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Carole Cadwalladr: One new national treasure, needed
From Media Guardian. Posted June 28 2008, 11.06pm
Carole Cadwalladr: John Motson is retiring from TV, so who has the curious qualities to fill the gap in our hearts? (more)

New national body to hear student views on journalism training
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 18 2008, 12.00am
Aim is to give students a greater say about courses, qualifications and policy (more)

4 Digital group awarded new national digital radio multiplex licence
From Ofcom. Posted July 6 2007, 5.59am
A new item from the Ofcom website. (more)

New national newspaper for Wales to launch
From Press Gazette. Posted June 20 2007, 12.00am
A new national newspaper for Wales – published in Welsh – is due to launch on March 3, 2008, it was announced this morning. (more)

Three new national commercial radio stations for Botswana
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 27 2007, 10.42am
The National Broadcasting Board (NBB)  of Botswana has granted offers to three bidders for national commercial radio stations. If the three bidders, Yarona FM, Gabz FM and new entity Duma FM agree to undisclosed conditions of the offers, they could be licenced by next month. NBB Chairman Dr Masego Mpotokwane confirmed that the Board had given draft [...] (more)

Dutch to build new national FM station in Georgia
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 13 2007, 12.36pm
Colleagues from Broadcast Facilities Netherlands (BFN), the company that provides technical services to Radio Netherlands Worldwide in Hilversum, have signed a contract to build a radio studio in Tbilisi, Georgia. The facility will be used by a new national classical music radio station, Radio Muza, to be run by Sandra Roelofs, the Dutch wife of Georgian President Mikheil [...] (more)

New national jazz radio station launches in the UK
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 26 2006, 11.49am
Ray Woodward writes: GCap Media’s latest national radio brand “The Jazz” launched as scheduled at 0900 UTC Christmas Day on the Internet, DAB (mono), Sky Digital 0113 and NTL/Telewest 961. The next new brand to arrive should be GMG’s ‘Rock Radio’ due in Glasgow (96.3) and the Internet on 8 January. Andy Sennitt comments: Although there has been [...] (more)

Ofcom advertises new national multiplex
From Breaking Radio. Posted December 1 2006, 10.45am
Ofcom have now invited applications for the second commercial national multiplex. (more)

Queen Beatrix to open new national audiovisual archive building
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 18 2006, 9.56am
It has been confirmed that Queen Beatrix will open the new building of the Dutch Audiovisual Institute on Friday 1 December. The new building, located in Hilversum’s Media Park, houses the Dutch Audiovisual Archive, and is an extensive collection of radio and TV programmes, documentaries, commercials, amateur films, photos and music. The earliest items in the collection date back [...] (more)