AIB media industry news desk
Cyfrowy Polsat scales up at Eutelsat’s Hotbird position
Cyfrowy Polsat Group, Poland’s leading media and telecommunications group, today signed a long-term contract with Eutelsat Communications (NYSE...
NHK WORLD TV highlights for September
In September, the programme of NHK WORLD TV comprises the following hightlights: Orda Cave A 300-million-year mystery of creation Sep 9 Sat 15:10/...
Euronews: Germany 2017 in 360°
Euronews, in partnership with German regional media outlets and with the support of the Google News Lab, launches a series of 9 portraits of German...
BBG CEO John F. Lansing issues statement on press freedom in Cambodia
The statement reads: "Today the Cambodian government has launched what appears to be a campaign against key FM radio stations that carry Radio Free...
BBC Pidgin marks start of World Service expansion
The BBC World Service launched its first new language service in its biggest expansion since the 1940s on 21 August. A digital Pidgin service for...
BBC calls for Iran to reverse asset freeze of staff
BBC World Service has called on the Iranian authorities to reverse a new order which appears effectively to freeze the assets of BBC staff in Iran,...
Australia loses Mr Football
The AIB is saddened to learn that Les Murray, the former football broadcaster and known to football fans across Australia as "Mr Football", has died...
RT journalist killed by ISIS shelling
A journalist working with RT Arabic, Khaled Alkhateb, has been killed in shelling from co-called Islamic State in the eastern suburb of Homs, Syria....
Death threat to RFE/RL correspondent
RFE/RL Turkmen correspondent Soltan Achilova has said that she was threatened with death on July 29, while en route to take photos documenting...