AIB media industry news desk
RFL/RL Baku bureau raided, journalists held
Twelve employees of RFE/RL's Baku bureau have been forcibly detained by Azerbaijani authorities for questioning, with more ordered to appear for...
SES: Astra 2G ready for December 28 Proton launch
SES S.A.has announced that the ASTRA 2G satellite is ready for its scheduled launch on board an ILS Proton booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in...
AIB protests Turkish arrests
AIB is concerned about what appears to be a politically-motivated campaign of intimidation against journalists and media workers in Turkey. The...
Social news startup Newstag opens Cairo bureau
Newstag – the Stockholm-based crowd-curated news service – is opening a subsidiary in Cairo, Egypt to handle all its incoming video news content....
AIB publishes C-band spectrum Position Paper
AIB has released its Position Paper on C-band frequency spectrum in advance of the World Radiocommunication Conference in November 2015. On the...
State monopoly threatens closure of independent Russian TV station
Tomsk: The pioneer Russian broadcast company TV-2, one of the country’s first independent commercial stations, may have to put its plans to...
Czech Republic and Slovakia public broadcasters begin test broadcast of Ultra HD content via SES’s ASTRA 3B satellite
SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), Ceska Televize (CT), RTVS and Ceske Radiokomunikace announced today that they...
Poland’s nc+ extends long-term Eutelsat relationship with HOT BIRD satellite capacity renewal
Eutelsat Communications (NYSE Euronext Paris: ETL) and nc+, a driving force in pay-TV services in Poland, today announced the signature of a...
Al Jazeera doc angers Kenyan authorities
The Kenyan government has ordered that news agency Al Jazeera be investigated and face possible charges, over the network's recent report alleging...