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Exmouth RSL in college link
From Radio Today. Posted July 20 2008, 12.10pm
Students at Exmouth College in their third year of the OCR Nationals in Media joined forces with community radio group Bay FM during its recent RSL broadcast in the town. (more)

RTE to launch British channel by year-end
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 20 2008, 11.48am
RTE is preparing to launch its new station in Britain by the end of the year, providing Irish-made programming to the emigrant population. The new station - RTE International - will be available on free-to-air satellite service Freesat. The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) is to examine a proposal from RTE on the station tomorrow. RTE [...] (more)

Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation to shed excess employees
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 20 2008, 11.38am
The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) will shed up to 400 excess employees by giving them a million rupee [approx US$9300] severance package senior officials said, while the broadcaster was reeling under mounting losses. SLBC Chairman Hudson Samarasinghe said employees who had worked for more than 10 years and are below the age of 52 could [...] (more)

Malawi plans to shut down Joy Radio
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 20 2008, 11.30am
The Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (Macra) board has passed a resolution to shut down private station Jpy Radio on Tuesday 22 July following directives from President Bingu Mutharika. The action follows orders from Information and Civic Education Minister Patricia Kaliati during the signing of the media code of conduct for the forth coming presidential and parliamentary [...] (more)

Presidential aide says KBS should be in line with the government’s views
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 19 2008, 2.38pm
Bahk Jae-wan, the senior presidential aide for national policy planning in Korea, has said in a mangazine interview that “Although the neutrality of broadcasting needs to be taken into account, the head of a government-affiliated organization (the president of the Korean Broadcasting System) should have the will to actively realize the new administration’s policy agenda.” This remark could [...] (more)

Radio is Easier than TV: Laura Ingraham Raw Video
From radio.about.com. Posted July 19 2008, 7.15am
A montage clip of raw video featuring radio talk show host Laura Ingraham during the course of her short "This Just In" stint on Fox News has been posted and... (more)

A week indoors with the Web
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 18 2008, 5.08pm
A survey by the Microsoft Online Services Group shows that people are spending more and more time online. But if everything you do in life is via the Internet, when does it start to feel like solitary confinement?  My RNW colleague Saskia van Reenen has just spent a week in an apartment in the centre [...] (more)

Dmitry Kisilyov promoted to post of Deputy Director of Russia?s VGTRK
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 18 2008, 4.49pm
Popular Russian television anchor Dmitry Kisilyov has been appointed Chief of the Information Service and Deputy Director of VGTRK television and radio broadcasting holding, its press service told Tass today. Dmitry Kisilyov will supervise the information service of the entire holding, including Vesti, Vesti- 24, Vesti Regions news programmes and Radio Rossiya and Mayak radio, the [...] (more)

?Calling all Czechs!?: the Prague Uprising begins
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 18 2008, 4.35pm
“Calling all Czechs! Come quickly to our aid! Calling all Czechs!” It is May 5 1945, and with these words Prague radio appeals to Czechs to join the uprising against the German occupation. This was to be one of the last European battles of World War Two and the greatest moment in the history of [...] (more)

Gaydar increases live programmes
From Radio Today. Posted July 18 2008, 3.52pm
GaydarRadio has increased its commitment to live programming as part of its ongoing investment in cross platform music and entertainment services. (more)

University of Texas collects genocide victim stories
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 18 2008, 3.43pm
University of Texas (UT) researchers and bibliographers are working to give genocide victims from around the world a powerful outlet so that their stories won’t be lost.  With the help of a $1.2 million grant from the Bridgeway Foundation, UT library system archivists and bibliographers will compile the stories of genocide and human rights victims [...] (more)

Rwanda: Minister summoned over TV, radio coverage
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 18 2008, 3.30pm
Text of report in English by Rwandan newspaper The New Times website on 17 July The minister of information, Louise Mushikiwabo, was Tuesday [15 July] summoned to parliament to explain why some regions in the country don’t receive national radio and TV broadcasts. The minister acknowledged that the country’s media infrastructure, especially radio, which has the [...] (more)

RRI contest on ?the fascination of radio listening?
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 18 2008, 1.42pm
Radio Romania International has launched a new essay-writing contest on “the fascination of radio listening”. Participants are invited to write an essay on the topic “Why are you listening to the radio? Why are you listening to RRI?” and send it by snail mail, fax, e-mail or by filling in a form on the station’s website. Depending on how interesting, complex and [...] (more)

Gaydar Radio revamps its schedule
From Media Guardian. Posted July 18 2008, 11.30am
A new lineup at Gaydar Radio sees the departure of former Big Brother contestants Richard Newman and Lea Walker. By John Plunkett (more)

EC tells European music copyright groups to remove border restrictions
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 18 2008, 10.42am
Music copyright groups must stop practices which created artificial barriers to the provision of music across borders, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The Commission’s antitrust decision required more than 20 music copyright groups, or the collecting societies, across Europe to end the infringements by modifying their agreements and practices, but did not impose fines. The prohibited practices consisted [...] (more)