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Remembering Kevin Klose, former NPR president and broadcasting icon : NPR

Remembering Kevin Klose, former NPR president and broadcasting icon : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Former NPR President Kevin Klose. Jay Paul/NPR hide caption toggle caption Jay Paul/NPR Kevin Klose was silver-haired, silver-tongued, and the gold standard for broadcast journalists. Klose, who was president of NPR from 1998 to 2008, died this week. He was 85. He had covered the Cold War from the Soviet Union for The Washington Post, and used to say he had seen what can happen in societies where people can’t hear real news, debate is closed, and propaganda masquerades as truth. “Gathering news and getting it out to other people — it’s absolutely essential for our democracy,” Klose told the public media publication Current in 2003. This was just as technologies were developing that would put so much of what’s now called news inside of opinion bubbles, or behind paywalls. Klose went on to serve as president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, and came to NPR, he often said, having learned that there is no force more vital than the freedom of ideas and inquiry. He helped NPR grow and prosper. Notably, in …

BBC responds to reports it is dismantling ‘crown jewel’ of British broadcasting

BBC responds to reports it is dismantling ‘crown jewel’ of British broadcasting

Published by Daniella Wilson

The BBC is making cuts to the team that produces the broadcaster’s coverage of major national events, including the Remembrance Day service and state funerals. The BBC Studios Events team is behind some of these moments, but they will reportedly now be reduced to a team of just one and freelancers. A source told The Times: “They are literally the crown jewel of live British broadcasting. They would never do this for Premiership football events, so what is it about national life that they don’t value? “Surely this decision must be paused until it can be reassessed by the incoming director-general.” Their Majesties King Charles III And Queen Camilla. Samir Hussein/WireImage However, a spokesperson for the BBC insisted that viewers would not notice a change in coverage. “As a prudent commercial business with a mandate to maximise returns to the BBC, we regularly look at how we’re set up and where we can work more efficiently,’ the spokesperson told Radio Times in response to the reports. “We’re proposing some changes that will help us stay strong …

BBC to cut team behind ‘crown jewels’ of British broadcasting

BBC to cut team behind ‘crown jewels’ of British broadcasting

Published by Sam Flores

The BBC is to cut the team that produces the “crown jewels” of British broadcasting to just one person. A team at BBC Studios Events is behind the broadcaster’s coverage of major national moments such as Elizabeth II’s state funeral, the Coronation of King Charles and the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph. That team of six will now be reduced to just one person – Claire Popplewell, who oversaw the broadcaster’s coverage of the weddings of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The rest of the team will be made up of freelancers as the BBC looks to cut costs. A source told The Times: “They are literally the crown jewel of live British broadcasting. They would never do this for Premiership football events, so what is it about national life that they don’t value? “Surely this decision must be paused until it can be reassessed by the incoming director-general.” The BBC events team will be reduced to just one person, Claire Popplewell – Jeff Spicer/Getty Images …

A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

Published by skeptic

“Tavajoh! Tavajoh! Tavajoh!” a man’s voice announces, before going on to narrate a string of numbers in no apparent order, slowly and rhythmically. After nearly two hours, the calls of “Attention!” in Persian stop, only to resume again hours later. The broadcast has been playing twice a day on a shortwave frequency since the start of the US-Israel attack on Iran on February 28. According to Priyom, an organization which tracks and analyses global military and intelligence use of shortwave radio, using established radio-location techniques, the broadcast was first heard as the US bombing of Iran began. It has since played on the 7910 kHz shortwave frequency like clockwork—at 02.00 UTC and again at 18.00 UTC. Over the weekend, Priyom said it had identified the likely origin of the broadcast. Using multilateration and triangulation techniques, the group traced the signal to a shortwave transmission facility inside a US military base in Böblingen, southwest of Stuttgart, Germany. The site lies within a restricted training area between Panzer Kaserne and Patch Barracks, with technical operations possibly linked …

Bob Ross Paintings Go to Auction to Raise Money for Public Broadcasting

Bob Ross Paintings Go to Auction to Raise Money for Public Broadcasting

Published by José Betancourt

Three more paintings by PBS icon Bob Ross are going up for sale at Bonham’s at the end of the month, as part of a group of 30 such works being sold to raise money for the beleaguered public-broadcasting entity American Public Television (APT). ˆThe three works will be on offer in the “Americana: Crafting a Nation: Art, History & Legacy” sale in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on January 27, with estimates for the three reaching up to $155,000. Last year, Bonhams was consigned to sell 30 works by Ross, the Joy of Painting host whose status as the brush-wielding artist with improbably shapely hair was known far beyond the confines of galleries and museums. The high estimate for the group of the works at the time was $1.4 million, and subsequent sales have met with success: In November, three works by Ross sold for a combined $662,000 with fees, and then another work went for more than $1 million in a sale organized by trenchant comedian and TV news host John Oliver. Related Articles As chronicled …