DirecTV, NBCU Set 2026 Winter Olympics Coverage Plan
DirecTV and NBCUniversal announced Friday a multi-platform content agreement for the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, offering subscribers live coverage, interactive features and 4K HDR broadcasts. The games, scheduled …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:52 PM
Xumo Expands Direct Access To Premium Streaming Inventory via The Trade Desks OpenPath
Xumo, the streaming joint venture between Comcast and Charter Communications, announced Thursday it is expanding direct access to its premium inventory through OpenPath, a direct supply path from advertising technology …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:00 PM
Grass Valley, Netgear Partner On Enterprise Media Solutions
Grass Valley and Netgear Inc. have formed a partnership aimed at the enterprise media market, combining IP networking hardware with software-defined production tools. The collaboration is designed to serve the …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:24 PM
Comcast Is Proud Of Its Peacock
CFO Jason Armstrong: “Peacock revenue grew more than 20% to a record $1.6 billion. Revenue growth was over 30% as paid subscribers increased 8 million year-over-year and 3 million sequentially, reaching 44 million as of Dec. 31.”
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:23 PM
Corporation For Public Broadcastings Harrison Delivers Final Remarks
For the public media's greater good, CPB needed to dissolve, she said.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:55 PM
Scripps News To Air Live Special On Minneapolis ICE Crisis
Scripps News anchors Del Walters and Maritsa Georgiou will host a live, one-hour special Jan. 29 originating from Minneapolis, where a weeks-long siege by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:21 PM
Dhar Mann Named NFLs Chief Kindness Officer As League Kicks Off Super Bowl Creator Blitz
Robert Irwin, The Career Ladder 's Max Klymenko and Nicky Campbell will also be on site to film content for their social channels.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:17 PM
Xfinity Unveils Tech-Heavy Viewing Experience For Winter Olympics
The suite of new viewing tech includes customizable multiview screens, low-latency 4K broadcasts and AI-generated highlights.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:14 PM
ISE: Sony Electronics Launches BRAVIA Professional Displays BZ-P Series
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:55 PM
Xumo Taps The Trade Desk To Expand Direct Access To Premium Streaming Inventory
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:18 PM
YouTubes AI Slop Crisis Is A Warning, And An Opportunity, For Local Media
When infinite AI-generated content becomes infinite noise, local medias verified journalism becomes the premium product users actively seek to block the flood.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:13 PM
DTV Innovations Names Sean P. Devine Director Of Software Engineering
DTV Innovations (DTVI) has appointed Sean P. Devine to director of software engineering. The Elgin, Ill.-based provider of hardware and software solutions for terrestrial, outside broadcast and streaming said the …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:58 PM
Center For Sales Strategy Named To 2026 Sales Training Watch List
The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS) has been named to Training Industrys 2026 Top Sales Training Watch List, a recognition for organizations making a significant impact in the corporate sales …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:00 PM
WUPA Atlanta To Launch CBS News Atlanta Mornings In AR/VR Studio
CBS-owned WUPA Atlanta announced Thursday the launch of a new weekday morning newscast, CBS News Atlanta Mornings, set to debut Feb. 2. The one-hour program will broadcast from the station’s recently …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:20 PM
Disney Hires Morgan Stanley Analyst Ben Swinburne To Lead Investor Relations & Corporate Strategy
Swinburne, who led media research for the bank, will report to Disney CFO Hugh Johnston.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:54 PM
Kari Lake promotes Trump on Voice of America. Does that break the law?
Critics say U.S. Agency for Global Media's Kari Lake risks making Voice of America sound like a propaganda outlet in her remarks on the air praising President Trump.
NPR News at Friday, January 30, 2026 4:01:00 AM
Charter Adds 44,000 Pay TV Subscribers In Fourth Quarter
New pricing and packaging enabled the rebound in video subscribers amid competition from YouTube and streaming rivals.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:54 PM
ATSC Board Leadership Re-Elected For 2026
The board of directors of ATSC has elected its 2026 chair and vice chairs, welcomed new directors and appointed 2026 officers. At the boards January meeting, John I. Taylor of LG …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:19 PM
2026 duPont-Columbia Award Winners
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'Washington Post' journalists plea to Bezos: Don't gut our newsroom
Members of the newspaper's union say they have been warned the company could cut as many as 300 jobs, although no announcement has been made.
NPR News at Friday, January 30, 2026 11:00:00 AM
Washington Post Plans Cuts To Reshape Newsroom
The changes are expected to include significant layoffs in areas like sports and international coverage.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:09 PM
Dow Adds 56, Nasdaq Falls 172, S&P 500 Slips 9
After a day of sharp swings, Wall Street ended nearly where it began Thursday.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:15 PM
Can This Man Break Disneys Succession Curse?
Josh DAmaro is widely considered a front-runner to be the companys next CEO. His biggest challenge might be escaping Bob Igers shadow.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:05 PM
Trumps overnight posting frenzy draws swift pushback, fact checks
Once again, President Donald Trump went on a Truth Social frenzy, and said a bunch of things that simply are not true. The latest Trump outburst came Wednesday night and […]
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Stars and Stripes top editor talks about Pentagon's takeover of the newspaper
NPR's Michel Martin asks Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin about the Pentagon's takeover of the newspaper that has covered U.S. armed forces since the Civil War.
NPR News at Thursday, January 22, 2026 4:51:26 AM
Adult Swim Ups Cameron Tang To Head Of Development & Current Series
Hes been a part of the Adult Swim team since 2012.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:18 PM
Net Insight Names Nadia Kolli Chief Commercial Officer
Net Insight has appointed Nadia Kolli chief commercial officer, effective immediately, following her tenure as acting CCO since Jan. 12. Kolli brings extensive international leadership expertise and global experience in …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:02 PM
Streaming Ratings: Stranger Things Sets Another Record With Series Finale
Fallout continues growing and The Pitt rejoins the Nielsen charts as 2026 begins.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:10 PM
BET & V10 Entertainment Premiere MLK Jr. Awards On Feb. 3
BET and V10 Entertainment will bring The MLK Jr. Beloved Community Awards to national television for the first time on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The two-hour event, …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:57 PM
How did Tucker Carlson become one of the far right's most influential voices?
Writer Jason Zengerle says Carlson had the foresight to see Trump's potential in 2015. Now he's someone the president definitely listens to. Zengerle's new book is Hated by All the Right People.
NPR News at Tuesday, January 27, 2026 12:20:32 PM
Nick Canizales Returns To KBMT Beaumont News
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:12 PM
Weather influencers are going viral. How much should we trust them?
The weather genre online spans a wide range of sources. Experts say that while weather influencers can help fill an information gap, social media platforms tend to prioritize likes over accuracy.
NPR News at Friday, January 23, 2026 11:48:25 AM
Employees of Pittsburgh's 'Post Gazette' haven't given up on saving the daily paper
Owners of Pittsburgh's only daily paper plan to shutter the paper in May after a long labor dispute. But employees haven't given up on saving the Post Gazette, even if it has to change to survive.
NPR News at Monday, January 19, 2026 5:31:42 PM
FBI searches a Washington Post reporter's home as part of investigation
Hannah Natanson had a phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch seized. The Justice Department says this is part of an investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of taking home classified information.
NPR News at Thursday, January 15, 2026 12:42:08 AM
After 20-Year Break, Levis Is Back In The Super Bowl
After more than two decades off the Super Bowl stage, Levi Strauss & Co. is returning to the Big Game. The denim giant revealed the move during its latest earnings call, positioning the high-profile ad buy as the next phase in a broader brand turnaround.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:10 PM
DigitalGlue Updates Creative.space Platform With Integrated Review, Remote Access
DigitalGlue, developer of the Creative.space platform, has released Creative.space OS 3.0.5, a software update designed to consolidate media workflows by integrating video review, archiving and remote access into a single …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:02 PM
NESN Announces Multi-Platform, Weeklong Coverage Live From Santa Clara
New England sports network NESN today announced a weeklong slate of Super Bowl coverage live from Santa Clara, Calif., ahead of the New England Patriots drive for a record seventh …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:01 PM
Civil Rights Groups Weigh In Against Arkansas Social Media Law
Civil rights groups are urging a federal appellate court to preserve an order blocking enforcement of an Arkansas law that would require social platforms to verify users' ages, and prohibit teens under 16 from having social media accounts without parental permission.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:17 PM
OpenAI Plans Fourth-Quarter IPO In Race To Beat Anthropic To Market
The rivals are competing to be the first major generative-AI startup to tap public markets.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:06 PM
Journalists should prepare to defend their right to report the news
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort on Friday signal an increasing willingness for the federal government to criminalize newsgathering activities. While the legal merits of those arrests […]
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Poynter Institute at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:25 PM
WMAQ Chicago Adds James Beard Award Winner Kevin Pang As New Food Guy Reporter
NBC O&O WMAQ (NBC 5 Chicago) has named James Beard Award-winning journalist Kevin Pang its new “The Food Guy” multi-platform on-air reporter. Pangs segments, focusing on the latest local cuisine trends, hot …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:22 PM
NBC Lands Votto To Complete MLB Talent Triple Play
The network finalized a three-year, $600 million deal last fall to return to MLB coverage for the first time in 26 years. The network is finalizing deals to make Joey Votto, Clayton Kershaw and Anthony Rizzo part of its baseball plans this spring.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:07 PM
Catherine OHara Dies At 71
The comic actor launched her career as one of the ensemble members of the star-making cast of SCTV before gaining acclaim in such films as Beetlejuice, Home Alone, A Mighty Wind and, in a full-circle embrace of her TV roots that earned her an Emmy Award, Schitts Creek. She was 71.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:56 PM
Federal agents arrest journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in what press freedom groups say is an
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that she had instructed federal agents to arrest independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, along with two others, in connection with an immigration […]
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Fourth graders ask whether kids or adults have it better as part of NPR challenge
Who's got it better in life, kids or adults? A group of fourth-graders in New Jersey did some serious reporting on this topic and sent us their findings as a part of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.
NPR News at Wednesday, January 28, 2026 8:25:21 AM
Telemundo Plans Record Multiplatform Coverage For The Super Bowl
The Spanish-language media group will distribute content across Telemundo, Universo, Peacock, the Telemundo Deportes Ahora FAST channel, and various social platforms.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:21 PM
Don Lemon Arrested By Federal Agents
Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles on Thursday evening, as the journalist was covering the Grammy Awards, his attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement. It was not immediately clear what charge or charges Lemon is facing.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:03 PM
Feds arrest Don Lemon, Minnesota journalist and 2 others over church protest
Lemon was arrested by U.S. agents days after covering an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul, Minn., church. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called the protest a coordinated attack.
NPR News at Friday, January 30, 2026 9:36:06 AM
News Publishers Limit Internet Archive Access Due To AI Scraping Concerns
Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:15 PM
National Archives Of Estonia, Memnon Digitization Project Preserves 4,300 Hours Of Video
The National Archives of Estonia (NAE) has completed its first large-scale video digitization project, preserving 4,300 hours of historical recordings in partnership with global content migration specialist Memnon, the organizations …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:24 PM
In Minneapolis, journalism students are learning to report under pressure amid an immigration surge
In the opening week of a new semester — and as roughly 3,000 immigration, Border Patrol and other Department of Homeland Security agents poured into Minneapolis as part of “Operation […]
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After rocky start, Bari Weiss plans cuts, adds commentators at CBS News
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss came in with a mandate to reshape coverage. She laid out her strategy in a staff meeting Tuesday.
NPR News at Tuesday, January 27, 2026 6:52:23 AM
MRC Issues Final Digital Advertising Auction Transparency Standards
The standards create a baseline for disclosure and reporting in terms of how an auction scores, sets prices, uses reserves and changes over time.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:12 PM
How the Minnesota Star Tribune prepared its newsroom to cover Operation Metro Surge
Over the past few weeks, the world has been watching the reporting coming out of Minneapolis. The immigration crackdown of Operation Metro Surge, protests, and the deaths of Renee Good […]
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Documentary about Poynters PolitiFact brings story of fact-checking to Japanese television
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (January 30, 2026) – PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fact-checking newsroom based at the Poynter Institute, is the focus of a television documentary premiering this week on Japanese […]
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National News Literacy Week 2026 Focuses On Rebuilding Trust In The Age Of AI
The seventh annual National News Literacy Week will focus on helping teenagers navigate a media landscape increasingly flooded with AI-generated content and misinformation, according to organizers. The event, scheduled for …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:05:59 PM
Amazon Blocks Mainstream Press From Watching Melania Documentary At Kennedy Center
Reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and Vanity Fair, among dozens of other outlets, were not granted tickets to the invite-only screening.
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:08 PM
In Los Angeles, a news outlet superbloom is emerging
This week, Los Angeles residents browsing newsstands might have noticed a new paper tucked in among the usual copies of the Los Angeles Times and national dailies. The California Post […]
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Ryan Bailey Promoted At KGNS Laredo, Brenda Camacho Leaves
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:12 PM
Nexstar Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend Of $1.86 Per Share
Nexstar Media Group announced today that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.86 per share of its common stock. The dividend is payable on Friday, Feb. …
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TV News Check at Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:06:05 PM