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Dr. Phil's Merit Street Media JV, launched in April 2024, files for Chapter 11 and sues business partner Trinity Broadcasting Network for breach of contract (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/dr-phil-merit-street-media-jv-ban…

Dr. Phil’s Merit Street Media JV Files For Bankruptcy, Sues Partner Trinity Broadcasting For Breach Of Contract
Dr. Phil’s Fort Worth-based JV Merit Street Media filed for Chapter 11 and sued business partner Trinity Broadcasting for breach of contract that destroyed it new network pushed it into bankruptcy.

Trump asks Congress to pull $9 billion from NPR, PBS, foreign aid
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/04/trump-congress-npr-pbs-funding-public-broadcasting

Armenian parliament speaker urges ban on Russian TV broadcasting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/armenian-parliament-speaker-urges-ban.html

Trump proposes elimination of
National Endowment for the Arts,
National Endowment for the Humanities;
Inter-American Foundation;
Institute for Museum and Library Sciences in 2026 budget. #NEH #NEA

Defining and classifying models of groups: The social ontology of higher-order networks
Jonathan St-Onge, Randall Harp, Giulio Burgio, Timothy M. Waring, Juniper Lovato, Laurent H\'ebert-Dufresne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02758

Defining and classifying models of groups: The social ontology of higher-order networks
In complex systems research, the study of higher-order interactions has exploded in recent years. Researchers have formalized various types of group interactions, such as public goods games, biological contagion, and information broadcasting, showing how higher-order networks can capture group effects more directly than pairwise models. However, equating hyperedges-edges involving more than two agents-with groups can be misleading, as it obscures the polysemous nature of ``group interactions''.…

Bill Moyers, former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and an influential broadcast journalist for 40 years, dies at age 91 from prostate cancer (Fred A. Bernstein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2…

Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91
He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson and Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.

Enhanced Influence-aware Group Recommendation for Online Media Propagation
Chengkun He, Xiangmin Zhou, Chen Wang, Longbing Cao, Jie Shao, Xiaodong Li, Guang Xu, Carrie Jinqiu Hu, Zahir Tari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01616

Enhanced Influence-aware Group Recommendation for Online Media Propagation
Group recommendation over social media streams has attracted significant attention due to its wide applications in domains such as e-commerce, entertainment, and online news broadcasting. By leveraging social connections and group behaviours, group recommendation (GR) aims to provide more accurate and engaging content to a set of users rather than individuals. Recently, influence-aware GR has emerged as a promising direction, as it considers the impact of social influence on group decision-maki…

Swedish television is broadcasting live from Budapest Pride.
https://www.svtplay.se/video/ed66A3X/svt-nyheter-direkt/pride-rekordmanga-trotsar-forbudet

SVT Nyheter Direkt – Pride - rekordmånga trotsar förbudet
Ungerns premiärminister har infört ett nytt förbud mot dagens Prideparad i Budapest. Trots risken för höga böter väntas rekordmånga delta. SVTs utsända rapporterar från paraden.

@…
Not sure why it won't let me respond to your comment directly..
If you look at my feed at all, you will see I am far from a "Republican"
If one watches PBS Newshour with any critical media literacy their drift to the right is clear. They are always doing the "both sides", treating Trump and his Reublican minons as normal, etc. But the Republicans (who I am definitely not one of) have been working on this since Reagan and they really got going in 2005 https://www.democracynow.org/2005/5/12/a_right_wing_coup_at_pbs
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/june-23-2005-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-hires-former-rnc-chair

PANDAS: Peer-to-peer, Adaptive Networking for Data Availability Sampling within Ethereum Consensus Timebounds
Matthieu Pigaglio, Onur Ascigil, Micha{\l} Kr\'ol, Sergi Rene, Felix Lange, Kaleem Peeroo, Ramin Sadre, Vladimir Stankovic, Etienne Rivi\`ere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00824…

PANDAS: Peer-to-peer, Adaptive Networking for Data Availability Sampling within Ethereum Consensus Timebounds
Layer-2 protocols can assist Ethereum's limited throughput, but globally broadcasting layer-2 data limits their scalability. The Danksharding evolution of Ethereum aims to support the selective distribution of layer-2 data, whose availability in the network is verified using randomized data availability sampling (DAS). Integrating DAS into Ethereum's consensus process is challenging, as pieces of layer-2 data must be disseminated and sampled within four seconds of the beginning of each consensu…

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting,
along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment,
pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences,
who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding
as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting, along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment, pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences, who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

Fox acquires Caliente TV, a Mexican sports broadcasting platform, and appoints longtime industry exec Carlos Martinez to oversee its broadcast strategy in LatAm (Melissa Repko/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/fox-acquires-sports-bro…

Fox acquires sports broadcasting platform Caliente TV
The media company is bulking up its sports offerings to better compete with other streaming services.

#ACAB All Cops Are Broadcasting
https://it4sec.substack.com/p/breaking-tetra-a-backdoor-in-cryptography

I blogged about the history of the public-service broadcasting institution ARD in Germany and how I finally got access to TV program data to answer my reoccuring question of when the news program is on tonight in the spirit of "Public Money, Public Good".
https://johl.io/blog/o-news-program-wh…

"O News Program, When Art Thou On?" Using the announcement of a single serving site to teach about the history of public broadcasting in Germany, well done @…!
https://johl.io/blog/o-news-program-when-art-thou-on/

Someone suddenly shouted at the cameraman "finish your fag & get inside, we've started broadcasting! #TOTP

Owncast - Free and Open Source Livestreaming
@… is a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software.
Your live stream can reach a wider audience on The Fediverse, allowing people to follow and share your stream on Mastodon and other Fediverse services.
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Owncast
Owncast is your self-hosted live streaming solution.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02165 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Broadcast in Almost Mixing Time
We study the problem of broadcasting multiple messages in the CONGEST model. In this problem, a dedicated source node $s$ possesses a set $M$ of messages with every message of size $O(\log n)$ where $n$ is the total number of nodes. The objective is to ensure that every node in the network learns all messages in $M$. The execution of an algorithm progresses in rounds, and we focus on optimizing the round complexity of broadcasting multiple messages. Our primary contribution is a randomized al…

So, a Chilean TV channel, Telecanal, started broadcasting the Spanish feed of RT...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Public Service Broadcasting:
🎵 Go!
#PublicServiceBroadcasting
https://publicservicebroadcasting.bandcamp.com/track/go
https://open.spotify.com/track/4p4RAxxV9DkBHSEMzZHgzn

The US House votes 214-212 to rescind $1.1B in federal funding for public broadcasting for the next two fiscal years; the bill now heads to the Senate (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/house-cuts-pbs-npr-1236432229/

House Votes To Rescind PBS, NPR And Public Broadcasting Station Funding
The House of Representatives put the future of the public broadcasting ecosystem in doubt, as they voted to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the next two fiscal years. The vote was 214-212. The bill, which also includes cuts to foreign aid, now heads to the Senate. It looked as if the votes was […]

There's an ice cream truck trawling my neighborhood, and the music it's broadcasting is... Christmas carols.

Robert Reich here, with breaking news:
The House of Representatives has voted to take back a whopping $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
These are huge, crippling cuts,
and if passed by the Senate, they'll be a fatal blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
It's all part of Donald Trump's ongoing war on the free press.
He knows that independent journalism is one of the biggest obstacles to his authorita…

Help Robert Reich get the truth out.
Anything you can give will help us spread the truth, keep you informed, and stop our slide towards fascism.

The House Rules Committee advances a bill that would claw back $1.1B in funding for public broadcasting, including $535M for CPB, over the next two fiscal years (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/pbs-npr-funding-rescinded-congress-12364…

House Committee Advances Bill To Rescind Funding For Public Broadcasting Stations, NPR And PBS
The legislation is expected to make it to the floor later this week.

China's state radio has added 80 new frequencies since Radio Free Asia was cut, including those previously used by RFA, and increased its broadcasting hours (Washington Post)

Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia
Beijing expanded its state propaganda, including to the persecuted Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, as RFA pulled back.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
J. Willgoose, Esq., Public Service Broadcasting, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Jules Buckley:
🎵 An Unusual Man
#JWillgoose #Esq #PublicServiceBroadcasting #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #JulesBuckley