Disney mulls Yahoo! TV deal

According to the Wall Street Journal, Walt Disney is considering making some of its television content available for Yahoo's Internet TV service, writes the Orlando Sentinel.

Yahoo Connected TV software is built into some television sets already and gives viewers the ability to use a Yahoo viewing widget to select content. But the system is still somewhat speculative at this point, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Not only has the Disney widget not been developed, but studios like Disney and others still are reluctant to change the television broadcast and cable models because of their current strong profitability, it added.

Officials in Belarus shut a popular radio station, apparently over a message aired by an opponent of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko calling on people to protest in the streets, notes the Canadian Press.

Lukashenko was declared president last month in what officials called a landslide victory, prolonging his 14-year reign in the former Soviet nation that the US has called Europe's last dictatorship.

Police arrested 700 people, including 30 journalists and seven rival candidates, during subsequent protests alleging vote fraud. That station, which claims up to 500 000 listeners across the capital, Minsk, was shut down on Wednesday, accused of propagating extremism.

Ghana's ministry of communications has revealed that issuance of digital broadcasting licence will begin in March, reports My Joy Online.

This follows cabinet's approval of recommendations of a technical committee that was set up to facilitate the country's migration from analogue to digital broadcasting.

According to the ministry, a national digital migration implementation body will be set up by the end of this month to facilitate a cost-effective and timely migration from analogue to digital broadcasting within a space of three years.