Latvia’s media regulator has revoked the broadcast license of the exiled liberal Russian network TV Dozhd (TV Rain) after an anchor claimed live on air that it had been helping the Russian military. The channel has since said the anchor misspoke and promptly fired him. Latvia’s National Electronic Mass Media …
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The Chinese Television System (CTS), Taiwan’s government-backed station, has issued an apology after mistakenly running ticker alerts about China striking targets near Taipei with missiles. The warning appeared during a live news broadcast on Wednesday morning, with alerts reportedly indicating that a “war could break out,” as well as that …
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New Delhi-based English-language news channel WION said it had been barred from posting videos on YouTube for several days, blaming the platform for seeking to thwart objective coverage of the conflict in Ukraine. A “total block” had been imposed on Tuesday, and no new clips had appeared on its usually …
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Moscow’s Telekanal Dozhd (TV Rain) has “temporarily suspended” broadcasts, its owner Natalia Sindeeva announced on Thursday. Russian regulators blocked the station’s signal two days ago, citing alleged false reporting about the war in Ukraine. “We need strength to exhale and understand how to work further,” Sindeeva said in her announcement, …
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Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) imposed five-year sanctions on the Nash TV channel on Friday after a closed-door meeting chaired by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Viewers have since reported being unable to view the channel on cable. The move came days after an online petition launched on the website …
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The Strasbourg-based culture channel Arte has issued an apology after allegedly accidentally broadcasting an uncut version of the 1985 classic horror film ‘Day of the Dead’ by American film director George Romero. The iconic film about flesh-eating zombies turned out to be too graphic for the German officials’ taste and …
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One America News (OAN), a conservative television channel which has frequently been described as one of former US President Donald Trump’s favorites, is set to be dropped by its satellite TV carrier following an internal review. DirecTV, which airs OAN on channel 347, told the network’s parent company Herring Networks …
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“The reason it is happening is because nobody wants competition,” Nikolov said on Wednesday. For the channel to get such staunch resistance in Germany is “like getting a medal,” he added, arguing that the hostile reaction only proves that the media outlet’s operations have been “phenomenally successful.” Earlier the same …
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Regulator Roskomnadzor, has sent a notice to Google, YouTube’s parent company demanding that the platform lift all restrictions on the channel, which allowed internet audiences to watch RT’s newly launched around-the-clock German-language broadcasts live. YouTube took down RT auf Sendung (RT On the Air) five hours after it began showing …
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The US tech giant had no right to restrict the YouTube page of the Tsargrad TV channel, Russia’s Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, supporting a previous court decision. Google was ordered to restore the channel as well as its monetization rights, imposing what Russian media described as an …
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