It seems like it all has happened in little more than a year: the launch of Dubai TV's cutting-edge digital satellite channel, the Dubai Business Channel; the opening of the extraordinary Dubai Press Club with its vast expanse of Internet-connected computer stations and large overhead TV screens tuned in to every …

MUMBAI, INDIA Global media magnate Rupert Murdoch celebrated his birthday on March 11 in Bangalore, India (after a gap of several years due to a court case blocking his entry) and "gifted" Star TV India with about $200 million worth of potential investment. He also announced plans to launch two …

DUBAI, UAE -- CabSat 2000, the 6th annual Dubai cable, satellite and broadcast show (Feb. 29-Mar. 2), generated plenty of fresh business as well as hard news from the region's broadcasters. Local hardware distributors all had smiling faces, largely from the much higher margins generated by digital receiver sales compared …

The move to regularize the growing globalized Indian television and cable industry has been churning around the heavily populated and diverse subcontinent of India since l997, when the Broadcast Bill was first introduced. This bill seeks to establish an autonomous broadcasting authority for facilitating and regulating broadcasting services in India, …

Today it is becoming difficult to differentiate distinct national markets from larger regional and global transmission flows. Satellite coverages are increasingly linking emerging markets with those of other global regions. This interdependence should become even more pronounced as demand for Internet-related applications continues its steep growth. While local regulatory, cultural and …

Submitted to TBS by Cees J. Hamelink, professor of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam and initiator of the People's Communication Charter. For reactions: hamelink@antenna.nl For more information on this charter, its history and development, and the signatories, please see The People's Communication Charter: An Introduction, by Cees Hamelink. We, …

Submitted to TBS by Sean O'Siochru, Secretary General and Treasurer of the MacBride Roundtable on Communication This is a call to build a Global Movement on Media and Communication for the 21st century. At its core is the demand that the voices of ordinary people around the world are no …

An excerpt from a master's thesis submitted to the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, The American University in Cairo, January 1999 Overview: Pay TV in the Arab World In every nation of the Arab world except Lebanon, the national broadcasting systems used to be entirely government-owned. The old and …

Disempowerment and Empowerment Today we observe, across the world, that people face pervasive worldwide governmental and commercial censorship; distorted and misleading information; stereotyped and damaging images of the human condition including gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, physical and mental illness and disability; restricted access to knowledge, and insufficient channels to …

Arab Radio and Television (ART), as the "flagship Arab network" for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) TeleFood '98, broadcast the first global Arab satellite telethon in history, "Against Hunger." The aim of the event was raising money for projects to help poor farmers increase production and improve …