29 January 2010
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The 2009 AIBs – the fifth annual AIB international media
excellence awards – took place at LSO St Luke’s in London on 4 November,
attended by leading programme makers, journalists, editors and executives from
all over the world.
We’ll return to LSO St Luke’s in London for the 2010 AIBs on Wednesday 10
November – you can enter the AIBs when the awards are launched in mid-April.
Winners and finalists 2009
View the winners and finalists book from the 2009 AIBs
here
28 January 2010
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd., a rapidly growing provider of comprehensive content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced today that it has launched a new platform for the distribution of Spanish and Portuguese language content into European markets over the Hispasat 1D satellite. The Spanish-language version of Moscow-based news channelRussia Today (RT) is RRsat’s first customer for distribution through this platform.
The European Spanish and Portuguese audience in Europe is an important demographic and we are providing a platform in cooperation with the satellite operator HISPASAT for content providers to tap into this market, commented David Rivel, Founder and CEO of RRsat Global Communications Network. We are already experiencing interest from potential customers as well as our existing customer base, and we believe we will experience growing demand for this particular service. The launch of this service is continued testimony that we remain attentive to our customer needs and intend to continue to build services to satisfy their distribution requirements.
“The HISPASAT Group is proud to cooperate with RRsat in this project,” commented Miguel Angel Redondo Ugena, Commercial & Services Director of Hispasat. “HISPASAT, the Spanish satellite operator is already the seventh company in the world as regards income in its sector and is the leader in the broadcasting and distribution of contents in Spanish and Portuguese, with
more than 1,100 radio and television channels, including the contents of important digital
platforms of Direct to Home Television (DTH) and High Definition Television (HDTV), both in
Europe and in America. The Group leads also 3D TV projects with which the company tries to bring this new three-dimensional system to our homes, researching the technical possibility of creating live audiovisual productions with this technology”.
27 January 2010
Broadcast Media and Football Join Forces to Stamp out Illiteracy among the World’s Children
Media industry body AIB lends active support to the 1GOAL campaign in the run-up to the first FIFA World Cup in Africa
London, UK, 21 January 2010 – The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB), the global knowledge network for the international broadcasting industry, announced today that it has joined the growing number of active supporters and partners for the 1GOAL initiative which aims to get an education for the 75 million children around the world who are currently missing out on school.
1GOAL is working with footballers, celebrities, governments and broadcasters to deliver a lasting legacy from the 2010 FIFA World Cup taking place in South Africa. Queen Rania, Rio Ferdinand and Hillary Clinton are among those who have signed up for 1GOAL. AIB is helping 1GOAL by providing intelligence about broadcasters worldwide, introducing key executives to 1GOAL staff and facilitating a range of other activities. A number of AIB members are already involved and will be running 1GOAL trails and promotions in a number of languages over the coming months.
“This is a highly worthwhile initiative where broadcasters can really make a difference”, says AIB CEO Simon Spanswick, “in fact, the whole concept is built around the power of international broadcasting. AIB is very pleased that our experience and resources are contributing to the success of this important cause.”
The 1GOAL campaign aims to get 75 million children around the world into school these children could be the next generation’s leaders, sport stars, doctors and teachers. Theyre ready to do their homeworkbut school fees, conflict, working in factories and farms, losing their parents to sickness, the cost of a school uniform or sometimes simply being a girl keeps them from being able to attend school. The 1GOAL campaign is not about giving money – it is about giving your name to support the cause and galvanising political leaders into action.
About 1GOAL
Founded in 1999, the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is a network of major non-governmental organizations (NGOs), teachers unions and civil society in more than 120 countries, that promotes action on making education free, available, public and quality for everyone. 1GOAL: Education for All is an initiative of the football strand of the Class of 2015 and the Global Campaign for Education.www.join1goal.org
26 January 2010
The Voice of America (VOA) launched a web-based service for its Swahili audience that allows users to access video, audio and graphic news content on their mobile devices.
Users around the world can now receive VOA’s Swahili content supported by their mobile devices by simply going to www.Swahili.voa.mobi.
“VOA understands its listeners lead busy lives,” said Gwen Dillard, director of VOA’s Africa Division. “We know that when news breaks our listeners want to know about it wherever they are. Swahili mobile gives them news on demand and goes where they go,” she said.
VOA teamed up with Mobiletech, a European company, to improve the ability of mobile device users to access VOA Swahili’s content. There are an estimated 50 million Swahili speakers in the world, primarily in East Africa.
Plans are under way to provide mobile device users VOA content in French, Hausa and Somali, allowing them to find accurate news and information with the click of a button.
As one of the world’s largest international broadcasters, VOA has been on the forefront of making its content easily available to mobile users with audio newscasts, short messaging alerts and applications that allow users to send content to VOA.
The Swahili Service broadcasts 9.5 hours of radio programming weekly, reaching audiences in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Service is also available 24 hours a day on the Internet at www.VOANews.com/Swahili.
26 January 2010
euronews, the multilingual international news channel, has unveiled today the launch of its programmes in Turkish. As of Saturday 30 January, at 20.00 CET euronews Turkish service will be on air, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Turkish internet service is premiering today, Friday 22nd January, and features all euronews programmes on demand.
The new language version will be provided by a team of 30 individuals. It will be broadcast on the euronews global network of satellites and can be rebroadcast by international platforms including those already distributing euronews (cable, ADSL, satellite and terrestrial) reaching some 300 million homes in 151 countries.
The Turkish version of the channel will be available via Turksat. Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), a euronews shareholder, will broadcast on a daily basis euronews programmes in partial-time windows on its terrestrial channel TRT2, reaching all Turkish homes. The satellite bouquet, Digiturk, which already broadcasts the existing eight languages of the channel: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, will now extend its service to include Turkish.
At the invitation of Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, the launch of the ninth language of the channel will be held at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. The Director-General of Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), Ibrahim Sahin, will attend the event, along with Pier Luigi Malesani, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of euronews, Philippe Cayla, Chairman of the Executive Board of euronews, and Michael Peters, Managing Director of euronews.
The ceremony will be broadcast in full, live and exclusively in the Turkish section of the euronews web portal, www.euronews.net. The channels website provides round-the-clock news coverage in 9 languages and supports video streams on demand.
