Talking TV

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May 05, 2023 As NewsNation Expands To 24/5, Its Help Wanted Sign Is Still Out
Cherie Grzech, VP of news and managing editor of Nexstar’s NewsNation, shares the importance of the network’s recent expansion to 24 hours of news each weekday and its two new state-of-the-art studios in New York. She says while other news organizations are cutting staff, NewsNation is still hiring producers and reporters.
27 min
April 28, 2023 Scripps News Ramps Up Live Newscasts
Kate O’Brian, president
of Scripps News, explains how the bulk of its weekday broadcast hours will go
to live as of May 1 and how the network manages its complex web of
collaborations between its own reporters fanned out across the U.S., Scripps’
local stations, its hubs in Denver and Washington, D.C. and Scripps-owned Court
TV.
22 min
April 06, 2023 Bounce’s ‘Act Your Age’ Sets A Debut Record
Alyson Fouse, creator and showrunner of Bounce’s new sitcom Act Your Age, discusses the enduring value of classic sitcom tropes and why diginets are a great place to debut new comedies.
14 min
March 31, 2023 Ambient TV Comes To FAST
Blake Sabatinelli, CEO of Atmosphere TV, explains how to make good TV deliberately for background consumption, and how his company has turned its network of FAST channels into a lucrative business at bars, restaurants and other venues.
21 min
March 24, 2023 ‘Young & Restless’ Stars Peter Bergman And Susan Walters On Show’s 50th
Peter Bergman and Susan Walters, veteran actors on CBS’s The Young and the Restless, reflect on the show’s longevity, evolution and future as it marks its 50th
anniversary on broadcast.
24 min
March 17, 2023 When Is NextGen TV Revenue Coming?
John Hane, president and CEO of BitPath, shares an update on how far along the ATSC 3.0 consortium is toward building a national network that will support leasing data services and get cash registers finally ringing for broadcasters.
21 min
March 10, 2023 Tackling Advanced TV At The IAB Tech Lab
Tony Katsur, CEO of the IAB Tech Lab, shares how he’s trying to solve for universal reconciliation, universal audit, audience interoperability and creating strong anti-fraud mechanisms in CTV among an ambitious list of other priorities in 2023.
22 min
March 03, 2023 Reporters Making The Journey From Print To TV
Angelika Albaladejo and Jessica DeLeon are two former print reporters currently going through the Google-sponsored Journalism Journey Initiative to transition their skills to TV at E.W. Scripps stations. They share the tougher parts of the transition, the fresh-eyes advantages they bring to TV and how other former print reporters may follow in their stead.
27 min
February 24, 2023 CBC’s ‘About That’ Elevates Explainer News For Streaming
About That, the flagship news show for the newly launched CBC News Explore FAST channel, pairs a smart, conversational approach to storytelling with broadcast-quality production values. Host Andrew Chang explains how it does so with a tiny staff and big ambitions for reframing TV news.
38 min
February 17, 2023 Welcoming The End Of News Objectivity
Andrew Heyward, a research professor at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School and co-author of a new report, Beyond Objectivity, explains the problems with aiming for “objective” news and what alternate goals newsrooms would do better to pursue.
27 min

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Talking TV is a podcast that covers the business of television broadcasting, an evolving industry serving audiences over the air, on cable, online, on mobile and on over-the-top TV platforms.