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When Sinclair Inc. confirmed the closure of five of its newsrooms in mid-size and smaller markets earlier this month, it signaled that a reckoning had arrived. Part of that was Sinclair itself having to concede the bankruptcy of its regional sports networks division, Diamond Sports, wasn’t nearly as quarantined from the rest of the company […]

Shrugging off its early critics and challenged ratings, upstart network NewsNation recently upped its weekday programming to 24 hours a day and unveiled two state-of-the-art new studios in its New York facility. It’s a signal that parent company Nexstar is still bullish on the network as it finds its footing against far more deeply entrenched […]

Kate O’Brian, president of Scripps News, explains how the bulk of its weekday broadcast hours will go to live as of May 1 and how the network manages its complex web of collaborations between its own reporters fanned out across the U.S., Scripps’ local stations, its hubs in Denver and Washington, D.C., and Scripps-owned Court TV. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

Leading TV news and sports technologists will frame up where 5G is having a growing impact on their production in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch Webinar, 5G and Television Production, on May 18 at 1 p.m. ET. Executives from Fox Sports, BBC, Sinclair Inc. and Ross Video will speak to the pace of 5G’s worldwide rollout, […]

If you thought being a multimedia journalist was a tough enough juggling act, try spending a few hours at the anchor’s desk of Fox’s LiveNOW streaming channel. In addition to anchoring, LiveNOW’s hosts serve as their own producer and director, teeing up the next story while they’re still reporting the first one, steadily operating a […]

LAS VEGAS — With ATSC 3.0 signals currently reaching over 60% of the country, broadcast executives at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday said they are ready to begin delivering datacasting services using the new transmission standard and should see revenues in early 2024. But they cautioned that the datacasting business remains hamstrung […]

Consumers are purchasing 3.0-enabled receivers in increasing numbers

Act Your Age, a new half-hour original comedy from diginet Bounce, saw a record debut for the network last month with 2.14 million viewers tuning in for its debut episodes. Given how streaming consumes most of the oxygen in every programming room, it’s a debut worth noting. Alyson Fouse, the show’s creator and showrunner, takes […]

Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, Saraphin Dhanani, Hyemin Han, Quinta Jurecic, Tyler McBrien, and Benjamin Wittes analyzed the first charges to drop against former President Donald Trump after his Tuesday afternoon arraignment in New York. On an emergency edition of the Lawfare Podcast, Wittes sat down with Rebecca Roiphe, Jurecic, Bower, and Dhanani to discuss the legal grounds

You’re in a bar, waiting on a friend. Where do your eyes go? The muted TV above you with captions running across it or the comforting phone cradled in your hand? If Blake Sabatinelli has his way, it’s the TV, though he knows it will take something other than a muted broadcast to hold your […]