MEDIA:  Digital Radio Takes an Ambitious Step Into Africa
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BERLIN, Dec. 4 (IPS) - Broadcasters from across Africa will gather in  Rwandan capital Kigali this week to propose new plans to bring  digital sound to their hundreds of millions of listeners.
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Will HD radio be enough to keep listeners tuned in?
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A new radio station targeting both Israelis and Palestinians takes to the airwaves this week based on a format that pioneered debate between blacks and whites in apartheid-era South Africa.
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Hard-drive based digital audio player will be available by the end of the year.
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After ceding ground (and potential advertising dollars) for years to an army of autonomous Internet radio stations, the nationâs biggest broadcasters are now marching online.
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A radio documentarian wants to catalog people's lives simply by listening to them
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Computers long ago ceased to be simply tools. Instead, like digital music players and digital cameras, they are coming to reflect peopleÂs tastes and aspirations.
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Blog: In an attempt to better organize the news coming out of Second Life, a new streaming radio station emerges to disseminate information about the oft-fragmented virtual world.
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As the U.S. transitions to digital over-the-air TV broadcasts, a coalition plans an educational campaign.
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From banking to education and even  organized crime, mobile phones are revolutionizing the lives of  ordinary Africans as foreign phone companies scramble for a  share of the world's fastest growing market.
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African television and radio   stations are planning an on-air campaign to build hope in the   face of the AIDS pandemic, in a bid to raise spirits on the   worst-hit continent where millions have died from the disease.
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Voice of Africa Radio has been set up in East London to broadcast entertainment, information and political, economic and social news about Africa to Africans, especially those living in the United Kingdom and ...
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MORE Brits than ever before are tuning into the radio - and it's all down to the internet, digital TV and mobile phones.  Forty-five million people - threequarters of the population - listened to the radio every week in the last three months of 2006.
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Radio broadcasters are considering  technology and business models that may soon allow listeners to  click, listen and buy the tunes they hear on their favorite  radio stations.
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Two more mobile carriers are expanding into Africa, as countries gear up to fund projects.
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Text of report by Ghanaian GBC radio on 11 December  A conference on the media and national development is taking place in Accra. The participants from all over the country are deliberating on how the media can respond responsibly to the unlimited freedom they are enjoying.
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Sony has released the first of its digital audio players to support the popular MP3 format, marking a significant shift in its music strategy.