TV & Radio in Asia.
May 11 2017
After 49 years, Israel’s Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the country’s public broadcaster, is officially shut down. The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, decided to close down the IBA on grounds that it was too bureaucratic, expensive and had more employees that it needed. The IBA will be replaced with a new and more streamlined and efficient public broadcasting […]
May 2 2017
International Turkish news channel TRT World has made its official UK debut after months of testing on satellite, with its arrival on Sky. Sky viewers can now access both standard and high definition versions of the English-language news channel, which is operated by Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT. Under the motto “Where News Inspires Change”, the […]
Apr 26 2017
YahLive has secured satellite carriage of six new TV channels for the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan to transmit its public channels across Yahlive’s East Beam covering the Middle East and South West Asia. The addition covers six Tajik-language channels covering news and entertainment including Tojikiston, Safina, Bahoriston, Jahonnamo, Sinamo and TV Varzish. Commenting […]
Apr 25 2017
Netflix is to introduce original content in China in a licensing deal with local video streaming service iQiyi.com, says the US company. Netflix has struggled to break into the Chinese market, where streaming services are subject to strict data storage regulations and foreign films and television are routinely censored. In October CEO Reed Hastings said […]
Apr 18 2017
The 40th meeting of Arabsat’s general assembly in Muscat, Oman, which concluded on April 13th, agreed to exempt the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) from any fees or debts for using Arabsat’s satellites. Ahmad Assaf, chairman of the PBC, who headed the Palestinian delegation to the Arabsat meeting, thanked the assembly for their support for Palestine […]
Apr 12 2017
The Iranian Parliament has voted against a draft bill that would authorize private broadcasting in the country, Mehr news agency reported April 9. Iran’s only broadcasting organization, (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) has been the monopoly operator of television channels in Iran to date (and certainly since it emerged after the Islamic revolution of 1979), […]
Apr 6 2017
Hong Kong-based Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) is in trouble with India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB) over alleged “unauthorised” Direct-To-Home (DTH) transmissions into India. Local reports say that the MIB has asked India’s space authority to block the incoming signals which they state are being transmitted with licenses. Each of the major Indian DT […]
Apr 3 2017
Japan is on track to meet its target of take-up of UHD TV by 50% of the country’s viewers by 2020, according to Suga Masayuki. The deputy director of Japan’s ministry of internal affairs and communications said that 4K and 8K full satellite licences were issued to 19 channels operated by 11 organisations in January […]
Mar 30 2017
The BBC is launching a live stream of its 24-hour international news channel – BBC World News – on SVoD service Hulu Japan. The deal marks the first time the corporation has made the linear channel available via one of the major international subscription VoD services in Japan and makes BBC World News the first […]
Mar 30 2017
The BBC is launching a live stream of its 24-hour international news channel – BBC World News – on SVoD service Hulu Japan. The deal marks the first time the corporation has made the linear channel available via one of the major international subscription VoD services in Japan and makes BBC World News the first […]
Mar 29 2017
Cignal TV, a subscription-based direct-to-home satellite television service provider, will be launching BBC Earth in HD for the first time in the Philippines. BBC Earth and BBC World News will launch on 1 April 2017 to the provider’s 1.6 million viewers. This move follows BBC’s launch of the BBC Player in Malaysia, as the Beeb […]
BBC Radio 4 begins information campaign to transition listeners from Long Wave
Sky News launches international audio service
ITVX Kids launching in Summer 2023
CNN launches new FAST channel in Europe
More organisations join crusade to protect terrestrial television and radio
Channel launches and updates on Freeview
ITV announces closure of CITV
BBC switch from SD to HD on satellite
Joint UK/international BBC News service from March
Loss of channels on Freesat 4K TV Boxes after a reset
Jun 19 2017
Saudi Arabia to launch sports channels
RIYADH – Reports confirmed that the countdown for launching the largest Saudi Arabian sports channels (BBS Sports) as an attempt to put an end to Qatar’s monopoly for the global and continental championships on the “beIN Sports channel” has begun. Chairman of Saudi Media City Muflih al-Hafatah was quoted saying, “one channel will be launched […]
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By Expat • Saudi Arabia • Tags: BBS Sports, BeIN Sports, MENA Region