The official conference hotel in Montreal is the Hotel Gouverneur Place Dupuis, just a few minutes walk from the CBCs studio complex in the city. We have negotiated special rates with the hotel and you can download the hotel booking form which includes the discounted rates
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The fourth annual AIB Global Media Business Conference – taking place in Montreal on 6 and 7 June 2005 – offers a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition opportunities.
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Radio Netherlands’ Latin American department is organising an international radio conference in Mexico, together with the Mexican network of public broadcasters. The theme of the congress is regional integration, the influence of the media on this process and national identity. The congress is taking place from 4th-7th May 2005 in the Anthropological Museum in Mexico City, and is primarily intended for media representatives in Latin America.
Over four days, media specialists and politicians will hold readings and seminars in Spanish. The speakers will include Cees Hamelink (Professor of Communications and Media at the Free University in Amsterdam), Armand Mattelart (Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Paris), Sergio Ramirez Mercado (Nicaraguan foreign minister during the Sandinist years) Dante Caputo (former Argentinian foreign minister and main author of the UNDP’s most important report on democracy in Latin America) and Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez (Suffragan Bishop of San Salvador and former assistant to Bishop Oscar Romero)
At the same time, eight workshops will be given on a variety of themes, including the influence of integration processes, corruption in the region and the media’s ethical responsibilities. The congress can be followed through video footage on the conference website: www.informarn.nl
Countries support integration process in order to strengthen regional ties and also to increase their influence on the international community. José Zepeda, head of Radio Netherlands’ Latin American department, explains: “Regional integration processes can have a positive influence in developing countries, at least if they apply the right politics. Regional integration can help promote democratisation. Encouraging integration processes is definitely a task the media should be involved in.”
Another important topic at the conference is the dialogue between different integration processes, for example the dialogue between the European Union and Latin America.
Radio Netherlands’ Latin American department is collaborating with the “Red Nacional de Radiofusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de Mexico”, the network of Mexican public broadcasting organisations.
According to an agreement sealed at NAB between T-Systems and SES ASTRA, TV stations throughout the world can now order fully-fledged solutions from T-Systems to broadcast their sports coverage of the 2006 Soccer World Cup via satellites of the SES GLOBAL fleet.
T-Systems and SES are bundling their services into the “Content Delivery Worldwide” package. It consists of signal delivery, satellite transponder capacity, as well as uplink and downlink services. The package enables TV broadcasters to transmit football coverage from the respective soccer stadiums to the International Broadcasting Center (IBC) in Munich and on to their studios anywhere in the world. T-Systems also uses this infrastructure to transmit coverage from other locations, such as Brandenburg Gate in the center of Berlin. At the heart of the solution are the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary’s earth stations in Raisting and Usingen, which communicate with the satellites in the SES GLOBAL fleet at different orbital positions around the world.
Alexander Oudendijk, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of SES ASTRA, said: “By delivering and distributing the World Cup broadcasts in standard definition and state-of-the-art HDTV to TV networks worldwide, T-Systems and SES are making sure that billions of TV viewers all over the world will not miss a single goal.”
Earlier in April, SES ASTRA announced that the SES Group had increased its shareholding in ND SatCom from 10% to 25.1%. ND SatCom is a leading global supplier of satellite-based broadband VSAT, commercial broadcast and defence communication network and ground station solutions. The company is based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and has major regional centers in Abu Dhabi, Beijing and Dallas, Texas, to serve customers in 130 countries worldwide.
SES ASTRA announced also that the SES Group had increased its shareholding in SATLYNX from 41% to 77%, taking full operational control. As a result of the equity realignment, Alcatel Space and Gilat now hold 6% and 17% of the shares of SATLYNX, respectively. The SES participation will be managed through SES ASTRA, and the company managing the SES Group’s activities in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa).
Deutsche Welle has sold a six-part TV documentary about the causes and effects of the global water shortage to the Qatar-based satellite TV station Al Jazeera.
The The Thirsty Planet, produced by reporters from DW-TV, was also purchased by CNBC Arabia.
DW-TV programmes have received substantial interest in the Middle East from Morocco to Saudi Arabia, with over 300 programming hours sold in Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.
Director of DW-TV, Christoph Lanz, said: We are pleased about the great interest our productions encounter in the Middle East. This is another example of cultural dialogue with the Arabic world.
In addition to the Arabic-language services on DW-RADIO and DW-WORLD.DE, DW-TV broadcasts three hours daily in Arabic. DW-TV is the first European TV broadcaster to present news with Arabic anchors in the Arabic language.
Radio New Zealand, together with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, Thales Corp and THL-Australia, has launched a project to investigate the appropriate Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) implementation strategies for radio broadcasters in the region. The technical investigation, which started last week in Wellington, is being carried out on digital radio transmissions in the medium wave band using the DRM digital system. An analogue medium wave radio transmitter of RNZ has been converted for digital transmissions in this project. This is to facilitate investigations on simulcast transmission of analogue and digital radio programmes.
A Digital Radio Symposium and Demonstration has also been organised as part of the project. Around 70 experts from the radio industry in the region will meet from 27-29 April to provide technical information on digital radio and the conversion of transmitters to digital mode. The symposium also aims to provide an opportunity for the participants to carry out measurements of various technical parameters.