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AIB Executive Committee voting underway
Elections to the AIB’s Executive Committee are underway. There are six places on the Committee, which is the body that steers the direction of the Association and guides the work of the permanent staff. The Executive Committee also represents the overall interests of the AIB’s Members in setting the organisation’s strategic direction.
Candidates are:
Tom Wragg, Autocue Limited
Alan Booth, BBC World Service
Mark Smith, BT Broadcast Services
Dennis Israel, InterMedia Survey Institute
Jeff White, National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters
Elzbieta Olechowska, Radio Canada International
Thomas Dine, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Linden Clark, Radio New Zealand International
Mike Chandler, SES-Astra
Voting closes on 12 December at 1700 GMT.
Star News gets Indian rights
Star News has been given permission to uplink from India, bringing the channel to viewers of cable systems and DTH installations across the sub-continent. The Indian government had initially refused to give permission for the channel to be broadcast (see The Channel, September 2003) but has now relented, apparently changing the rules to allow the News Corporation-owned service to begin operations.
AIB Executive Committee elected
The AIB’s Executive Committee for the two year period to December 2005 has been elected by the Association’s members.
Six representatives from members sit on the Executive Committee, and these are:
Alan Booth, Controller, Marketing, BBC World Service
Mike Chandler, Managing Director, SES-Astra (UK)
Linden Clark, Radio New Zealand International
Thomas Dine, President, Radios Free Europe/Liberty
Dennis Israel, InterMedia Survey Institute
Elzbieta Olechowska, Radio Canada International
The Executive Committee will help steer the AIB’s strategy and direction.
AIB Conference 2004
The AIB Global Media Business Conference 2004 will take place in Prague on 12 and 13 May.
The event will be held at the headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – the former Czech Parliament building – in the centre of the city. RFE/RL, an AIB member, is the conference partner.
Full information about the event will be available on the AIB website in the coming weeks. In the meantime, suggestions for speakers, presentations and papers are welcome. Send suggestions to the AIB via e-mail using the link below.
AIB helps members make business
AIB Member Radio Prague, the international arm of Czech Radio, has signed a contract with VT Merlin Communications – also an AIB Member -to broadcast programming on its network of high power short wave radio transmitters. The programme is a daily service in Spanish directed at the Southern Americas. It runs from 0000 to 0030 UTC on a frequency of 11.665 KHz.
The programme is down linked from the Eurobird satellite in the UK. It is then sent via fully staffed control facilities, to a transmission site operated by VT Merlin in the Atlantic. This enables a live broadcast to be made, providing listeners with up to the minute news and information.
The use of a transmission facility close to the target area will enable listeners to receive Radio Prague’s programmes clearly. The broadcast is made at 250KW.
Miroslav Krupicka, Director of Radio Prague said, “This is a good opportunity to enhance our listenership in South America. With the advent of new technologies such as the Internet and DRM, we also want to demonstrate that we do not forget about our short wave audience. The first reports from our listeners are encouraging.”
Richard Hurd, Head of Transmission Services at VT Merlin Communications commented “Radio Prague and VT Merlin Communications discussed this opportunity at the AIB Global Media Business Conference in London in 2003. We are proud that Czech Radio have trusted us with their international transmission requirements. This is the start of a new broadcast relationship which will benefit Radio Prague’s listeners and programme makers.”