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- Eiffel Tower Transmitter Site Undergoes Annual Maintenance
The Eiffel Tower with antennas as the sun sets in Paris on July 2024. Photo by Olympia De Maismont/AFP via Getty Images. FM listeners and digital television viewers in Paris will experience overnight service interruptions as the transmitter site on the Eiffel Tower undergoes its annual maintenance. The FM stations on the Eiffel Tower, from fmdx.org and FMList. TDF or Télédiffusion de France, the French telecommunications company that operates the country’s radio and television transmission networks, is conducting the work at the top of the tower. “These operations aim to guarantee the long-term quality and continuity of FM radio and digital terrestrial television services broadcast to the Île-de-France region,” TDF said in a news release translated into English. FM and DTT broadcasts will initially be interrupted for three nights, from July 28–31, from 12:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. FM radio broadcasts will be shut down for three additional nights, from Aug. 3–6, from 12:15 a.m. to 5:45 a.m. “During these operations, some FM radio programs continue to be broadcast on the same frequencies using substitute transmitters, in order to limit disruptions for listeners,” TDF noted. According to TDF, more than 20 technicians and specialists will perform the maintenance at altitudes exceeding 300 meters (984 feet) under strict safety and service continuity protocols. “TDF teams work in particular on antennas and broadcasting equipment to check their condition, carry out the necessary checks and, if necessary, make certain replacements,” the release stated. “Tests on emergency stop devices, power supply tests and painting work are also carried out as part of this annual campaign.” A historic broadcasting hub “TDF broadcasts more than 30 national and local digital terrestrial television channels, as well as around 30 public and private radio stations, reaching 12 million inhabitants in the Île-de-France region,” according to the release. “This site thus constitutes a strategic hub for audiovisual broadcasting in the region, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round.” Radio is, in fact, the primary reason the Eiffel Tower remains standing today. According to the Eiffel Tower website, the iconic structure built for the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle was scheduled for demolition after its 20-year land lease expired. Photograph shows a guard at the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France during World War I. Desperate to justify its continued existence, builder Gustave Eiffel supported experimental wireless telegraphy transmissions from the site starting in 1898, when French scientist… [TheTopNews] Read More.35 mins ago - ‘You Think I’m Drunk?!’ Watch the Bodycam Footage of Tony Romo’s Drunk D...
Screenshot via TMZ Sports Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo can be seeing arguing with a female police officer in newly-released footage from his drunk driving arrest in Wisconsin. The California Post and TMZ both obtained footage from the July 23 arrest in Milwaukee. Romo was arrested and cited for operating while intoxicated (OWI). Romo can be seen in the footage telling the officer multiple times that he needs to contact his lawyer. He told the officer he was on his way to see his grandparents and he claimed he’d consumed “zero” alcoholic drinks. Romo said he was contacting his attorney after the officer asked him to take a field sobriety test. Romo eventually started recording the incident with his phone. “I’ll do it,” Romo said about the field sobriety test, “but I’m not allowed to call my lawyer first? Am I allowed to call my lawyer first? The officer informed Romo he could not call his lawyer in the middle of an OWI investigation. At another point, Romo asked, “Because I’m coming from a golf course you think I’m drunk?” EXCLUSIVE: Tony Romo told cops he was on his way to meet his grandma and grandpa when he was pulled over and ultimately busted for OWI … newly released body camera footage shows. pic.twitter.com/visfkPfxGT — TMZ (@TMZ) July 29, 2026 The officer detained Romo, a longtime sports broadcaster with CBS since retiring from the NFL in 2017, and said they would conduct the field sobriety test somewhere safer as they were on a highway during the traffic stop. The officer said later in the video she smelled alcohol from the vehicle and found unopened shooter bottles with Romo’s belongings. Romo eventually did the field sobriety test, but then refused a breathalyzer. “Oh, no. We’re not doing that. I’ve heard from all the lawyers don’t ever do that. So, we’re not going to do that,” he said. Romo was cited for OWI, a first offense, and a Milwaukee County District Attorney spokesperson told the Post that the case was determined to be a “a traffic violation and not a criminal charge.”The post ‘You Think I’m Drunk?!’ Watch the Bodycam Footage of Tony Romo’s Drunk Driving Arrest first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘He’s Been Terrific!’ Trump Fawns Over His Old Foe Rand Paul — Despite S...
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., left, shakes hands with President Donald Trump as he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) President Donald Trump seems to have done a 180 on his one-time foe Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) — despite the senator, just days ago, voicing heavy criticism of the Iran war. In a surprising Truth Social post, the president raved about Paul — seemingly claiming that the recent primary defeat of his fellow Kentuckian Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has scared him straight. “THE MASSIE MASSACRE in the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky has had a really great impact on Senator Rand Paul who will be running in two years,” Trump wrote. “He’s been terrific, lately!” Just a year ago, Trump was in the midst of a full-on feud with the Kentucky senator — who attacked the president’s tariffs relentlessly, among many criticisms of the president’s actions. And Trump made his displeasure with Paul quite clear. “Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas,” Trump wrote in a June 2025 Truth post. “His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him.” Trump also called Paul “disloyal” and insulted him numerous times in a variety of ways — including snubbing him on an invite to a White House luncheon at which every other Senate Republican was present. Semafor recently reported that there’s been a thawing in the relationship between Trump and Paul. The outlet cited Paul’s efforts to get the recent immigration Senate bill passed as a key turning point. But the two are still not quite in lockstep. Just six days ago, Paul offered up a scathing criticism of the president’s war in Iran. “I think the Iran war has not been a success,” Paul told CNN’s Manu Raju. “I’ve been opposed to the Iran war from the beginning. I think, by any objective measure, we’re worse off than we were before the war.” ——The post ‘He’s Been Terrific!’ Trump Fawns Over His Old Foe Rand Paul — Despite Senator Being a Vocal Iran War Critic first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - WATCH: CNN Reveals Footage of U.S. Forces Responding to New Iranian Missile Atta...
CNN revealed footage on Tuesday evening of U.S. forces intercepting Iranian missiles targeting a U.S. military base. John Berman, filling in for Anderson Cooper, played the footage a little over two hours after the attacks happened. CENTCOM said all missiles were successfully intercepted. The footage of the attack shows U.S. air defense crews making retaliatory launches and stopping missiles from Iran’s “Revolutionary Guard Corps.” The footage was from the Syria-Jordan border. Iranian forces reportedly targeted a U.S. base in Jordan. The attempted “surprise attack” followed Trump pausing days of strikes against Iran to give room for diplomatic talks. Trump warned on Friday morning on Fox News that if the talks don’t go well, he’s going to “go back and finish the job,” describing eliminated Iranian power plants and bridges. Trump told Fox: If I go back and finish up the job, as some people would like with bridges, very easy, I could take out most bridges in less than an hour. Less than an hour. Takes them 10 years to build a bridge, bridges take longest and power plants are second, I could knockout power plants within one day all of their power plants would be gone. I let them know that, with negotiation. Look, people want me to do that. The president reportedly backed off plans for a major attack last week in favor of peace negotiations. As Berman noted in his report, Iran responded “with missiles, not words.” Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to discuss the ongoing Iran war. CENTCOM announced Tuesday’s attack approximately an hour after it occurred. “At 5:45 p.m. ET today, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted. U.S. forces remain vigilant and at a high state of readiness,” their statement reads. Watch above via CNN.The post WATCH: CNN Reveals Footage of U.S. Forces Responding to New Iranian Missile Attacks first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Maggie Haberman Blasts Trump’s ‘Bullying Campaigns’ as She’s Asked About...The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman blasted President Donald Trump’s “bullying campaigns” when asked on MS NOW about the president’s “BS” $15 billion suit against the Times. Haberman joined MS NOW’s The Weeknight on Tuesday evening to discuss her latest reporting on “ballooning” costs for Trump’s Qatar plane, which is currently being upgraded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Michael Steele wrapped up the interview by asking about Trump’s defamation suit (Haberman is not listed as a defendant). The latest from the lawsuit is a judge gave Trump and his team until August 27 to amend the suit, the second chance they’ve gotten to do so. Trump took a victory lap after the decision, but the Times fired back, saying, “The judge’s decision makes no statement in support of the frivolous accusations in Mr. Trump’s earlier complaint. To the contrary, the judge simply gives him yet another chance to draft a complaint that demonstrates any legal merit.” As Steele noted, though Haberman is not listed in the lawsuit, Trump has targeted her and accused her of “bad reporting” and said she’ll “pay the price when the lawsuit gets to court. “How do you and your colleagues suffer through this BS from this administration when at the same time he’s doing this, he’s calling and trying to get your attention to drop stories, and members of his administration want you to know what they’re doing and want you to tell a particular slant on the stories that they want to see,” Steele said. Haberman argued administrations trying to slant stories is nothing new, but she called out the lengths to which Trump will go to in his “bullying campaigns.” She said: This president has reacted quite aggressively to any coverage that he doesn’t like, and most of the coverage… So and that has been the case throughout most of his life. Long before he was in elected office, he has been using a couple of cudgels. And again, this is a theme that we write about in the book, to attack various industries and he has these bullying campaigns and retribution campaigns against various industries. But one is this inside/outside effort where he sues somebody privately, and then he also is using the government. And we have seen that with the [executive orders] against law firms, which didn’t hold up very well in court, but which… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Trump Endorsement Fails to Clear Field for Lindsey Graham’s Sister as 11 Other...
Sipa via AP Images President Donald Trump has endorsed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) to run for re-election to her late brother’s Senate seat, but that hasn’t dissuaded eleven other Republican contenders from throwing their hats in the ring. Graham, 71, passed away unexpectedly on July 11. The siblings were close, as Lindsey Graham had become her legal guardian after both of their parents died within 15 months of each other when his younger sister was only 13 years old. Under South Carolina law, Gov. Henry McMaster (R) had the power to appoint someone to finish Graham’s term, and both Trump and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) urged the governor to choose the senator’s sister. Darline Graham (this is the name she has been using on official Senate communications) was sworn into office on July 14. Her appointment to the seat allows her finish the remainder of her brother’s term, through January, but does not affect this year’s election. Trump soon declared he was encouraging her to run for the seat and posted a “Complete and Total Endorsement” for her on his Truth Social account. Most political observers felt that Graham’s chances of winning the election got a major bump after Trump’s endorsement, but she is still a political rookie and an unknown quantity for the Republican base. Lindsey Graham had easily won his primary back in June, before his death, and now South Carolina Republicans will be “launching into a two-week sprint toward the Aug. 11 special GOP primary,” the AP’s national politics reporter Meg Kinnard reported. The filing deadline to run for the South Carolina Senate seat closed on Tuesday, the day of Lindsey Graham’s memorial service. Darline Graham and eleven other Republicans had filed to run, Kinnard reported, including Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC), former South Carolina congressman and governor Mark Sanford, and several other candidates, some of whom Kinnard noted their colorful biographies: — Mark Lynch, a Greenville businessman who tried to oust Graham in the regular Republican primary last month, swiftly relaunched his campaign following Graham’s death. He’s expected to put much of his own money into his Senate run. — Duke Buckner, a Walterboro attorney who is a perennial candidate. He has challenged U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, South Carolina’s lone congressional Democrat. Buckner also is a former public school English teacher. — Danny Ford II, a farmer from the town of Central and son… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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