#broadcasting

2026-02-08

"Broadcasters do not operate in a vacuum; they operate inside regulatory environments, political climates and corporate risk calculations. When presidents and their allies openly threaten or target networks, it is naive to pretend that has no downstream effect on editorial choices – especially in high-stakes live broadcasts tied to billion-dollar rights deals.

"But there is a difference between contextual pressure and visible reality distortion. When global audiences can compare feeds in real time, the latter begins to resemble something else entirely: not editorial judgment, but narrative management. Which is why comparisons to Soviet-style state-controlled broadcasting models – once breathless rhetorical exaggerations – are starting to feel less hyperbolic."

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb

#broadcasting #television #AudioMixing

China Media Group Deputy Director replaced

Wang Xiaozhen (王晓真) has been discharged as deputy director at China Media Group (CMG), according to a Xinhua newsagendy bulletin on Friday. As is custom in Chinese non-party organizations, Wang, as a party member, had also been a member of the CMG’s party leadership group. In his earlier jobs as a TV journalist in the 1980sand 1990s, he usually reported on economic topics.

He was replaced by Yu Junsheng (余俊生), a doctor of laws.

According to Wikipedia, there appears to be a total of three CMG deputy directors at a time.

 

#broadcasting #China #ChinaMediaGroup #广播
People's Daily's front page on February 6, 2026
2026-02-07

Before Steve Irwin, there was Alby Mangels. This is why you no longer hear his name
By Greg Hassall

In the 1980s, Alby Mangels was a box office star. The filmmaker wowed Australian audiences with his exotic adventures, but at the height of his fame he disappeared. In a rare interview he reveals what went wrong.

abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/why

#Documentaries #HumanInterest #Broadcasting #GregHassall

Malaysia publishes Shortwave Broadcasting Schedule

Malaysia’s RTM Sabah VFM has published a broadcasting schedule for its shortwave transmissions on 15295 kHz. The broadcasts reportedly include programs in Kadazan, Chinese, English, Bajau, Murut, and Dusun.

More details on Philip Yong’s broadcasting stories.

#broadcasting #languages #Malaysia #monitoring #shortwave
Giles of the Junglegilester45@twit.social
2026-02-07

Ok, whoever thought of chasing the downhill skiers with a drone.. brilliant! What a shot.

A bit of a shame the drone buzz ends up picked up by the mics on the course, but it's an acceptable price to pay imo.

#winterolympics #skiing #broadcasting

Sidewalks EntertainmentSidewalksTVShow
2026-02-06

We have another station airing our celebrity / music TV show. Hello to the viewers of New Mexico Educational Channel 96 – Katharsis Media in Albuquerque, NM. Thanks for airing "Sidewalks Entertainment" and supporting our television project.

Sidewalks EntertainmentSidewalksTVShow
2026-02-05

We woke up this morning and saw a stream of celebrity / music show! Thanks to RCTV, Rochester's Community Media Center in Rochester, NY for picking up and airing "Sidewalks." We hope your viewers are enjoying the show.

2026-02-02

How to watch CBC News: Compass during the 2026 Olympic Winter Games
CBC is the official broadcaster of Milano Cortina 2026, and CBC Television will have 23 hours of coverage every single day of the Olympic Games. Because of that, CBC News: Compass will air every weeknight at 7 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. — and only for half an hour. You can still catch us live at 6 p.m. on our website, CBC Gem and o...
#Olympics #Broadcasting #News #MilanoCortina2026
cbc.ca/player/play/9.7071156?c

2026-02-02

Yle's Moomins reading marathon attracts over 1.7 million viewers

The read-a-thon forms part of the celebrations of Yle's 100 years of broadcasting, which is themed around shared moments.

yle.fi/a/74-20207860

#readathon #Yle100 #broadcasting #sharedmoments #celebrations

Shortwave? “The entire Western World is walking away”

Pastor and broadcaster Bob Bierman presented a rather gloomy view on the future of shortwave broadcasting, according to "World of Radio", quoted by Sweden’s "SWB Bulletin", page 7, today. In addition to aging (and waning) engineers familiar with shortwave radio operation, and costly production of (high-powered, anyway) shortwave transmitters, Bierman doubts that there is still a substantial audience in the western world for shortwave broadcasts. The only chance to keep U.S. broadcasters on shortwave, if any, would be that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized 10 kW for transmitters in the USA, rather than the current minimum 50 kW standard. Another World of Radio forum participant added that domestic shortwave broadcasting, i. e. within the U.S., would have to be allowed, too.

At least as far as rendered by the SWB Bulletin, the issue of public and/or commercial broadcasting wasn’t addressed in the WoR debate. But when discussing radio in western countries, this seems to be a central question. If Europe’s small shortwave radio stations with their transmitters of just a few Watts or kiloWatts are commercially viable (I have no idea if they are), it is because a lot of DJs spend money to buy airtime which may or not be funded by faithful listeners. But while this may work for comparatively small energy bills, it probably won’t work for commercial stations that try to get a global reach, in the league of publicly mandated international shortwave broadcasters like Radio Taiwan International, All India Radio, KBS World Radio, or Radio New Zealand.

There are at least two cases in point that speak against big commercial shortwave stations. One is Radio WRNO. Its founder, Joe Costello, believed in the early 1980s that commercial shortwave radio of the WRNO kind (no religion, but lots of music, culture and stories from the U.S.) could be sustainable. Some ten years later, he told "Media Network", a program run by the now defunct Radio Netherlands, that he hadn’t been able to convince a critical mass of potential advertisers that there was a WRNO audience big enough for their commercials, because shortwave broadcasting didn’t conform with the criteria of the American rating-point system – probably this kind of economics.

Costello noted that "at this point, [WRNO Worldwide on shortwave] is not as economically viable as I thought it might be on the end of its first decade".

It took nearly a quarter of a century, after Costello’s remarks in 1991, before another American broadcaster with a format similar to WRNO’s gave shortwave a try. Unlike Costello, they didn’t build a transmitter site of their own, but hired one of WRMI’s transmitters in Okeechobee, Florida. That, too, was probably a heavyweight transmitter of something like 50 kW – its signal in my place in Europe certainly suggested that it was. WRMI manager Jeff White was quoted at the time as saying that the new broadcaster, named "Global 24",

represents another step in the long overdue commercialization of shortwave radio. We are excited to be working with them on their ambitious program to engage and entertain a global audience.

I’m not sure how long "Global 24" lasted, but it was probably for less than a year.

As far as I can tell, sustainable shortwave broadcasting needs a mandate. That can be a public mandate like in Taiwan, India, South Korea or New Zealand (see above), a party or state mandate (like in China or Vietnam), or a mandate by a religious organization (like in the case of Reach Beyond or KNLS), or one by dedicated listeners who are prepared to throw money into a broadcaster’s or DJ’s hat, or by DJs who pay for their airtime themselves. Radiation power will depend on local legislation and on budgets. In cases like those of Channel 292, Shortwave Gold or Realmix Radio in Europe, the mandates seem to come mostly from the grassroots.

 

#broadcasting #domesticRadio #Europe #foreignRadio #shortwave #USA

One-station transistor radio advertisement, December 19, 1962
Claudio Paco Astorriclaudio_astorri
2026-01-30

Per decenni la Radio negli USA si è governata per geografia: una città, una squadra, un bilancio. Audacy sta dicendo che quel modello non scala più.


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Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2026-01-30

If feasible I'd even integrate some #Datacasting like Toosheh, but that's patented according to them.

▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=RiOqq00Ika4
🇮🇷 toosheh.org
👉 netfreedompioneers.org/toosheh

#media #Broadcasting #TV #Radio #Satellite #Broadcast #data

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2026-01-30

I mean, if someone wants to setup like a #nonprofit / #cooperative for such a #radio station, let me know...

  • Cuz I'm shure something like that really could be interesting. ..Espechally with people fleeing the fascist Trump regime wanting to share their stories and also to cather to a more global audience.

I really don't like the fact that besides #PublicBroadcasting there's at best 1 private #USW - #FM radio per city/county and rarely do anything but syncro-transmit the same music on 45 transmitters in #NRW...

And that is really saddening...

#Broadcasting #Europe #Media #diversity #MediaDiversity #Radio

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2026-01-30

#WhatsMissing: #english-languaged, civilian [non-forces - related, unlike #BFBS & #AFN] radio in #Germany [if not actoss the entire #EU] on USW with some #noncommercial / #independent #artists and #talk being broadcasted.

#radio #media #broadcasting

Sid Seixeiro teases return to Toronto airwaves
Sid Seixeiro is making a comeback.It's been nearly a full calendar year since the popular Toronto broadcaster was let go by Rogers from his job at CityTV's Breakfast Television, along with co-host Meredith Shaw. Seixeiro had been with the show ever since leaving Sportsnet in 2021. Seixeiro was a popular sportscaster on ...
#Broadcasting #Sports #Return #Toronto
blogto.com/sports_play/2026/01

The Truth Perspectivethetruthperspective
2026-01-29

WHOA, SPORTS FANS! Tony Romo's in the HOT SEAT! This QB-turned-commentator is facing a BLITZ of criticism, but he's DUCKING THE SACK! Romo's showing PLAYOFF POISE, ignoring the armchair coaches and focusing on his GAME PLAN. Will his new strategy lead CBS to RATINGS GLORY, or is he risking a CAREER FUMBLE? The scoreboard's ticking!

thetruthperspective.org/node/7

Claudio Paco Astorriclaudio_astorri
2026-01-28

Una Radio di flusso non è un contenitore. È movimento nell'aria.

Poche parole, scelte bene, per accendere immaginazione e rilanciare energia.

Check the clock: qui si misura la differenza tra ritmo e zavorra.


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