16 September 2010
We are delighted to announce a high quality and truly international set of short listed entries for the People’s Choice category at the 2010 AIBs.
The “Best Coverage of Climate Change” award will be decided by online voting between:
• “Going Green – The Climate Summit” from CNN International
• “Low Impact Man” from VRT, Belgium
• “Earth Rescue Operation” from Phoenix Satellite Television in Hong Kong, China
• “Hard Talk on the Road to Greenland” from the BBC
• “Ross Kemp: Battle for the Amazon” from Sky Television
• “21st Century” from the UN
The full press release can be seen here
16 September 2010
Following the success of the two previous editions, the Eurosport Group has signed a new 5-year deal for the digital and TV rights to the prestigious MCE British Superbike Championship.
On-air, the championships will be available across Europe and Asia and the Pacific, and will feature on
Eurosport’s award-winning network of 11 websites.
16 September 2010
In December 2009 TeleBiel, the largest private TV channel in Switzerland, successfully implemented NCPower. Now another TV channel in Switzerland has decided to work with NCPower. Again, NorCom was able to prove their advantage against nameable competitors.
Partner for the winning and the realization of the mandate from TeleZüri is once more the Jordi AG Communication from Zürich, the specialist for communication-systems in Switzerland.
TeleZüri is going to use NCPower in an Apple MacIntosh-periphery for the Newsroom-System and furthermore the components, which are integrated in the NorCom product for the Media Asset Management (MAM).
Peter Canale, leader of business and technology at TeleZüri, explains the decision for NorComs NCPower: It was most important to us, to seam-lessly dock on with our new news-content-management-system on existing actions and systems operating the station should not be disturbed. And we want to use the innumerable possibilities of NCPower as soon as possi-ble: This starts by the typical workflow-steps for our broadcast-business, thus from ingest of the information as far as to playout. Now we have the most modern newsroom system that is available at the moment. And, says Canale further, NCPower enables TeleZüri to save their multimedia based on contents like graphics, images, sound and videos, selfcontained from the medium. We produce structured metadata of our contents, as far as possible automated and standardized. Media Asset Management is emi-nently important for our business success.
TeleZüri belongs to Tamedia AG, one of the leading media companies of Switzerland, which has beside TeleZüri and other local TV-Stations also daily- and weekly newspapers, magazines, online-platforms and regional radiostations in its portfolio. TeleZüri, one of the first Swiss regional TV-Station to be on air, informs the whole region Zürich with news- and talk shows.
TeleZüri is a picture-perfect project for NorCom. Especially for a me-dium-sized broadcast station NCPower can bring a measurable increase of efficiency. On the one hand NorCom smoothly represents the whole jour-nalistic workflow on the other hand existing systems are easily being inte-grated. The results are lean, efficient structures, comments Dr. Tobias Abthoff, managing board of the NorCom AG. We are also pleased, that we can realize this project with our partner and integrator, the Jordi AG Com-munication.
16 September 2010
RFE’s programs in the Pashtun regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan are expanding from six to nine hours a day, starting today. Amid the growing number of extremist-controlled radio stations in the area, Radio Mashaal (“Torch” in Pashto) covers local and international news with independent reports on terrorism, politics, women’s issues, and health care.
Recently, a mother who was the sole survivor of a Taliban attack on a prominent anti-Taliban family in the Swat Valley told her story on the air. Radio Mashaal also interviewed the only survivor of a Taliban attack on a local jirga that killed 30 people.
“People don’t know these stories,” says Acting Radio Mashaal Director Amanullah Ghilzai. “The more we broadcast Taliban atrocities, the more people come forward to share their experiences.”
In May, Radio Mashaal’s Daud Khattak interviewed a 26 year-old Pakistani father of two whose hands were chopped off by the Taliban after being accused of theft. Two others had their hands cut off, but local residents – including the men’s families – never reported the incidents to authorities for fear of Taliban retribution.
Radio Mashaal’s extensive coverage of the devastating floods in Pakistan last month included live reports from affected areas, interviews with government officials, and reaction from the international community. One Radio Mashaal correspondent, Shah Nawa Tarakzai, reported on the devastation from Pakistan’s remote northwest, venturing further into isolated areas than any other journalist in the region.
One of Radio Mashaal’s most popular programs, My Home, My Village, takes an in-depth look at the people, history, and culture of villages across the region. Because of limited means, difficult terrain, and a dangerous security environment, listeners often know little about other people and places in the tribal areas.
RFE President Jeffrey Gedmin calls Radio Mashaal’s increasing popularity “proof that people will never fail to choose truth over falsehood when given a fair chance to decide.”
About Radio Mashaal
Radio Mashaal was established in January 2010 to broadcast nine hours of independent news and information in the local Pashto dialect of the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. It operates out of a new bureau in Pakistan and broadcasts from RFE’s Prague headquarters. Radio Mashaal shares a frequency with VOA’s Radio Deewa and transmits via FM and shortwave. Online, Radio Mashaal’s website provides audio downloads of its broadcasts.
10 September 2010
A groundbreaking new Voice of America television program, Karwan (Caravan), premiers in Afghanistan Friday, with an exciting and youthful approach to critical issues facing the country.
The 30-minute dual-language weekly program, broadcast in both Dari and Pashto, will tackle social and political issues, culture, health, education and other topics, highlighting what young people are doing in Afghanistan and the United States.
The program is hosted by the easygoing Daoud Sediqi, who has been called the Ryan Seacrest of Afghanistan. Before coming to the United States Daoud was the moderator of Afghan Star, the wildly popular Afghan talent show modeled on American Idol.
With a creative mix of off-site remotes, in-studio discussion and direct audience feedback through social media sites, Karwan will offer viewers in Afghanistan a chance to comment on what is important to them.
The program, which is funded by the U.S. State Departments Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, plans to develop ways for viewers to send in web-based videos to expand the dialogue. It will also draw on a network of Afghan-based journalists to give the show a strong regional presence.
In addition to Karwan, VOA reaches millions of people daily in Afghanistan through its popular radio programs and TV Ashna (which means friend in Dari and Pashto) as well as the Internet. Check the VOA Dari website at http://www.voanews.com/dari/news/, and the VOA Pashto website at http://www.voanews.com/pashto/news/.
