Tag: Broadcasting

January 9, 2013 No Responses

Pakistan Broadcasters Association pledges collective resistance to pressure

KARACHI: The Pakistan Broadcasters Association adopted in its board meeting on Monday a ‘media protection policy’ that could lead to ‘collective boycott and collective legal action’ against ‘illegal’ shutdown of news channels for not following ‘advice of political parties and pressure groups’. “...
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January 8, 2013 No Responses

Pakistani FM Radio Sector to Establish Platform to Promote Professionalism and Local Community Development Agenda

About 40 licensed independent FM radio stations in Pakistan have decided to establish a formal platform to represent the radio broadcast sector’s interests and to promote greater professionalism and an enhanced and prioritized focus on local communities ...
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January 6, 2013 No Responses

National Broadcasting Service special programme on Shaheed Bhutto

National Broadcasting Service of Radio Pakistan aired special programme to pay tributes to Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Saturday night. Talking in Nai Ufaq program of Radio Pakistan‚ PPP leader Jahangir Badar has said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had emerged in...
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January 5, 2013 No Responses

Turkish soaps: a development on media front

<p>By: AZMAT ANSARI</p><p>AS a teacher of Media Sciences for more than a decade in different universities at the MBA and BBA levels, I keep an eye on new developments on radio, television and press. Turkish soaps are a development <a href="http://www.pakistanp...
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January 1, 2013 No Responses

Director-General Pakistan Radio Pakistan assumes charge as president of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union

Over 227 broadcast media organizations from 56 countries are members of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Director-General Radio Pakistan Murtaza Solangi today assumed charge as President of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). Mr. Murtaza Solangi will h...
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December 22, 2012 No Responses

PEMRA issues rejoinder to look-after bureaucrats report

ISLAMABAD: Pemra on Friday issued a detailed rejoinder to a story in The News headlined, “Pemra disfigured by look-after baboos on all posts”. It said the news reflects that probably some disgruntled elements have misled this leading newspaper by p...
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December 21, 2012 No Responses

PEMRA disfigured by ‘look-after’ bureaucrats on all posts

By: Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: The Pemra, the regulatory body for the electronic media, has been badly ruined during the recent years after having been turned into an entity ruled by a bunch of temporary officers, all of whom terribly failed to do their primary j...
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December 21, 2012 No Responses

Supreme Court bars acting chairman PEMRA from working

By: Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday barred the acting chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Dr Abdul Jabbar from holding office and asked the government to appoint a head of the authority on a permanen...
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June 25, 2012 No Responses

Swat FM radio to promote polio vaccination

PESHAWAR: A local organisation will air programmes on FM radio to promote immunisation and protect children against vaccine-preventable ailments in three selected union councils of Swat. The Awakening, which recently won one of five projects awarded by the Can...
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