12 March 2012
The BBC Burmese Service today made the first live broadcast from the BBC’s new state of the art news studios at Broadcasting House in central London at 1.45 pm GMT Sunday. The BBC Director General recorded an interview for the broadcast and welcomed the Burmese Service to the new facility at Broadcasting House.
BBC Director General Mark Thompson said: “The Burmese Service is one of the jewels in the BBC’s crown and I know is listened to and enjoyed by many millions of people in Burma. This is a great day for the BBC and the Burmese Service. The Burmese service is the very first service to make the move and to be broadcasting today from its new home.” Asked about the future of BBC World Service, Thompson said: “I think the BBC’s mission, which is to bring great, trustworthy, impartial, reliable news to the world [.] that mission doesn’t change. But the way in which we deliver it has to change because of the way the world’s changing. That means new technologies, it means making sure – as we do with the Burmese Service – that we’ve got a great web presence with video on it as well as the radio that so many people rely on.” Thompson said the move would lead to The World Service and all its language services working much more closely with the rest of the BBC News.
The migration to the new home of BBC News over the coming months will see the integration of all the BBC’s international and domestic UK multimedia newsrooms under one roof, to create one of the world’s largest, single concentrations of journalistic expertise.
The Burmese Service marked the broadcast with a special programme featuring an exclusive interview with Aung San Suu Kyi. Regarding foreign broadcasts she said: “It’s very important that the external media keeps up an awareness of what is happening in Burma. Because we don’t really have absolute freedom of information, we don’t have absolute freedom of the press. We must remember there is such a thing as censorship in the country.” The programme also featured greetings and well wishes from listeners and a special phone-in for the listeners who would like to know more about the New Broadcasting House.
Peter Horrocks, the BBC Director of the World Service, said: “It is fitting that the first broadcast in the new Broadcasting House is from the BBC Burmese Service. BBC Burmese is emblematic of why the BBC World Service remains so important, acting as lifeline for international audiences who are hungry for impartial and independent news. We will continue to represent the voice of free media where there is no other access to fair and authoritative news.”
Helen Boaden, the BBC Director of News said: “In a multimedia world, we need a multimedia building which encourages greater efficiency through new technology and greater creativity through collaboration. Simply being in the same building should encourage our ambition: for example, the Today programme will have Language Service colleagues from the World Service in the same building. When there’s a breaking foreign story, those World Service colleagues will be able to give the context for the Radio 4 audience. And of course it should work in the other direction too.”
The original Broadcasting House was the first ever purpose-built broadcast centre in the UK. It was built in 1932 for the BBC, eight years after the corporation first came into existence. Over the last decade, Broadcasting House has undergone extensive redevelopment with the addition of a major new extension and new John Peel Wing. Now complete, this 80,000 square metre structure will provide state-of-the-art, digital broadcast facilities for nearly 6,000 staff – the majority of them frontline programme-makers from BBC News, the World Service, Radio & Music and staff from BBC Vision (BBC One, Two, Three and Four). Together, they will be providing public service broadcasting via three 24-hour television news channels, 9 radio networks and 26 foreign language services to a worldwide audience of more than 241 million people. At the heart of the building will be the largest live newsroom in Europe.
The BBC Burmese Service was founded in 1940 and has covered independence, uprisings and long years of military rule. Small teams based in Bangkok and London broadcast to more than an estimated 20% of Burma’s adult population, and in times of national crisis these figures soar. An estimated 8.3 million weekly listeners in Burma and the BBC Burmese Website attracts over 100,000 unique users every week and features with video and audio plus picture galleries. Independent surveys also show that BBC Burmese has established itself as the most trusted, reliable source of information in Burma.
12 March 2012
March 2012
CeBIT, Hannover, Germany: 6-10 March 2012 www.cebit.de
ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2012, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia: 6-9 March 2012 www.abu.org.my/dbsymposium
FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference 2012, London: 7-8 March 2012
www.ftconferences.com
Attendees are typically C-Suite, VP and Director level from right across the industry, including content providers, broadcasters, software applications, telecoms, mobile, network operators, cable satellite, ISPs, hardware manufacturers, advertising/ marketing agencies, investors
SXSW 2012, Austin, Texas: 9-18 March 2012 www.sxsw.com
SXSW has grown from a tiny music festival into a massive media event that reflects, discusses and showcases trends in culture and media but also often creates them.
Satellite 2012, Washington DC, USA: 12-15 March 2012
DVB World 2012, Rome, Italy:12-14 March 2012 www.dvbworld.org
RadioAsia 2012, Jakarta, Indonesia: 12-14 March 2012 www.radioasia.org
FICCI Frames, Mumbai, India: 14-16 March 2012 www.ficci-frames.com
Radiodays Europe, Barcelona, Spain: 15-16 March 2012 www.radiodayseurope.com
The world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments.
IP&TV World Forum, London: 20-22 March 2012
www.iptv-forum.com
IP&TV World Forum is unique in uniting the varied players in the broadcast landscape to advance the opportunities presented by IP delivery. The event brings together broadcasters from a wide variety or platform backgrounds smart TV, OTT, cable, satellite, terrestrial, & telcoto-network, compare experiences and brainstorm solutions.
IP and Media in the Digital Age conference, London, UK: 23 March 2012
www.conferencesandtraining.co.uk/ip-media
Increasingly the population is turning to online and digital methods to consume media. This has led to a proliferation of ways in which intellectual property rights can be abused, which is particularly demonstrated by the increase in illegal download websites and peer to peer software. This conference will be tackling keeping media specialists up to date with protecting intellectual property rights. AIB members can receive a 20% discount.
Musikmesse, Frankfurt, Germany: 21-24 March 2012 www.musik.messefrankfurt.com
CASBAA India Satellite Industry Forum 2012, New Delhi, India: tba www.casbaa.com
Changing Media Summit 2012, London, UK: 21-22 March 2012 www.guardian.co.uk
CCBN, Beijing, China: 21-23 March 2012 www.ccbn.tv
Convergence India, New Delhi, India: 21-23 March 2012 www.biztradeshows.com
FEB Conference, Dresden, Germany: 22-25 March 2012 www.feb.org
Afri-Tech Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa: 22-24 March 2012 www.afri-tech.com
AES UK Conference, York, UK: 25-27 March 2012 www.aes.org
Social TV Forum Europe, London: 27-28 March 2012 www.social-tv.net
April 2012
MIPTV, Cannes, France: 1-4 April 2012 www.miptv.com
The NAB Show, Las Vegas, USA: 14-19 April 2012 www.nabshow.com
The Festival of Media Global 2012, Montreaux, Switzerland: 15-17 April 2012 www.festivalofmedia.com
The Internet Show Middle East, Dubai, UAE: 17-18 April 2012 www.internetshow.ae
Caspian Telecoms 2012, Istanbul, Turkey: 19-20 April 2012 www.caspiantelecoms.com
Poznan Media Expo, Posnan, Poland: 20-22 April 2012 www.mediaexpo.pl
Asia Pacific Pay TV Operators Summit, Ayana Resort, Bali: 24-26 April 2012
CBA General Conference, Brisbane, Australia: 22-25 April 2012 www.cba.org.uk
132nd AES Convention, Budapest, Hungary: 26-29 April 2012 www.aes.org
Cairo ICT, Cairo, Egypt: 26-29 April 2012 www.cairoict.com
One of the region’s prime events covering the entire spectrum of telecommunications, information technology, networking, computing and broadcast technologies.
NAB Show, Las Vegas, USA: 9-14 April 2012 www.nabshow.com
May 2012
2012 Eurovision TV Summit, Lucerne, Switzerland: tba www.ebu.ch
PALME Middle East, Dubai, UAE: 1-3 May 2012 www.palme-middleeast.com
IP&TV Asia, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia: 8-9 May 2012 www.iptv-asia.com
Nordic Media Festival, Bergen, Norway: 9-11 May 2012 www.nordiskemediedager.no
EBU Radio Assembly, Stockholm, Sweden: 10-11 May 2012 www.ebu.ch
Sviaz Expo Comm 2012, Moscow, Russia: 14-17 May 2012 www.expocomm.ru
Digital Home World Summit, London: 15-16 May 2012 www.the-connected-home.com
PAL Show, Toronto, Canada: 15-16 May 2012
The Cable Show, Boston, USA: 21-23 May 2012 www.thecableshow.com
RadioTV Forum, Rome, Italy: 22-23 May 2012 www.radiotvforum.it
SatCom Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa: 21-24 May 2012 www.terrapinn.com
Kiev International TV & Radio Fair, Kiev, Ukraine: 22-24 May 2012 www.media-fair.kiev.ua
The TV Show Africa 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa: 21-24 May 2012 www.terrapinn.com
CeBIT Australia, Sydney, Australia: 22-24 May 2012 www.cebit.com.au
Asia Media Summit 2012, Bangkok, Thailand: 29-30 May 2012 www.aibd.org.my
The Open Mobile Summit: Connecting Everything, London: 29-31 May 2012 www.openmobilesummit.com
Koba 2012, Seoul, Korea: 29 May – 1 June 2012 www.eventseye.com
PALM India Expo, Mumbai, India: 31 May – 2 June 2012 www.palmindiaexpo.com
3DTV World Forum 2012, London: tba www.3dtvworldforum.com
June 2012
Arab Advisors Group, the Second Leadership Forum, Jordan: 4-5 June 2012 www.arabadvisors.com
InfoComm 2012, Las Vegas, USA: 9-15 June 2012 www.infocommshow.org
The 52nd Monte Carlo Television Awards, Monaco: 10-14 June 2012
RDS Forum Meeting, Glion/Montreaux, Switzerland: 11-12 June 2012
18th Shanghai TV Festival, Shanghai: 11-15 June 2012 www.stvf.com
CDN World Forum, London, UK: 12-13 June 2012 www.cdnconference.com
BroadcastAsia 2012, Singapore: 19-22 June 2012 www.broadcast-asia.com
ANGACable, Cologne, Germany: 12-14 June 2012 www.angacable.com
Social TV World Summit, London: 19-20 June 2012 www.iptvworldseries.com
CommunicAsia, Singapore: 19-22 June 2012 www.communicasia.com
Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, Bonn, Germany: 25-27 June 2012 www.dw-gmf.de
IPI World Congress, Trinidad & Tobago: 23-26 June 2012 www.ipiworldcongress.com
Digital TV Central & Eastern Europe,Prague, Prague, Czech Republic: 26-28 June 2012 www.conference.digitaltvcee.com
The Future of Broadcasting, London, UK: 27-28 June 2012
www.marketforce.eu.com
Now in its 10th year, The Future of Broadcasting has consistently attracted around 200 senior attendees each year from the channels and distributors, content producers, advertising and digital agencies, social media, gaming and technology companies, infrastructure and telecoms equipment suppliers, regulators and professional services firms who come together to give you the best overview of where the industry is going. AIB members can receive a 10% discount.
IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, Nürnberg, Germany: 27-29 June 2012 www.ieee-bmsb2012.org
July 2012
August 2012
IFA, Berlin, Germany: 31 August – 5 September 2012 www.ifa-berlin.de
MediaGuardian Edingburgh International TV Festival, Edingburgh, UK: tba www.mgeitf.co.uk
September 2012
IBC 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: 6-11 September 2012 www.ibc.org
Planet of the Apps Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa: 10-13 September 2012 www.terrapinn.com
NAB Radio Show, Dallas, Texas, USA: 19-21 September 2012 www.nabradioshow.com
Apps World Asia, Singapore: tba
Social Media World Forum Asia, Singapore: tba ww.socialmedia-forum.com
October 2012
CDN World Summit, London: 2-4 October 2012 www.cdnworldsummit.com
IP&TV Forum EurAsia East Europe, Istanbul, Turkey: 9-10 October 2012 www.iptv-easterneurope.com
Broadcast India 2012, Mumbai, India: 10-12 October 2012 www.broadcastindiashow.com
Munich Media Days 2012, Munich, Germany: 24-26 October 2012
IP Cable World Summit, London: 16-17 October 2012 www.ip-cable.net
DISCOP Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa: 31 October – 2 November www.discop.com (the most established TV market in Sub-Saharan Africa)
IP&TV Forum Middle East & North Africa, Dubai: 30-31 October 2012 www.iptv-mea.com
November 2012
OTTv World Summit, London: 6-8 November 2012 www.ottworldsummit.com
2012 AIBs – international media excellence awards, London: 7 November 2012
Satis, Paris, France: 13-15 November 2012 www.satis-expo.com
AfricaCast, Cape Town, South Africa: 14-15 November 2012 www.africacast-event.com
Global Broadcast Summit, London, UK: 28-29 November 2012
www.globalbroadcastsummit.com
The GBS is not a conference; it is an exclusive round table industry debate for leading broadcast CEOs, regulators and government officials to consider the global broadcast industry from policy/regulatory, business strategy, audience and programming perspectives.
December 2012
11 March 2012
The BBC Burmese Service today made the first live broadcast from the BBC’s new state of the art news studios at Broadcasting House in central London at 1.45 pm GMT Sunday. The BBC Director General recorded an interview for the broadcast and welcomed the Burmese Service to the new facility at Broadcasting House.
BBC Director General Mark Thompson said: “The Burmese Service is one of the jewels in the BBC’s crown and I know is listened to and enjoyed by many millions of people in Burma. This is a great day for the BBC and the Burmese Service. The Burmese service is the very first service to make the move and to be broadcasting today from its new home.” Asked about the future of BBC World Service, Thompson said: “I think the BBC’s mission, which is to bring great, trustworthy, impartial, reliable news to the world [.] that mission doesn’t change. But the way in which we deliver it has to change because of the way the world’s changing. That means new technologies, it means making sure – as we do with the Burmese Service – that we’ve got a great web presence with video on it as well as the radio that so many people rely on.” Thompson said the move would lead to The World Service and all its language services working much more closely with the rest of the BBC News.
The migration to the new home of BBC News over the coming months will see the integration of all the BBC’s international and domestic UK multimedia newsrooms under one roof, to create one of the world’s largest, single concentrations of journalistic expertise.
The Burmese Service marked the broadcast with a special programme featuring an exclusive interview with Aung San Suu Kyi. Regarding foreign broadcasts she said: “It’s very important that the external media keeps up an awareness of what is happening in Burma. Because we don’t really have absolute freedom of information, we don’t have absolute freedom of the press. We must remember there is such a thing as censorship in the country.” The programme also featured greetings and well wishes from listeners and a special phone-in for the listeners who would like to know more about the New Broadcasting House.
Peter Horrocks, the BBC Director of the World Service, said: “It is fitting that the first broadcast in the new Broadcasting House is from the BBC Burmese Service. BBC Burmese is emblematic of why the BBC World Service remains so important, acting as lifeline for international audiences who are hungry for impartial and independent news. We will continue to represent the voice of free media where there is no other access to fair and authoritative news.”
Helen Boaden, the BBC Director of News said: “In a multimedia world, we need a multimedia building which encourages greater efficiency through new technology and greater creativity through collaboration. Simply being in the same building should encourage our ambition: for example, the Today programme will have Language Service colleagues from the World Service in the same building. When there’s a breaking foreign story, those World Service colleagues will be able to give the context for the Radio 4 audience. And of course it should work in the other direction too.”
The original Broadcasting House was the first ever purpose-built broadcast centre in the UK. It was built in 1932 for the BBC, eight years after the corporation first came into existence. Over the last decade, Broadcasting House has undergone extensive redevelopment with the addition of a major new extension and new John Peel Wing. Now complete, this 80,000 square metre structure will provide state-of-the-art, digital broadcast facilities for nearly 6,000 staff – the majority of them frontline programme-makers from BBC News, the World Service, Radio & Music and staff from BBC Vision (BBC One, Two, Three and Four). Together, they will be providing public service broadcasting via three 24-hour television news channels, 9 radio networks and 26 foreign language services to a worldwide audience of more than 241 million people. At the heart of the building will be the largest live newsroom in Europe.
The BBC Burmese Service was founded in 1940 and has covered independence, uprisings and long years of military rule. Small teams based in Bangkok and London broadcast to more than an estimated 20% of Burma’s adult population, and in times of national crisis these figures soar. An estimated 8.3 million weekly listeners in Burma and the BBC Burmese Website attracts over 100,000 unique users every week and features with video and audio plus picture galleries. Independent surveys also show that BBC Burmese has established itself as the most trusted, reliable source of information in Burma.
