21 July 2003
Solid State Logic, the worlds leading manufacturer of analogue and digital audio consoles for broadcast, post, music and film facilities, has announced that Steve Zaretsky has been named Vice President Broadcast, U.S. and Canada. He will be responsible for serving all of SSLs broadcast customers within these regions. Since joining SSL last year, Zaretskys performance in leading the East Coast Broadcast Division of SSL has been a great success. His increased new role will allow Zaretsky to focus on the growing number of facilities turning to SSL for digital broadcast audio consoles.
21 July 2003
DW-Radio has won two silver medals and a bronze in the Environment, National and International Affairs and Science and Technology categories of the New York Festivals radio programming competition.
The Silver Medal in the Environment category was awarded to the English Service for a feature series: Indigenous Peoples: Partners in Conservation, presenting projects on all continents of the world aimed at helping indigenous peoples to protect their traditional lifestyles and the bio-diversity of their environments. The series was made in cooperation with the Worldwide Fund for Nature, WWF
DWs International Co-productions Department was awarded a silver medal by the United Nations for Living with the Past: Ruanda in Search of Reconciliation and Justice.
The bronze medal in the Science and Technology category was awarded to Deutsche Welles English Service for a feature series: Green Development: The Path to a Sustainable Future. The series presents projects supported by Germanys Society for Technical Co-operation, the GTZ, to provide developing countries with innovative technical solutions to environmental problems.
16 July 2003
US-based Iranian TV channels have been suffering from the presence of an unidentified signal which is causing disruption and interference. The affected stations are in a multiplex of channels targetted mainly at Iran.
The channels potentially affected, according to the Lyngsat satellite information web site, are CTI TV; Da Ai TV; MAC TV; NITV-National Iranian TV; Iran TV Network; Tapesh TV; VOA TV Persian service; Channel One; Azadi TV; Jaam-e-jam International (an Iranian state external TV service); AFN Farsi Net (radio).
16 July 2003
The BBC’s Latin American radio and online service, BBC Mundo, has entered a rebroadcasting agreement with Chile’s longest running radio station, Radio Chilena.
ChilenaSoloNoticias is Chile’s only broadcaster with an exclusively information-led format. Specializing in mainly news and sports, it broadcasts through its 19 stations and partner stations to the whole country on AM, FM and via satellite.
James Painter, Head of BBC Latin American Service, welcomes this satellite rebroadcasting agreement with Radio Chilena: “It will help further extend our presence in Chile, offering our valued Chilean audiences extensive news coverage and programmes instilled with the impartiality that characterizes the BBC. We are also very happy that the agreement extends to the digital media and includes an exchange of hyperlinks and content between bbcmundo.com and radiochilena.cl.”
16 July 2003
The VOA has started a new, nightly, Persian-language TV program, News & Views, aimed at reaching millions of Iranians who watch satellite television.
News & Views, a daily, 30-minute show, will be broadcast from 9:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. local time. It will feature original news reporting from Iran. The show will also include world news round-ups, analyses of issues and events and special interest and cultural features. Radio Farda reporters will contribute to the show.
“By reporting what’s happening in Iran today, we can help further the struggle for freedom and self-determination in Iran,” said Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees all U.S. non-military international broadcasting, including VOA. “If ever there was a time when the people of Iran need sound, factual reporting on their country, it is now.”
Scheduled to run until at least September 30, News & Views is expected to cost up to 500,000 US dollars.
16 July 2003
DW s new magazine intensifies the station;s cultural reporting and focus on Europe. The daily format covers “life and culture in Europe”. Television Director Christoph Lanz said: “Germany’s international television is intensifying its cultural reporting while sharpening its profile as a programme from the heart of Europe.”
“Euromaxx” is produced in German and English and takes the place of the previous magazine “Germany Today”. The new magazine will show “Europe in all its variety and fascination with strong images and interesting stories,” explained Rische, head of Society and Entertainment at DW-TV. “We will introduce the continent and its people to viewers around the world: countries and customs, everyday life and atmosphere, society and glamour,”
“Euromaxx” also features a special project: the travelogue “Euromaxx on Tour” – the programmes reporters will be journeying from the North Cape to Gibraltar – 11,000 km from the northernmost point of the European mainland to the southernmost point, passing through 16 European countries.
