by Eriko Arita in Japan Times
In the week immediately after March 11, 2011 — when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku and crippled the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant — most Japanese were closely watching TV news programs — amazed that a nuclear crisis was now threatening their lives.
Policy, Law and Regulations: The National ICT Policy, set the foundation for building digital local content. Kenya Information and Communications Act (Cap 411A) tasked the Communications Commission of Kenya to develop Kenya Information and Communications (Broadcasting) Regulations, 2009. where “Local content” means the total of all television or radio programmes which fulfil any five of the following conditions:
For a sample of their cultural programming, go to:
http://www.maoritelevision.com/Default.aspx?tabid=611&pid=9133
mwtv.jinbo.net/2009/bbs/board.php
Issues that have been covered by Migrant Workers Television (MWTV) are health care, employment permits, multi cultural education, ethnic cultural events, human rights, crackdowns on refugees. Immigrants in Korea come from Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Mongolia, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal and Vietnam. Many of the programs are in these languages and cover specific issues of interest to migrants. http://www.mwtv.or.kr/
A list of their programs sorted by ethnic community and subjects is at:
http://mwtv.jinbo.net/2009/bbs/board.php?bo_table=B01
Deep Dish Television is working on a series about migration: deepdishtvuprooted.wordpress.com/
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