#broadcasting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #broadcasting, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.fogolf.com/1355616/shane-lowry-steady-as-mcilroy-battles-to-make-st-jude-cut/ Shane Lowry Steady As McIlroy Battles To Make St Jude Cut #Broadcast #broadcasting #IrishNews #Laois #LocalNews #LocalRadio #Midlands #Midlands103 #news #offaly #radio #RoryMcilroy #Westmeath
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https://www.fogolf.com/1355616/shane-lowry-steady-as-mcilroy-battles-to-make-st-jude-cut/ Shane Lowry Steady As McIlroy Battles To Make St Jude Cut #Broadcast #broadcasting #IrishNews #Laois #LocalNews #LocalRadio #Midlands #Midlands103 #news #offaly #radio #RoryMcilroy #Westmeath
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Screen coalition asks Ottawa to maintain streamer contributions » Playback
A coalition of more than 50 screen-sector organizations has published an open letter calling on the federal government…
#NewsBeep #News #Ottawa #Broadcasting #Business #CA #Canada #Careers #Film #interactivemedia #Jobs #production #TV
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/856806/ -
https://www.fogolf.com/1354638/shane-lowry-and-rory-mcilroy-in-pga-action/ Shane Lowry And Rory McIlroy In PGA Action #Broadcast #broadcasting #IrishNews #Laois #LocalNews #LocalRadio #Midlands #Midlands103 #news #offaly #radio #RoryMcilroy #Westmeath
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https://www.fogolf.com/1354638/shane-lowry-and-rory-mcilroy-in-pga-action/ Shane Lowry And Rory McIlroy In PGA Action #Broadcast #broadcasting #IrishNews #Laois #LocalNews #LocalRadio #Midlands #Midlands103 #news #offaly #radio #RoryMcilroy #Westmeath
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Whilst driving to work heard earlier #RDS automatic #traffic news announcement - except it mentioned amongst other things "file op de A13" - which as I was concentrating on #driving I misheard as A14, then wondered "why is this announcement in Dutch anyway? I wasn't headed to Rotterdam either"
(I often get a BBC #Radio Suffolk TA around this time so was expecting that)
ofc I was getting this news from #NPO Radio 1 - there really must be strong #tropo or #Sporadic_E today for a whole RDS signal + traffic announcement to cross over from #Goes and end up this side of the North Sea..
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Whilst driving to work heard earlier #RDS automatic #traffic news announcement - except it mentioned amongst other things "file op de A13" - which as I was concentrating on #driving I misheard as A14, then wondered "why is this announcement in Dutch anyway? I wasn't headed to Rotterdam either"
(I often get a BBC #Radio Suffolk TA around this time so was expecting that)
ofc I was getting this news from #NPO Radio 1 - there really must be strong #tropo or #Sporadic_E today for a whole RDS signal + traffic announcement to cross over from #Goes and end up this side of the North Sea..
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Packers Defense Shines in Final Practice Before First Preseason Game https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/971279/ #births #broadcasting #Events #Football #free #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #Local #manitowoc #news #NFL #obituaries #Packers #Seehafer #State
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https://www.fogolf.com/1353225/wexford-golf-club-team-heading-to-belfast-for-all-ireland-finals/ Wexford Golf Club team heading to Belfast for All-Ireland finals #Broadcast #broadcasting #Golf #GolfNews #IrishNews #LocalNews #LocalRadio #news #radio #SouthEastRadio #wexford
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https://www.fogolf.com/1353225/wexford-golf-club-team-heading-to-belfast-for-all-ireland-finals/ Wexford Golf Club team heading to Belfast for All-Ireland finals #Broadcast #broadcasting #Golf #GolfNews #IrishNews #LocalNews #LocalRadio #news #radio #SouthEastRadio #wexford
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West London teacher Jacky Browne told News Line: 'There must be a general strike to stop Britain arming Israel. Every single one of us should take ...#britain #broadcasting #education #ireland #israel #nhs #palestine #strike #unions #wrp
‘Free free Palestine – BBC shame on you’ says mass picket - Workers Revolutionary Party -
A golden mic, a 'clunky start' but Sandilands returns to the air
By Tony IbrahimDescribed by the shock jock himself as a "digital mess" Kyle Sandilands has launched his new show with NSW Premier Chris Minns his first guest.
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A golden mic, a 'clunky start' but Sandilands returns to the air
By Tony IbrahimDescribed by the shock jock himself as a "digital mess" Kyle Sandilands has launched his new show with NSW Premier Chris Minns his first guest.
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In Canada chiudono 6 stazioni e qualcuno è già pronto a celebrare l’ennesimo funerale del mezzo Radio.
Ma 5 sono in AM, tutte trasmettono spoken word, Rogers ne mantiene attive altre 44 e la Radio AM/FM raggiunge ancora l’81% dei canadesi ogni settimana.
Non è la crisi della Radio: è la crisi di un modello preciso.
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#Radio #Radiofonia #RadioIndustry
#Broadcasting #Audio #AMRadio
.👇 👇 Articolo FREE sul blog www.astorri.it 📻 📻
https://www.astorri.it/canada-6-stazioni-chiuse-ma-quale-crisi-della-radio/
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In Canada chiudono 6 stazioni e qualcuno è già pronto a celebrare l’ennesimo funerale del mezzo Radio.
Ma 5 sono in AM, tutte trasmettono spoken word, Rogers ne mantiene attive altre 44 e la Radio AM/FM raggiunge ancora l’81% dei canadesi ogni settimana.
Non è la crisi della Radio: è la crisi di un modello preciso.
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#Radio #Radiofonia #RadioIndustry
#Broadcasting #Audio #AMRadio
.👇 👇 Articolo FREE sul blog www.astorri.it 📻 📻
https://www.astorri.it/canada-6-stazioni-chiuse-ma-quale-crisi-della-radio/
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FYI: Server-guided ad insertion faces legacy TV device limits, IAB Australia says: Belgian broadcaster RTBF ran the first documented deployment on 15 June 2026. BVOD is $500m of Australia's $5.4bn video market. Which model wins premium live? https://ppc.land/server-guided-ad-insertion-faces-legacy-tv-device-limits-iab-australia-says/ #TVMarketing #AdTech #DigitalAdvertising #Broadcasting #VideoOnDemand
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https://www.fogolf.com/1350397/laois-entrepreneur-launches-ai-powered-golf-training-app/ Laois Entrepreneur Launches AI-Powered Golf Training App #Broadcast #broadcasting #Golf #GolfNews #IrishNews #Laois #LocalNews #LocalRadio #Midlands #Midlands103 #news #offaly #radio #Westmeath
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https://www.fogolf.com/1350397/laois-entrepreneur-launches-ai-powered-golf-training-app/ Laois Entrepreneur Launches AI-Powered Golf Training App #Broadcast #broadcasting #Golf #GolfNews #IrishNews #Laois #LocalNews #LocalRadio #Midlands #Midlands103 #news #offaly #radio #Westmeath
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KBS World Radio 2026 Listener Satisfaction Survey
KBS World Radio run their annual listener survey. The languages you usually listen to can be chosen here. It’s eleven languages as you would expect.
The survey ends on September 11.
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KBS World Radio 2026 Listener Satisfaction Survey
KBS World Radio run their annual listener survey. The languages you usually listen to can be chosen here. It’s eleven languages as you would expect.
#broadcasting #foreignRadio #KBSWorldRadio #languages #国际广播 -
The End of Local News? Why I’m Saying Alarm Bells are Ringing at the New FCC Policy
by Winston Wendell For years, I studied the relationship between information and society. But the latest policy changes in Washington are deeply troubling. This week, the Federal Communications Commission, in a 2-1 vote, overturned a key media ownership rule protecting the diversity of viewpoints in our news and entertainment. This decision, which has been made by a Republican majority, allows bigger corporations to acquire a significantly greater share of local news. If this is to be […] -
The End of Local News? Why I’m Saying Alarm Bells are Ringing at the New FCC Policy
by Winston Wendell For years, I studied the relationship between information and society. But the latest policy changes in Washington are deeply troubling. This week, the Federal Communications Commission, in a 2-1 vote, overturned a key media ownership rule protecting the diversity of viewpoints in our news and entertainment. This decision, which has been made by a Republican majority, allows bigger corporations to acquire a significantly greater share of local news. If this is to be […] -
#FCC lifts the cap limiting the size of #TV #broadcasting companies
Chairman #BrendanCarr has long said he would do away with the ownership cap. Critics say only #Congress has that authority.The FCC Thursday voted to eliminate a long-standing #regulation constraining the size of large television broadcasting companies, a major #deregulatory move pushed by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
#law #antitrust #billionaires #media #censorship #influence #indoctrination #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/06/fcc-lifts-cap-limiting-size-tv-broadcasting-companies/ -
#FCC lifts the cap limiting the size of #TV #broadcasting companies
Chairman #BrendanCarr has long said he would do away with the ownership cap. Critics say only #Congress has that authority.The FCC Thursday voted to eliminate a long-standing #regulation constraining the size of large television broadcasting companies, a major #deregulatory move pushed by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
#law #antitrust #billionaires #media #censorship #influence #indoctrination #Trump
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ABC investigations boss leaves, as Four Corners investigation continues
The announcement comes alongside a deepening investigation into the work of sacked Four Corners reporter Mahmood Fazal. The long-running current affairs program falls under Puccini's oversight.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/jo-puccini-leaves-abc-four-corners/107005618
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ABC investigations boss leaves, as Four Corners investigation continues
The announcement comes alongside a deepening investigation into the work of sacked Four Corners reporter Mahmood Fazal. The long-running current affairs program falls under Puccini's oversight.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/jo-puccini-leaves-abc-four-corners/107005618
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"What Is David Ellison’s Breaking Point? Paramount CEO’s pursuit of Warner Bros. could cost him billions more — and he may be willing to dig in for a years long fight":
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/david-ellison-breaking-point-paramount-wb-merger-trial-1236828418/?bt_ee=KBWVDQRV0uXDEFGHrvCZbyVMkgONT0nGgBpHzSpGvBXfNDZMgR3S6sjyuJqodv50&bt_ts=1785949631696#recipient_hashed=6e7779fd2c460b8fd2f9d798ba5f684d1bc6d77931192afd5f331eb4dba4c8f1&recipient_salt=f25784f22e12e508a10fd2318d59be06ececcc811580a6dcc52a84567a70ce86&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=What%20Is%20David%20Ellison%E2%80%99s%20Breaking%20Point?,%202026-08-05%2010:00:13_08-05-2026_&utm_term=7f5ba1df-e16b-4ad3-a5c0-f86375ae279d
When the stupid bastard put extremist Bari Weiss in charge of #CBSnews and when she made a mess of things there, David Ellison was responsible for the #BlockTheMerger movement.
#MediaBias #extremism #broadcasting #media #politics -
"What Is David Ellison’s Breaking Point? Paramount CEO’s pursuit of Warner Bros. could cost him billions more — and he may be willing to dig in for a years long fight":
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/david-ellison-breaking-point-paramount-wb-merger-trial-1236828418/?bt_ee=KBWVDQRV0uXDEFGHrvCZbyVMkgONT0nGgBpHzSpGvBXfNDZMgR3S6sjyuJqodv50&bt_ts=1785949631696#recipient_hashed=6e7779fd2c460b8fd2f9d798ba5f684d1bc6d77931192afd5f331eb4dba4c8f1&recipient_salt=f25784f22e12e508a10fd2318d59be06ececcc811580a6dcc52a84567a70ce86&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=What%20Is%20David%20Ellison%E2%80%99s%20Breaking%20Point?,%202026-08-05%2010:00:13_08-05-2026_&utm_term=7f5ba1df-e16b-4ad3-a5c0-f86375ae279d
When the stupid bastard put extremist Bari Weiss in charge of #CBSnews and when she made a mess of things there, David Ellison was responsible for the #BlockTheMerger movement.
#MediaBias #extremism #broadcasting #media #politics -
BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp
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BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp
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Tuesday Morning Sports Roundup (Shoreland League Baseball, NEWBL, MLB) 8/04/26 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/769702/ #Baseball #births #Broadcasting #Events #free #Local #manitowoc #news #obituaries #Seehafer #State
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'Cocaine dealer' on Mahmood Fazal's Four Corners episode says she did it as 'an acting role'
Further concerns over the accuracy of reporting by sacked Four Corners reporter Mahmood Fazal are raised on Media Watch, including that a hire car was used to mislead viewers in the profile of a purported cocaine dealer.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/mahmood-fazal-cocaine-dealer-allegations-/106992494
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'Cocaine dealer' on Mahmood Fazal's Four Corners episode says she did it as 'an acting role'
Further concerns over the accuracy of reporting by sacked Four Corners reporter Mahmood Fazal are raised on Media Watch, including that a hire car was used to mislead viewers in the profile of a purported cocaine dealer.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/mahmood-fazal-cocaine-dealer-allegations-/106992494
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'Anxious to have his day in court', Alan Jones's trial is set to begin
By Isobel RoeAfter significant media attention, more than 70 witnesses are set to give evidence during the judge-only trial at the Downing Centre in Sydney's CBD.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-01/nsw-alan-jones-judge-only-trial-begins-sydney-court/106973238
#Courts #Broadcasting #MediaIndustry #SexualOffences #IsobelRoe
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'Anxious to have his day in court', Alan Jones's trial is set to begin
By Isobel RoeAfter significant media attention, more than 70 witnesses are set to give evidence during the judge-only trial at the Downing Centre in Sydney's CBD.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-01/nsw-alan-jones-judge-only-trial-begins-sydney-court/106973238
#Courts #Broadcasting #MediaIndustry #SexualOffences #IsobelRoe
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“Barbarians at the gate”*…
Times have changed. As the New York Times reports (in a piece apposite to Tuesday’s post)…
When Google prepared to go public in 2004, Larry Page, a co-founder of the company, wrote a letter to shareholders describing the internet firm’s responsibility to the world.
“We believe a well-functioning society should have abundant, free and unbiased access to high-quality information,” Mr. Page said.
Google fulfilled that responsibility by acting as a gateway to the internet. It answered people’s search queries with lists of hyperlinks, pushing users out to what is known as the “open web” — the millions of websites run by merchants, publishers, universities and others — for more information. In the ensuing decades, Google became one of the planet’s richest and most powerful companies by directing people to the vastness of the open web.
Now in the age of artificial intelligence, Google appears to be shrinking back from the open web — and may be imperiling it.
Since last year, the Silicon Valley giant has revamped its search with A.I. It introduced AI Mode, which replaces search results of hyperlinks with conversational responses written by Gemini, its A.I. chatbot. Most recently, Google changed its iconic search box for the first time in 25 years so that people could add photos and videos to their queries and assign A.I. “agents” to run searches for them.
The effect of these moves is becoming clear: People are spending more time with Google than ever…
… and spending less time with the sites that supply the information Google’s AI returns. Stephen Follows unpacks one web site’s experience– a cautionary tale for the open web and a reminder that, if we kill the sites generating the answers on which we depend, they won’t be there for anyone (directly or via AI) to find…
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
Its hand-researched data is the highest quality, tracking box office grosses, budgets, home video and streaming across more than 78,000 films and 236,000 people. It gets north of eight million visitors a year, and is treated as THE definitive authority by journalists, academics, filmmakers, prediction markets, and even Guinness World Records.
And it was this GOAT status which caused the catastrophic events of March this year.
On the 5th March 2026, TheNumbers.com website vanished.
The site was down for over a week, without explanation. A week later, it resurfaced at a fraction of its former size. Gone were the historical charts, the individual movie pages, and even the much-loved Report Builder.
With only a generic “we’re rebuilding, please bear with us” message to go on, the internet responded as it always does – with confusion, anger, and conspiracy theories.
One Reddit theory even suggested it was a deliberate rug pull designed to cripple the free site to push people towards paid products.Three months on, I spoke at length with Bruce Nash, founder and CEO of The Numbers, about what happened. He describes quite an unpleasant and eventful experience:
We got a lot of angry emails from people who are like, ‘Where’s this page that you used to have and you don’t have anymore?’
Within his tale are a number of things that should worry anyone who runs, relies on, or simply appreciates the internet…
[Follows recounts the history of The Numbers: its launch on Geocities, its growth, the onslaught of robots, the attack of hackers, and the coming of the LLMs and their relentless scraping…
… How bad could [AI bot scraping] be? Pretty bad, tbh. Enough that site owners such as Bruce have to question the value of something that will take so much time and money to build and defend.
Cloudflare, which protects a huge share of the world’s websites, publishes data on how many pages each AI platform crawls for every one visitor it sends back to the websites it crawled.
Google crawls about five pages for every visitor it sends you. OpenAI crawls over 1,000. Anthropic crawls over 38,000 pages for every single visitor it refers.
Note that the scale is logarithmic, i.e. each step along the bottom is ten times bigger than the last, because otherwise the differences are quite literally too large for me to include on one chart.For the history of the internet to date, the principle of the open web was that, in return for letting the search engine robots read your site, they would send you readers. But now, that trade no longer applies. The number of robots has exploded, and they no longer send anyone back.
When this firehose is aimed at a small site, it can inflate the bandwidth bill and possibly even take down an entire site…
[Follows looks at other sites, including Wikipedia, in similar straights, and at attempts to protect these sites…]
… Whether any of this works depends on whether the AI companies play along rather than route around it. But as Bruce put it to me, somebody has to try.
Let’s look beyond the specifics for a moment and consider what happened here.
A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.
Unsustainable machine traffic hammered it from above, and in all likelihood a financially motivated intruder, operating in a world where breaking into websites has never been easier, took it down.
Bruce’s business and livelihood survived only because the website was not the whole business.
Others have not been so fortunate. Just last week, ZEGO, a German textile firm that had been in business for 37 years, filed for insolvency after a single cyberattack in March shut down its production for six weeks. Unlike The Numbers, they had no other business to fall back on.
The web is full of independent archives, hobby databases, local news sites, forums, reference works. Decades of accumulated human effort, running on old code, maintained by small teams or single individuals, quietly holding up far more of our shared knowledge than anyone acknowledges.
The Numbers is coming back, better built than before. I would encourage you to keep using it, keep supporting it, and, if you are one of the many people who emailed Bruce in fury about a missing page, perhaps send a kinder one now you know why it was missing…
AI is eating our seed corn: “What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all,” from @stephenfollows.com.
(Image at top: source)
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As we conserve our culture, we might spare a thought for Vladimir Zworykin; he died on this date in 1982. An engineer and inventor, he is considered “the father of television” (or at least one of them). At the dawn of radio broadcasting, Zworykin began developing a system for transmitting sound and pictures. Other inventors were using a motorized, mechanical scanning system with rotating disks capable of a picture about one inch square– bulky, heavy, and impractical for home use. Zworykin, at Westinghouse, instead developed an electronic scanning television system using cathode-ray tubes; his innovations– among them, the iconoscope (the forerunner of the television camera) and the kinescope (which allowed the transfer of video to film)– laid the technical foundation for television as we came to know it… and contributed to the development of the electron microscope.
#AI #artificialIntelligence #broadcasting #culture #electronMicroscope #history #Internet #openWeb #Science #society #StephenFollows #Technology #television #TheNumbers #VladimirZworykin -
“Barbarians at the gate”*…
Times have changed. As the New York Times reports (in a piece apposite to Tuesday’s post)…
When Google prepared to go public in 2004, Larry Page, a co-founder of the company, wrote a letter to shareholders describing the internet firm’s responsibility to the world.
“We believe a well-functioning society should have abundant, free and unbiased access to high-quality information,” Mr. Page said.
Google fulfilled that responsibility by acting as a gateway to the internet. It answered people’s search queries with lists of hyperlinks, pushing users out to what is known as the “open web” — the millions of websites run by merchants, publishers, universities and others — for more information. In the ensuing decades, Google became one of the planet’s richest and most powerful companies by directing people to the vastness of the open web.
Now in the age of artificial intelligence, Google appears to be shrinking back from the open web — and may be imperiling it.
Since last year, the Silicon Valley giant has revamped its search with A.I. It introduced AI Mode, which replaces search results of hyperlinks with conversational responses written by Gemini, its A.I. chatbot. Most recently, Google changed its iconic search box for the first time in 25 years so that people could add photos and videos to their queries and assign A.I. “agents” to run searches for them.
The effect of these moves is becoming clear: People are spending more time with Google than ever…
… and spending less time with the sites that supply the information Google’s AI returns. Stephen Follows unpacks one web site’s experience– a cautionary tale for the open web and a reminder that, if we kill the sites generating the answers on which we depend, they won’t be there for anyone (directly or via AI) to find…
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
Its hand-researched data is the highest quality, tracking box office grosses, budgets, home video and streaming across more than 78,000 films and 236,000 people. It gets north of eight million visitors a year, and is treated as THE definitive authority by journalists, academics, filmmakers, prediction markets, and even Guinness World Records.
And it was this GOAT status which caused the catastrophic events of March this year.
On the 5th March 2026, TheNumbers.com website vanished.
The site was down for over a week, without explanation. A week later, it resurfaced at a fraction of its former size. Gone were the historical charts, the individual movie pages, and even the much-loved Report Builder.
With only a generic “we’re rebuilding, please bear with us” message to go on, the internet responded as it always does – with confusion, anger, and conspiracy theories.
One Reddit theory even suggested it was a deliberate rug pull designed to cripple the free site to push people towards paid products.Three months on, I spoke at length with Bruce Nash, founder and CEO of The Numbers, about what happened. He describes quite an unpleasant and eventful experience:
We got a lot of angry emails from people who are like, ‘Where’s this page that you used to have and you don’t have anymore?’
Within his tale are a number of things that should worry anyone who runs, relies on, or simply appreciates the internet…
[Follows recounts the history of The Numbers: its launch on Geocities, its growth, the onslaught of robots, the attack of hackers, and the coming of the LLMs and their relentless scraping…
… How bad could [AI bot scraping] be? Pretty bad, tbh. Enough that site owners such as Bruce have to question the value of something that will take so much time and money to build and defend.
Cloudflare, which protects a huge share of the world’s websites, publishes data on how many pages each AI platform crawls for every one visitor it sends back to the websites it crawled.
Google crawls about five pages for every visitor it sends you. OpenAI crawls over 1,000. Anthropic crawls over 38,000 pages for every single visitor it refers.
Note that the scale is logarithmic, i.e. each step along the bottom is ten times bigger than the last, because otherwise the differences are quite literally too large for me to include on one chart.For the history of the internet to date, the principle of the open web was that, in return for letting the search engine robots read your site, they would send you readers. But now, that trade no longer applies. The number of robots has exploded, and they no longer send anyone back.
When this firehose is aimed at a small site, it can inflate the bandwidth bill and possibly even take down an entire site…
[Follows looks at other sites, including Wikipedia, in similar straights, and at attempts to protect these sites…]
… Whether any of this works depends on whether the AI companies play along rather than route around it. But as Bruce put it to me, somebody has to try.
Let’s look beyond the specifics for a moment and consider what happened here.
A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy.
Unsustainable machine traffic hammered it from above, and in all likelihood a financially motivated intruder, operating in a world where breaking into websites has never been easier, took it down.
Bruce’s business and livelihood survived only because the website was not the whole business.
Others have not been so fortunate. Just last week, ZEGO, a German textile firm that had been in business for 37 years, filed for insolvency after a single cyberattack in March shut down its production for six weeks. Unlike The Numbers, they had no other business to fall back on.
The web is full of independent archives, hobby databases, local news sites, forums, reference works. Decades of accumulated human effort, running on old code, maintained by small teams or single individuals, quietly holding up far more of our shared knowledge than anyone acknowledges.
The Numbers is coming back, better built than before. I would encourage you to keep using it, keep supporting it, and, if you are one of the many people who emailed Bruce in fury about a missing page, perhaps send a kinder one now you know why it was missing…
AI is eating our seed corn: “What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all,” from @stephenfollows.com.
(Image at top: source)
* idiom
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As we conserve our culture, we might spare a thought for Vladimir Zworykin; he died on this date in 1982. An engineer and inventor, he is considered “the father of television” (or at least one of them). At the dawn of radio broadcasting, Zworykin began developing a system for transmitting sound and pictures. Other inventors were using a motorized, mechanical scanning system with rotating disks capable of a picture about one inch square– bulky, heavy, and impractical for home use. Zworykin, at Westinghouse, instead developed an electronic scanning television system using cathode-ray tubes; his innovations– among them, the iconoscope (the forerunner of the television camera) and the kinescope (which allowed the transfer of video to film)– laid the technical foundation for television as we came to know it… and contributed to the development of the electron microscope.
#AI #artificialIntelligence #broadcasting #culture #electronMicroscope #history #Internet #openWeb #Science #society #StephenFollows #Technology #television #TheNumbers #VladimirZworykin -
Quality Garden Cabins Cost €100k, Says Midlands Log Cabin Experts https://www.allforgardening.com/1901077/quality-garden-cabins-cost-e100k-says-midlands-log-cabin-experts/ #broadcast #broadcasting #garden #IrishNews #laois #LocalNews #LocalRadio #midlands #Midlands103 #news #offaly #Radio #westmeath
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Quality Garden Cabins Cost €100k, Says Midlands Log Cabin Experts https://www.allforgardening.com/1901077/quality-garden-cabins-cost-e100k-says-midlands-log-cabin-experts/ #broadcast #broadcasting #garden #IrishNews #laois #LocalNews #LocalRadio #midlands #Midlands103 #news #offaly #Radio #westmeath
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Having dumped Starmer, the immediate issue is for the working class to demand the TUC call a general strike to dump Burnham and the Labour ...
Newly-installed Labour prime minister Andy Burnham told the BBC that ‘the NHS will collapse’ if social care is not reformed before adding that he was unable to put a timeline on any reform of the social care system.#banks #benefits #broadcasting #disabled #england #labourparty #nhs #russia #strike #tuc
Burnham plots cuts to sickness benefits for youth to fund UK military - Workers Revolutionary Party -
La Radio cresce. Ma chi ne raccoglie davvero il valore?
Lo studio di Confindustria Radio Televisioni rivela un settore solido e, insieme, una concentrazione economica che lascia gran parte del sistema locale ai margini della crescita.
#Radio #IndustriaRadiofonica
#Broadcasting #ConfindustriaRadioTV⬇️ ⬇️📻 📻 Articolo per soli abbonati PRO ACCESS del blog www.astorri.it.
https://www.astorri.it/la-radio-cresce-ma-il-valore-si-concentra/
⬇️ ⬇️ 🏆 🏆 Entra #NelCuoreDellaRadio. Clicca qui per l'abbonamento.
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La Radio cresce. Ma chi ne raccoglie davvero il valore?
Lo studio di Confindustria Radio Televisioni rivela un settore solido e, insieme, una concentrazione economica che lascia gran parte del sistema locale ai margini della crescita.
#Radio #IndustriaRadiofonica
#Broadcasting #ConfindustriaRadioTV⬇️ ⬇️📻 📻 Articolo per soli abbonati PRO ACCESS del blog www.astorri.it.
https://www.astorri.it/la-radio-cresce-ma-il-valore-si-concentra/
⬇️ ⬇️ 🏆 🏆 Entra #NelCuoreDellaRadio. Clicca qui per l'abbonamento.
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Junglinster Radio Towers to be demolished
"Not publicly accessible", says the Wikipedia-German datasheet, but a youngster disagreed and climbed one of the three towers anyway, in April 2025, Luxemburg’s newspaper "Das Wort" noted on Wednesday, citing the incident as a reason as to why Radio Tele Luxemburg (RTL), the site’s owner, may have considered the landmark a mere problem and wanted to get rid of it.
As a rule, locals like plans like RTL’s*) – see Moosbrunn, where the Austrian Radio transmitter site didn’t command a great fan community (the interested visitors usually came from far away). In Junglinster, the local government granted permission to blow the upper sections of the towers up, and to demolish the lower legs by less spectacular means. The local government had few other options than to grant permission, writes "Das Wort". The demolishment won’t begin before October, it appears.
If it is up to RTL, the owner of the area, the site would become a residential area, Luxemburg’s "L’Essentiel" wrote in October last year – plus industrial real estate or business parks (Gewerbeflächen). That wouldn’t necessarily hurt Junglinster. The question to decide – civic participation looked set at the time – is if you prefer green meadows, or new buildings and new people in your neighborhood.
I’m not sure about this, but broadcasts by Radio Onda, Radio Gloria and Radio Slovakia currently seem to come from Junglinster, on 6140 kHz shortwave (as of today, Radio Slovakia’s German service is still there). Those would probably come to an end, too.
Update, July 26*) A petition was reportedly started by a native from Junglinster last winter, according to "Virgule". He was quoted as saying that there was a great desire among the population to keep the towers, or at least one of them, but also that there was a lack of willingness to sign.
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Vividh Bharati: The Public Broadcaster Private Media Cannot Replace
It is still popular with communities such as farmers, factory workers, students, and the elderly, who are rarely the target audience of premium streaming platforms.
by Jimut Bahan Chakrabarty and Aniruddha Jena
Newsclick
July 23, 2026https://www.newsclick.in/vividh-bharati-public-broadcaster-private-media-cannot-replace
#broadcasting #PublicBroadcasting #PublicUtility #communication #media #radio #FMRadio #FM #AM #shortwave #HF #VHF #India #IndianRadio #VividhBharati #PrasarBharati #SouthAsia #Asia -
"Sixteen congressional Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Ro Khanna, signed a letter on Wednesday pushing back on the Federal Communications Commission’s unusual early review, which could result in the revocation of the station’s broadcast license":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/pelosi-khanna-kgo-fcc-22356302.php
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Details of allegations against Alan Jones emerge after judge decision
By Isobel RoeDetails of allegations against veteran broadcaster Alan Jones can be revealed, after a non-publication order was lifted by a judge.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-22/non-publication-order-lifted-on-alan-jones-hearings/106943826
#Courts #Crime #Police #Broadcasting #SexualOffences #IsobelRoe
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Can journalism reinvent itself before AI completely upends it?
What will a trusted, sustainable, global news organisation look like in an era of agentic AI? And can we reinvent ourselves before someone else builds a less trustworthy, more dangerous alternative?
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Pannenstart für Jörg Bombach im HR3 Hessenwecker (1997)
Nichts klappt so wie es soll morgens um 5:05 h irgendwann 1997 zum Auftakt des HR3 Hessenweckers...#hr3 #bombach #jörgbombach #bombi #bombishow #panne #pannen #fail #fails #fehler #fehlerteufel #hessenwecker #radiopannen #radio #radiosendung #radioshow #radiodj #aircheck #backtimer #90er #radiomitschnitt #broadcaster #broadcasting #morningshow #hessen #cdplayer #musikbett #musicbed #radioservice #rodstewart
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NRW Media Minister Nathanael Liminski (CDU) expressed concern over the AfD's potential electoral success in Saxony-Anhalt. Speaking to Deutschlandfunk, he noted... https://news.osna.fm/?p=55971 | #news #afd #broadcasting #mdr #minister