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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

Nothing really for #ITV to celebrate for their 70th anniversary - they are a shadow of what they used to be, most of their better content is only in their back catalogue, made by the regional #studios and companies they destroyed in the 1990s chasing after #profits - and now they are on the ropes with more #redundancies planned

#UK #TelevisionIndustry #Media #Broadcasting

standard.co.uk/showbiz/itv-bos

Evening Standard · 'Really bad taste': ITV bosses 'enrage staff with tone-deaf party' amid budget cuts and job lossesBy Ekin Karasin
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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
ABC Feeds

Veteran journalist and RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty dies aged 76
By Andrew Thorpe

The colourful Queensland media figure carved out a successful career as a current affairs reporter, covering royal weddings, the downfall of the Marcos regime and the Brixton riots before joining the RSPCA in 2004.

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-06/mic

ABC News · Michael Beatty, veteran current affairs journalist and animal welfare advocate, dies aged 76By Andrew Thorpe
#Journalism#CommunityandSociety#AnimalCruelty
jan Langhammer

/// today „radio“ is live ~ broadcasting „Serendipity – Vom Finden und Suchen“ ~ Artist Talk @ „blech – raum für kunst halle“ ~ tune in @ 6.45 p.m. ///

>>> radiyan.uber.space/live/

ARTIST TALK w/: Anna Bergold, Leona Blum, Thomas Kober, Susanne Langbehn, Jana Isabella Luck, Lukas Niedermeier

>>> annabergold.com
>>> thomaskober.com
>>> susannelangbehn.de
>>> jana-luck.de

Wir sind alle so aufgewachsen, dass wir einen Plan haben wollen, eine Strategie. Aber das Unerwartete lauert überall. Unsere Forschung zeigt, es gibt das ‚blinde Glück‘, also Dinge, die uns so passieren, auf die wir keinen wirklichen Einfluss haben. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es die Serendipität, also das ‚aktive Glück‘, wo es darauf ankommt, wie wir mit dem Zufall umgehen. Christian Busch

Die Beobachtungen von etwas ursprünglich nicht Gesuchtem, das sich als neue und überraschende Entdeckung erweist, kann zur Inspirationsquelle für künstlerische Arbeiten werden. Alltägliche Objekte, Materialien und Handlungen faszinieren uns. Wir sammeln, entwickeln Versuchsreihen, experimentieren und beobachten. Die so entstandenen künstlerischen Sammlungen und Archive werfen einen spielerisch-forschenden Blick auf das Leben.

In der Gruppenausstellung wird die Schnittstelle von Kunst und Forschung in den Fokus genommen. Die ausgestellten Arbeiten beleuchten unterschiedliche Themen mit einer Bandbreite von persönlichen Beobachtungen bis hin zur künstlerischen Forschung.

BEGLEITPROGRAMM:

ARTIST TALK: 04.07.2025 • 19:30 UHR • mit Anna Bergold, Leona Blum, Thomas Kober, Susanne Langbehn, Jana Isabella Luck, Lukas Niedermeier

KURATION: Leona Blum und Susanne Langbehn

AUSSTELLENDE:

Anna Bergold, Leona Blum, Thomas Kober, Susanne Langbehn, Jana Isabella Luck, Lukas Niedermeier, Ines Schäfer

GRAFIK: Thomas Kober

>>> raumfuerkunsthalle.de

#radio#live#broadcasting
ABC Feeds

Channel 7 back on air in regional SA, NSW after securing new WIN deal
By Eugene Boisvert

Earlier this week its free-to-air channels were replaced with red screens when Seven West Media and WIN TV failed to agree on how much Seven would pay WIN to broadcast its programming.

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-04/cha

ABC News · Channel 7 returns to air in regional SA, NSW after reaching deal with WIN TVBy Eugene Boisvert
#TelevisionIndustry#StreamingServices#Broadcasting
Michael Fenichel

Meanwhile, from the 3rd-World fascist land formerly known as "America", with things like free press, Constitution, etc...
CBS Takes a knee and surrenders all principles

> Paramount Agrees To Pay Trump $16 Million In Outrageous Settlement

huffpost.com/entry/paramount-t

> “Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval."

No doubt Edward R Murrow is rolling over in his grave.

HuffPost · Paramount Agrees To Pay Trump $16 Million In Outrageous SettlementBy Lydia O'Connor
#FreeSpeech#ShameOnCBS#oligarchy
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