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SABC launches international news channel

Posted by Paul • Sunday, July 22. 2007 • Category: satellite tv, terrestrial tv
The South African Broadcasting Corportation today launched their new international news television station, SABC News International. The station will broadcast English and French news, from an African perspective, twenty-fours hours a day and is intended to compete on the same ground as BBC World and CNN.

It is currently available on the Intelsat 10, via Sentech's Vivid platform, which covers sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Europe. The station's schedule is here.

The station's website claims to have live internet streaming, however all we could find were recorded news broadcasts, in RealVideo format.

Source: SABC News

The Week Ahead, July 14th, 2007

Posted by Paul • Saturday, July 14. 2007 • Category: shortwave radio
The first of a weekly update, looking at the highlights on international radio in the week ahead.

Radio Netherlands starts the week with Amsterdam Forum, on Sunday, asking experts on what can be done to bring stability to Afghanistan; and Flatlanders, on Tuesday, looks at what's hot in Dutch and European music, as they do once every month.

On the BBC World Service, this week's World Drama is Talking to Strangers by Charlotte Jones, while over on Radio Australia, Match Night Asia covers the Asian Cup soccer finals.

Finally, Deutsche Welle's Concert Hour features Heroic Music by Richard Strauss, performed by recent music graduates.

National Indigenous TV launches in Australia

Posted by Paul • Saturday, July 14. 2007 • Category: satellite tv, terrestrial tv
Australia's newest television station, National Indigenous TV launched yesterday in Alice Springs and Sydney, with a charter to reflect the culture of Australia's indigenous people. Initially, NITV will broadcast via the Optus Aurora remote satellite television service and commercial broadcaster Imparja's spare channel, but has future plans to become a third national broadcaster, via pay television operators and channel "A", which the Australian government plans to auction off at some point in the future.

Source: ABC Radio

Links

WRTH July 2007 update out

Posted by Paul • Friday, July 13. 2007 • Category: books
The July update to the World Radio TV Handbook is now out, and can be found here.

(News via rec.radio.shortwave).

Radio St Helena broadcast on July 17.

Posted by Paul • Thursday, July 12. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio
From newsgroup rec.radio.shortwave comes the news that Radio St Helena will be on the air on Tuesday, July 17th, on a frequency of 11092.5 kHz, USB, from 1900 until 2100 UTC.

They only very rarely make shortwave broadcasts, so it's always good to get another chance to catch them on-air.

Japan to launch new broadcasts to North Korea

Posted by Paul • Thursday, July 12. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio
OneLoveRadio writes that Japan plans to begin daily shortwave programs for abductees in North Korea.

There are estimates of around 60 to 80 Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea, for the purposes of teaching Japanese language and culture to North Korean spies.

Iceland leaves shortwave

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, July 10. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio, streaming
MT Shortwave Central notes that RUV in Iceland ended its shortwave relays on July 1st.

RUV's two stations can still be heard, streaming in the internet: Rás 1 and Rás 2.

Radio Mayak, Russia

Posted by Paul • Monday, July 9. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming
Long-time shortwave radio listeners will remember Russia's Radio Mayak, which at one time was rather hard to avoid on the shortwave bands, having many, many transmitters.

Mayak's shortwave broadcasts are long gone, but for those who would still like to listen to its interesting mix of Russian bands and western pop music, it is streaming over the internet here.

DW-TV now on Intelsat 8

Posted by Paul • Sunday, July 8. 2007 • Category: satellite tv, terrestrial tv

As reported in the Austech forums, DW-TV, the international television service from Germany, is now available free-to-air on Intelsat 8, on a frequency of 12726 MHz, with broadcast beam covering Australia.



DW-TV broadcasts in both German and English.

Fairfax purchases Australia's largest commercial talk network

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, July 3. 2007 • Category: domestic radio
ABC News reports that Fairfax, owners of The Melbourne Age and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, is buying the Southern Cross Radio network, which includes high rating stations such as 3AW, in Melbourne, and 6PR in Perth.

This move has been enabled by the Australian federal government's new media laws, which were passed in 2006 and recently came into effect, which do away with the previous cross-media ownership prohibitions.

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