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Norwegian duct tape stunt is US hit

A Norwegian radio reporter’s painful duct tape stunt has been shown to millions of viewers on US TV, after it was picked up by America’s Funniest Home Videos.

Published: 6 July 2015 20:27 CEST
Norwegian duct tape stunt is US hit
Kjell Heltorp in the middle of his painful stunt. Photo: Screen Grab

Kjell “Kjellmann” Heltorp, a comedy stunt reporter for P5 radio in Bergen, wrapped himself in duct tape wearing nothing but a pair of white y-fronts as part of what he called the “Duct Tape Challenge”.

The tape was then removed to his howls of pain in a segment broadcast on his Crazy Thursdays slot at the end of last year.



“The nipples and inner thighs were the worst,” he said. “Perhaps I should have trimmed a little first!”



According to an article on P5’s website, Heltorp had the idea while working in the garage with his wife.





“I was standing there with duct tape in my hand and thought ‘I could use this for something,” he said.





The next day he bought 100 meters of duct tape and carried out the stunt.





America’s Funniest Home Videos, launched in 1989, sometimes gets as more than seven million viewers. Heltorp’s video was ranked the 17th funniest when it viewed earlier this week. 

 

 

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Up to 10 million people could be hit by threatened radio shut down

The airwaves across many parts of Germany could fall silent next week due to a financial dispute between radio stations and an FM broadcasting provider.

Published: 6 April 2018 16:08 CEST
Up to 10 million people could be hit by threatened radio shut down
Photo: DPA

The company Media Broadcast announced on Friday that it would cut off FM broadcasters for several radio stations if they did not immediately fulfil certain payment demands.

“Up to 10 million radio listeners could be affected by their FM broadcaster being cut off from Wednesday onwards,” company head Wolfgang Breuer told Die Welt.

Major public service broadcasters such as MDR, NDR and Deutschlandfunk are among those who could be cut off, the newspaper reported.

The dispute began when Media Broadcast, formerly a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, decided to move focus away from FM radio and onto digital platforms last year.

The shift meant that broadcasting antennae across Germany, for which Media Broadcast had previously been responsible, were sold to private investors.

Broadcasters and their network operators were then left furious when many of the new owners raised prices for the use of their antennae, leading to a stalemate in business negotiations.

Hessian broadcaster FFH told dpa that a 50 percent rise in the cost of antennae use had left them with a “massive problem”.

In order to break the stalemate, Media Broadcast recently agreed to continue operating all antennae until the end of June, so as to provide more time for negotiations. Yet such an arrangement would still require the stations to contract the company during that period.

Media Broadcast now claims that around 75 percent of stations have not done this, and has threatened to cut these stations off if they do not officially contract the company by Monday.

Though digital and online streaming radio will still be available, the mass cut-off of FM radio broadcasts would affect a huge proportion of the population.

According to Bild, around 92.7 percent of Germans said they still preferred listening to radio on an analogue device in a poll last year.