Gulf Daily News " Local News " Channels 'blocked' BAHRAIN'S Indian community is up-in-arms over satellite channels from home allegedly being blocked by Internet signals, broadcast on the same frequency.
Hundreds of customers are cancelling Indian satellite subscriptions for at least 12 channels, because of the disruption, say service providers. Government investigators says signals are being disrupted because Zain Bahrain and Mena Telecom are broadcasting broadband wireless Internet services over the same frequency of the TV channels. Bahrain's Telecommuni-cations Regulatory Authority (TRA) says the problem is a spill-over caused by Indian broadcasters using the same frequency that Bahrain uses for some of its telecommunications. Transport Ministry Wireless Licensing, Frequency and Monitoring Director Hisham Khalifa bin Khalil told the GDN that the TRA and Zain Bahrain had refused to accept the directorate's findings of the source of interference.
"But this frequency is almost the same for a number of Indian television channels. Bahrain opposition TV station is being ‘blocked from Gulf’ Joe Sheffer, The Times, 1st August 2011 London-based television channel launched by Bahraini opposition activists is being targeted by electronic jamming from the Gulf.
Since the station’s launch on July 17, Lualua TV’s frequency has been attacked 11 times by a source that has been electronically pinpointed as coming from Bahrain. The channel has been forced to change its transmission frequency three times. Its first broadcast lasted only five hours before an attack forced the station from the air. Lualua TV is produced in a small industrial unit in northwest London, where it is serving as the Gulf state’s first and only opposition satellite channel. It is being funded by private donors in the Arab world. The channel is named after the Pearl roundabout in Manama, which was the focal point of the democracy protests that started in February. The station, which broadcasts in Arabic, is aimed at members of the opposition inside Bahrain, via the popular satellite service Hotbird. Bahrain: Shouting in the dark - Programmes. Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority.
Where people fighting for democratic rights broke the barriers of fear, only to find themselves alone and crushed. This is their story and Al Jazeera is their witness - the only TV journalists who remained to follow their journey of hope to the carnage that followed. This is the Arab revolution that was abandoned by the Arabs, forsaken by the West and forgotten by the world. Editor's note: This documentary recently won the Award for Best International Television and the Grand Prize at the Robert F.Kennedy Journalism Awards, The Amnesty International Media Award, a Gold Nymphe (Nymphe d'Or) for Best Documentary at the Montecarlo Television Festival, the Foreign Press Association Documentary of the Year award in London, the George Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Scripps Howard Jack R.
Howard Award for Television Reporting. Tottenham shooting: Police cars attacked amid protest. 7 August 2011Last updated at 08:43 The BBC's Andy Moore reports from behind police lines after a BBC satellite truck came under attack from youths throwing missiles Police are on the streets of Tottenham, north London, where overnight riots saw petrol bombs thrown at officers and patrol cars and buildings set alight.
Eight injured police officers were taken in hospital, at least one of them with head injuries. The unrest began after a protest over the fatal shooting by police of 29-year-old Mark Duggan on Thursday. About 300 people gathered outside the police station on the High Road after demonstrators demanded "justice". London Ambulance Service said a total of 10 people had been treated and nine had been taken to hospital. Two empty patrol cars were set alight at about 20:20 BST.
Cdr Stephen Watson: "We had no information to suggest that we would have the scale of disorder that now confronts us" Shops in the area were looted, with people seen pushing away shopping trolleys full of goods.