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If Barry Nash’s research is to be believed, what audiences want from their TV anchors is a moving target. It all depends on when you ask and then how you allow them to answer. Nash, a talent coach and consultant, has worked with CNN, NBC and Telemundo stations, among numerous others. He has also spent […]

Executives from CBS, NBCUniversal, Graham Media, the CBC and Magid will look at how consumer data is affecting broadcasters’ decisions on programming, revenue and audience relationships in a panel discussion at TVNewsCheck’s TV2025: Monetizing the Future event at the NAB New York Show on Oct. 19. Register here.

Entertainment Tonight barrels into its 42nd season next week not just as a syndicated magazine show stalwart, but as a multimedia brand. Erin Johnson, the show’s VP, rose through its ranks on the show’s digital side, building the enterprise as a multiplatform, continuously updated source of celebrity news along the way. Now at ET’s helm, […]

Executives from NBCUniversal, Fox Television Stations, E.W. Scripps, Gray Television and Estrella Media told a TVNewsCheck webinar last week they’ve needed to embrace a wide range of tools and tactics to grow audience and revenue for their streaming channels. Ubiquity and flexibility, they said, are key.

NBCUniversal Local’s Valari Staab, Graham Media Group’s Catherine Badalamente, Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Chris Ripley and Hearst Television’s Jordan Wertlieb will share their outlook for 2023 and weigh in on the industry’s most crucial challenges in TVNewsCheck’s annual station group leaders panel at TV2025 on Oct. 19 at the NAB New York Show. Register here.

Imagine if a network or TV station could create an AI-based digital copy of its main anchor, allowing them to do a little pinch-hitting for parts of the job. It’s already happening in South Korea and China, where South Korean company Deep Brain AI is working with four different networks on digital copy anchors reading […]

TV station groups see significant opportunity in expanding their news and other local programming to serve audiences on streaming, NextGen TV, the web, mobile and in some cases their daytime lineups. How they’re managing to do it inside of their technology and staffing parameters will be the subject of a panel, Creating More Content for […]

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.

NextGen TV, set to be available in 75 markets, including New York, Philadelphia, Miami, San Francisco and Washington, by the end of 2022, is making its consumer debut amid the meteoric rise of consumer streaming. A group of executives at the vanguard of its rollout will tackle its most pressing challenges and key questions in […]

KDSK, a Tegna-owned station in St. Louis, has just rounded the corner of its 75th anniversary on the air, and Art Holliday, its news director, has just marked 43 of those years on its staff. Those two exceptional milestones foreground this week’s Talking TV conversation with Holliday and Carol Fowler, the station’s director of content. […]