Indian public broadcaster needs more autonomy

An expert committee scrutinising Prasar Bharati, India’s state-funded broadcaster has handed in its recommendations after a year-long assessment

Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania: switchon, switchoff

A roundup of developments in the occasionally unpredictable world of digital transition in Africa

Malawi is the only country to meet regional digital deadline

Africa’s SADC set the last day of 2013 as the date to start switching on digital TV and retiring analogue infrastructure

Repairing radios part of Filipino post-typhoon recovery

We hear again from a disaster communications expert helping at Radyo Bakdaw, a station set up in storm-ravaged Guiuan, where Typhoon Haiyan made landfall

UK hits the delay button on digital radio switchover

With digital radio listening at 35 per cent, the communications minister says the UK is not ready to turn off FM

Enter the World TV Awards for the chance to win US$5,000

Science and humanity broadcast programmes from across the globe are sought for this annual competition to recognise the best in factual television