Media - Broadcast

UNESCO has announced the publication of "Public Service Broadcasting: A Best Practices Source Book", to provide information on core concepts of public service broadcasting (PBS) to media professionals, decision makers, students and general public. The purpose of this reference publication, that was prepared in close cooperation with media professional organisations and edited by Indrajit Banerjee...

Veteran British broadcaster Sir David Frost is to join Arabic-language TV station Aljazeera, the network has confirmed. Sir David is to appear on Aljazeera International, the pan-Arab news network's new English-language channel, due to be launched next spring. The Qatar-based channel said Sir David, who broadcast his final Breakfast with Frost programme for the BBC in May, would be among the "key...

Talks between the broadcast networks and cable operators to bring prime-time entertainment shows to video-on-demand platforms are beginning to take on a more serious tone. There’s a strong chance that some networks could launch on-demand services on some systems as early as next summer and almost certainly by the start of the 2006-07 season. What’s fueling this new sense of urgency is the...

There cannot be a country in the world in which the words al-Jazeera do not provoke some sort of reaction. Now the Qatar-headquartered broadcaster is putting together a new worldwide English language TV station and all eyes are on Doha. Governments are apparently trying to place spies in its ranks, competing networks are badmouthing its output before a single hour is aired and senior journalists...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. TV viewership climbed again last season to a record household average of eight hours, 11 minutes a day, Nielsen Media Research reported on Thursday, challenging perceptions that Americans are watching less than they once did. The all-time high viewing level posted for the 2004-05 television season, which ended earlier this month, was up nearly 3 percent from the...

WASHINGTON – Marine officers are taught to think ahead. So Josh Rushing, a captain in the Corps until last October, anticipated the unpleasant questions. Is he a modern-day Tokyo Rose, the nickname GIs in World War II gave to the women they heard on Japanese radio trying to turn them against America? Is he a propagandist set to tear down the country he once served? A collaborator aiding the enemy...

Media Research User’s Council (MRUC) first ever TV User Body meet on television ratings in India left the participants with much to ponder upon. The council and the User Body members established that the current systems were inadequate to measure TV in India and following the meet scheduled in Delhi, MRUC would decide whether it would offer alternate data or complementary data to the existing...

There has been quite a bit of action in the Hindi news genre of late, especially with regard to the number two player. Even as the numbers have been throwing up a different player every week recently, media professionals explain that decisions in the domain rely more on perception now and less on TRPs. And as more players are set to enter the field, the situation will accentuate further. Looking...

The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), the representative body of television broadcasters, got its website (ibf-india.com) recently. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Jaipal Reddy, launched website. Asked on the objective behind launching the website, Naresh Chahal, Director, Finance, IBF, said, "The website has been launched just to give proper information related to the...

CBS News has announced plans to relaunch its website as a 24-hour, on-demand broadband video news channel. The new CBSNews.com, to debut later this summer, will include The EyeBox, an on-demand video player pulling from more than 25,000 free video clips, including some yet to be shown on the broadcast network. The Public Eye, a weblog edited by Vaughn Ververs, that will take readers "inside the...