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WRN is a
leading broadcast and transmission company providing its
world-wide clients with high quality, innovative and
cutting edge solutions for their broadcasting and
telecommunications needs.
Since its
foundation in 1992, WRN has exploited the opportunities
presented by the enormous changes that broadcasting is
undergoing. Digital technology has made possible a vast
new portfolio of services and enabled broadcasters large
and small, long-established and new, to reach new
audiences in new markets. WRN is constantly exploring
and developing new services in the global marketplace.
Among many new initiatives, interactive and on-demand
television service are being explored.
Today its
London headquarters are home to a series of world-class
global radio networks plus a host of specialist
transmission services provided to the world's leading
private and public broadcasting organisations.
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INTERNATIONAL
TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
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ITU, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland is an
international organization within the United
Nations System where governments and the private sector
coordinate global telecom networks and services.
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ASIA PACIFIC
BROADCASTING UNION
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The
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is a non-profit,
non-government, professional association of broadcasting
organisations, formed in 1964 to facilitate the development of
broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific region and to organise
co-operative activities amongst its members. It currently has
over 140 members in 54 countries, with its broadcaster members
reaching a potential audience of about 3 billion people.
The
ABU provides a forum for promoting the collective interests of
television and radio broadcasters, and engages in activities
to encourage regional and international co-operation between
broadcasters.
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Association
for International Broadcasting
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The
Association for International Broadcasting
is the industry body that serves the international media.
The AIB's mission is to bring together the international broadcasting
industry, supplying market intelligence, networking, representation, board-level
contacts and a range of other services to members.
The AIB is a forum for debate, a unique centre of information about
international broadcasting and a trade lobbyist.
The annual AIB Global Media Business Conference brings together the
international broadcasting industry.
In addition, the AIB provides specialised services to the broadcasting industry,
such as a renowned consulting operation that covers the entire
broadcasting sector, from project management to digital broadcasting, programme
production to transmission and delivery.
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COMMONWEALTH BROADCASTING
ASSOCIATION
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The CBA was founded
in February 1945 as the Commonwealth Broadcasting Conference.
The first meeting, held in London, brought together
representatives of a number of broadcasting organisations that
had co-operated closely in reporting the Second World. It
began with six members and is today an association of more
than 100 broadcasting organisations in Europe, Asia, Africa,
the Caribbean, Australasia, the Pacific, North and South
America.
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International
Meteor Organization
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Founded in 1988, the
International Meteor Organization (IMO) is an international
scientific non-profit making organization with members all
over the world. The IMO was created in response to an ever
growing need for international cooperation of amateur meteor
work. As such, the IMO's main objectives are to encourage,
support and coordinate meteor observing, to improve the
quality of amateur observations, to disseminate observations
and results to other amateurs and professionals and to make
global analyses of observations received world-wide.
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letters page and articles about WRN's programme partners and
developments within the international broadcasting industry.
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FCC
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The Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States
government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was
established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with
regulating interstate and international communications by radio,
television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction
covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S.
possessions.
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IBB
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The International
Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) is a part of the BBG. IBB is composed of
the Voice of America (VOA), WORLDNET Television and Film Service,
and Radio and TV Marti, and an Engineering Directorate that
maintains transmitting facilities and provides support for all of
IBB's broadcasting elements, including monitoring.
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NABA
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The
North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) is a union of
broadcasting organizations throughout North America committed to
advancing the interests of broadcasters at home and
internationally. As a member of the World
Broadcasting Unions (WBU), NABA creates the opportunity for
North American broadcasters to share information, identify common
interests and reach consensus on issues of an international
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European
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ABSU
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The
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the largest professional association of
national broadcasters in the world. The Union has 74 active Members in 54
countries of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and 47 associate
Members in 26 countries further afield.
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The Arab
States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) is one of the
oldest arab joint action institutions pertaining to the League
of Arab States system.
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Greenwich,
England has been the home of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
since 1884. GMT is sometimes called Greenwich
Meridian Time because it is measured from the Greenwich
Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
It is the place from where all time zones are measured. The Greenwich
Meridian (Prime Meridian or Longitude Zero degrees)
marks the starting point of every time zone in the World.
GMT is Greenwich Mean (or Meridian) Time is the mean (average)
time that the earth takes to rotate from noon-to-noon. GMT
is World Time and the basis of every world time zone which
sets the time of day and is at the centre of the time zone
map. GMT sets current time or official time around the
globe. Most time changes are measured by GMT.
Although GMT has been replaced by atomic time (UTC) it is
still widely regarded as the correct time for every
international time zone.
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The
Association of Commercial Television in Europe, ACT, was
formed in July 1989. Our object is to represent the business
interests of the commercial television sector at the EU
Institutions
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High Frequency
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HFCC,
also known as High Frequency Co-ordination Conference, earlier
High Frequency Co-ordination Committee, is a group active in
informal co-ordination of frequency channels used in short
wave broadcasting. The group co-ordinates transmission
schedules of about 60 organisations from more than 30
countries. They represent about 75 to 80 percent of the global
output of short wave broadcasting. The
main objective of the HFCC is to provide the
representation and services for the promotion of an efficient
and economical use of the short-wave radio spectrum, and the
improvement of radio reception of short-wave broadcast
transmissions world-wide. Regular seasonal co-ordination
meetings belong among the main activities that help to
achieve the objectives of the HFCC. The HFCC co-ordinates two
schedules annually: The A schedule corresponds to the summer
period on the Northern hemisphere, and B to the winter period
in keeping with the dates of the clock-time changes in Europe.
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