Schezee Zaidi ISLAMABAD, October 04 2005: The first ever FM 101 Excellence Award-2005 held at Broadcasting House Sunday October 2 brought recognition to the creative energies and efforts of the DJ’s of FM 101. Being the architect of FM Broadcasts in the country, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation has decided to hold the FM 101 Excellence Award […]
zulfiqar ghuman ISLAMABAD, September 30 2005: The government has refused to grant 10-year tax exemption to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (PEMRA), stating that the matter needed to be examined in detail and with inter-ministerial consultations, sources told Daily Times on Thursday September 29. “The matter requires inter-ministerial consultations, especially with the Finance Division […]
PESHAWAR, September 25 2005: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli has said that the government is planning to launch four separate channels of Pakistan Television to facilitate promotion of regional languages and cultures. Talking to newsmen at a luncheon, which she hosted in their honour at a hotel on Saturday September […]
KARACHI, September 25 2005: Pakistan’s first media specialist company “Pak MediaCom” enters into a long term agreement with Media Bank a one of a kind agency indulged in digita1 monitoring of electronic media. Giving his comments at the occasion Raihan Merchant, CEO of Pak MediaCom (Pvt) Ltd said “The induction of the cutting edge software […]
KARACHI, September 24 2005: Broadcasters in Pakistan on Friday September 23 announced the establishment of the Pakistan Broadcasters Association, a representative body comprising both television and radio broadcasters in Pakistan, at a meeting in Karachi. Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman of GEO TV was elected the chairman of the Association.An ad hoc committee, headed by Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, was […]
RAWALPINDI, September 21 2005: Pakistan is capable to attract foreign investment of more than Rs 2.6 billion in the satellite television in the coming years besides generating more than 4,000 jobs in the country. At present this sector was providing employment to more than 30,000 people and Cable TV was estimated to have already entered […]
Prem Shivani MITHI, September 19 2005: Radio Pakistan Mithi is going to start its experimental test transmission from Monday September 19 on FM 108MHz. A press statement issued by the station director of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, Mithi, said the daily transmission would be from 8am to 2pm and from 4pm to 10:15pm. The radio […]
ISLAMABAD, September 19 2005: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has decided to issue new FM radio licences for 47 cities by the end of next year. Sources said new FM radio licences would be awarded in smaller towns, especially those in the Northern Areas and Kashmir. They said PEMRA had started the fourth phase […]
GUINEVERE DAVID KARACHI, September 18 2005: PTV MD Arshad Khan said that the PTV would launch three regional channels very soon, as the response of the Bolan Channel was very good. During a Press briefing, he said that the PTV Multan Centre was also under construction. He maintained that the PTV is turning in a […]
KATHMANDU, August 31 2005: South Asian information ministers on Tuesday August 30 ended a two-day meeting in Kathmandu with an agreement to cooperate in broadcasting, film and media development, an official said. The ministers from the seven-member South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (Saarc) had agreed to establish “a regulatory framework to streamline the works […]
QUETTA, September 30 2005: A local journalist Malik Siraj Akbar becomes Balochistan’s first journalist to clinch an international media scholarship at the age of 22. Malik Siraj Akbar, who has been working with a local english daily for the last five years as an editorial assistant, reporter and columnist, has been awarded the South Asia […]
ISLAMABAD, August 30 2005: Information minister Sheikh Rashid on Monday August 29 advocated for setting up a digital television channel of Saarc-member countries. “We have proposed that there should be a combined digital television channel for Saarc countries. Better cultural relations should also be set up among the Saarc countries,” he told PTV by telephone […]
ISLAMABAD, August 30 2005: The government of Pakistan will launch Information Technology projects worth 19.4 billion rupees during the next five years to develop the IT sector in the country. The plan is aimed at increasing efficiency and quality of the government services besides accelerating the growth of IT with the active involvement of the […]
ISLAMABAD, August 16 2005: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday August 14 inaugurated Bolan TV in Balochi language at Pakistan Television Headquarters. The Prime Minister speaking on the occasion said the inauguration of Bolan TV would bring the people of Balochistan in the mainstream. He said the new regional language channel of the PTV in […]
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