| Digital Broadcasters | Japan Mobile ISDB-T Sales Off Y-O-Y | | 2008-05-31 06:41:11 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News Asia(DBVNA) notes that in Japan, mobile hand device sales to end users are on the slide. 1Q/2008 sales dropped to 13.2 million units a decrease of 10.1 per cent year-on-year, according to a report by Gartner, Inc (NYSE:IT) research findings.
"There were no new phone features in the first quarter of 2008 that were strong enough to drive growth, unlike the first
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| Broadcasters| US Radio-TV Tops 175m Weekly Audience Worldwide | | 2008-05-18 09:02:15 | | United States Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman, James Glassman said in Washington on May 15 that the government funded international broadcasting outlets reached a 175 million audience on a weekly basis. The figure is up from 155 million audience in 2007. Mr Glassman was addressing a meeting of the "Heritage Foundation".
BBG's broadcasters include the Voice of America (VOA),
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| Digital Broadcasters | Fox Makes 2 in India for Murdoch | | 2008-05-18 03:42:03 | | Rupert Murdoch's STAR India has the sub continent covered with its STAR-DEN 50:50 joint venture with the Digital Entertainment Network. Digital Broadcasters Vendor News Asia hears that following re-positioning of the Hong Kong based, Star Group last year, the other Murdoch TV broadcast group, FOX has recently applied to India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for an operator's licence
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| Digital Broadcasters | NZ TV Channel 40 Waikato starts | | 2007-11-10 10:37:15 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News has learned from the Asia-Pacific satellite forum Apsattv (at) yahoogroups.com, that a new regional family TV station, starts November 15 to serve the Waikato area of New Zealand. TV Central is using UHF Channel 40 as its frequency.
The reason for the forum buzz was that a member in the area complained that the Channel 40 frequency just happened to be the UHF
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| Digital Broadcasters | BBCArabic Seeks Uni Recruits | | 2007-11-10 09:40:19 | | With weeks away to the launch of the BBC Arabic TV Channel, the BBC in Dubai has informed Digital Broadcasters Vendor News Asia that a series is of interactive media workshops to recruit talented young university graduates to become broadcasters, is under way.
Labelled as “The World as You See It†road show is to target media studies attendees to groom the best into becoming the program and
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| Digital Broadcasters | NDTV Using Omnibus iTX System Solution | | 2007-11-10 05:37:43 | | A reminder from Digital Broadcasters News Asia that New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) launched two new channels from its headquarters serving the Middle East region.
"NDTV GOOD TIMES", went on-air Sept 7, 2007 followed by "NDTV ARABIA" on September 10. Both channels target expatriate (NRI) Indian viewers in the Gulf states.
NDTV appointed OmniBus Systems of the UK to supply its comprehensive
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| Digital Broadcasters: Radio24 News Radio | | 2007-08-20 06:09:35 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News Asia (DBVNA) has been updated on progress to Malaysia's National News Agency, Bernama's radio launch date. That is now set for September 3.Radio24 News Radio has begun its dry run on FM 93.9Mhz in Kuala Lumpur serving the Klang Valley initially.The FM radio station says it will have a live interactive news format including traffic reports from reporters on the
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| Digital Broadcasters | Perth | New Radio Licenses | | 2007-07-13 09:24:08 | | The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has advised Digital Broadcasters Vendor News Asia (DBVNA) that it is calling for local non-profit organisations to apply for two community radio station licenses up for grabs in the Perth, Western Australia marketplace. Deadline is August 16, 2007.
The two FM frequencies being offered are 100.9 MHz and 90.5 MHz.
100.9 MHz became
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| Yankee radio broadcasters are an embarrassment | | 2007-05-08 16:59:00 | | How can the New York Yankees, the richest, most successful franchise in sports history, have the worst broadcast teams on the planet?I've railed about listening to the big buffoon named John Sterling before. The latest embarrassment was provided by Sterling's partner Suzyn Waldman, however, with her crazed screaming Sunday when it was announced that Roger Clemens was returning to the team.If you haven't heard it, check it out here.Mel Allen had to roll over in his grave listening to that. It's really hard to believe that this duo is the best team the Yankees can put on the radio.Sterling simply loves to hear himself talk, and could care less about the game as long he gets to do his schtick. Waldman is a glorified fan who adds absolutely zero insight.The Yankees have to be able to do better than this.technorati tags: New York Yankees, John Sterling, Suzyn Waldman, Roger Clemens
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| Digital Broadcasters |Aussie ABC Massively Expands NewsRadio network | | 2007-04-22 08:30:30 | | ABC Australia, already one of the world's biggest radio networks in terms of terrestrial transmission coverage, informed Digital Broadcasters Vendor News that it is going one step further. Within three years it will make ABC NewsRadio its third main network after ABC Local Radio and ABC Radio National, terrestrially reaching all Aussie communities with a population of 10,000. That massively
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| Digital Broadcasters | Doordarshan Up Up and Away in UK | | 2007-04-17 11:15:08 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendors News notes that after years of indecision, India's state TV, Doordarshan is up, up and away in UK's satellite land using DVB. From London on April 16 DD launches a general channel, DD India and 24/7, DD News. Both are free - to - air, part of the Sky UK satellite TV mux in Hindi and both are transmitted on the Eurobird satellite positioned at 28.5 degrees East. This
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| Digital Broadcasters | Bangladesh Maverick Ekushey TV Returns | | 2007-04-16 22:44:01 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News notes that Ekushey Television (ETV)
in Bangladesh is still on air terrestrially and via satellite two
weeks after getting its license back after a four year hiatus. A
maverick broadcaster if ever there was one.Staying on air terrestrially seems no mean feat in a Bangladesh where
ETV was forced off air in Aug, 2002 by then-prime minister, Begum
Khaleda Zia for
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| Digital Broadcasters | Google Adsense Radio Simple Operation | | 2007-04-16 22:29:14 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News reports that this IS the big news
and it is such a simple operation.You have been following Google's move into radio advertising? Well
here is the definitive result: Broadcast Electronics (BE) of Quincy
Illinois, in collaboration with Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) have added
an AdSense software plug-in to BE's AudioVAULT digital studio system.
This means that
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| Digital Broadcasters | Listen Again to Australia Country Radio 1962 | | 2007-04-15 23:55:54 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News invites you down a trip to memory lane from the days when radio announcers dressed up to present their programs not dress down as is the case today.Our friends at The Radio Heritage Foundation [www.radioheritage.net] has a secondradio heritage documentary on RNZI during April."More Australian Country Radio" re-visits 1962 to radio stations in Victoria, New
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| Digital Broadcasters | Bahrain | 1st Private TV Station | | 2007-04-15 05:54:55 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News has learnt that Bahrein (Bahrain -
مملكة البحرين Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn ) this weekend is getting its first private digital broadcaster, Atlas Travel and Culture. Satellite channel owner is local businessman Jamil A Wafa and partners. Bahreini reports say media expert Dr Mohsen Saffar will chair the TV station's board. Atlas Travel and Culture is believed will be
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| Digital Broadcasters | India Doordarshan LPTs Replaced | | 2007-04-15 05:48:28 | | Just for the record here, on March 14 in the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha Chamber), Shri P R Dasmunsi, Minister of Information reported that: 84 Doordarshan low output transmitters (LPTs) of 100-watt effective radiated power (ERP) have been replaced during the years 2004 to the present. Of these, 76 were replaced with 500-watt LPT’s. A further eight were of greater ERP.
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| Digital Broadcasters | Qatar Broadband Huge Expansion | | 2007-04-15 05:44:10 | | When Digital Broadcasters Vendor News analysed Qatar’s broadband expansion with the help of the Arab Advisor's Group it was amazing to see that a full two thirds of all Internet connections in the country are on broadband. In fact, Broadband accounts grew by 90% in 2006.
For four years already, Qatar’s Internet subscriber base has been growing at strongly. In 2005 Q-Tel added 16,445 total
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| Digital Broadcasters | ACMA Licenses Station without Station ID | | 2007-04-15 05:36:46 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendors News thinks this is bizarre. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA ) allocated in mid-February a radio license and no one publicly has a clue to what the station is going to broadcast nor what will be its station ID. Actually it looks like carte blanche for the licensee.....Is this bureaucracy gone mad?
The future station has paid 200,000
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| Digital Broadcasters | 6m Malaysians Listen to Muzik FM | | 2007-04-15 05:32:00 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News Asia (DBVNA) noticed an interesting
announcement from Malaysia's news agency Bernama referring to the
increasing number of listeners to Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM)
radio networks. Bernama quoting Information Minister Datuk Seri
Zainuddin Maidin said that some some six million residents across
Peninsula Malaysia tune in every week. Peninsula Malaysia
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| Digital Broadcasters | India Terrestrial TV Reach | | 2007-04-15 05:26:50 | | In India, terrestrial TV coverage by Doordarshan still only
covers 79 per cent of the country reaching 91 per cent of the
population. For All India Radio the figures are better at 91.78 per
cent and 99.14 per cent respectively. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands
are covered through Doordarshan’s free to air DTH satellite service.Minister of Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary
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| Digital Broadcasters | Australia | Saving Water by Radio | | 2007-04-15 05:22:52 | | ABC Local Radio network in Australia, known as "The Backyard"
informed Digital Broadcasters Vendor News of how a simple radio
program idea helped most program participants cut their water
consumption at home by a staggering 91 per cent in a 40 hour
"drought" period. The program was part of an effort to build
awareness of water conservation in a country suffering its worst
drought this
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| Digital Broadcasters | India | Bhubaneswar Adds Two FM stations | | 2007-04-14 22:50:04 | | Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state, and popularly known as the "Temple City of India" adds two 24/7 private FM radio stations from this month. Adlabs' BIG 92.7 FM will have an effective radiated power that distributes its signal for a 60 kilometre radius that also takes in the city of Cuttack with a program diet of entertainment and "serious" information. Serious means updates to the
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| Digital Broadcasters | Taiwan Moving Ahead with DTV | | 2007-04-14 22:13:50 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News can report that according to press coverage in Taiwan, the broadcasting watchdog, the National Communications Commission is moving ahead with plans to offer new terrestrial digital TV broadcasting licences. The plan calls for the introduction of new TV networks on UHF channels 25, 31, 33 and 49 with nationwide coverage with two stages of introduction. The
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| Digital Broadcasters | India | HDTV for 2010 | | 2007-04-14 19:42:54 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News sees India's regulatory authority
for broadcasting and state broadcaster, - Prasar Bharati - as
quickening its pace of interest in adopting new digital broadcast
technologies with the key objective of covering the whole of the
Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi in HDTV. Prasar Bharati is the
unbrella organisation for Doordarshan and All India
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| Digital Broadcasters | Philippines Enforces Cable TV IP Violations | | 2007-04-14 19:39:03 | | Philippines has tightened the noose around the neck of cable TV
pirates. From today a strengthened complaints process will be
enforced. The legal framework for filing violation of broadcasters
program content by cable TV pirates in the Philippines has been
enacted between the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
(IP Philippines) and the National Telecommunications Commission
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| Digital Broadcasters | ABC Brisbane To Relocate | | 2007-04-14 19:33:47 | | News from ABC Brisbane is that it is at long last to get a new
unified home for its regional digital radio and television
broadcasting complex and headquarters for Queensland. Digital
Broadcasters Vendor News received the announcement from ABC in Sydney
directly.ABC Managing Director Mark Scott said that the present 280 employees
based in Queensland's capital city and housed in seven
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| Digital Broadcasters | Malaysia to Adopt DVB-T | | 2007-04-14 19:30:37 | | So now we know, it is confirmed the Malaysian Government is going
ahead with the adoption of DVB-T for digital terrestrial
transmissions. Digital Broadcasters Vendor News notes that this is
clearly ahead of the intended date of such an announcement - a month
before the present Klang Valley trial was due for completion.Deputy Information Minister Chia Kwang Chye who made the
announcement
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| Digital Broadcasters | Genesis Opens Tokyo POP | | 2007-04-14 19:24:57 | | Tokyo, Sydney and Auckland have been added as the latest "point-of-
presence" POP's in Asia-Pacific on the New York - based, Genesis
Networks global video transmission network. Digital Broadcasters
Vendor News understands that POPs are already operational in Beijing,
Singapore, and other major media centers in Asia. The new POP sites
will allow Genesis Networks to interconnect with local
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| Digital Broadcasters | PRC | CRI Awarded Phone for TV Licence | | 2007-04-14 19:10:48 | | Sometimes decisions coming out of China's digital broadcasting set up
seem quirky. The latest in mobile handheld licenses is no exception.
The state arm in charge of propaganda in Beijing, the State
Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has awarded to China
Radio International (CRI) the overseas radio broadcasting division,
the third license on offer for mobile phone "TV
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| Digital Broadcasters | TV3 Rate Roar Not Appreciated | | 2007-04-14 19:06:40 | | Malaysia's TV3 may be roaring ahead but its latest announcement is not appreciated.
Digital Broadcasters Vendor News has learned from advertising agency contacts in Kuala Lumpur that a just pronounced 5-15 per cent advertising rate hike by premier private TV3 network is not causing ripples but a Tsunami size reaction.
TV3 owned by Media Prima Group dominates Malaysia's terrestrial television
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| Digital Broadcasters | India Censors Irked by FTVs Catwalk Capers | | 2007-04-14 12:00:08 | | In India the satellite TV channels have been pushing the boundaries of decency in programming in the past six months - that is by Indian standards. The latest is from FTV and its catwalk capers of believing less is better.
In a country that bans kissing on TV, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting was forced to act on March 29 when Fashion TV under the FTV.com India label showed models
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| Digital Broadcasters | India | Doordarshan Regional Newrooms Go VSAT | | 2007-04-14 11:52:45 | | In New Delhi, Doordarshan India's state TV network is moving ahead with developing field production in high definition (HDTV). The administration says it expects trials to start later in 2007 or 2008. New Delhi has been chosen as the place to stage the testing.
Meanwhile, there is small revolution taking place in the state broadcaster's newsgathering technology. All 70 of DD's regional news
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| Digital Broadcasters | India Could Add 90 FM Radio Stations | | 2007-04-14 11:46:42 | | Talking to local media in Mumbai, India, S.K.Arora, Secretary at the Indian Broadcasting and Information Ministry indicated that a further 90 FM Radio station frequencies could be added soon in what the I&B Ministry terms C & D level cities - those yet to have commercial broadcast operations.The I&B ministry is currently evaluating the viability of offering such licences after it has
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| Digital Broadcasters |Al Jazeera English Versatile HDTV and SD | | 2007-04-14 11:44:12 | | All digital broadcaster, Al Jazeera English, at its new Doha headquarters studio complex in Qatar routinely retains video feeds in high definition television (HD, HDTV) on a rotating basis for up to one week using a recently installed, NEXIO XS server system from Harris Broadcast Inc (NYSE:HRS). Specifically, the NEXIO XS server platform at Al Jazeera English consists of 4 x NXS3600HDX
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| Digital Broadcasters | Kabul 98.1 Arman FM Online | | 2007-04-14 11:26:52 | | Digital Broadcasters Vendor News has heard from Arman FM in Kabul.
This is one of the digital radio and TV success stories of a war
ravaged country. 98.1FM is online, with live streaming. Essentially,
the station is trying to reach pockets in the country where their
terrestrial transmission cannot reach. They are on satellite.What is so good is that true inter-raction is possible with the
Afghani
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| Thanks, Marlins Broadcasters | | 2007-04-13 02:42:09 | | I found a pleasant surprise when I checked my email today after spending yesterday in Wichita, Kansas at the Huskers-Shockers baseball game. The talented and prolific Jeff Sackmann wrote me a note informing me that my humble little site, The Pastime, was mentioned on the Marlins-Brewers broadcast on April 11th.
I logged into my MLB.tv account, checked it out, and sure enough, it was true. My post on home run leaders from each state was cited — by who I believe to be Rich Waltz and Tommy Hutton — in the second and third innings.
They spoke on the interesting names to be found leading each state, and seemed delighted that Fred McGriff was the Florida leader with 493. The broadcasters even gave me the courtesy of mentioning that they found the list on “The Pastime dot net”, which I’m very grateful for. It’s refreshing to see a member of the media give credit to the blogging world instead of simply lifting content. Colin Cowherd could learn a lot from To... | | By: The Pastime | | |
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