spectator magazine that there was an institutional bias when he joined the organisation, reinforcing the findings [...]
FM 104.9 Network Pty Ltd - a China Radio International (CRI Beijing) allied organisation based in Perth, Western Australia - currently uses 104.9 MHz FM with 50W power on a leased basis. But the Australian Communications and Media Authority recently awarded the organisation a licence to operate at 5000 watts maximum power with a directional [...]
The Dutch radio listening figures for June/July 2010 were published today by research bureau Intomart GfK. The biggest gain was for public news/talk network Radio 1, which saw its market share rise by 0.6 percent month-on-month, and 0.5 percent year-on-year. By contrast, public network Radio 2 saw a modest fall of 0.3 percent month-on-month, but [...]
RadioTime, Inc, the world’s leading provider of applications for finding and listening to radio online, today announced that it has acquired the TuneIn Internet radio iPhone application, the best-selling and highest rated Internet radio application for the iPhone and iTouch. RadioTime has also hired the man who created the TuneIn application to oversee the development [...]
In ballots which closed at lunchtime today more than 90 per cent of the members of the BBC’s three main unions - BECTU, NUJ and Unite - have supported calls both for strike action and for action short of strike in opposition to the corporation’s plans for drastic cuts to staff pensions. BBC management say [...]
UK-based Radio Caroline says on its website about its radio ship Ross Revenge, which just completed a weekend of low power (licensed) transmissions on mediumwave 531 kHz on 31 August: “As you may have heard the twin masts on board the ship need to be taken down and a new aerial system installed, likely to take [...]
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