Media - Broadcast

DOHA, Qatar - The Al-Jazeera International network has set a launch date of Nov. 15, although it's still not clear whether anybody in the United States will be able to see it. The English-language offshoot of the influential Arab network Al-Jazeera will begin operations at 7 a.m. ET out of its Doha, Qatar headquarters, the network announced on Tuesday. The network operates with four main offices...

Beirut, 25 Sept. (AKI) - Throughout the war in July and August, when Israel mercilessly bombarded Lebanon and Lebanese Hezbollah militias fired rockets into northern Israel one of Israel's main targets was al-Manar, a satellite channel part owned by Hezbollah. The network, which offers 40 percent news programmes, managed to broadcast almost uninterrupted from a secret location. But now that there...

LONDON, Sep 21 (IPS) - The appearance of an English language service from Al Jazeera television will mark more than expansion of a company; it will come as one of the biggest challenges yet to the dominance of Western news providers, academics say. "The forthcoming launch of Al Jazeera International, the English language edition of the pan-Arabic news network, is likely to influence the way...

(AXcess News) Washington - The documentary "Control Room," director Jehane Noujaim's film showcasing Al-Jazeera's role in the Iraq war, still ignites debate two years after its release. A panel of veteran journalists and a filmmaker convened Tuesday at the Arlington County, Va., Central Library, where participants watched and discussed the 90-minute documentary as part of the library's Cross...

Besides separatist violence, a disinformation campaign and propaganda against the Indian State run by Pakistan is yet another battle ground in Jammu and Kashmir. Various official media units of the Government of India, primarily Doordarshan, shell out a good amount of money every month on making special programs and documentaries showcasing the democracy and secularism of India but at the end of...

The Indian Media Group (IMG) has called on the Government to ensure that all provisions of the proposed Broadcasting Bill including content code are applied to Prasar Bharti and Doordarshan. In a communication to the Government, the Group, which is an umbrella society representing Indian companies in television broadcasting, radio and print media sectors, has pointed out that this was essential as...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Media Group (IMG) wants the government to consult the yet-to-be formed Broadcasting Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) before formulating any policy in the broadcasting sector. Also, the provisions of the proposed Broadcast Bill must be applied to public broadcaster Prasar Bharati as well, IMG has said in its inputs on the draft broadcast Bill sent to the information and...

It was bollywood’s worst kept secret. The shocker ending of Rakeysh Mehra’s Rang De Basanti was kept under wraps till its premiere. But Mehra bent the rules for NDTV. So keen was the filmmaker to involve the news channel in his youth anthem that he dared to bare his script to the channel executives even before he commenced shooting. In return, NDTV granted Mehra dollops of sacred air time to put...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An increasing number of television viewers are producing their own shows, and the TV industry is frantically trying to figure out how to combine broadcasts, Internet movies and home videos into one package. Internet video sharing sites like YouTube and Google Video have surged in popularity over the last 12 months, with YouTube now serving 100 million videos a day, and...

New Delhi: A settlement regarding the future of the financially unsound Prasar Bharati is in the offing under which the facade of autonomy of the broadcasting corporation may be done away with and its role as a purely public broadcaster reassured. The lack of space in the private electronic media for public interest and social issues has prompted this feeling, sources in the Ministry of...