Is Local Programming Becoming A Thing Of The Past?
Recent changes in staffing and local resources at many of the larger radio companies, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, have carved deep channels of change in the day-to-day operating methods of many markets and stations with many companies putting more emphasis than ever on hub and spoke programming.
In this timely session, we ask
Is Local Programming Becoming A Thing Of The Past? Our panelists will be exploring the changing dynamics of radio programmers now running stations day-to-day in other markets. How does this look and is there more of this in store? How are you accomplishing your day-to-day goals and managing resources from air talent to support teams? What s the trick to making your station come off live and local and still have the feel of authenticity? And most importantly, is this strategy that s saving operational money improving or hurting the financial returns based on ratings?
Saturday Night Live's cold open took a look at the year of 2021 so far and spoofed pop-culture and political figures including QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, a GameStop investor, O. J. Simpson, and Tom Brady.
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Saturday Night Live returns from the holiday hiatus to find the country in 2021 much-changed. Given all that’s happened, it makes sense the show would attempt to cover a range of topics in their cold open.
On What Still Works, talk show host Kate McKinnon attempts to figure out which parts of American society are still functioning. The answer, depressingly but not surprisingly, is pretty much nothing.
A discussion of government sees national disgrace Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Cecily Strong) espouse various nutso conspiracy theories, such as how “the California wildfires were caused by Jewish space lasers” (which is not made up).
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Saturday Night Live is back! The sketch comedy series returned after a very lengthy hiatus (during a very volatile few months) and decided to cover as much of what they missed all in one go, with a little help from host John Krasinski.
For the cold open, Kate McKinnon hosted the political talk show
What Still Works, which McKinnon explained, [Is] where we look at every part of American society and wonder, What still works?