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Week ending June 30, 2007
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According to a public survey carried out by Magram Market Research as requested by the NTV Plus satellite television company, the share of monthly audience of the Russia Today TV channel was 16 % in Moscow and 25 % in other regions of Russia.
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The audience of Russia Today in Moscow is higher than the respective figure of CNN that has reached 15 %. The Bloomberg TV channel specializing on financial and economic new is interesting for 14 % of the Moscow respondents.
At the same time, five per cent of the audience watch Russia Today nearly every or every day, 21 % of the respondents do this once or twice a week and 14 % - fewer than once a week.
Fifteen per cent of the Moscow respondents are employed in the industrial sector, 12 % - in the finance, banking and insurance sectors, 6 % - in public management and another 6 % - in science and education. Thirty-nine per cent of the polled are mid-managers and 16 per cent are top managers.
The survey sampled more than 2,000 subscribers of NTV Plus in Moscow and other regions of Russia and was carried out in a way of telephone interviews from December 2006 to February 2007. Men and women aged 16 to 60 took part in the survey.
“The news from Russia Today aim primarily at the English-speaking audience. Our audience in Moscow and Russian regions are all those who need unbiased and interesting information about Russia on a daily basis, but who do not speak Russian. The survey was made in winter. However, we have all reasons to believe that today these figures could be even higher,” Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today, said.
from Tanja Rühmann/Radio Hamburg
Hörer bestimmen über Berichterstattung über die verwöhnte Hotelerbin
Bis Montag um 7.45 Uhr entscheidet sich in der Radio Hamburg Morning-Show (Mo-Fr, 5-10 Uhr) mit John Ment und seinem Team, ob der Sender weiterhin über die Eskapaden des It-Girls und Ex-Häftlings Paris Hilton berichten wird oder nicht. Das 26-jährige Partygirl spaltet die Bevölkerung. Den Einen geht sie nur noch auf die Nerven, die Anderen vergöttern sie. Die Radio Hamburg Hörer können seit heute Nachmittag per Online-Voting unter www.radiohamburg.de abstimmen, ob Hamburgs meistgehörter Sender weiterhin in seinen Moderationen und den Nachrichten-Sendungen über die Erlebnisse und Skandale der schönen Millionenerbin berichten soll.
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Paris Hilton wurde letzten Dienstag wegen guter Führung vorzeitig aus ihrer 45-tägigen Haftstrafe wegen Trunkenheit am Steuer entlassen.
Wird Radio Hamburg zur "Paris Hilton-freien Zone"? John Ment verkündet am Montag in der Morningshow um 7.45 Uhr, wie die Radio Hamburg Hörer darüber entschieden haben.
The European Commission has launched a dedicated channel on YouTube to make its audiovisual material more widely available to the public. "This initiative reflects the Commission's commitment to better explain its policies and actions on issues which concern citizens across the EU – such as climate change, energy or immigration" said Margot Wallström, Vice-President for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy.
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'EU Tube' – the Commission's new channel on YouTube was launched on 29 June. The non-exclusive arrangement between the European Commission and YouTube aims to present new and innovative ways of informing people on the activities of the European Union through video clips that illustrate the main issues facing citizens from across the 27 member states.
Currently, users can watch approximately 50 video clips on a wide-range of topics - from the EU's first post-war historical steps to today's need to safeguard the environment and combat climate change.
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To begin with, much of the content is in English, but French and German language clips are also being added. Other languages will be added wherever possible.
"It is very important for the Commission to use all the means at its disposal when it comes to communicating with European citizens. We can not ignore the developments which have taken place on the internet in the past few years, in particular the popularity of video sharing sites such as YouTube", said Margot Wallström
from Leslie Jackson/VOA
A story on lead poisoning in the villages of northwest China has earned Radio Free Asia (RFA) a bronze medal at the New York Festivals Radio Broadcasting Awards. Cantonese broadcasters Shiny Wo Tak Li and Nashi Ni won in the "Environmental Program" category for explaining how villagers battled lead poisoning from local plants for 10 years until local media exposed the problem in August 2006. Even then, only one factory of many responsible for the harmful smoke was shut down and led to numerous protests by villagers.
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In addition to the Bronze Medal, RFA Mandarin broadcaster Zhang Min, host of regular program "Journey of the Soul" was a finalist in the Profiles/Community Portraits category for her portrait of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who was jailed for exposing how Chinese authorities have enforced their one-child policy through forced abortions, detention, and even torture.
Blanquita Cullum, who chairs the Broadcasting Board of Governor's committee that oversees Radio Free Asia, said this recognition by the New York group reflects the remarkable work produced by RFA reporters all year round.
"Day after day, these intrepid journalists bring the uncensored news to people across Asia in their native language who would otherwise have to rely on state-sponsored media," Cullum said.
The awards were presented at a dinner held in New York's Tribeca Rooftop Hotel June 28.
"We are very proud of our broadcasters and their excellent work, and we're delighted to receive these honors," RFA President Libby Liu said.
from Annette Makino/Internews
Dear Friend,
In a further setback to Russia’s struggling independent media, Russian prosecutors revealed on June 21st that they had several days earlier filed criminal charges of smuggling against Manana Aslamazyan, President of the Educated Media Foundation (EMF, formerly known as Internews Russia). They say they are officially considering opening an investigation on two more criminal charges, illegal business activities and money laundering. Also on June 21, a Moscow court rejected a motion to have the investigators' techniques ruled illegal; Aslamazyan’s lawyers will appeal. They are also considering appealing to the European Court for Human Rights if they feel they are not getting justice in Russia.
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On the advice of her lawyers, Aslamazyan has been directing the protracted legal battle from outside the country. With little hope of returning to work in Russia in the short term, Aslamazyan announced on June 19 that she has accepted a consultancy position with the US-based Internews Network, which has been a long-time partner of the independent Russian NGO Educated Media Foundation.
In an essay "Putin Strikes Again" in the New York Review of Books, Jamey Gambrell puts Aslamazyan's case in the context of increasing attacks on Russian journalists under Vladimir Putin.
"Murdering journalists is simply the most visible manifestation of the constant campaign against the press. Far more effective are the economic, judicial, and administrative measures being used systematically to quash human rights and information-gathering organizations and other genuinely independent members of civil society… One of the most recent victims of the Putin bureaucracy has been an NGO called the Educated Media Foundation (EMF), formerly known as Internews Russia. Over the past decade, this nonprofit organization has trained more than 15,000 Russian broadcast journalists, mostly from the provinces, in the best practices of journalism… The only 'ideological' aspect of their work has been to explain and encourage internationally recognized ethical standards for fair reporting
Many thanks to all of you who have expressed support for Manana Aslamazyan and Educated Media Foundation. As always, we welcome your comments.
Sincerely,
Annette Makino
Senior Vice President for Communications and Corporate Affairs
Internews Network
from Kelly Griffiths/WorldDMB
The European standard T-DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting), a derivative of the successful digital radio standard DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), has been tested or trialled in 14 European countries, including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the UK, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Malta, the Czech Republic and Portugal.
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Germany launched commercial services using the T-DMB technology in time for the European Football League in the summer of 2006 and has since extended services to cover most of its big urban centres. France has selected T-DMB and plans to tender the licences later this year.
T-DMB is a European standard developed by the European-funded Eureka project 147 and is now promoted by WorldDMB, an international organisation supporting all Eureka-147-based technologies. T-DMB was specifically designed for the broadcasting of multimedia applications such as Mobile TV to handsets and mobile devices. It has been rolled out in various countries around the world, often in conjunction with DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), its fully compatible “sister” technology designed for digital radio services. The inherent compatibility of the European Eureka 147 standards allows a very flexible approach to digital broadcasting with the ability for broadcasters to scale the system to suit their needs and with minimal investment risk. T-DMB video services, DAB radio services as well as the recently standardised DAB+ (DAB with MPEG4 codecs) offers a winning combination of mobile multimedia services that are able to share the same network infrastructure and frequencies.
Many broadcasters throughout Europe have already invested in the roll out of DAB digital radio networks and services and now wish to add T-DMB for mobile TV and rich multimedia. Spectrum is available across Europe in L-Band and also Band III specifically for the Eureka 147 family of standards as a result of three frequency conferences (W95, MA02 and GE06). T-DMB allows European countries to roll out mobile TV services much faster and with less risk than DVB-H, which must wait for UHF spectrum to become available. Standard spectrum across EU States is one of the European Commission’s key interoperability requirements for a Mobile TV standard, and this is already met by T-DMB.
T-DMB is also on-air in China, the only European technology for Mobile TV permitted by China’s State regulator. Consequently, many T-DMB phones and devices are being made by leading Asian electronics manufacturers.
from Wolfgang Flieger/BLM
Die Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM) und der MedienCampus Bayern, Dachverband für Medienaus- und -weiterbildung veranstalten erstmals gemeinsam ein Ausbildungsforum auf den BLM-Lokalrundfunktagen am 3. und 4. Juli in Nürnberg.
Mit fortschreitender Digitalisierung und Diversifizierung verändern sich die Medien stetig, neue Übertragungswege und neue Mediengattungen entstehen und ent wickeln sich. Für den Nachwuchs bedeuten diese Trends große Chancen, denn gut ausgebildet eröffnet sich für Einsteiger eine Vielzahl von Tätigkeitsbereichen. Diese Vielfalt soll auf einem Ausbildungsforum aufgezeigt werden, das am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007, im Rahmen der Lokalrundfunktage in Nürnberg stattfindet. Das Motto lautet: "Jobs in den Medien 2010".
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Prof. Dr. Gabriele Goderbauer-Marchner, Geschäftsführerin des MedienCampus Bayern: "Wir möchten diejenigen, die in die Branche wollen, mit denen zusammen bringen, die bereits in den Medien arbeiten. Auf den Lokalrundfunktagen bieten sich hierfür ideale Bedingungen." So werden sich der Dachverband für Medienaus- und -weiterbildung und einige seiner Mitglieder mit Informationsständen präsentieren und über die "Wege in die Medien" informieren. Zugleich finden zwei Podiumsdiskussionen statt, die sich der Aus- und Weiterbildung annehmen.
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Ring, Präsident der Bayerischen Landeszentrale für neue Medien: "Ich freue mich sehr über diese gemeinsame Initiative. Schüler, Studenten und Auszubildende können sich auf den Lokalrundfunktagen umfassend informieren, welche Anforderungen die Medienbranche stellt und gleichzeitig im sog. "Aktiv-Areal" erste praktische Erfahrungen sammeln."
Um 14 Uhr startet eine Diskussionsrunde zum Thema "Sprechen, schreiben, drehen – das Journalistenprofil 2010". Unter der Moderation von Prof. Dr. Goderbauer-Marchner werden Thomas Gerlach aus der Online-Redaktion der Nürnberger Nachrichten, Michael Husarek von der Print-Redaktion desselben Hauses, Harry Klein von der Redaktion "Sat.1 17:30 live für Bayern", Arndt Peltner von Radio Goethe aus San Francisco sowie Christoph Weidmann von Charivari 98.6 in Nürnberg darüber diskutieren, welche Ausbildung die Journalisten von morgen brauchen.
Die zweite Podiumsdiskussion startet um 16 Uhr mit dem Titel "Verkaufen, werben, organisieren – die andere Seite der Medien". Sie wird von Dr. Matthias Lung, Direktor der Bayerischen Akademie für Werbung und Marketing, moderiert. Er befragt Ute Doetsch von Brandarena in Ismaning, Alexander Koller vom Funkhaus Nürnberg sowie Stefan Wieseckl von Franken TV in Nürnberg, welche Anfor derungen an zukünftige Marketingmitarbeiter gestellt werden.
Das Ausbildungsforum dauert von 14 bis 18 Uhr und ist komplett kostenfrei, eine Online-Anmeldung ist bei der BLM unter www.lokalrundfunktage.de möglich. Schüler, Studenten und Medieninteressierte sind herzlich eingeladen. Nähere Informationen gibt es auch beim MedienCampus Bayern unter www.mediencampus-bayern.de
from Barbara Ruggeri/RCS MediaGroup
With regard to the acquisition of the entire share capital of Recoletos Grupo de Comunicaciòn by its subsidiary Unidad Editorial, as previously announced on 12 April 2007, RCS MediaGroup announces that the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce (Secretarìa de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Informacìon) has granted Unidad Editorial the authorisation required to use the licences for the radio and television broadcasts performed by certain companies in the Recoletos group and by Veo Television (digital television operator), approx. 27.7% owned by Recoletos and of which Unidad Editorial formerly held the same shareholding.
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Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. ("CME") (Nasdaq/Prague Stock Exchange: CETV) announced today its inclusion in the broad-market Russell 3000Ò Index, the large-cap stocks Russell 1000Ò Index and the Russell Global Index following Russell Investment Group’s annual reconstitution of its comprehensive set of U.S. and global equity indexes on Monday June 25, 2007.
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Michael Garin, Chief Executive Officer of CME, commented: “CME’s inclusion in the Russell 3000, Russell 1000 and Russell Global indexes are three more indicators of the significant growth the company has enjoyed over the past three years. We are proud to have been included.”
The Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets are currently benchmarked to them.
from Jessica Benbow/Arbitron
Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) today announced that Clear Channel Radio (“Clear Channel”), a division of Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (NYSE: CCU), has signed a multi-year agreement for Portable People MeterTM radio ratings services in 46 markets, as and when those services are rolled out by Arbitron. The agreement encompasses all Clear Channel radio stations in those markets that Arbitron has converted or is planning to convert to the Portable People Meter ratings methodology by the end of 2010.
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The agreement expires December 31, 2011, and also extends until that date the current contract for diary-based radio ratings in each of the markets covered by the agreement that have not been converted to Portable People Meter radio ratings before the end of 2008, the expiration date of the current diary agreement with Clear Channel.
Clear Channel is Arbitron's largest radio ratings subscriber and represented approximately 19 percent of Arbitron's revenue in 2006.
By the end of 2010, Arbitron is scheduled to deploy the Portable People Meter in the top 50 markets in place of the paper and pencil diary method that the company has employed to collect radio audience estimates since 1965.
from Jessica Benbow/Arbitron
Arbitron Inc. (NYSE: ARB) announced today that the radio industry in Denmark has selected the Arbitron Portable People MeterTM system as their electronic audience measurement system.
The five-year contract was awarded to TNS Gallup, an international licensee to Arbitron’s Portable People Meter technology. Beginning January 2008, a national panel of 750 Danish consumers will be equipped with the Arbitron PPM to collect overnight radio listening data. Danish broadcasters will analyze the ratings at one-minute increments and use the data for commercial sales and for program planning. (The national panel will be supplemented with telephone-based collection for coverage of smaller regional radio stations.)
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Said Leif Lønsmann, Managing Radio Director for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, and the chairman of the listener study steering group: “We have been working on this for almost ten years, and it becomes increasingly more relevant to have an agreement in place as more and more channels are appearing that cover the entire country. Danish Radio will now have more specific information on the types and numbers of people who are listening to the various programs.”
Said Jim Receveur, General Manager for Radio 100FM and Det Danske Radiobureau: “Electronic radio measurements will help lift the commercial radio market because the listener statistics will be more accurate, and the commercial stations will also be able to do more accurate campaign supply and evaluation. The advertisers can look forward to radio being planned and developed in the same manner as TV.”
Said Jens Rohde, General Manager for TV 2 Radio: “We will be in a much better position to follow and meet listener demands and acquire tools to be more accurate in planning advertising and documenting for our customers. For commercial radio it is quite simply an historical breakthrough in making Danish radio more professional.”
Said Frederik Meyer, General Manager for SBS Radio A/S: “We look forward to working with the new system that provides our customers with a more accurate and reliable supply of campaigns at both of our stations, The Voice and Radio 2. We are pleased that the Danish radio market is ready for this solution with daily statistics which so clearly benefits us ourselves, our customers and the radio market in Denmark.”
Said Henrik Jørgen Hansen, General Manager for TNS Gallup: “The new agreement is an expression of a quantum technological leap that opens up new opportunities to the Danish radio industry in the form of program and campaign evaluations as we know it from TV. I am proud that TNS Gallup is part of this development, and we are very excited about the collaboration under the new agreement.”
In a related development, the PPM encoding system will be used by the Danish television industry, beginning in the Fall, to identify the programming sources for the set-top push-button people meters operated by TNS in Denmark.
This announcement continues a highly successful phase in the adoption of PPM on a commercial basis around the world. PPM was first used in a commercial audience measurement panel for VRT in Belgium, tracking TV and radio in 2003. The PPM system has been used for TV currency ratings in Montreal and Quebec since 2004. In 2006, PPM was adopted as radio currency in Norway, as TV currency in Kazakhstan and, in 2007, as TV and radio currency in Iceland.
Also in 2006, RAJAR, the radio research consortium in the UK, in concert with BARB, the TV research consortium, awarded TNS with a contract for a PPM research and development panel in London. The RAJAR award was the result of a four-year competitive evaluation process that included assessments of the Media Audit/IPSOS “Smart Cell Phone” meter, the GfK “wristwatch” meter and the Eurisko Media Monitor system.
Since 2001, TNS has also been using the Arbitron PPM encoding system in Singapore to identify the programming sources in set-top push-button people meters.
In the United States, Arbitron is deploying the Portable People Meter in the top 50 markets through the end of 2010. The patented electronic measurement system will replace in these markets the paper and pencil diary method that the company has employed to collect radio audience estimates since 1965.
from EC DG Info
Today the Commission approved the list of major events notified by Finland. Finland is therefore the seventh EU Member State, following in the steps of Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the UK) to offer viewers the possibility of seeing major sporting events on TV, in accordance with the Television Without Frontiers Directive. Whichever Member State has jurisdiction over them, broadcasters with exclusive rights to show the listed events must offer the general public free to air broadcasts of major sporting and other events.
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“Major sporting events bring Europeans together. It is in the general interest that all TV viewers should have the opportunity to see them on free to air TV, as provided for in the Television Without Frontiers Directive. I am pleased to see that Finland is making use of this possibility, and I call upon the other Member States to offer the same right to all viewers”, said Viviane Reding, the Commissioner with special responsibility for the Information Society and Media.
Apart from traditional major sports events such as the Winter and Summer Olympics, the FIFA World Cup, the EUFA European Football Championship, the Finnish list includes other sporting events such as the IIHF World Ice Hockey Championship, the Nordic World Ski Championship (comprising cross-country skiing, ski jumping and the Nordic combined event), the IAAF Athletics World Championship and the European Athletics Championships.
Member States which wish to make use of Article 3a of the Television Without Frontiers Directive must notify the European Commission of their national list. The Commission’s decision will ensure that the national list and the rules for implementing it apply to all European operators liable to acquire broadcasting rights for these events on Finnish territory. In accordance with the Infront ruling of 15 December 2005 handed down by the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, the Commission must now take a formal decision for or against these measures, according to whether or not they are in conformity with Community law.
Since the Infront ruling was made, Finland is the first EU country to notify the Commission of its national list of major events. The sporting events in question are particularly important to the Finnish public. Many Finnish athletes take part in them, and the television stations which broadcast these programmes generally have high audience ratings: all these factors had a favourable influence on the Commission’s decision.
The new Audiovisual Media Services Directive on which the Council reached political agreement on 24 May (see IP/07/706) makes no change to the rules concerning major events. It will enter into force at the end of 2007 and, in accordance with the principle of the right to information, will guarantee the right for broadcasters to be able to show the highlights of major events in their news bulletins.
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