Why Doesn’t YouTube TV Carry C-SPAN?
Tom Wheeler: "Over the past four decades, we have come to take C-SPAN for granted. But this important public service is now threatened by a …
Tom Wheeler: "Over the past four decades, we have come to take C-SPAN for granted. But this important public service is now threatened by a …
Wounded and limping, doubting its own future, American journalism seems to be losing a quality that carried it through a century and a half …
Programming fees have become so onerous as to threaten the future viability of affiliates. Networks need to remember: If stations go under, …
Sean McLaughlin: To assess local TV’s compensation problem in the cold light of day means acknowledging hard market realities. Here’s what …
As desperate AI companies face training data shortages, news organizations are finding new ways to fight back against the AI scraping of …
The FTC’s recent move to ban noncompete agreements and the media management uproar that ensued are a sideline from more pressing industry …
Kevin Curran: Today’s journalism students are tethered to their phones for information. Their professors and the broadcasters who would hire …
Cynthia Lieberman: In the right hands and with thoughtful application, artificial intelligence has the potential to save and revitalize …
Scott R. Flick: "On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced a new rule banning employee noncompete agreements, treating them as …
Across the country, open positions at TV newsrooms stay vacant or draw a drizzle of poorly equipped, unimaginative applicants. Changes at …
David Buonfiglio: "I love TV. Always have. I’m still convinced it’s the single most effective branding medium ever created. I worked in (or …
We are in the midst of a shift in the media industry in which many companies are pursuing business models that have yet to be proven and may …
Armstrong Williams: Depression-era regulations won’t protect local journalism in the digital age.
The industry’s focus on newsroom culture is critical, but nothing can fundamentally change unless leaders take these active and essential …
Stuart N. Brotman: "Recently, Los Angeles became the first major U.S. city to ban digital discrimination by expanding L.A.’s authority to …
Adam Buckman: "Robert MacNeil, who died last week at age 93, may have been the last of his generation of broadcast journalists who set …
Alicia Montgomery: Yes, the broadcaster is a mess. But “wokeness” isn’t the issue.
Time- and staff-starved newsrooms often cling tightly to practices they’ve always had, impeding their ability to take on newer, more …
Local TV can still attract a truly talented younger generation of workers. But it will need to excite them with the prospect of inventing a …
If local TV journalism is to have a future, its leaders need to assess the true value of everything it holds sacred and empower the change …
ONE Media’s Jerald Fritz: NextGen broadcasting provides new essential tools for broadcasters to serve their viewers as well as generate new …
One look at the schedule for the 2024 NAB Show and you might be convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the solution for all that …
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel is in a position to do much good for TV journalism, but she chooses to do harm. On March 21, the agency fined …
How a station handles weather — and the caliber and connectedness of weathercasters in a local market — are critical to a successful news …
Local reporters, anchors and news helicopters played an invaluable role in telling the story of Tuesday morning’s shocking disaster in …
You can't understand November's election — or America itself — without reckoning with how our media attention has shattered into a bunch of …
KSTP’s Kirk Varner: To jettison the anchor as one means of averting an “iceberg” facing local TV news would be the absolute worst move, as …
AWARN's John Lawson: The ATSC 3.0 transition is stalled. A new public-private partnership could jump start it.
David Oxenford: To conclude that it is deregulation, not marketplace forces, that is decreasing localism is to ignore the media marketplace …
TV anchors in their conventional form have outlived their sell-by date. It’s time to think about jettisoning many and putting those worth …
Broadcasters need to harness SSAI cost-effectively to get the most monetization opportunities from the FAST channels they’ve embraced. The …
TV stations throw many impediments in the way of reporters trying to produce quality work. Clearing the way for their success starts with …
The benefits of AI and generative AI are becoming glaringly evident in the world of media buying and planning, where smarter trendspotting …
Some local station groups must lean into creativity, experimentation and the prospect of divorcing their networks if they’re to survive an …
Local audiences no longer see the value of TV news, and newsrooms are barreling towards the end of their runway to change that. But there …
The media industry, roiled by layoffs, coverage of a deeply contentious election and trust issues, is seeing morale plummet. Good managers …
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Ted Hearn: The joint venture formed this week by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery promises a massive slate of sports programming …
Margaret Sullivan: The Russian president was waiting for the right stooge. With Carlson, he got just that.
The syndicator, station owner, cable network empresario, force of nature has gotten some attention from Shari Redstone with his $30 billion …
The state of the industry is more dire than ever. Journalists across the country burst into flames of panic last week, as bad news for the …
Neither the FCC nor FTC has a particularly good track record of standing up to broadband and cable giants when it comes to their …
Dak Dillon: "
Local broadcast news faces an existential crisis. As viewing habits rapidly evolve, these outlets confront crumbling …
Edgio's Eric Black: In an economically squeezed 2024, media companies that shift to a managed services model can find greater flexibility, …
Some of local TV’s brightest and most ambitious talents are leaving beloved jobs — and the industry — behind facing salary prospects that …
Ocean Media's Jay Langan: Social media, clever creative can help ad buys during big events to build buzz.
Margaret Sullivan: "Huge swaths of the country have turned into ‘news deserts’, lacking credible journalism. I fear for the Baltimore Sun."