Bloomberg Television, the global 24-hour business and financial news network, today announced that the network will launch as a basic service on Singtel’s IPTV platform mioTV.
This launch of Bloomberg Television on Singtel’s IPTV platform is an important distribution initiative as it will allow Bloomberg TV to reach 100% of mioTV subscribers. With the new deal with Singtel MioTV, Bloomberg Television is now the only international business news channel available across both pay TV platforms in Singapore. As a result, Bloomberg Television’s distribution will immediately double to a total of approximately 500,000 households, making Bloomberg Television the most widely distributed international business news channel in Singapore.
Gary Groenheim, Bloomberg Television’s Commercial Director for the Asia-Pacific region said, “This is a major strategic development for Bloomberg Television in one of our most important markets and fits in our overall plan to more aggressively expand Bloomberg TV’s availability. Singapore plays a growing role as a leading regional and global business hub and it’s vital that viewers can access Bloomberg Television¹s global news coverage.”
Bloomberg Television, currently available in more than 252 million homes globally, provides continuous 24-hour coverage of the latest and most comprehensive news and headlines for business leaders around the world. The network has studios in Hong Kong, London and New York.
Guests from all over the world were in London on 9 November for the annual AIBs, the international media excellence awards.
At a gala evening hosted by Vanessa Mock of FSN, the outstanding finalists drawn from entries submitted by broadcasters, production and technology companies in all parts of the world were shown to a packed venue.
Winners came from Sri Lanka, the UK, Canada, Germany and Qatar among other countries. Full details of the 2010 AIBs winners can be found
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You can see the Winners & Finalists booklet
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Very noticeable this year were the vast improvements in entries to the cross-media category a range of submissions ably demonstrated the potential for story-telling across multiple platforms, whether serving a highly web-literate audience or an audience in an area where mobile rather than web is the most effective way to reach people.
The Association for International Broadcasting, the industry association for international TV, radio, mobile and online broadcasting, strongly condemns the closure of the Cairo bureau of Al Jazeera Network and the withdrawal of accreditation to Al Jazeera correspondents in Egypt.
The moves by the Egyptian Ministry of Information, announced on Egyptian TV and by MENA, the official news agency in Egypt, come at a time when the focus of a majority of the worlds media is on the continuing unrest in the North African country. The announcement on MENA said: “The information minister [Anas al-Fikki] ordered … suspension of operations of Al Jazeera, cancelling of its licences and withdrawing accreditation to all its staff as of today.”
Al Jazeera Networks Arabic- and English-language services have provided extensive, constant coverage of developments in Egypt since the start of demonstrations across the country, providing news and analysis to viewers in Egypt, across North Africa and the Middle East and to a global audience.
“AIB and its global membership of broadcasters protests strongly at the restrictions placed on Al Jazeera Network in Egypt,” says AIB CEO Simon Spanswick. “The Arabic and English channels reach tens of millions of viewers, including significant numbers of Egyptian expatriates around the world who have come to rely on Al Jazeera for up-to-the-minute coverage of the fast-moving events in Egypt. The move by the authorities in Egypt demonstrates a complete disregard for freedom of expression as well as media freedom in the country. AIB looks forward to the Egyptian authorities swiftly reconsidering the restrictions they have placed on the channel and allowing Al Jazeera and all other media companies to report from the country without hindrance.”
The move by the Egyptian authorities follows similar restrictions by other governments around the Middle East on print and broadcast news media preventing them from reporting freely. Despite the restrictions, media outlets find ways of circumventing restrictions thanks to extensive technological developments and it is expected that Al Jazeera Network and other news media will find ways to bring news from Egypt as the crisis continues to audiences both within the country, across the region and throughout the world.
In an presentation to staff this morning (January 26), BBC World Service
director Peter Horrocks gave details of significant cuts to the output of BBC
World Service, the publicly-funded international broadcaster.
The cuts follow a 16% budget cut in World Service funding from Britain’s
Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the Comprehensive Spending Review announced in
October 2010. BBC World Service has been funded by the UK government for many
years but in a new move from 2014, the BBC – Britain’s national public
broadcaster, funded by the TV licence paid by all TV-watching households – will
assume financial responsibility for the international operation.
Horrocks announced closure of five services: Albanian, Macedonia, Serbian,
Portuguese for Africa and English for the Caribbean. Radio broadcasting will
cease in Russian, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Turkish, Vietnamese, Azeri and Spanish
(for Cuba), although these languages will retain an online presence and delivery
via platforms such as partner (affiliate) stations and mobile. Shortwave
transmissions will reduce at the end of March by a significant amount. Shortwave
in Hindi, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Nepali and Swahili will end, and a service to the
Great Lakes region of Africa will also lose short wave.
Cuts will also affect Arabic- and Persian-language TV output while radio
output in these languages will also be reduced.
In English services, programmes will be cancelled and editorial posts lost.
Overall, there will be staff cuts amounting to a little under one quarter of
the total World Service staff.
AIB members will receive an initial analysis of the cuts and new plans
announced by the World Service during the course of the afternoon (Wednesday 26
January).
Bloomberg L.P. today announced its line-up of complete coverage of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2011 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland from January 26 – 30, 2011. Bloomberg’s dedicated team on the ground in Davos will speak to some of the world’s most influential heads of state, business leaders and economists to provide in-depth analysis and insight into the major trends and ideas shaping the markets and global economy today. To follow breaking news and coverage from the event, visit Bloomberg’s Davos-themed site at http://www.bloomberg.com/davos/
Bloomberg’s global media properties, which reach more than 20 million business news consumers worldwide, including more than 300,000 financial professionals through the Bloomberg Professional® service, will cover Davos across television, radio, online and print including Bloomberg Businessweek. Last year, Bloombergs media properties produced more than 150 print and television interviews that moved bond, currency and equity markets worldwide.
Bloomberg Television, the global 24-hour business and financial news network, will present live coverage from Davos beginning on Tuesday, January 25th at 7:00 AM CET. Anchor Erik Schatzker will co-host “Inside Track with Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzker,” and anchor Francine Lacqua will host her program “On the Move with Francine Lacqua” from Bloomberg’s premiere location on the top of the Congress Centre in the heart of Davos. Lacqua will also host a televised debate in partnership with the WEF, on the theme of “What if competitive devaluation becomes the global norm?” featuring Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, Poland’s Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski and professor Niall Ferguson, among others. The debate will air globally on Bloomberg Television on January 29th and 30th.
Bloomberg.com’s special Davos-themed section offers live streaming and archived versions of television and radio coverage as well as special commentary from Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker, Francine Lacqua and Tom Keene. Additionally, mobile users can access breaking news stories from Davos on a special section of Bloomberg’s apps for the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android.
Tom Keene, co-host of “Bloomberg Surveillance with Ken Prewitt and Tom Keene,” will present his radio program live from London beginning today, January 24th followed by three days of special World Economic Forum coverage beginning Wednesday, January 26th. Keene will interview a line-up of influential guests from his new set inside the Congress Centre, including noted economist Nouriel Roubini; Peter Weinberg and Joseph Perella of Perella Weinberg Partners; David Rubenstein, co-founder and managing director of The Carlyle Group, and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.
Subscribers to the Bloomberg Professional® service may access a Davos-themed daily “Bloomberg Brief” on Economics at BRIEF . The “Bloomberg Brief/Davos” will provide in-depth analysis from Bloomberg’s economists on the impact of Davos discussions on markets and industries. Hard copies will also be available at the WEF. For more information go to www.Bloomberg.com/brief
