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RaiNews 24

Monday, June 15th, 2009

RaiNews 24 is an Italian digital television channel, broadcast via satellite and digital terrestrial.

History

Rai News 24 screen capture, 1999

This public all-news channel was created on 26 April 1999 thanks to a Service Contract between RAI and the “Ministero delle comunicazioni”, the Italian Minister of Communications.

The new channel experiments with an innovative model that combines television, internet and digital technologies. The choice of a multi-screen format, widespread use of video conference connections with correspondents and experts, was significant. The research of the separation from narration of the news and opinions about them is one of the strongest points of this channel. Often, videos are broadcast without commentary, and only some subtitle; so as to not bias the viewer.

In the last two months of 2005 the channel has realized various scoops about the Iraq war, knowing about the use of particular arms like white phosphorus or napalm from the American armed forces and the behaviour in war of some Italian soldiers in Nassiriya. From November 2006, when the Italian journalist Corradino Mineo became chief of the television, the channel use a new graphic, similar to BBC World News, changing is old graphic similar to Bloomberg Television.

Availability

To receive the contents of this news channel 24 hours a day with news bulletins of 15 minutes every half-hour and others 15 minutes of journalistic close examinations about actuality or general news, from the other the weather or economy, it needs the satellite (reception from Hotbird 13° East) or DVB-T receiver (reception only in Italy); RaiNews 24 is available also via internet streaming, on IPTV (only in Italy) and on Rai Tre from 3 am to 8 am. The streaming internet service uses the proprietary format WMV. To reduce the number of bits needed to the coding of the signal, the screen was divided in some windows and the moving signal occupies less than half total pixels, while the other parts of the screen contained what time is in that moment, the titles of the main news, the internet sites where you can deepen the various news and the logo of the program on air in that moment.

Directors of Rai News 24

  • Roberto Morrione (from 1999 to 2006)
  • Corradino Mineo (from 2006)

Programmes

  • Notiziario (every half-hour, broadcasted also on Raitalia)
  • Meteonews24 (every half-hour)
  • Notizie dal CCISS viaggiare informati (every half-hour)
  • L’analisi
  • Dentro la notizia
  • Italia, Istruzioni per l’uso on air from Rai Radio 1
  • Focus
  • Shownet
  • Backstage
  • America Today
  • Next
  • Riflettendo con…
  • USA 24 H (News from the United States)
  • Superzap (News bulletins from the major non-Italian News televisions, like BBC World, CNN International and Al Jazeera)
  • repliche TG Regione (Regional news bulletins, on air also on Rai Tre)
  • repliche TG (TG1, TG2, TG3, the news bulletins of Rai Uno, Rai Due and Rai Tre)
  • ShowBiz
  • Decoder. Le immagini che fanno notizia (Images with subtitles in Italian, similar to No Comment on EuroNews)
  • Il chiosco.

Journalists

  • Maurizio Torrealta
  • Claudia Origlia
  • Sigfrido Ranucci
  • Piero Di Pasquale
  • Ivana Suhadolc
  • Giovanna Tatò
  • Marco Silenzi
  • Roberto Amen
  • Novella Calligaris
  • Marco Dedola

Websites

  • The website of RaiNews 24 (Italian)
  • RaiNews 24 Mobile
  • RaiNews 24 on YouTube


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Astro Awani

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Astro Awani is the in-house rolling television news and current affairs channel providing 24-hour news coverage including the latest breaking news in Malay. With its slogan “Our Gateway to The World” (Malay language: Gerbang Dunia Kita), Astro Awani presents the latest news and informative programs include current affairs, lifestyle, documentaries, interview programs and a local and international magazine. Astro Awani started broadcasting on September 6, 2007 as part of the revamp of Astro’s news division. The station is targeted at Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.

History

In 2002, the channel existed as Astro News. At this time it carried programming from Al Jazeera, BBC World, CCTV-9, Eurosport, the Australia Network and DW-TV. It also aired Astro News, a half-hour locally produced news program. The five channels carried on that channel were since available separately, and DW-TV had taken a full time slot until the Astro News channel ceased transmission on March 1, 2009. Also in existence since 2000 is Bloomberg RIA News, as well as Bloomberg Malaysia, a joint production between Bloomberg Television and Astro. This had already dissolved in 2004.

Until February 2007, Astro News was co-produced with the national news agency BERNAMA, with the former taking 12 minutes of the programme for general, The news is also translated into Mandarin on Astro AEC, Malay on Astro Ria and Tamil on Astro Vaanavil. From then on, BERNAMA took over the full half-hour production pending a revamp of the internal news team at Astro. Astro Awani was first launched on June 2006 in Indonesia by a joint venture between Astro and India-based NDTV.

The launch of Astro Awani proved to be a significant milestone for NDTV and Astro, as it is the first channel launched by NDTV outside of India. It first distributed throughout Indonesia on PT Direct Vision’s platform, Astro Nusantara. Commenting on it, Prannoy Roy said:

“ This is a landmark for NDTV. For India’s media industry this is the first time that an Indian company has launched a news and infotainment channel outside India in partnership with an international media company. We regard this as one our most exciting new ventures and look forward to launching many more channels outside India in the future. ”

Nelia Sutrisno, CEO of PT Direct Vision, said that:

“ Astro Awani has been launched to provide incisive, up-to-the-minute news, lifestyle, debate, current affairs and infotainment to discerning viewers in Indonesia. By partnering with NDTV, we’ve ensured that we bring nothing less than the best practices in news gathering and infotainment programming to our viewers. ”

On September 6, 2007, Astro Awani was launched in Malaysia, at the Palace of Golden Horses. NDTV Group CEO KVL Narayan Rao said of it:

“ NDTV’s association with Astro has had a great start last year, with the success of Astro Awani in Indonesia. Now, we are delighted to come together again and provide viewers in Malaysia with a comprehensive look at news and topical issues. The channel is a tribute to NDTV’s long standing commitment to delivering in-depth news and information-based programming. ”

Rohana Rozhan, CEO of Astro added that:

“ From our observations, our customers want higher quality content in a form that is international news presented from a local perspective. To fulfil this demand, we are proud to introduce Astro Awani. It will feature global news, events and issues from a Malaysian perspective, and will be presented in the national language. ”

Astro Awani is one of the only 24-hour international news channels told from a local perspective exclusively in the Malay language, aside from BERNAMA TV, which offers three other languages.

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SBS World News Channel

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The SBS World News Channel (Also known as SBS2) is an Australian television channel broadcast by SBS Television that launched on 12 June 2002. The channel, only available to digital television viewers in Australia, is the first digital-only multi-channel for the Special Broadcasting Service. The news service broadcasts eighteen hours per day, 7 days a week, retransmitting news from fifteen countries. In between news retransmissions, the channel displays weather information, news headlines, and some commercial advertising. SBS plans to close the channel in 2009, replacing it with SBS Two.

History

The SBS World News Channel was officially inaugurated by Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Richard Alston on 12 June 2002, with the launch broadcast simultaneously live onto the channel.

It was previously known as The World News in its first year.

Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Arabic language broadcasts were added to SBS’ WorldWatch schedule in 2003.. The Vietnamese service, taken from the government-controlled channel VTV4, was heavily protested against by the Vietnamese community, many of whom found the bulletin’s portrayal of the communist Vietnamese flag and Ho Chi Minh offensive. The Vietnamese Community of Australia, claimed that the program’s lack of reports on political arrests and religious oppression were also offensive, especially to those who fled the country following the Vietnam War

The backlash resulting from these events prompted SBS to begin showing disclaimers before all externally-produced bulletins, distancing the broadcaster from each bulletin’s editorial content.

Genre restrictions imposed by the Australian government on digital multi-channelling were lifted along with the media ownership laws passed through the Australian parliament on 18 October 2006.

Between broadcasts, a commercial for the channel is shown. The dialogue is as follows:

The SBS World News Channel delivers more than 200 news programs from around the globe each week, providing an up to date and varied perspective on the headlines of the day. Each bulletin is in the language and format of the country of origin. From 5.20 am Monday to Saturday, continuous telecasts from international broadcasters via satellite from some of the most respected news bureaus of the world. From 7 am Sundays, news reviews and magazine style information programmes. The most comprehensive international news channel in the world, with unparalleled access to continuing news and current affairs from 17 countries in languages other than English. Available only on the SBS World News Channel.

This channel has been set up as an experimental full service channel

Programming

The SBS World News Channel broadcasts eighteen hours per day, retransmitting over two-hundred news programs per week, from fifteen countries, in eighteen languages other than English. The channel’s programming line-up consists of retransmissions of bulletins from news services throughout the world, including:

  • Arabic – Dubai TV
  • Cantonese – TVB
  • Croatian HRT – Dnevnik
  • Dutch – BVN
  • Filipino – ABS-CBN
  • French – France 2
  • German – Deutsche Welle
  • Greek – ERT
  • Hungarian – Duna TV
  • Indonesian – TVRI
  • Italian – RAI
  • Japanese – NHK
  • Korean – YTN
  • Maltese – PBS
  • Mandarin – China Central Television
  • Polish – Polsat
  • Serbian – RTS
  • Spanish – RTVE and TVN (Chile)
  • Russian – NTV Russia
  • Turkish – TRT

These programs are also presented on SBS TV, along with PBS’s Nightly Business Report and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, SBS TV broadcasts World News Australia, and the English version of Deutsche Welle’s bulletin, as part of its WorldWatch timeslot.

earthTV

earthTV is broadcasted on the SBS World News Channel when news programs are not broadcast. It also acts as a filler when news programs are delayed.

SBS Shop and SBS from Marcom Projects

SBS is available to Marcom Projects on DVDs including schools, libraries, TAFE, and Universities, go to Marcom Projects & click on the ABC or SBS on Marcom website. The SBS merchandise is available to buy from CDs, books, and videos, Get purchase SBS DVDs, CDs and books, where from Dymocks, JB Hi-Fi and selected ABC Shops

Availability

Further information: SBS Television

The SBS World News Channel is available on all of SBS Television’s digital television transmitters in 576i SD Digital, as well on most satellite and cable services.

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TVNZ 7

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

TVNZ 7 is a commercial-free New Zealand 24-hour news and information channel on Freeview digital television platform and on SKY Television Digital from 1 July 2009. It is produced by Television New Zealand, which received Government funding to launch two additional channels. The channel went to air just after 10am on March 25, 2008 with a looped preview reel. After a countdown which lasted at least an hour, the channel was officially launched at 12 noon on March 30, 2008 with a special “kingmaker” political debate held within the Parliament building and featuring most of the elected minor party leaders.

It features TVNZ News Now updates at the top of the hour from 6am-11pm, with a specialised rolling 10 minute bulletin ‘zone’ between 6am and 9am, where 18 bulletins will show in that zone. TVNZ 7 also features an hour long bulletin, TVNZ News At 8 at 8pm each night, hosted on weeknights by ONE News Tonight presenter Greg Boyed and Geraline Knox, a lawyer and broadcaster who presented news bulletins on NTV-7.

While it was originally reported to be a ‘rolling news channel’, similar to Sky News and CNN Headline News, Eric Kearley, head of TVNZ’s Digital Launch team, has stated about 70% of the schedule will be “factual variety” programming – a mix of local and overseas documentaries, and programmes that discuss current events and sport, with the remaining 30% being the news updates. A full schedule was released on 28 February 2008.

The channel is expected to be made available to viewers in the Pacific Islands, allowing New Zealand a ‘voice in the Pacific’.

TVNZ News Presenters

  • TVNZ News Now: Fiona Anderson, Ben Christie, Jenny-May Coffin, Rochelle Gillespie, Tiffany Hardy, Sandra Kailahi, Miriama Kamo, Glen Larmer, Phil McGrath, Sonia Voigt, Renee Wright
  • TVNZ News at 8: Greg Boyed, Geraline Knox (Weekends: Miriama Kamo and Sonia Voigt)

Programmes

TVNZ News Now

TVNZ 7 features hourly bulletins from 6am to 11pm every day. Because of the nature of the channel, it’s also commercial free. Between 6-9am, there are rolling news bulletins for the whole 3 hours. TVNZ News bulletins are usually sourced from ONE News, with stories from America’s ABC, Australian ABC, BBC and CNN.

TVNZ News @ 8

The hour-long 8pm bulletin being advertising free means that there is time for extended interviews relating to the top stories, and more international stories being broadcast.

Media 7

  • Media 7, hosted by Russell Brown [1][2]

Back Benches

Is a weekly Wednesday show live from the Backbenchers pub opposite the Parliament Buildings in Wellington by Wallace Chapman [3]

TVNZ 7 Internet Debate

On 23 September 2008, starting from 9pm, TVNZ 7 hosted a one-off live debate on Internet-related issues from Avalon Studios in Wellington. The debate, co-sponsored by InternetNZ, was hosted by Damian Christie, and moderated by the NZ Herald’s Fran O’Sullivan and Russell Brown. The debating panel included ICT Minister David Cunliffe, Opposition ICT spokesman Maurice Williamson, ACT leader Rodney Hide, and Green Party ICT spokeswoman Metiria Turei. In a first for TVNZ, the debate was also broadcast over a live stream on the web site Debate.net.nz, complete with a live IRC chat feed.

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