6 February 2017
Arab Satellite Communication Organization – ARABSAT- is holding its 9th Telecom Forum in Tunis from 14th -15th February 2017. Arabsat holds its Telecom Forum annually to strengthen its professional and operational association with its customers. The 2017 Forum will provide a platform for ARABSAT customers, industry experts, technology and service providers to share their views on latest technological trends.
Arabsat’s CTO Eng. Mueid Al-Zahrani said “This occasion will be a great opportunity to present our reliable high powered capacity to deliver connectivity services to different verticals over extensive coverages in the Middle East, North Africa, North West Africa, Central Asia and South Africa. Our Future High Throughput Satellites (HTS) that are scheduled to be launched in 2018 will complement existing capacities and supply adequate bandwidth and coverage.”
The 9th Telecom Forum will provide a platform for international experts to explore, in-depth, a range of issues pertaining to the market needs for satellite capacity to fulfil the growth of satellite-based broadband solutions, aeronautical in flight entitlements, HTS applications and GSM backhaul.
(Source: ARABSAT press release)
25 January 2017
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) today announced the unanimous election of Kenneth Weinstein, who has served as a Board Member since October 2013, to the position of Acting Board Chairman, effective immediately. Mr. Weinstein takes over from Mr. Jeff Shell, who served as Chairman of the Board since August 2013. Mr. Shell, the Chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, will continue to serve as a Board Member.
“This transition illustrates BBG’s commitment to ensuring high caliber, accomplished leaders in the agency,” said outgoing Chairman Jeff Shell. “Ken is a consummate professional and a wonderful person to boot, whose contribution to the Board has been invaluable. He is the perfect person to work with CEO John Lansing as he continues to lead key reforms and advance growth at BBG.”
In his acceptance of the Chairman role, Mr. Weinstein said, “Working to advance the mission of BBG throughout the world is truly an honor, and I am excited to work with my fellow Board Members and with CEO Lansing in this new capacity. CEO Lansing’s leadership has been crucial to our continual progress here at BBG. During his tenure, the agency’s total audience grew by 52 million to an estimated total 278 million people weekly, in 100 countries and 61 languages, even as he leads internal reforms that tighten processes, save money, and cultivate impact. I and other Board members continue to support John’s leadership, having voted on January 19 to reaffirm his authority, without objection, and I look forward to working together. I also want to thank Jeff Shell, whose unmatched dedication and strategic leadership of the Board have been critical to the transformation of the agency.”
Kenneth R. Weinstein is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Institute, a think tank focused on promoting American leadership and global engagement for a secure, free, and prosperous future.
A political theorist by training whose academic work focuses on the early Enlightenment, Mr. Weinstein has written widely on international affairs for leading publications in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including Bungei Shunju (Japan), Le Figaro (France), Le Monde (France), The Wall Street Journal, and the Yomiuri Shimbun.
He has been decorated with a knighthood in Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Mr. Weinstein previously served by presidential appointment and Senate confirmation on the National Humanities Council, the governing body of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Mr. Weinstein graduated from The University of Chicago (B.A. in General Studies in the Humanities), the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (D.E.A. in Soviet and Eastern European Studies), and Harvard University (Ph.D. in Government).
Additionally, on January 24, the Board noted the resignation of public diplomacy expert Matthew Armstrong, who served on the Board since August 2013.
In noting Mr. Armstrong’s resignation, Mr. Weinstein stated, “Matt was a pleasure to work with and his accomplishments are many. I wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
(Source: BBG press release)
18 January 2017
Content from BBC Ukrainian is now available to the users of the popular Ukrainian news website, Novoye Vremya, as it now carries news stories from the website bbc.ua, in Ukrainian and Russian, in text and video.
Novoye Vremya (nv.ua) is the website of the Ukrainian weekly social and political news magazine of the same name. It now displays the BBC Ukrainian reporting and analysis of international and regional news relevant to Ukrainian audiences, including the BBC’s coverage of business, art, entertainment and sport.
BBC Ukrainian Editor, Nina Kuryata says: “We welcome the collaboration with Novoye Vremya, a widely respected Ukrainian publication. This new partnership will help us showcase to a new audience relevant and engaging content from bbc.ua.”
Chief Project Manager, nv.ua, Oleg Lysenko, adds: “We want to provide our readers with high-quality and timely information. Our cooperation with BBC Ukrainian – with which we share high journalistic standards, objectivity and impartiality – will deliver just that.”
BBC Ukrainian is part of BBC World Service.
(Source: BBC World Service press release)
17 January 2017
Euronews: inside the World Economic Forum 2017
Euronews ups its coverage of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 with daily news coverage and live broadcasts of two panel discussions featuring global leaders, moderated by Isabelle Kumar
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News daily coverage
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Throughout the week, Euronews special correspondents in Davos, Isabelle Kumar (Davos’ media leader) and Sarah Chappell, report on this major event where global leaders gather to share their views on this year’s designated topics: Responsive and Responsible Leadership, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Global Collaboration, Building Positive Identities, Fixing Market Capitalism, and Restoring Economic Growth. |
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The Global Conversation LIVE from Davos
> Post-Multicultural era
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LIVE on Wednesday 18th at 09:15am CET – Duration: 45 minutes
then on Saturday 21st at 11:15 CET and 23:15 CET, Sunday 22nd at 12:15 CET. |
| Isabelle Kumar leads the discussion on a crucial topic: Integration policies based on multiculturalism or assimilation are being challenged in this era of cultural divisiveness. How can we build a new social contract that ensures trust between people of varied backgrounds?
The panel brings together Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Brendan Cox, international campaigner and activist, and husband of the late UK Labour MP, Jo Cox, murdered as she campaigned for Britain to stay part of the European Union; Alexander de Croo, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, and novelist and political commentator Elif Shafak, the most widely-read female author in Turkey. |
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The Global Conversation LIVE from Davos
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LIVE on Thursday 19th at 15:00 CET – Duration: 45 minutes
then on Saturday 21st at 16:15 CET, Sunday 22nd at 01:15 CET and 14:15 CET |
| Russia is the focus of our second panel discussion “How are national politics and a new economic and geopolitical context reshaping Russia’s role in the world?”
Isabelle Kumar puts the question to First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the Board of Ulmart, Russia’s leading E-commerce site Dmitry Kostygin, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, Founder, Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio, and the Minister of Foreign & European affairs of Slovakia Miroslav Lajcak. |
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Monday 23rd January at 21:45 CET
In a 10-minute wrap-up of the World Economic Forum, Euronews’ team looks back at the event’s highlights: interviews of leading figures, and new initiatives and common resolutions reached at the meeting. |
| About Isabelle Kumar |
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Isabelle Kumar is a British journalist.
She joined Euronews in 2003 and is now one of the channel’s leading reporters.
She has presented various programmes on Euronews and currently hosts the flagship interview programme “The Global Conversation”.
Isabelle has interviewed many world leaders and covers politics and international current affairs. |
(Source: Euronews press release)
22 November 2016
According to the results of Africascope 2016, Africanews enjoys 31% awareness across seven countries* in French-speaking Africa, where it is already watched weekly by 1.7 million viewers.
Africanews is a leading multilingual, pan-African news outlet, available in sub-Saharan Africa via its complete offering: TV and digital (website, social media). Every week, 1.7 million people in French-speaking Africa watch Africanews TV.
According to the findings of the latest Africascope survey, conducted by Kantar TNS in seven French-speaking African countries, 31% of respondents have heard of Africanews.
Barely six months after launching, Africanews has already secured the loyalty of 1.7 million viewers in the seven countries surveyed.
According to the survey, Africanews’ audience is young and more affluent than the average of the target population. A majority of its audience are men, who make up 67% of Africanews’ viewers in these seven countries.
Africascope also highlights the strong TV audience in all countries surveyed, with an average 91% of people aged 15 and over watching television daily, which amounts to 15.4 million viewers.
Strong approval for Africanews in Gabon and Cameroon
Six months after its launch, Africanews already enjoys good awareness ratings in the seven countries surveyed.
In Cameroon, 41% of respondents say they have heard of the channel. The score rises to 60% in Gabon, the channel’s highest rating in French-speaking Africa.
Gabon is also where Africanews attracts its highest weekly audience, with a quarter of viewers loyal to the channel.
In Ivory Coast and Senegal, Africanews scores awareness ratings of 34% and 29%, respectively.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 28% of respondents say they have heard of the channel, compared to 25% in Burkina Faso and 21% in Mali.
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“Barely six months after the launch of Africanews, we are pleased to receive the first audience data for seven key markets in French-speaking Africa. These findings – exceptional for a fledgling media outlet – are highly encouraging and consolidate our editorial position. We can already say that Africanews has found its audience, who approve of our intention to show the new face of news in a fast-moving continent. With our team in Pointe-Noire and its network of correspondents, 85 professionals fulfil their daily mission of providing independent news and promoting Africa’s rich diversity.
Many advertisers and partners showed confidence in Africanews as soon as it launched. With these first audience findings, we can assure them that Africanews is an excellent vehicle for their communications and that it will quickly make its mark as a key media source on the continent.”
KANTAR TNS and its Africascope media survey
Kantar TNS has been measuring the audiences of national and international television channels and radio stations since 2008. Africascope is the essential survey for measuring audience and awareness, and for understanding target groups’ profiles and consumer habits.
Africascope is conducted in the capitals of seven countries in French-speaking Africa, on a sample of 16.8 million people aged 15 and over, representative of the survey area. The surveys were carried out face-to-face in interviewees’ homes, using the quota method (gender, age, education and profession of the respondent).
* Countries surveyed: Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou), Cameroon (Douala and Yaoundé), Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon (Libreville), Ivory Coast (Abidjan), Mali (Bamako) and Senegal (Dakar).
(Source: Euronews press release)
