Media UK

GTN hires more producers
From Radio Today. Posted July 4 2008, 8.03am
Global Traffic Network UK has signed two new producers to work at its existing airborne operations base at Oxford and Plymouth Airports. (more)

Media Talk podcast: live(ish) and on location in Glasgow at the Radio Academy Festival
From Media Guardian. Posted July 4 2008, 7.22am
Matt Wells presents a special edition of the podcast from Scotland's second city, rounding up all the news and issues from the Radio Academy Festival (more)

Nigeria: Independent radio/TV station for Efon-Alaaye soon
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 3 2008, 5.45pm
An independent radio and television station is to be established at Efon-Alaaye, Ekiti State. A former board chairman of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chief Biola Olasope, said in Lagos that the project had so far gulped N150 million. He told NAN that the project was being sponsored by an indigenous firm, “Ekiti-Sope Radio [...] (more)

China launches first Croatian-language website
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 3 2008, 5.27pm
Text of report in English by Croatian state news agency HINA ZAGREB, July 3 (Hina) - The Chinese Embassy in Zagreb and China Radio International (CRI), the state-run radio network that has been broadcasting programmes in 48 languages for over 60 years, in Zagreb on Wednesday presented the Chinese government’s first Internet site in the Croatian [...] (more)

RFE/RL to end its broadcasts to Romania
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 3 2008, 5.24pm
Just a few days after the BBC announced it is closing its Romanian service on 1 August, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has announced that it will do likewise, also on 1 August.  However, unlike the BBC World Service, RFE/RL’s Romanian-language broadcasts to Moldova and the Transdniester region will continue. The Romanian Service began experimental broadcasting on July [...] (more)

Radiohead star guests on classical LP
From Digital Spy. Posted July 3 2008, 2.46pm
Radiohead's Thom Yorke contributes to a classical album called Cortical Songs. (more)

KCR to relaunch as The Edge
From Radio Today. Posted July 3 2008, 1.46pm
Merseyside station KCR 106.7 has been bought by a consortium headed by group chairman and presenter Jon Jessop.The purchase means another end to the name KCR, as the station will re-launch as 106.7 The Edge later this year. (more)

The view from the back row
From Radio Today. Posted July 3 2008, 8.16am
This year's Radio Festival seemed notable by it's inclusions and absences.The inclusion of a good PPL/PRS debate, but the absence of much chat about last week's record GCap fine. The inclusion of a free bar each night, but the absence of it being available while Sharleen Spiteri was getting ready. And the inclusion many Glasgow tourist brochures in the delegate bag, but the absence of, well, anything of much use in it. (more)

The Fairness Doctrine: Free Speech and the Radio Marketplace
From radio.about.com. Posted July 3 2008, 7.34am
For about 26 years between 1949 until 1985, Radio adhered to a government policy called "The Fairness Doctrine". After it was eliminated, conservative talk radio made a stunning rise in... (more)

Brief Return to talk107 Airwaves for Graham
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted July 3 2008, 7.28am
Listeners to the Edinburgh-based all speech radio station, talk107, could have been forgiven for not believing their ears on Tuesday evening. They thought he was gone for good, but no. Back, to stir things up, was former programme director and morning host, Mike Graham - but neither as a... (more)

TV matters: Mark Lawson on Bonekickers
From Media Guardian. Posted July 3 2008, 12.34am
Mark Lawson on Bonekickers (more)

Limbaugh signs radio contract worth $400m
From Financial Times. Posted July 3 2008, 12.25am
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk radio host, has signed an eight-year contract extension said to be worth as much as $400m (more)

Watch this: ABBA: The Mamma Mia! Story | Sunday Schools: Reading, Writing and Redemption | Fallout | The Office: An American Workplace
From Media Guardian. Posted July 3 2008, 12.23am
Sarah Dempster suggests ABBA: The Mamma Mia! Story | Sunday Schools: Reading, Writing and Redemption | Fallout | The Office: An American Workplace (more)

Paul Howlett's TV film picks: Heaven Can Wait | Little Children | The Limey
From Media Guardian. Posted July 3 2008, 12.18am
Paul Howlett recommends Heaven Can Wait | Little Children | The Limey (more)

Major deal for Rush Limbaugh
From Radio Today. Posted July 2 2008, 11.57pm
Rush Limbaugh, one of America's biggest names in talk radio has apparently signed a 200 million pounds - eight year deal - with Premiere Radio Networks. (more)