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- Canada’s CHU Shortwave Time Station to Be Silenced
If you are a regular shortwave radio listener, the synchronized beats might be etched in your mind. This is the shortwave time signal from CHU, operated by the National Research Council of Canada. As a kid, CHU was one of the first SW signals I heard on my WWII surplus receiver. It mesmerized my young brain. The shortwave CHU signal will go off-air on 22 June 2026. @swradiogram.bsky.social [image or embed] — Dave Burnett (@gdaveb.bsky.social) May 22, 2026 at 1:28 PM Perhaps it’s the voice announcements — in both English, with the voice of former CBC announcer Harry Mannis, and in French, with the voice of Radio-Canada’s Simon Durivage. But on June 22, that time signal will be shut down forever. Last month, the National Research Council of Canada revealed its decision to silence shortwave station CHU. CHU uses three shortwave frequencies, via upper single sideband, to provide time signal service. The trio of 3330, 7850 and 14670 kHz originate from one of three atomic clocks located at the transmitter site operated by the NRC, about nine miles southwest of Ottawa, Ontario. But, with shortwave signals traveling well beyond nationwide borders, the station received listener reports from around the world. Millions of users, meanwhile, rely on the NRC’s Time Signal-based services, along with government departments, for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) network time synchronization. Those services are available via telephone and over the web, and NRC told us it is shifting efforts to maintaining those aspects, including safeguarding the accuracy and continuity of the time signal. End of life Generation and measurement of signals in the CHU control room, from James Careless’ 2020 feature. The decision for the shortwave shutdown was determined by several factors, NRC told Radio World. The station’s infrastructure, it said, is at the end of its useful life and experiencing regular failures. The 1960s-era 3330 and 14670 kHz transmitters run at 3 kW, while the 7850 kHz transmitter runs at 5 kW, according to the NRC Canada website. The operation uses three antenna towers. “Replacing the infrastructure and maintaining the service would be costly,” a spokesperson told us. The agency said that it is still finalizing plans for the future of the Ontario transmitter site, but that it has established a lifecycle process for items considered to have heritage, research or archival value. Going forward, NRC will be focusing on aspects of maintaining… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Iconic Singer Peabo Bryson Has Died
With broken hearts and profound sadness, the family of two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and balladeer, Peabo Bryson, announces his passing. Photo Credit (Tan Sweater): Julie Yarbrough Internationally celebrated as the legendary voice behind the Oscar-winning Disney classics “Beauty and the Beast” and “A Whole New World,” Peabo also captivated audiences through timeless R&B [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - GOP Congressman Blames ‘Stupid’ Homophobic Post On Staffer After Backlash
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Republican Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) blamed his homophobic post on a staffer on Tuesday, calling it “stupid” after widespread backlash from both sides of the aisle. Ogles posted to X Tuesday with a shocking message for Pride Month: “Homosexuality has no place in America.” Many members of his own party were quick to call out their colleague, leading Ogles to delete the post later in the day. “Homosexuality exists. In America. In fact Andy, you have family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and constituents who are gay and lesbian,” replied Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) to the post. “It doesn’t make them less than or somehow unworthy of being an American. What an absolutely idiotic statement to make,” added Lawler, who also called Ogles a “f*cking idiot” when asked about the post by TMZ. Meghan McCain invoked President Donald Trump’s openly gay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, writing: “You gonna say this to Scott Bessent’s face? Or you gonna slide back into the sewer pits where you live?” Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), conservative influencer Link Lauren, former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), and a slew of media figures dually condemned the post. Hours later, Ogles stopped short of directly apologizing for the post, instead calling it “hurtful” while passing the buck to an aide he claimed had been “reprimanded.” “Earlier today while working on the farm, my phone began going crazy because of a post made by a member of my comms team,” he wrote. “The post was stupid, hurtful and a complete distraction from my America First focus. The employee has been reprimanded.” The move echoes one made by Trump earlier this year, when he posted a racist video showing former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s faces superimposed onto the bodies of apes. The post was first left up, then deleted, and then blamed on a staffer. “President Trump didn’t see the video (legitimately didn’t), a staffer posted it,” an administration official told Politico’s Sophia Cai. Ogles posted similar remarks about American Muslims a few months prior, writing, “Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.” That post did not receive Republican backlash. The congressman’s conduct has posed problems in the past, going so far as to unite House Democrats and Republicans last year when they condemned Ogles for posting “Wanted” posters for judges outside of his office on Capitol Hill. Ogles was also under federal criminal investigation… [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago - Scott Pelley Speaks Out After 60 Minutes Firing, Alleges Management Told Him to ...
LEFT: Bari Weiss (Photo by Alberto E. Tamargo/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) RIGHT: Scott Pelley (Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) CBS News fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday night, hours after he and the organization’s leadership met to discuss his future with the network. The day before, in a staff meeting led by new 60 Minutes Executive Producer Nick Bilton, a former tech columnist with no experience producing television news programs, Pelley challenged his new boss, partly over the stewardship of CBS News under Bari Weiss. “In the extraordinary back and forth, an impassioned Pelley relentlessly pressed Bilton on Weiss’ intentions for the storied newsmagazine, pointed out that he has no relevant experience to helm television’s most prestigious news program, grilled Bilton on what he knew about the firings, and more,” Oliver Darcy of Status reported on Monday. On Tuesday, CBS News fired Pelley. “Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” wrote Bilton in a letter to Pelley obtained by Mediaite. “Yesterday’s performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.” Shortly after news of the firing broke, Pelley spoke to The New York Times via phone: “I have been in combat in Afghanistan,” Mr. Pelley said. “I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.” Pelley told the Times that Weiss refused to answer his questions about why she had fired correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega last week. He said Weiss’s behavior “was cold and callous and beneath the dignity of CBS News.” In a statement obtained by Darcy at Status, Pelley alleged that management had told him to “inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.” He did not elaborate: Statement of Scott Pelley There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended… [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago - Election-Objecting Ted Cruz Says Democrats Don’t ‘Believe in Democracy’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who famously refused to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, charged that Democrats do not “believe in democracy.” The senator appeared on Tuesday’s edition of Hannity on Fox News, where he blasted Democrats for backing Graham Platner in the U.S. Senate race in Maine. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had recruited Governor Janet Mills (D), 78, to challenge Sen. Susan Collins this November, but Platner, a Marine Corps veteran and oysterman, surged ahead of her in the polls. Platner has been dogged by revelations about his tattoo that used Nazi iconography and his distasteful comments about U.S. soldiers. Most recently, it was reported that he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with multiple women despite being married. Maine’s Democratic primary is June 9, but Mills has already suspended her campaign, making Platner the presumptive nominee. Cruz railed against Platner and his Democratic supporters, accusing them of lacking “principle.” “I don’t think principle matters to them anymore,” he said. “All they care about is power. And they don’t, I believe, believe in democracy. This is the same Democrat party that was willing to prop Joe Biden up and run him as a candidate even though they knew he was no longer mentally capable to do the job. This is the same Democrat party that removed Donald Trump from the ballot in multiple states. That’s how little they think of democracy.” When Congress convened on Jan. 6, 2021 to certify the results of the 2020 election, Cruz objected to Arizona’s results. He was one of 147 Republican lawmakers who refused to vote to certify the election overall. Trump had falsely claimed the contest was rigged against him, and Cruz went along with the claim. During the 2016 GOP primary, Cruz and Trump repeatedly exchanged insults. The senator called Trump “a sniveling coward” after the future president suggested Cruz’s wife is ugly. Watch above via Fox News.The post Election-Objecting Ted Cruz Says Democrats Don’t ‘Believe in Democracy’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago - BREAKING: New 60 Minutes Boss Fires Scott Pelley in Scorched-Earth Letter: ‘Yo...
Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images Veteran anchor Scott Pelley was fired by CBS News on Tuesday, a day after his explosive meeting with new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton. Bilton announced Pelley’s termination in a letter addressed to the longtime 60 Minutes correspondent, obtained by Mediaite. “Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” wrote Bilton. “Yesterday’s performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.” The move from the new EP comes just a day after his first meeting with 60 Minutes staff was hijacked by Pelley, who demanded to know more details on Thursday’s firings, which included Bilton’s predecessor, Tanya Simon, correspondent Cecilia Vega, and the show’s long-time Executive Editor Draggan Mihailovich. The former anchor of CBS Evening News also took aim at Weiss, claiming she had “no qualifications for her job” and countering Bilton’s claim that the new chief “loves 60 Minutes” with a sharp interjection. “She’s murdering ’60 Minutes.’ She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she’s doing exactly that,” said Pelley. “She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?” Pelley also criticized Bilton directly, telling him he “would never be welcomed” at the show and calling out Bilton’s “slender” qualifications for the job. The new EP claimed that he had hoped to make peace at a meeting with Pelley on Tuesday, but that effort was not successful– an outcome reported on earlier in the day, leading to rumors of Pelley’s imminent departure. Bilton invoked the meeting yet again in a staff memo announcing Pelley’s departure. “I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don’t say this lightly. I made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground,” wrote Bilton. “That was not the path Scott chose.” In the memo, Bilton claimed his biggest regret was that “this situation interfered”… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
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