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Piggleston Pecanpants

The Red Sox broadcasting arm, NESN, is making a big deal about having an all female broadcasting team for tonight's game. Knowing people who have worked for NESN my first cynical thought is, they're doing a test run of females because they can pay them less and they could save money with female staff.
Trenni Casey says stop the theatrics. If a female is qualified to do the job, hire her. There's no merit in a one-off gimmick. #RedSox #NESN #broadcasting #baseball

gtbarry

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Friday that it would shut down next year, effectively ending its half-century role as a backer of NPR, PBS, and local radio and TV stations across the United States.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created in 1967.

#broadcasting #education #NPR #PBS

nytimes.com/2025/08/01/busines

Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat of California, referred to the character Elmo during a congressional hearing about funding for public broadcasting in March.
The New York Times · Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut DownBy Benjamin Mullin
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Imogen

#PBS #Broadcasting

Lets talk about the recent funding cuts to public broadcasting from a different perspective.

In many states the local public radio system is used as the "Primary Entry Point" for EAS (Emergency Alert System) messages. This is how emergency notifications reach other stations across the state. (Both commercial and non commercial)

The other thing is by federal contract, PBS is the clearing house for notification.

warn.pbs.org/

warn.pbs.orgPBS - WARN
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beSpacific

Corporation for Public Broadcasting funder of NPR, PBS "announced that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for #CPB for the first time in more than five decades." #trump #maga #media #journalism #censorship #congress #politics #broadcasting #news

Bruce MacDonald

"Whether or not one agrees with the politics behind these decisions, there is a real-world human cost of eliminating public broadcasting support. While PBS and NPR will certainly survive, it’s the small rural member stations — the ones that reach into mountain hollows and villages across the tundra — that go silent."
swling.com/blog/2025/07/public

The SWLing Post · Public Broadcasting Cuts Hit Hard in Remote, Rural CommunitiesMany thanks to SWLing Post contributor Richard Langley for sharing a recent CBC article that explores the real-world consequences of funding cuts to public broadcasting in the U.S.: Trump-era plan …
#radio#broadcasting#uspol
Bruce MacDonald

'CBS earned the Tiffany nickname under Bill Paley, the network head responsible for empowering Edward R. Murrow to take on Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy and Walter Cronkite to define the caliber of journalism that led to the birth of “60 Minutes.” Paley had the foresight to grant Norman Lear the creative freedom to critique America’s race and class divisions through his comedies, beginning with “All in the Family.”'
salon.com/2025/07/20/the-cruel

Salon.com · The cruel joke of CBS ousting Stephen ColbertCBS says it's ending "The Late Show" for financial reasons. That may be true, but nobody believes it's right.
#television#uspol#broadcasting
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Shortwave Listening

AI-Voiced News Bulletins to exorcize the Senkaku Curse

Radio Japan’s Mandarin news bulletins are now broadcast with "artificial-intelligence" voices, and may have been for some time. The AI note was given both at the beginning of the station’s news program today.

AI-voice was still only a plan in January this year, although according to Kyodo News at the time, quoted here by Singapore’s "United Morning News", the decision in favor of AI had been taken by then.

NHK, the company that operates Radio Japan as the country’s foreign radio service, decided to either pre-record or AI-generate (or both) further news readouts in Mandarin, and probably in other languages, too. NHK’s move had been motivated by an outsourced Mandarin newsreader who had gone rogue during the only daily live broadcast at 04:00 UTC and replaced his script with comments on the Senkaku Islands sovereignty status, and reminders of Japanese war crimes during World War 2.

Shortly after NHK’s final decision in January, the Senkaku curse reportedly struck again, this time apparently on NHK World TV or on a video platform, when the subtitles to a news report translated the Senkaku Islands as "Diaoyutai", the name under which China claims sovereignty over the islets. It was said that Google was to blame, as the translation had been based on the online group’s translation function.

All that may not have been a big deal in Europe (with a few local exceptions), but it is always big news in Japan and China – both of which have their share of nutty nationalists who only wait for reasons to hit the roof. NHK was in serious trouble during the days afterwards, because as a democracy, the country has its share of nutty nationalists in parliament, too, and those had to prove their "patriotism" to their constituents.

NHK and Radio Japan may now be in safer waters, but the 04:00 UTC transmissions aren’t as realtime as they used to be. Then again, listeners can probably cope with the loss, as both French and Mandarin broadcast have only seen one premiere a day anyway: all transmissions later in the day were only rebroadcasts of the initial one.

#artificialIntelligence#broadcasting#China
Bruce MacDonald

'Ms Lattouf said managers told her she breached the organisation's social media policy after sharing a post by Human Rights Watch about the war in Gaza with the caption "HRW reporting starvation as a tool of war".

'The judge found that former ABC chief content officer Chris Oliver-Taylor was the sole decision-maker in her termination and that he knew Ms Lattouf “had not been given any direction not to post anything".

'Justice Rangiah also found the decision by Mr Oliver-Taylor was made to appease pro-Israel lobbyists who would "inevitably escalate" complaints, after a coordinated campaign to have Ms Lattouf taken off air.'

Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against the ABC, awarded $70,000 compensation
abc.net.au/news/2025-06-25/ant

ABC News · Antoinette Lattouf wins unlawful termination case against the ABC, awarded $70,000 compensationBy Chantelle Al-Khouri
#broadcasting#Australia#radio
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doboprobodyne

@gsuberland

Not sure if helpful for your strategic goal, and I'm only on mobile so have not the machine translation to investigate, but the #Japanese bloody love a good standard that everyone can follow... I wonder if they'd #publish anything equivalent for less, or if there are any countries into publishing #standards at low cost, who also treasure quality, and understand the role of standards in creating #quality in technologically advanced economies.

jisc.go.jp/eng/pj/index.html

www.jisc.go.jpJapanese Industrial Standards Committee:Publication of JIS
#safety#epilepsy#broadcasting
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