Media - Broadcast

Television is the favourite news medium for some 98 per cent of Bangkokians, an opinion poll revealed on Sunday. According to the survey conducted among 1,269 Bangkok denizens aged between 18 to 60 by the Assumption University's Abac Poll, 98.3 per cent of the respondents preferred to get their news on TV, the Thai News Agency TNA reported. The survey was to mark Thai Reporters' Day on Monday...

Mohamed Alayyan could easily pass for one of his employees at ATV, the new terrestrial television station he plans to launch in Jordan later this year. Dressed in casual shirt and trousers, the 33-year-old looks more like one of his bright young employees rushing about planning programmes and schedules than the boss and owner. While many of his fellow entrepreneurs in the west are vying to create...

At least three people were killed and more than 100 people were injured Monday as a fire tore through a Dhaka office building housing private television stations NTV and RTV and Bangla language newspaper Amar Desh. The cause of the fire was unclear. Two members of a television crew cry as their office burns in Dhaka February 26,2007. At least three people died and dozens were injured on Monday in...

GHANSHYAM P. SHAH, an 82-year-old widower, spends up to eight hours a day in front of his television watching prayer services, soap operas and financial news. But one afternoon last December, he was completely disconnected from his favorite pastime — and visibly unsettled — because his new digital set-top box was not working. “I’ll become really agitated if I can’t watch,” Mr. Shah said as Rumy M...

NEW YORK — Rupert Murdoch has proved naysayers wrong more than once — and could be in a position to do so again. The News Corp. chairman on Thursday announced the long-awaited launch of a business channel that will compete with CNBC for the small but lucrative audience interested in financial news. The Fox Business Channel, in the works for at least two years, will be overseen by Roger Ailes, the...

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati will need Rs 9,431 crore to telecast Commonwealth Games, 2010, in high-definition TV (HDTV) format. It is under pressure to shift to the format for the games. Prasar Bharati is the host broadcaster for the games. According to the contract requirements, Prasar Bharati has to produce the entire television and radio content in the digital format. Otherwise it will...

NEW DELHI, DEC 30 (PTI): Fear of government controls came to haunt the Indian media in 2006, a year which saw the much- resisted CAS finally moving toward roll-out and the struggling FM radio sector literally boom. Just as media rode high on popular public support to sting operations, especially those exposing MPs allegedly accepting money for raising questions or for diverting funds from MPLAD...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The roll-out of a long-delayed pay television system in three of India's main cities on Monday will offer some relief to broadcasters dependent on cable operators, but strict regulation will crimp near-term profits. India's fragmented $3.6 billion TV industry has more than 20,000 cable operators who, analysts and broadcasters say, under-declare subscriber numbers, charge random...

LONDON - The popularity of BBC World's news output in the US is on the rise, overtaking its cable competitors, according to an independent report by The Erdos and Morgan Opinion Leaders Survey. The survey, which polled more than 480,000 adults between May and June this year, found that of 52 TV news programmes available in the US, those on BBC World ranked sixth, with 144,000 viewers. BBC World's...

WASHINGTON — It has been a week since Al Jazeera English went on the air and Dave Marash, the news channel’s Washington-based anchor, is feeling like the “belle of the ball.” Everyone he meets is curious about his new job and everyone wants to hear what it is like to work for an outfit that has revolutionized television news and that is shunned by many Americans as a mouthpiece for anti-US...