ABU Matters
GAUDEAMUS Radio Romania Book Fair 2016 Attracted 125,000 Visitors
G
AUDEAMUS International Book and Education Fair 2016 took place between 16-20 November in the
Central Pavilion of Romexpo Exhibitions Centrein Bucharest, Romania. The event, having reached its 23rd edition, is the only book fair in the world initiated and organised by a public radio service: Radio Romania.
One hundred and twenty five thousand visitors attended the fair where 300 exhibitors from 5 countries were present. Romanian and foreign publishing houses, book distribution agencies, educational institutions, professional associations, cultural and educational non-governmental organisations, museums, and libraries participated. The 850 accompanying events comprised of book launchings, book signing sessions, professional debates and forums and creative workshops.
The Guest of Honour of GAUDEAMUS 2016 was China, supported by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of China, through China National Publications Import Export (Group) Corporation. Next year, the main guest will be the United States of America.
RRI-Indonesia Won DRM Enterprise Award 2016
R
adio Republik Indonesia (RRI) engineers won the 2016 DRM Enterprise Award Asia Pacific
Region 2016, jointly sponsored with SAS, the leader in analytics.
Based in Denpasar, Indonesia, Mr Salwan, Manager of Technology and New Media Director; Mr Ketut Suandi, Assistant Manager Transmitter, and Mr Cok Dalem Javadi, Staff of Technology and New Media unit are recognised for their support and hard work in running a DRM AM trial in 2016.
The award aims to stimulate interest in the DRM standard in various parts of the world that would benefit from the full introduction of digital radio. The RRI engineers, on the beautiful island of Bali, were selected to receive the award in recognition of their work in preparing a medium wave transmitter to broadcast in DRM during the Asia- Pacific Broadcasting Union’s General
60 ABU News Assembly in October.
On behalf of RRI, Mr
R.Gingging, CTO, also proudly congratulated his staff for having engaged and worked so well together with consortium representatives thus quickly learning about new digital opportunities for radio broadcasting.
Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Consortium Chair, congratulated the local RRI engineers as “their work shows how quickly DRM can become part of day- to-day activities. This proved that the Indonesian public broadcaster has the talent and capacity to test the latest digital technologies in their effort to future proof public broadcasting.”
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