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The question if country radio will play Beyoncé has seemingly been answered When Beyoncé released “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” last week, fans and insiders wondered if country songs from a Black pop star would get a cosign from the industry’s great gatekeeper, country radio. The answer appears to be “yes,” as “Texas Hold ‘Em” was the most added track on country stations this week, per Mediabase data reviewed by Country Insider. As Country Insider noted, 75 of the 157 reporting stations…

ROLSES will document radiation from cosmic phenomena and Earth-based activities, helping to distinguish between different sources of radio noise. This research is crucial for mitigating interference in data analysis and designing future lunar observatories, aligning with NASA’s goals of returning to the Moon and establishing a sustainable presence. Credit: SciTechDaily.comOn February 15, 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 launched on a mission to the Moon’s South Polar region, as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload…

Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to harvest metal. For his 2017 book on the subject, Metal Scrappers and Thieves: Scavenging for Survival and Profit, Stickle interviewed one man who used to hunt down abandoned buildings on Google, then find pictures or videos from urban explorers who had visited these locations for kicks, just to see if he could spot any copper in their footage. If he did, he’d drive over and start plundering. “He might spend a week stealing the metal out of it,” says Stickle.With the…

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In the introduction to this remarkable collection of works by and about Dylan Thomas, the Welsh actor Matthew Rhys – who played Thomas in the film The Edge of Love – reflects on the life and legacy of “the 20th century’s first rock star author, famed for his dazzling, imaginative poetry and chaotic personal life”. Thomas, who influenced Bob Dylan and the Beatles, loved radio and delivered a series of BBC broadcasts in the 1940s and early 50s which took in poems, short stories, critical appreciations and reminiscences of…

A country music radio station in the US that initially refused to play a listener’s Beyoncé request has now added the artist’s new tracks to rotation after an online firestorm.On Tuesday, a Beyoncé fan contacted the station to request her song Texas Hold ’Em – one of two released in a surprise drop during the Super Bowl where the 32-time Grammy winner also announced the second album in her Renaissance trilogy.The station, Oklahoma’s KYKC, responded to the request with an email from the general manager, Roger Harris. “We…

This ain’t Texas. A country music radio station in Oklahoma will indeed be playing Beyoncé’s two new country songs, “Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages,” after the station cleared up confusion about why the Super Bowl drops weren’t getting airtime.In a Tuesday missive, the radio station’s general manager, Roger Harris, told a fan requesting the songs that the station does “not play Beyoncé on KYKC as we are a country music station.” And the response — deemed as “blatant racism and discrimination” against Beyoncé — went…

‘Steve on the microphone was a force to be reckoned with’I’m devastated to hear about Steve Wright’s death. For a long time, I was a member of the team responsible for comedy jingles featured on his show during his time at both Radio 1 and Radio 2. I was very proud to be Mr Food, performing And That’s Before Me Tea on his show as well as several others. Steve Wright on the microphone was a force to be reckoned with. Unstoppable. As well as interviewing all the stars on air, the Steve Wright I met off-air was a genuine,…

NASA outfitted its aging communications network with a hybrid antenna that allowed it to receive both radio frequency and laser signals for the first time, helping the space agency keep up with its increasing number of missions traveling through deep space.Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: 3 Things We Love and HateDeep Space Station 13, an experimental 112-foot-long (34-meters) radio-frequency-optical-hybrid antenna, tracked and decoded a signal from a gold-capped laser transceiver attached to NASA’s asteroid probe Psyche, the…

In a move to make high-speed communications with deep space missions a practical reality, NASA is testing a giant hybrid dish antenna that is capable of handling both radio and laser signals across hundreds of millions of miles of space.One of the highlights of NASA's Psyche mission to the asteroid of the same name is its Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) unit, which is a laser transceiver capable of sending and receiving laser signals, enabling communications many times faster than conventional radio systems.So…