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ENGLAND: Broadcast regulator OFCOM is starting its annual review of licensing fees, and will consider lowering some fees due to financial burdens some stations and companies are carrying … Happy Birthday to BBC Radio London (94.9FM), which turns 40 this week … NIGERIA: Africa Independent TV and Ray Power Radio owner Raymond Dokpesi has been taken i… Read More
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BANGLADESH: The lead management team of Radio Today (89.6) in Dhaka quit en masse over the weekend, protesting against “intervention by the GM into newsroom affairs” … NIGERIA: Police in Lagos, acting on a tip, uncovered two objects suspected to be bombs inside the studios of the Edo State Broadcasting Service. Both were defused … PHILIPPIN… Read More
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AUSTRALIA: DMG Radio is shutting down their “Vega” stations in Sydney & Melbourne after a more than four year run. In Sydney, 2PTV-FM is now “Classic Rock 95.3.” You can listen to Sydney’s newest rock station here … In Melbourne, the latest ratings kept news/talk 3AW (693am) as the top station with a 14-share, followed by Fox 101.9. Read More
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ENGLAND: BBC Radio 2 has lost 800,000 listeners since Chris Evans replaced Sir Terry Wogan on the morning show … Outrage continues over the BBC budget-cutting plan to eliminate 6 Music and the Asian Network. Read More
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HAITI: Signal-FM (90.5) in Petion-ville is one of only three radio stations that are broadcasting from the Port-au-Prince area right now, and which also have an active website and streaming audio. Read More
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SOMALIA: The Islamic Al-Shabab group, with alleged links to al-Qaida, ordered the shutdown of Jubba Radio & Radio Warsan in Baidoa …. UGANDA: The National Association of Broadcasters has asked the government to reopen the three radio stations shut down in September following riots that killed more than 20 … CAMEROON: Reporter Agnes Taile, who su… Read More
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COLUMBIA: Caracol Radio’s “Las Voces del Secuestro” (The Voices of Kidnapping) host Herbin Hoyos Medina was forced to leave the country following an assassination attempt by FARC terrorists … CANADA: Vancouver’s PPM numbers for September show gains above diary figures for CKLG-FM (96.9) “Jack-FM” and CFOX-FM (99.3), with a decrease for CBC … Read More
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AUSTRALIA: Sydney’s 2Day-FM morning host Kyle Sandilands was rated as the most despised person in the nation. His co-host, Jackie O, came in second, ahead of an African dictator and a European pedophile … HONDURAS: The emergency decree prohibiting protests and limited civil liberties following the return of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zela… Read More
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BRAZIL: Armed thugs broke into Diário FM (95.9) in Sao Paolo, breaking equipment and knocking the station off the air for three hours … SOMALIA: Shabelle Radio reporter Liban Ajib Haji, held by Islamic rebel security forces in the town of Galka'o, was released … NIGERIA: Radio stations in Lagos are observing a “No Music Day,” to protest p… Read More
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INDIA: Private radio stations may be given the green light to broadcast news reports, something they are currently banned from doing … NEW ZEALAND: Radio New Zealand staff will vote this week to freeze salaries at the government-owned network, due to the economy … ENGLAND: Orion Media has cut five jobs, including regional operations director Ada… Read More
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BELGIUM: US-owned Emmis Comminications has sold its Belgian radio operations to Alfacam Group NV … NIGERIA: State owned radio & TV stations will join the ongoing one week-old strike by Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU) workers, demanding back pay and saying “our leaders are treating us as slaves” … LATVIA:… Read More
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ENGLAND: BBC COO Caroline Thompson tells the Guardian newspaper that the BBC made a mistake by not establishing a digital station catering to children’s programming … Leeds United and Yorkshire Radio agree to renew their broadcast deal to keep the soccer games on Minster-FM (104.7) … In Southampton, Play Radio (107.8/107.2) has launched with an AC… Read More
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ENGLAND: In the second radio station sale by TLRC in 2 weeks, Hastings-based Arrow FM & Sovereign Radio in Eastbourne were sold to Media Sound Holdings, owner of Sussex-based Bright FM and Splash FM, for $165,000 … The BBC is taking heat for allegedly sending 400 staffers to Glastonbury on a “junket” to cover a music festival there … SCOTLAND: Ea… Read More
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RWANDA: The nation’s Media High Council has ordered City Radio in Kigali to pay Esperance Niyonkuru, the station’s former marketing manager, his back pay. Recently, employees seized station equipment to sell off in order to pay Niyonkuru what he is owed … NIGERIA: The government has transferred three union leaders of the Broadcasting Service … Read More
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ENGLAND: GMG Radio’s PD Jay Crawford has been elected chair of the Scottish branch of the Radio Academy … GMG Radio has signed British Petroleum for a 6-month deal to sponsor their afternoon drive show on Smooth Radio North West and Smooth Radio West Midlands … NIGERIA: The studios of Delta Radio in Warri were destroyed by a raging fire. No injur… Read More
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CANADA: CBC Radio 2 announced that morning man Tom Allen will also host a 90-minute show in the mid-afternoon … In Peterborough, Ontario, CKRU-AM (980) news announcer John Badham has moved to afternoons, and former afternoon newsperson Lisa MacDonald segues to mornings … CZECH REPUBLIC: Anna Polakova, Czech Radio’s Roma program director, has fled… Read More
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NIGERIA: A court has ordered the government to lift its closure of Akure’s Adaba 88.9FM. The government closed & fined the station, calling it an “embarrassment to broadcast journalism in Nigeria” … MEXICO: Reporter María Teresa Velásquez Navarrete was fired from Radio Zacatecas, allegedly due to governmental pressure on the station … A… Read More
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SOMALIA: Three radio journalists arrested by the Islamic al-Shabab forces were released one day after being taken captive. Read More
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SOUTH AFRICA: Jacaranda 94.2 DJ Maurice Carpede & 5FM DJ Gareth Cliff were taken hostage – by security forces during a simulation of security threats for the 2010 World Cup … SENEGAL: Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage over the government’s closure of 3 community radio stations in Dakar. Oxy Jeunes, Afia FM and Djoloff FM allegedly breached… Read More
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PHILIPPINES: Two suspects in the shooting of Radio dzXL reporter Nilo Labares turned themselves in to police, after a Vice-Mayor ordered police to “shoot-to-kill” any suspects … CANADA: The CRTC approved a frequency change for CFIT-FM from 95.3 to 91.5FM, giving the station better coverage of Calgary … Are format changes coming to Quebec? For… Read More
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