Talking TV: Recent Episodes
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Talking TV is a podcast that covers the business of television broadcasting, an evolving industry serving audiences over the air, on cable, online, on mobile and on over-the-top TV platforms.
In just over two years, Hearst Television’s Very Local streaming service has built a library of dozens of titles and more than 500 original episodes. VP Laura Ling explains how the streamer makes cable-quality shows at scale and on a lean budget.
Annika Pergament’s new weekday newscast on NY1, The Rush Hour, wants to offer an epilogue to newsworthy stories viewers have invested in “to see how they pan out.”
Angela Grande, director of streaming news channels at NBCUniversal Local, says FAST channels represent a unique and powerful opportunity for local news, but choreographing therelationships between stations, platforms and tech partners is a fast-evolving dance.
Next week is National News Literacy Week, and the News Literacy Project’s Peter Adams and Hannah Covington share tips on what TV newsrooms can do every day to help better equip their viewers with critical skills while building trust.
RTDNA President-CEO Dan Shelley says TV news’ credibility is on the line in this election year as never before, and he has some advice on how stations can recapture viewers’ trust.
NAB President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt says he’s “tremendously frustrated” with the FCC’s late December decision to reaffirm and tighten its regulations on broadcast ownership. So, what’s the organization’s next move?
TVNewsCheck Editor at Large Harry Jessell and Editor MichaelDepp look back over an eventful year in broadcast business news and ahead to the steepest challenges it will confront in 2024.
Britta Merwin, a Fox Weather meteorologist and co-host of its morning block, says the network’s success so far stems from its unique distribution strategy.
Johnny Green, president and GM of CBS-owned WCBS New York, and Sarah Burke, the station’s VP and news director, say its community-focused reporters are gaining traction — and trust —in the neighborhoods where they’ve been embedded, a strength to draw on in a fractious news year ahead.
Portia Bruner, a former anchor at Fox-owned WAGA Atlanta, is in the second season of an eponymous talk show also getting national carriage on Fox Soul. National syndication is next in her sights.
The Carole Kneeland Project for Responsible Journalism just marked its 25th year of training newsroom leaders to be more ethical, empathetic and inclusive in their management. Joan Barrett, president and GM of WCNC, and Anzio Williams, SVP ofdiversity, equity and inclusion at NBCUniversal Local, both Kneeland board members, explain its unique value.
Daily Blast Live, a Tegna-produced topical talker shot in Denver,may be heralding a new wave of cheaper, functional syndicated daytime shows. Its producer, Burt Dubrow and Tegna’s Brian Weiss, VP of entertainment programming and multicast networks, make the case.
CBC journalist Dave Seglins has become a leading voice for addressing the profound stressors impacting journalists’ mental health. He explains why the whole industry needs to lean into the problem.
Peachtree Sports launched out of Gray Television’s WANF and WPCH Atlanta in early October with a programming slate of eclectic Georgia sports and a trajectory aimed at statewide distribution. Erik Schrader, the stations’ VP and GM, explains why hesees a viable market there.
Julie Baker, a reporter at KXRM Colorado Springs, has landed strongly with users on TikTok and Instagram for her weird, funny, antic-y videos. Social platforms reward such a niche, she says, with the side benefit of letting her real self break through the TV reporter artifice.
Chris Nagus, senior director of storytelling and content strategy at E.W. Scripps, explains how he works closely with reporters across the group’s stations to hone their journalistic chops and storytelling skills to make for stronger newscasts.
Laura Ellis, head of technology forecasting at the BBC, say the time is nigh for news organizations to confront the manifold opportunities — and dangers — that generative AI has ushered in.
David Hudson, head of original programming for Scripps Networks, explains the originality and authenticity powering Bounce’s breakout hit series Johnson and what he’s looking for in a potential hit against the intense competition coming from streamers.
Pia Blumenthal, design manager for the AContent Authenticity Initiative at Adobe and co-chair of the UX Task Force at the Coalition for Content, Provenance and Authenticity, is on the front lines against news disinformation. She explains how the proliferation of generative AI is making that job a lot harder.
Ahron Young, CEO of Ticker News and its primary anchor, explains why he turned solely to FAST channel terrain for what he’s positioning as a global news service.
Bryce Harlow, a lobbyist and spokesperson for the brand-new Preserve Viewer Choice Coalition, explains why the broadcast networks and vMVPDs he’s representing want to leave retransmission negotiation rules just as they are.
Tanya Vea, president-COO of Bonneville International and a spokesperson for the new Coalition for Local News, explains why the group is drawing a direct line between the need for new FCC rules on dealing with vMVPDs and maintaining healthy local TV newsrooms.
Mark Critch, creator and star of the autobiographical coming-of-age comedy series Son of a Critch, is bringing his Newfoundland, Canada, export to U.S. TV screens via The CW this month. He’s hoping its nostalgic charms strike the same chord as The Wonder Years did in his own childhood.
Keren Henderson and Bob Papper, journalism professors at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, discuss the big takeaway from their recent study on TV newsroom employment: Staff are burning out hard, and the problem is hitting redline levels. So, how to bring things back from the brink?
Avid’s Craig Wilson, host of the Making the Media podcast, shares insights he’s gleaned over the past 50 episodes on AI, FAST channels, a skills shortage and leaps forward in video news storytelling in a particularly meta edition of Talking TV.
Dylan Dreyer, meteorologist for NBC’s Today, co-anchor of the show’s third hour and host of Earth Odyssey in the network’s The More You Know block talks about how to weave climate change into weather reporting and what she gets out of making a good, old fashioned nature show.
Paul Caluori, AP's VP of global products, and Derl McCrudden, AP's VP and head of global news production, discuss the organization’s new AI-based archive search tool that circumvents the need for metatags and the shadow that generative AI casts over the industry at large.
Dorthy Miller Shore, CEO of Prime Women Media, shares her plans to launch a cable network in Q2 2024 that will target what she feels is a vastly underrepresented demographic on TV screens: 50-plus-year-old women.
Kyle Rogers, news director of Gray Television’s Local News Live, explains how the streaming news service has upped its game and its polish since its relocation to Washington, D.C., and settling into a more conventionally anchored approach to stitching together local reports from around the U.S.
Emily Barr, TVNewsCheck columnist and former CEO-president of Graham Media, weighs in on the troubling implications of Sinclair’s closure of five newsrooms across its markets and what shoes may drop next for an industry up against serious headwinds.
Cherie Grzech, VP of news and managing editor of Nexstar’s NewsNation, shares the importance of the network’s recent expansion to 24 hours of news each weekday and its two new state-of-the-art studios in New York. She says while other news organizations are cutting staff, NewsNation is still hiring producers and reporters.
Kate O’Brian, presidentof Scripps News, explains how the bulk of its weekday broadcast hours will goto live as of May 1 and how the network manages its complex web ofcollaborations between its own reporters fanned out across the U.S., Scripps’local stations, its hubs in Denver and Washington, D.C. and Scripps-owned CourtTV.
Alyson Fouse, creator and showrunner of Bounce’s new sitcom Act Your Age, discusses the enduring value of classic sitcom tropes and why diginets are a great place to debut new comedies.
Blake Sabatinelli, CEO of Atmosphere TV, explains how to make good TV deliberately for background consumption, and how his company has turned its network of FAST channels into a lucrative business at bars, restaurants and other venues.
Peter Bergman and Susan Walters, veteran actors on CBS’s The Young and the Restless, reflect on the show’s longevity, evolution and future as it marks its 50thanniversary on broadcast.
John Hane, president and CEO of BitPath, shares an update on how far along the ATSC 3.0 consortium is toward building a national network that will support leasing data services and get cash registers finally ringing for broadcasters.
Tony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab, shares how he’s trying to solve for universal reconciliation, universal audit, audience interoperability and creating strong anti-fraud mechanisms in CTV among an ambitious list of other priorities in 2023.
Angelika Albaladejo and Jessica DeLeon are two former print reporters currently going through the Google-sponsored Journalism Journey Initiative to transition their skills to TV at E.W. Scripps stations. They share the tougher parts of the transition, the fresh-eyes advantages they bring to TV and how other former print reporters may follow in their stead.
About That, the flagship news show for the newly launched CBC News Explore FAST channel, pairs a smart, conversational approach to storytelling with broadcast-quality production values. Host Andrew Chang explains how it does so with a tiny staff and big ambitions for reframing TV news.
Andrew Heyward, a research professor at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School and co-author of a new report, Beyond Objectivity, explains the problems with aiming for “objective” news and what alternate goals newsrooms would do better to pursue.
Amanda St. Hilare, an investigative reporter and news content manager at Fox-owned WITI Milwaukee, found a healthy balance between her demanding career and personal life. In her management role, she’s now trying to do the same for others.
After months of building a newsroom from scratch, CBS’s WWJ Detroit flipped the switch on its first newscasts last week. Adrienne Roark, president of CBS Stations; Brian Watson, VP and GM of WWJ; and Paul Pytlowany, its news director, make the case for how its community-based approach to reporting will differentiate the station.
Keith Dawkins, president of the Harlem Globetrotters, talks with TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp about the team’s return to TV with Play It Forward and how the beloved, near-century-old franchise is connecting with new generations across multiple media.
The talk show genre has far from played itself out and there’s still room for more comers says Michaela Pereira, whose eponymous new talker debuts from PPI this fall.
Gary Brown, owner and CEO of Talent Dynamics, talks with TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp about on-air journalists’ continued pursuit of a better work/life balance, anchors’ salary and leverage prospects and the industry’s ongoing shortage of producers.
Scripps Sports President Brian Lawlor talks with TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp about the new E.W. Scripps division formed to leverage its Ion network to draw leagues away from regional sports networks and on to OTA.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Marco DiGiacomo, CMO of Amagi, about why he believes all broadcasters need to be on FAST channels post haste, the growing revenue opportunities there and where artificial intelligence will play a role in improving their UX and popularity.
Toni Knight, founder and CEO of WorldLink, says that station GMs need to be thinking strategically about direct response advertising as they downshift out of a lucrative political year. She shares the view from the DR side in conversation with TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp.
True crime podcasts tap a deep line into audiences’ psyches and have great potential for local TV news in both audio and video forms, says Scott Weinberger, co-host and creator of theAnatomy of a Murder podcast and executive producer/creator of Discovery ID’s On the Case with Paula Zahn. He talks with TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp about how to do them right.
Andrew Craft, senior digital journalist with Fox’s LiveNOW streaming channel, shows TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp how to multitask as producer, director and anchor while on the air for hours at a time.
Tegna’s Verify investigative team has won a following of 100,000 and growing on TikTok, where a younger demographic has been drawn to its simple reportorial mission and authentic voice. TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Verify’s Ariane Datil and Casey Decker about the dos and don’ts of making TikTok work for news.
Fox Weather celebrates its first anniversary this week, and TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with meteorologist Amy Freeze about a year that saw $15 billion in storm damage across the U.S., lessons she and her colleagues have learned in covering majorweather events and how climate has become an important part of the reporting narrative.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp speaks with talk show host Tamron Hall about how her show is hitting a post-pandemic groove and her work with the NAB Leadership Foundation as its newly named industry ambassador.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Paul McGonagle, VP and news director of Fox-owned WTTG Washington, about two new shows that will bring the station up to over 80 hours of original weekly programming, how they manage that volume and hacks for hiring quality people in a tough market.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Patrice Courtaban, EVP of global growth and development for TV5Monde and CEO of TV5Monde U.S. about the multinational broadcaster’s growth plans in the francophone and Francophile U.S. market and beyond, and how streaming is helping broaden its reach.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with talent coach and consultant Barry Nash about recent research to pinpoint what viewers are looking for in TV anchors and how the best coaching is collaborative in nature.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Entertainment TonightExecutive Producer Erin Johnson on the eve of the show’s 42nd season about its longevity and how a rethink of its social and digital presence transformed ET into something much more than just a TV show.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Joe Murphy of Deep Brain AI, a technology company that’s creating digital copies of TV news anchors for outlets in China and South Korea, about how the tech works, the ethical issues around it and the likelihood that we’ll be seeing digital anchors on U.S. screens.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Erin Kennedy and Megan Glaros, who followed their layoffs as an anchor and meteorologist, respectively, at Chicago’s WBBM with the video podcast Broken News. Their show pulls back the curtain on local TV to reveal the sexism, punishing schedules and career unsustainability they encountered and its aftershocks in their lives.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Carol Fowler, director of content at Tegna-owned NBC affiliate KDSK and Art Holliday, its news director, about the station’s 75-year milestone, how it’s evolving its reporting approach to crime coverage amid a dramatic surge and how the station is creatively navigating the staffing crisis facing the entire industry.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp and Michael Stahl discuss Stahl’s bombshell reporting on News 12’s New York area hyperlocal news channels, where multiple sources allege systemic abuse and a damaged, diluted news product.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Ginger Zee, chief meteorologist for ABC and co-host of Hearst Media Production Group’s Hearts of Heroes, along with fellow host Sheldon Yellen, about broadcast’s role in disaster preparedness and the frontline workers whose stories they tell in the show.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with veteran New York broadcaster Ernie Anastos, who is returning to television this fall with Positively America with Ernie Anastos, a new syndicated offering through which he plans to share accumulated wisdom and compelling conversations.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Geraldine Moriba, SVP of news and entertainment for TheGrio, about the company’s launch of a new podcast network and its ambitions for more news, context and analysis as it aims to build a big tent for Black audiences across multiple platforms.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Erika Dilday, executive producer of PBS’s POV documentary series as the show enters its 35thseason, looking at what makes potent documentaries work and how local TV stations can make successful forays into the space by drawing on their strong community ties.
Dr. Mark Fratrik, BIA Advisory Services’ longtime SVP and chief economist, is retiring at the end of June. He talks with TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp about retrans’ slowdown, OTT’s rise and the need for broadcasters to keep their eyes on competitors coming from all directions.
Two J-school seniors on the cusp of graduation and entry into the local TV news job market share their thoughts on the industry, its future and their place in it in a conversation with TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp and the Broadcast Education Association’s Executive Director Heather Birks.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Bonita Sostre, a coordinating producer with CBS News and president of the New York Association of Black Journalists, about its upcoming Juneteenth gala, how local news can share stories of the U.S.’s newest federal holiday and work NYABJ is doing to bring budding young journalists into the profession.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Sussy Ruiz, editor in chief of the newly-launched The Weather Channel en Español, about the streaming- and digital-only channel’s value proposition to Spanish-speaking viewers, its ambitions to widen its coverage radar further south of the border and how understanding the cultures of its target audience will be crucial to its success.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Todd Krizelman, CEO and co-founder of MediaRadar, about AVOD's $369 million quarter, which brands and categories are dominating the space so far and the likely trajectory for AVOD spending this year.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Mo Rocca, host of Innovation Nation, which has just celebrated its 200th episode, on the syndicated show's enduring, omni-generational appeal; the state of E/I programming; and the competition the space is getting from YouTubers.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with NBCUniversal's Josh Feldman, CMO, and Collette Winn, VP of commercial innovation, about new ad types from the company that envelop consumers more than ever before and venture deep into the metaverse with iterations for both national and local advertisers.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Kym Grinnage, regional VP for Gray Television and GM of its WWBT Richmond, Va., about spot TV's resurgence, OTT growth and how he's reconciling widening programming needs with a newsroom still exhausted and recovering from the pandemic.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Robert Rose, independent producer, host and distributor of AIM TV's Raw Travel, about how there's still a market for well-made syndicated programming if it showcases good storytelling and keeps production costs in line.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Alan Miller, founder and CEO of the News Literacy Project, about the work his organization is doing to promote the survival skill of discerning, critical news consumption.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Aimee Rinehart and Ernest Kung of the Associated Press about a new report gauging how widely — or not — artificial intelligence and automation are being implemented in newsrooms, how sophisticated its functionalities are becoming and what that means for jobs. Learn more about AP's report and a free online course series on news and AI here.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Hadassah Gerber, head of research at TVB, about the organization's recent survey on sports betting and how television wields enormous influence over sports bettors' decisions.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Vikrant Mathu of Future Today, Pierre Marc-Diennet of Lotame and Mark Zagorshi of DoubleVerify about Nielsen's $16 billion sale to a private equity consortium and what it means for the company's future and the broader landscape of TV measurement.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Chris Brown, EVP and managing director of global conventions and events about next month's NAB Show and whether or not the industry still needs a crossroads event such as it has been in year's past.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Bill Anderson, host of The Pulse on Fox's WTXF Philadelphia and Fox Soul, about how video podcasts can be a Swiss Army knife for local broadcasters' content needs, especially as they ramp up streaming efforts.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with meteorologist Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel about climate change, heightened competition in television weather and the critical role of empathy in telling weather's story to TV audiences.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Hank Price discuss the dangerous vulnerabilities facing multimedia journalists every day with MMJ Adam Mintzer, asking who bears responsibility for the problem — from news directors and GMs to station groups CEOs themselves.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp, Paige Albiniak and Michael Stahl discuss an eventful February for TV measurement with Nielsen's introduction of BBO homes and NBCUniversal's granular new metrics with iSpot.tv, plus how newsrooms' assignment desks are weaning off police scanners and toward a more collaborative role.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Jeff Rosica, CEO of Avid, about the company's decision to sit out major trade shows including NAB and IBC this year and how such shows may look dramatically different on the other side of the pandemic.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Madison Carter, a journalist with the Atticus investigative unit at WXIA Atlanta and Monika Diaz, content director at Tegna, about the work behind their new, three-part investigative series, A Different Cry, about rising suicide rates among Black youths.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Marcus Riley, senior director of content strategy and inclusive journalism at E.W. Scripps, about what inclusivity looks like on a newscast and how newsrooms can begin addressing it right from a story pitch.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Paige Albiniak look at the M&A prospects possible in 2022 with the FCC’s 39% ownership cap still in place and where things stand on a potential Tegna sale.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp learns the trade secrets of game show hosting from Pictionary host Jerry O'Connell, who says a tight syndication market demands a stellar product to survive.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Mike Garber, director of content for Sinclair's The National Desk, about the art of making local news content palatable and relevant to a national audience.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with technology consultant Shelly Palmer about this week's Omicron-battered CES, the salvageable elements of the in-person show and his dim view of NextGen TV's hope for momentum there, plus the implications for future large trade shows.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Syncbak CEO Jack Perry about VUit, the streaming channel aggregator of local newscasts, about deals it has closed with a slate of new local partners and the prospect of hyperlocal scalability in OTT.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Martin Kristiseter, managing director of Sinclair-owned Compulse, about the agency's unusual pairing of digital marketing services with OTT agency services and the thinking behind it.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with new syndie talk show host Nick Cannon, along with WTTG Washington Good Day D.C. anchors Jeannette Reyes and Wisdom Martin, about Cannon's whistle-stop tour to co-host Fox Owned Stations' morning shows across the country promoting the show, including stops in New York, Philadelphia, Dallas and San Francisco thus far.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Lyle Schulze, VP and GM of Gray's WIS Columbia, S.C., about how the station is taking back its programming inventory amid a dearth of syndication options, along with how the "Great Resignation" is playing out at the station level.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Sheila Oliver, SVP and GM of Fox Owned Stations' Seattle duopoly, about rebooting and rebranding during the challenging conditions of pandemic remote work.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Aisha Mills, host of the new show AMplify on Black News Channel, about where her show will sit amid the bombastic offerings in cable's nightly news landscape and her vision for programming that illuminates our better selves.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and LG Ads' Justin Fromm discuss whether children's specials like It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, which airs on PBS stations on Oct. 24, still have the power to draw audiences to linear TV in a streaming age.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with NBC LX's Fernando Hurtado about Connect the Dots, a new series that pulls back the curtain on the reporting process and seeks to court younger audiences by veering away from news conventions.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Eric Ludgood, head of E.W. Scripps-owned Newsy, which saw a major overhaul and expansion of its programming this week as it now reaches 90% of U.S. television homes with a significant OTA expansion.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Jon Scott, anchor of Fox Report Weekend, about the 25-year anniversary both he and the network are celebrating today. They speak about being live on Sept. 11, 2001, what's underlying the Fox's mammoth ratings and how the network's news side manages a coexistence with its more extreme opinion hosts.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Glen Dickson discuss the knock-on effects of the NAB Show's October cancellation on vendors and the implications for future trade shows, including December's planned IBC.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Dr. Duane Varan, CEO of audience research firm MediaScience, about what's next in video ad formats, the context effects of news programming on ads and the "choose your own adventure" ads he sees coming over the horizon.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Dan Abrams, host of an eponymous new live show on Nexstar's NewsNation, about drawing lines between his brand of bias and primetime cable's penchant for left/right absolutism.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with latenight legend Jay Leno about his reboot of the classic game show You Bet Your Life this month, the pandemic's bruising impact on young comics' careers and if he misses manning The Tonight Show desk in these volatile times.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Branden Frantz, president and GM of Hearst's WLWT Cincinnati, about the station's revival of editorials in a period of stark political divisions and tenuous media trust among viewers.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with David Chu, co-founder and CEO of Digital Media Rights, about the viability of niche-oriented AVOD options on streaming.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and TVB President-CEO Steve Lanzano discuss persistent agency silos, audience measurement woes and automation resistance in the world of TV advertising, prompting the question of whether the whole business could use some time on the couch to work through its issues.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Paige Albiniak discuss TV stations' winding path back to the office as the Delta COVID variant plays havoc with developing plans.
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Inside Edition host Deborah Norville about supporting the Broadcasters Foundation of America as its fundraising efforts have been hampered by the pandemic.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Harry Jessell discuss the uncertainty lingering at the FCC, where Acting Chair Jessica Rosenworcel may be facing contention for the permanent job and a fifth commissioner has yet to be appointed.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Vanessa Otero, founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media, about the company's Media Bias Chart and where prominent TV news organizations fare in its measure.
TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp talks with Stephen Brown, EVP of programming development for Fox First Run and Fox Television Stations, about the strategic role of game shows in Fox's syndication lineup, along with how programming is progressing at Fox Soul, the group's African-American-targeted streaming channel.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Brodie Fenlon, editor in chief of Canada's CBC News, about the organization's month-long suspension of comments on its stories posted on Facebook amid a climate of rising toxicity on social platforms.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Shawn Wheat, executive producer of Gray Television's Local News Live, about the new, digital-only streaming initiative that stitches together news from across Gray's stations via a small team of anchors and producers.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Devra Prywes, CMO and CPO of Applicaster, about how media companies are moving toward hybrid revenue models in a banner year for OTT and where station groups should be pursuing more monetization potential from their own streaming apps.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Michael Senzon, SVP and GM of Local Now, about the Allen Media-owned OTT platform's emergence from beta and how it's angling for an audience with a value proposition of ZIP code-level localized content.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Harry Jessell discuss Gray Television's acquisition of Meredith and other potential moves on the M&A chessboard, along with changes at the top at CBS's stations.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Mim Davey, VP of news at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis, about the station's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial and how Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement have impacted newsroom priorities.
TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp talks with Mariel Myers, Nzinga Blake and Porsha Grant, executive producers of ABC Owned Television Stations' new race and culture reporting team, about the project's bold goals to bring depth and context to reporting on underrepresented communities across the group's eight stations.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Paige Albiniak discuss the pandemic's blows to live television and why advertisers still prize it.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Janet Stilson discuss sports betting's meteoric rise in spot TV, what's accelerating the trend and the patterns it's tending to follow in DMAs following its legalization.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Stu Weiss, founder of Studio City/PXL about daytime television's best ongoing value proposition — the longstanding relationships viewers forge with its offerings.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Brian Weiss, president and GM of Tegna's multicast networks, about diginets' younger skewing audience, and with Evan Moore, VP of commerce partnerships at NBCUniversal, about the growing phenomenon of shoppable TV.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and writer Paige Albiniak look at Facebook's ongoing primacy for TV station groups in their social media efforts, though the relationship has evolved and monetization hopes tempered.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Hadassa Gerber, TVB’s chief research officer, about its latest media comparisons research study and with Harry Jessell, TVN's editor-at-large, about a broadcast investment alternative to paying dividends along with the clarifying picture about sports rights negotiations.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Byron Harmon, VP of news at Fox-owned WNYW New York, about what the post-pandemic major market newsroom will look like, how the past year has impacted his management approach and the vital role of HBCUs in furthering industry diversity.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Janet Stilson look at the divide that has opened up between agencies and station groups over Nielsen's plan to include broadband-only homes in its local market samples starting this spring.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Harry Jessell look at TV's M&A prospects this year following Gray's acquisition of Quincy and discuss the major moves at Nexstar's NewsNation.
TVNewsCheck's Editor Michael Depp and writer John Consoli look at sports advertising's gangbuster pandemic performance, even while sports viewership is down, and how prospects are looking for the trend to hold steady.