By Marco Hugo Barsotti MHB 
Welcome to the media review from Francia24 and Radio Centrale Milano: radio, artificial intelligence, publishing, and large media groups: two news stories for each topic.
Radio
Demolition of transmission towers in Luxembourg
The three transmission towers of Beidweiler, in the municipality of Junglinster, will be demolished with explosives on Friday, November 6 at 3:00 PM. The operation will be managed by the German company Liesegang from Hürth, whose preparations are already in an advanced stage. The structures, 290 meters tall and supported by cables, belong to Broadcasting Center Europe, controlled by the RTL Group, and were used for French-language radio broadcasting towards France via long waves until 1:00 AM on January 2, 2023.
The event will be broadcast live via streaming from the Netherlands through RTL. The date for the removal of the Junglinster towers, which are 215 meters tall after being shortened in 1983 and served as backup transmitters for Beidweiler for a long time, has not yet been established.
Source: mediumwave.info
SSR reactivates FM radio from mid-November 2026
The Swiss public service will restore analog FM broadcasting starting in mid-November 2026. The new network will initially reach approximately 80% of the audience, with an estimated cost of about 6.5 million francs per year, a lower figure than the 15 million expected for a complete network.
The decision follows a change in political conditions that allows for the continuation of analog broadcasting. The historical frequencies remain reserved for the SSR with concessions valid until December 31, 2034, but FM broadcasting will run alongside digital DAB+. FM will not be restored in national road tunnels, maintaining only digital distribution. For Italian border broadcasters, radio compatibility checks become relevant again, especially towards Lombardy and Piedmont.
Source: Newslinet
Artificial Intelligence
Hospitals not using Palantir technology
More than twenty-five hospitals in the British healthcare system are not using Palantir’s medical data platform, despite the NHS claiming they are benefiting from it. Twenty-nine facilities, included in the list of those “realizing benefits” from the £330 million system, have stated that the technology is not active or that they do not use its applications. A senior health official described the gap between the NHS claims and the reality of the facts as “highly misleading”.
Chi Onwurah, chair of the science and technology committee, asked whether the enthusiasm for Palantir products matches reality. Marc Farr, chair of the NHS data responsibility network, expressed concern about the need to report benefits in a transparent and verifiable way. Louis Mosley, Palantir’s European lead, accused critics of suffering from a “paranoia syndrome against Palantir”.
Source: The Guardian
Claude leads 26% of research at Anthropic
According to an internal index at Anthropic, the Claude model led 26% of the company’s research and development activities in August 2026, up from 1% recorded in March. This growth includes the category in which artificial intelligence performs most tasks under human supervision, while researchers and engineers set goals and verify results without fully autonomous activity.
This acceleration could shorten development cycles for new models, products, and services. Anthropic reports that, in the second quarter of 2026, engineers integrated approximately eight times more lines of code per person per day compared to 2024, although the company warns that the amount of code does not necessarily correspond to an increase in economic productivity or quality.
Source: AI4Business
Publishing and large media groups
Streamers and TV networks in challenge for the elections
The approach to election coverage is changing with the rise of new media. Jim Acosta, formerly of CNN, will broadcast his live coverage on YouTube and his Substack platform, joined by Katie Couric. According to Rashida Jones, CEO of Piers Morgan’s media company, these will be the “content creator elections”, where independent journalists managing live streams will challenge traditional networks.
Scott MacFarlane, who left CBS News to join the progressive network MeidasTouch as chief correspondent in Washington, predicts a broadcast that will be “straight to the point, without teleprompters or scripts” and without theatrical music. While traditional networks like NBC News and ABC rely on depth of analysis, digital competition is intensifying. David Chalian, a political director at CNN, emphasized that speed is not at all a priority compared to the seriousness of the mission in projecting results.
Source: The Guardian
WME requests AI licensing in legal battle with OpenAI
The agency WME has filed an amicus brief in the context of the copyright infringement lawsuit between OpenAI and the New York Times, Ta-Nehisi Coates, a series of newspapers in Florida and Arkansas, The Intercept, and other media. The agency, led by Ari Emanuel, does not oppose the use of artificial intelligence but argues that the use of creative materials must be regulated through licensing. According to the document, any use of AI that affects the rights of talent and creators must provide adequate compensation and authorization.
The document, signed by WME Group’s legal head Courtney Braun, aims to preserve the legal framework that allows creators to decide if and under what terms their protected works can be used to train AI systems. WME emphasizes that paying artists is not just a theory derived from litigation, but reflects an economic reality already in place, citing over twenty-four licensing agreements signed between mid-2023 and mid-2024, of which at least 28 provide for payment for access to data for training AI models.
Source: Deadline
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And now for our French-speaking listeners, a brief recap of today’s news in French.
L’actualité des médias est marquée par des changements technologiques et structurels majeurs. Dans le secteur de la radio, les trois tours de transmission de Beidweiler au Luxembourg, contrôlées par le Groupe RTL, seront démolies par explosifs le 6 novembre prochain sous la gestion de l’entreprise allemande Liesegang. Parallèlement, la SSR en Suisse va réactiver la diffusion analogique en FM dès la mi-novembre 2026, avec un réseau initial couvrant 80 % du public pour un coût annuel de 6,5 millions de francs. Concernant l’intelligence artificielle, un fossé apparaît au sein du système de santé britannique où plus de vingt-cinq hôpitaux n’utilisent pas la plateforme de données de Palantir, malgré un investissement de 330 millions de livres sterling. Chez Anthropic, le modèle Claude prend de l’ampleur en dirigeant 26 % de la recherche et développement en août 2026, accélérant ainsi l’intégration de code par les ingénieurs. Enfin, le monde de l’édition et des médias voit s’affronter des modèles traditionnels et nouveaux formats. La couverture électorale est désormais bousculée par l’essor des créateurs de contenus comme Jim Acosta ou Scott MacFarlane, qui misent sur le streaming. De son côté, l’agence WME intervient dans la bataille juridique entre OpenAI et divers médias en plaidant pour que l’usage de l’intelligence artificielle soit encadré par des licences garantissant une compensation financière aux créateurs.
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