Talking TV

TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Vanessa Otero, founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media, about the company's Media Bias Chart and where prominent TV news organizations fare in its measure.

TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp talks with Stephen Brown, EVP of programming development for Fox First Run and Fox Television Stations, about the strategic role of game shows in Fox's syndication lineup, along with how programming is progressing at Fox Soul, the group's African-American-targeted streaming channel.

TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Brodie Fenlon, editor in chief of Canada's CBC News, about the organization's month-long suspension of comments on its stories posted on Facebook amid a climate of rising toxicity on social platforms.

TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Shawn Wheat, executive producer of Gray Television's Local News Live, about the new, digital-only streaming initiative that stitches together news from across Gray's stations via a small team of anchors and producers.

TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Devra Prywes, CMO and CPO of Applicaster, about how media companies are moving toward hybrid revenue models in a banner year for OTT and where station groups should be pursuing more monetization potential from their own streaming apps.

TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Michael Senzon, SVP and GM of Local Now, about the Allen Media-owned OTT platform's emergence from beta and how it's angling for an audience with a value proposition of ZIP code-level localized content.

TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Harry Jessell discuss Gray Television's acquisition of Meredith and other potential moves on the M&A chessboard, along with changes at the top at CBS's stations.

TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Mim Davey, VP of news at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis, about the station's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial and how Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement have impacted newsroom priorities.

TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp talks with Mariel Myers, Nzinga Blake and Porsha Grant, executive producers of ABC Owned Television Stations' new race and culture reporting team, about the project's bold goals to bring depth and context to reporting on underrepresented communities across the group's eight stations.

TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp and Paige Albiniak discuss the pandemic's blows to live television and why advertisers still prize it.