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25 Facilitating Development of the Industry
The broadcasting industry is changing very fast, regarding the services it provides and the type of technology it employs. Infusion of digital technology in the broadcasting industry has accelerated this change and has changed the entire media landscape.
The initial digital technology developments were observedby the ABU Technology Department (TD) in early 1990s. Since then conscious efforts have been made to keep ABU members and industry partners informed about technology developments, initiating several measures to study and evaluate the changes in technology.
Towards this end, the ABU Digital Radio Forum (DRF) was set up by the Technical Committee (TC) in 1996. The same year, the Committee set up the ABU High Frequency Coordination process (ABU-HFC). This spurred a global movement and helped in stabilising the channel frequencies used for shortwave broadcasting and improving shortwave radio reception.
Along the way, the ABU Developing Broadcasters Forum (DBF) was set up to provide a platform for such ABU members to articulate their views and their challenges.
When the IT technology and ICTs emerged, the ABU ICT Forum was set up in 2003 to help ABU members understand IT Technologies and integrate those with their mainstream technologies.
With the advent of HDTV, the ABU HDTV Advisory Group was set up to study and focus on the entire gamut of issues pertaining to the introduction of HDTV, from technologies to audiences and HDTV sets. As the introduction of HDTV became more common, this group was converted into a production-oriented group looking into the production of HDTV content.
To help the members in resolving the issues pertaining to implementation of digital and compression technologies, we set up an Asia- Pacific Broadcasters-Industry Forum so that the broadcasters could directly liaise with the industry partners.
More recently, to kick start formation of an outline metadata schema for international programme exchange in the ABU region, a Metadata Task Group was set up, as was a Pacific Media Partnership, an on-line networkto facilitate communication among our members and other broadcasters in the Pacific.
The TC has always encouraged innovation and development among the staff of its members and to recognize this, the Committee set up four excellence awards over the years. The latest to be set up is the ABU Developing Broadcasters Excellence Award.
From Sharad, Nadeem, Bahadir, Kyaw Zaw, Nam, Geraldine, Hamidah and Ramlah Additional Full Members
ADMINISTRATION COMPANY “KAZMEDIA ORTALYGY” LLP, REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN “Administration Company “Kazmedia Ortalygy” is located in the Sayarka District of the Republic of Kazakhstan and was established on 29 May 2012.
RIMAKMUR SDN BHD, MALAYSIA Rimakmur FM Sdn Bhd is a private limited liability company incorporated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 21 February 2005 and commenced its first radio transmission on 26 December 2005, nationwide.
Associate Members
ROMANIAN RADIO BROADCASTING CORPORATION, ROMANIA The first programme of the Radio-Telephonic Broadcasting Society was broadcast on 1 November 1928, as was denominated the public radio Broadcasting Service on its official creation deed. Radio Romania has three national channels: Radio Romania News, Radio Romania Culture and the Villages’ Antenna.
STAR RFM SDN BHD, MALAYSIA Star RFM Sdn Bhd is a private limited liability company incorporated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 6 February 1995 and commenced its first radio transmission on 8 May 1996.
Associate Members
BANG SINGAPORE PTE. LTD., SINGAPORE Bang Singapore Pte. Ltd., a private limited company was established on 5 September 2002 in Singapore, with offices in Korea and Japan.
BANGLADESH NGOS NETWORK FOR RADIO AND COMMUNICATION, BANGLADESH Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is an NGO organization, emerged in 2000 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to promote the advocacy of community radio and TV in collaboration with the government and other organisations.
MIT ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING, INDIA Maharashtra Academy of Engineering (MAE Pune) is located in Pune, India, established on 21 June 1983 and is a private registered non-profit charitable Trust engaged in spreading education in India.
NATIONAL INFORMATIONAL & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA National Informational & Communications Technology Authority (NICTA) is a Regulatory Agency of ICTs that also regulates national broadcasting services in the country for the Government of Papua New Guinea, established on 24 November 2009.
RU TV (THE OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY), THAILAND The Office of Educational Technology (OET) was established in Bangkok, Thailand on 14 April 1986 and is a Ramkhamhaeng University (RU) agency, a center for coordinating the production, development, and provision of services to the university in the area of educational technology.
SEKOLAH TINGGI TEKNIK MALANG (STTM), INDONESIA Sekolah Tinggi Teknik Malang (STTM) is a technical high school or higher education project set-up by RRI (Radio Republik Indonesia) registered on 18 September 2012 in Malang, Indonesia.
ESSEL SHYAM TECHNOLOGIES LTD., INDIA Essel Shyam Technologies Ltd. was incorporated on 26 September 2001 in New Delhi, India and commenced business on the same day as a satellite service provider and system integrator.
PTFI MEDIA, AUSTRALIA PTFI Media offers broadcast and media consultancy services to Organising Committees, Government, Sport Governing Organisations and Federations and Broadcasting Organisations.
SM CNS CORPORATION, KOREA SM CNS Corporation was established on 14 May 2004 in Seoul, Korea providing distribution and system integration of broadcasting systems, software, RF equipment for broadcasting and IPTV products.
YOU CHANNEL NETWORK SDN BHD, MALAYSIA YOU Channel Network Sdn Bhd is a private limited liability company incorporated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 19 August 2010 making production of serials, movies and documentaries in both Chinese and Malay language, recording, distribution and trading of entertainment media.
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