French culture, still reeling from the havoc wreaked by the pandemic, was betting on faster progress during the summer, the season when festivals, which stand for ‘people’s culture’, are mushrooming. Cycles will also hit politics, though with a variant less seasonal than the stark priorities dictated by the challenges that invite themselves on the political…

As of August 2023. Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic (CAR) Chad Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Cote d’Ivoire Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Niger Rwanda…

Government’s plan to grow the creative industries by £50bn and support a million more jobs by 2030, with £77m of new funding for the sector announced Advanced screen and performance technology research labs to be based in Yorkshire, Dundee, Belfast and Buckinghamshire £50m to support more regional creative clusters, plus extra cash for music venues,…

  These countries share the position of APWPT e.V. and SOS – Save Our Spectrum for a “No change” at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2023. The UHF band between 470 and 694 MHz must be preserved for media and culture!   Spain CPG#5, 25.-29. April 2022, Bornholm https://www.cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/cpg/client/meeting-documents/?flid=30195 Spain provided the following statement: In relation…

“Without continuous access to the entire 470-694 MHz frequency range, it becomes impossible to host an event like the Glastonbury Festival,” says the new EBU study “BROADCASTERS’ SPECTRUM NEEDS FOR AUDIO PMSE APPLICATIONS,” which we linked to here: https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/tr075 Conclusions: Especially in these times of fake news and hate speech, broadcasting continues to be of…

In May 2023, more than 100 cultural and media organizations call on decision makers, governments and regulators to protect production and distribution via the lower UHF spectrum band (470 and 694 Megahertz). At the World Radiocommunication Conference in the autumn of 2023, there is a risk of transferring this frequency band to mobile broadband services.…