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This episode of Talking TV first appeared on TVNewsCheck on Oct. 7. It’s a lot harder to get and keep a syndicated talk show these days, which makes Tamron Hall’s success all the more remarkable. Hall’s eponymous show has been renewed through a fifth season, giving her more breathing space to build her “Tam Fam” […]

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. took no half measures when it came to overhauling its approach to TV news, so it started with a top-to-bottom reboot of its flagship national broadcast, The National. That reboot prompted heavy blowback from viewers and taught the legacy public broadcaster valuable lessons on audiences’ threshold for change. It didn’t dampen […]

TikTok has largely been a place where local news fears to tread, but Tegna is raising an army there. Verify, the company’s national reporting brand that also iterates at its local stations, has amassed more than 105,000 followers on the Gen Z-oriented platform. Those users are extremely engaged, the group says, responding ardently to its […]

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 major weather events and how climate has become an important part of the reporting narrative. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

In this repeat of the Talking TV episode from Aug. 26, 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. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

In this repeat of a Talking TV episode from Aug. 19, 2022, 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. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

It’s a lot harder to get and keep a syndicated talk show these days, which makes Tamron Hall’s success all the more remarkable. Hall’s eponymous show has been renewed through a fifth season, giving her more breathing space to build her “Tam Fam” of followers in the ever-more constricting syndication world. In this Talking TV […]

NewsTECHForum, TVNewsCheck’s annual conference that looks at the intersections of news and technology, along with the rapidly evolving workflows powering them forward, will return to the New York Hilton for a day-long event on Dec. 13, co-located with the Sports Video Group Summit. This year the event will explore the theme of Reimagining the News […]

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. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

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. A full transcript of the conversation is included.