Monday, October 28, 2013

On the air, 30 years and counting: Hmong radio

SHEBOYGAN — About 10 years ago, while Vue Yang was on the air during his weekly Hmong-language radio show, his heart started to race. Leaving his computer running so the broadcast could continue without him, Yang drove himself to the hospital.

"They gave me a shot, things came back normal and I just came back here," said Yang, 61, as he stood in the radio studio inside North High School's media classroom.

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PROGRAM             TIME(UTC) FREQ AM/DRM DAYS(mtwtfss) LANGUAGE TARGET AREA

Radio Miraya         0300-0600 9940  AM  mtwtfss Arab/Engl Africa
Denge Kurdistan      0400-2000 11510 AM  mtwtfss Kurdish   Middle East
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo     1130-1200 11570 AM  mtwtfss Hmong     Asia
Que Me               1200-1230 9930  AM  ----f—  Vietnamese Asia
The Khmer Post Radio 1200-1300 9960  AM  mtwtfss Khmer     Asia
The Disco Palace     1530-1630 12115 DRM mtwtfss English   Asia/Middle East
Radio Xoriyo         1600-1630 17870 AM  m---f—  Somali    Africa
Radio Inyabutatu     1700-1800 17870 AM  -----s- Kinyarwanda Africa
Radio Assenna        1700-1800 15245 AM  mtwtfss Tigrinya  Africa
ESAT Radio           1700-1800 15370 AM  mtwtfss Amharic   Africa
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo     2230-2300 7530  AM  mtwtfss Hmong     Asia
 

AIR Imphal celebrates 50 glorious years in service

Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, October 26 2013 : Along with honouring many eminent retired employees of AIR, Imphal and other personalities who were associated since the inception of AIR, Imphal in 1963 and took significant roles in the development of the radio station, the golden jubilee of All India Radio (AIR) Imphal Station was celebrated at the auditorium of MFDC located within Palace Compound here today.

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Sunday, October 27, 2013

Golden Jubilee Celebrations of AIR KANPUR

Golden Jubilee Celebrations of All India Radio, Kanpur

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In rural India, a hub for tech, mobile innovation gives isolated people a voice

Booting up my laptop in an open-air concrete building on the outskirts of Bhopal, India, I'm astonished. As soon as my computer turns on, I have high-speed Internet access. The former mushroom farm where I sit is now Hackergram, a tech lab and the new hub of the CGnet Swara mobile news service.
 
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Tuning out: Analogue radio to disappear by 2018

Commercial stations and the BBC expected to confirm the switchover to digital services, 40 years after Britain's first independent station opened
 

MBC to open radio station in Nepal

South Korea's second-largest public broadcaster MBC will open a radio station in Nepal next month as part of joint efforts with other Korean firms to help improve the Nepalese people's quality of life, the broadcaster said Monday.

The radio station named "Mustang Broadcasting Community" will open at Mustang in northwest Nepal on Oct. 4 after one and a half years of construction in which many broadcasting and construction experts participated as talent donors, MBC said.

Deutsche Welle: Peter Limbourg takes office as director general

On October 1, Peter Limbourg (53) will take office as director general of Deutsche Welle (DW). He was elected as Erik Bettermann's successor in this function by the Broadcasting Board in March 2013. Limbourg was the Senior Vice President of News and Political Information at ProSiebenSat.1 TV Germany until September 30. In the past few weeks, he has already held a series of talks with different editorial teams and departments at Deutsche Welle.

On Wednesday, October 2, Limbourg will officially take on his new position at two staff meetings - at DW's headquarters in Bonn he will be introduced by the Chairman of the Administrative Board Peter Clever, and in Berlin by the Chairman of the Broadcasting Board Valentin Schmidt.

Peter Limbourg said: "It is a great challenge and a fascinating task to be at the helm of Germany's international broadcaster. Deutsche Welle is a media organization that enjoys an excellent reputation with its audiences worldwide. In a world, where a large number of international broadcasters are now promoting a variety of views, it is all the more important for us to persistently stand for our shared values. We will continue to ensure the credibility that DW's staff, with great commitment, has established over the last 60 years by providing quality journalism. We will also consistently enhance DW's multimedia profile."

Limbourg announced that by spring 2014 - after conducting extensive talks with DW's staff, the Broadcasting Board, the Administrative Board as well as political and social groups - he will set out a new strategic plan for Deutsche Welle for the period from 2014 to 2017.

Erik Bettermann's term as director general ends on September 30. He has headed Deutsche Welle since 2001 and has overseen the broadcaster's strategic realignment in the last 12 years.

After his military service, Peter Limbourg studied law in Bonn and passed the First State Examination of Law in 1987. From 1988 to 1989 he completed a journalistic traineeship at the German television news agency Deutsche Fernsehnachrichten Agentur (DFA) in Bonn and London. He worked as a reporter in Leipzig in the former GDR before becoming the Europe and NATO correspondent for DFA and SAT.1 in Brussels in 1990. In 1996 he became the Head of the ProSieben studio in Bonn, and in 1999 was appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of N24 and Head of the Political Department at ProSieben, a position which he also took on at SAT.1 in 2001. In 2004/5 and 2008/9 Limbourg was the CEO of Pool TV, a joint venture of private television stations in Berlin. From 2008 to 2010 he was the Editor-in-Chief responsible for N24's programming. He was anchor of SAT.1 news from 2008 and Senior Vice President of ProSiebenSat.1 TV from 2010 to September 30, 2013. Born in Bonn, Limburg spent his childhood and youth in Rome, Paris, Athens and Brussels. He is married with three children.

(DW Press Release)