H1 advertising expenditure in GCC reaches $5.05bn, a 20% increase over last year
TV ad expenditure jumps 39% to reach $3.48 billion
Bahrain records fastest growth at 40% and UAE remains on top in terms of volume despite slight decline
Bahrain Journalist Association yesterday condemned insults and threats to the media sector. A strongly-worded statement stressed that the search for the truth is at the heart of their profession. It rejected suggestions by leading officials of Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) that the only victims of recent rioting were the perpetrators themselves. The Journalist Association [...]
The UAE’s threat to ban some of RIM’s BlackBerry services is a wake-up call to reconcile profits and principles There’s a story about a 1960s British intelligence chief who was so frustrated and confused by the proliferation of meaningless acronyms and code names for spying missions that he turned to an assistant and asked in [...]
The BlackBerry, made by Research In Motion, is open to misuse that poses security risks to the United Arab Emirates, which said on Sunday it would seek to safeguard its consumers and laws. Gulf state Bahrain in April warned against the use of BlackBerry Messenger software to distribute local news, drawing criticism from media freedom [...]
A TV documentary on Muharraq’s Al Qaysariya Market has been filmed to underline its importance to Bahrain’s national heritage. It has been produced by the BC Space Channel in collaboration with Bahrain Television. Plans for the demolition of a 200-year-old market have been pending for the past two years as councillors investigate whether 10 to [...]
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A proposal by a conservative Bahraini political bloc to ban women from four countries from entering the country did not make the grade among Bahraini lawmakers but raised quite a few eyebrows when it was offered up. The conservative Al Asala bloc proposed that Bahraini authorities stop issuing visas to Russian, Thai, Ethiopian, and Chinese [...]
A CRACKDOWN on illegal satellite TV providers has failed, officials admitted yesterday. But while one battle may have been lost, the war goes on, said Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) information communication technology (ICT) adviser on Internet security Nick Truman. He said authorities were “pretty much where we were”, with no headway in blocking illegal Dreambox [...]
Batelco, the leading telecommunications company in Bahrain, has unveiled a new, ultra modern brand image. Batelco chairman Shaikh Hamad bin Abdulla Al Khalifa said that Batelco’s bold new look was ideal for Bahrain today as the Kingdom continues to grow and evolve at a rapid pace. “This is a very modern new look that encompasses [...]
A STRONG united Arab media was yesterday urged to confront aggressive attacks by the Western Press. The call came from Akhbar Al Khaleej editor-in-chief Anwar Abdulrahman following alleged “political blackmail” against Dubai by The Times of London. Mr Abdulrahman, a leading Bahrain publisher, urged editors of English language newspapers in the Gulf to adopt a [...]
