Media - Broadcast

For the fifth time this year, CNN has been confirmed as the leading international news channel by an independent industry survey, with this month’s newly released 2006 EMS (European Media & Marketing) Survey data. Additionally, CNN is the market leader in serving the audience’s changing consumption habits through both traditional and new media, leading all channels in combined television and...

LONDON (AFP) - BBC director-general Mark Thompson wants to take advantage of the latest technology to turn one of the world's foremost broadcasters into a truly global media brand. He insists that the Internet is the future for the 84-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation but warns that it has to be globally relevant to ensure it does not get left behind. The BBC, funded mainly by a television...

LONDON (Reuters) - News Corp. revealed on Monday its newspaper The Times is on the verge of launching a broadband television news service to build on its rapidly expanding stable of Internet offerings. Les Hinton, the executive chairman of News International, the UK newspaper division of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, did not provide many details about the service, but said it would pull...

THE snub was too great for Gallic pride. France had suffered an indignity when, in February 2003, CNN failed to broadcast applause at the United Nations for a speech by Dominique de Villepin, then the Foreign Minister, opposing the war in Iraq. For President Chirac it was time for action. If CNN would not show the world’s diplomats clapping his ministers, then he would have to do it himself. He is...

The deeper you dig southward, the more you get embroiled in TV channels. And, if you think it is only entertainment coated, you would be way off the tangent. News channels are increasing, Sun TV with news channels in Tamil, in Kannada, in Telugu and in Kannada rules the rooster. Udaya TV with Kannada and Telugu, India Vision news channel in Kerala, Headlines Today (of Aaj Tak fame) which though...

LONDON -- The news editor for the BBC World Service's new Arabic-language television station will be a former employee of its main competitor, Al Jazeera, the London-based corporation announced on Tuesday. Salah Negm, 50, set up the news department at the Qatar-based satellite broadcaster and was a former director of news at the Al Arabiya channel in Dubai. He has also worked for Al Ekhbariyah...

New technologies and a booming economy will help double revenues in India's television industry by 2010, but regulatory barriers could impact growth in the world's third-largest cable TV market, Reuters has reported quoting a new study. The Hong Kong-based Media Partners Asia (MPA) has estimated in a just-released study that India is set to become Asia's leading cable market by 2010, the largest...

Al-Jazeera International is the new English-language spin-off of Al-Jazeera, the controversial Arab network that broadcasts from Doha, Qatar. Like the original channel, Al-Jazeera International (AJI) is owned by the emir of Kuwait, who allows the station to operate with a great deal of independence. The new channel will break from the traditional Arab-focused format of Al-Jazeera by broadcasting...

DOHA, Qatar - This spring, the TV channel reviled for showing U.S. prisoners of war, hostage videos and messages from Osama bin Laden will launch an English-language spin-off, finally allowing Americans and other Westerners to judge Al-Jazeera for themselves. To the Bush administration and other critics, Al-Jazeera is a dangerous platform for terrorists and an anti-American propaganda tool known...

NEW YORK - Online news video is plentiful: NBC, ABC and CBS all have Web editions of their evening news, and CNN recently launched a four-channel broadband network carrying feeds not available on its U.S. cable channels. Best of all, most of it is free. ABC and CNN offer more through subscription packages, but unless you're a news junkie you'll do fine with the free offerings from both networks...