Myanmar is planning to set up a national media training college in the coming years to bring up first class talent for radio and television in the country and ASEAN at large. On April 28th, 2011, at the invitation of Mr. U Winn Maw, Chairman of Forever Group, CEO of MRTV-4 and Adviser of Ministry of Information, Myanmar, AIBD Director Yang Binyuan attended the Myanmar Media Training College (MMTC) Planning Meeting in Yangon.

AIBD’s latest joint venture Mediahub has been introduced at this year’s MIPTV in the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. The energetic Mediahub team led by its general manager Dimitri Mendjisky, met key broadcasters and production houses from all over the world, of which 34 agreed to become content providers for Mediahub.

China Radio International (CRI) will pursue more initiatives with AIBD and ABU, actively engaging with broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region to address the challenges of rapidly developing communication technologies and competition from new media platforms.

On 25th March 2011, the members of the AIBD family took the opportunity to wish two colleagues who completed their tenure of office as Programme Managers.

Mr Yang Binyuan, Director of AIBD, thanked the two colleagues Mr P Das, and Ms Juliette Vivier for their excellent contributions to AIBD over the last few years and said, “ We, at AIBD never says goodbye to colleagues who have rendered their services. Once one serves AIBD they will always belong to this small family of AIBD, no matter where they are ”.

He presented each of them with a souvenir and a memoir with the staff members penning their individual wishes and expressing their sentiments.

Bigger projects can only be finsihed in time with manpower. This rule applied for the AIBD website as well and that was the way, Ms Mpho Thebe found her way to us. She is a student of Mass Communication at the Limkokwing University and spent almost 3 months as an intern at AIBD. 

[img_assist|nid=1263|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=83]The MediahubTM (www.mediahubaccess.com) operates as a bridge between leading content owners and emerging broadcasters to access and acquire fresh, attractive, and relevant content. It serves as a show window to market your programs to the international market in a cost-efficient manner and highlight innovative educational programs that contribute towards people development and enlightenment.

Sri Lanka has taken an important step by selecting DVB-T2 as the national standard for the Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting. In order to prepare for the roll out of Digital Television Broadcasting a workshop on DVB-T/T2 Technologies and Measurements was organized jointly by AIBD, SLRC & Rhode & Schwarz from 24-28 January 2011 in Colombo.

The workshop was formally inaugurated by Mr. Sarath Kongahage, Chairman, SLRC and and Mr. C.D. Abeysinghe, Director General, SLRC. The function was attended by DDG(Admin), DDG(Engineering), Director (T&R) and other dignitaries including representatives from MTV, ITN and Swarnavahini.

The staff of AIBD gathered today (January 28th) to bid farewell to two colleagues Musalmi and Mark.

Musalmi served the AIBD for 28 years before retirement in December 2010. She will be enjoying a well-earned rest after her long years of service. The other is Mark Lin who was working at the Institute as a Programme Manager for two years.

AIBD has admitted three new affiliate members, France 24, Dart Centre Australasia (DCA) and the Palestine Public Broadcasting Commission (PBC). AIBD Director Yang Binyuan recently visited the headquarters of France 24 in Paris.