DX TIPS WRN's "Plug & Play" studio proves a quick winner for 88.3 Village FM's Breakfast Sh: (21 March 2005)
WRN, the London-based international transmission provider, has played host to the 88.3 Village FM Breakfast Show team from Agios Ioannis Rentis, Greece. Hosts Vicky Hatzaki and Dimitris Milioglou were in London with ten competition winners over the weekend and late on Friday afternoon (18th March) found they needed a studio from which to broadcast their live Monday morning breakfast show. WRN was able to offer the team its "plug and play" studio with ISDN connectivity back to the Village FM studio. The team simply turned up at 4.30am on Monday 21st March and started their live show at 5am (6am local Greek time). Radio stations visiting London and broadcasting live shows back home regularly use WRN's studio. Recently this has included Dublin's FM 104, which broadcast its post BRITS Award breakfast show from the WRN studio. Tim Ayris, WRN's Marketing Manager, said: "We are always delighted to welcome stations from around the world to use our studio facilities, which offer worldwide connectivity at a great price." (Source : WRN Press Release, 21 March 05) New Controller appointed for BBC ONE: (25 March 05) Peter Fincham has been appointed the new Controller of BBC One, the British Broadcasting Corporation's flagship channel.He will become the channel's creative leader, being responsible for its editorial vision, its commissioning and scheduling of strategies. "The BBC is going through big changes, but BBC ONE remains its flagship channel and reinterpreting and reinvigorating it for new audiences is about as exciting a challenge as it gets," he said of his appointment. Mr Fincham is the outgoing Chief Executive of talkback THAMES, the United Kingdom's biggest independent production company. He took up the post when Talkback and Thames, two of the best-known brands in UK television, merged in February 2003. In 2001, he won the Indie Award for the individual who made the most outstanding contribution to the independent sector of the industry. Mr Fincham joined Talkback in 1985, then a radio, commercials and corporate video company. He became Managing Director a year later, leading the company's move into television production in 1989. (Source : ABU Latest News) Radio Netherlands to send 3 mobile radio stations to Aceh (23 March 05) Radio Netherlands is constructing three mobile radio stations which will be shipped to Aceh at the end of the month. These will enable three RN partner stations in Banda Aceh, Meulaboh and the island of Nias to resume their broadcast operations by late April. The partner stations were completely destroyed by the 26 December tsunami. "It is really important that the radio stations in Aceh are back on the air as soon as possible. Radio is a vital means of communication in Aceh and a major source of information for listeners," RN Director-General Jan Hoek said. The mobile radio stations will be sent to Aceh on a loan basis. Once RN's partner stations are able to resume using their own facilities, the mobile units will be deployed to other parts of the world for training purposes or in connection with other natural disasters. RN, an ABU member, is also financially helping out staff of its partner stations who survived the disaster. It will also provide training courses for new and existing employees of these stations. (Source : ABU Latest News) Best Regards, MD. AZIZUL ALAM AL-AMIN GOURHANGA, GHORAMARA RAJSHAHI-6100 BANGLADESH ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
