Without Cameras To Go Live, The Trump Trial Is Proving The Potency Of Live Blogs As News Tools
The former president's hush money trial is illustrating the potency of live blogs as a news tool — by necessity. Television and text journalism are normally two very different mediums. Yet because New York state rules forbid camera coverage of trials and the former president's case has such high interest, blogs are emerging as the best way to communicate for both formats. Pictured: Donald Trump stands as the jury files into the courtroom at the start of the trial in Manhattan criminal court Mond...
TV News Check at Tuesday, April 23, 2024 3:07:05 PM
Spotify Boosts Paid Subscribers In First Quarter, Beating Estimates
Spotify Technology, the audio streaming giant, reported Q1 results broadly in line with analyst forecasts as the company continued to add new features. Paid subscribers rose 14% year over year to 239 million, the company said Tuesday in a statement, in line with analysts estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Total active users, including those plans with advertising, grew to 615 million, compared with the 617.9 million forecast by analysts.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, April 23, 2024 2:24:51 PM
Streaming Became A Mature Business In Q1, Analyst Says
Streaming video might have made the turn from a go-go industry to a mature business, according to a new report from MoffettNathanson senior research analyst Michael Nathanson. Looking at data from HarrisX, Nathanson noted that streaming penetration dipped to 84% in the first quarter from 85% in the fourth quarter of 2023. “Whether this marks a new plateau or whether there is additional room for streaming to increase its penetration will be a key question for investors going forward,” Nathanson s...
TV News Check at Tuesday, April 23, 2024 1:14:30 PM
Adam Sympson: Where We Are Headed And Why
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 never pan out. As consumers shift to an on-demand approach to television viewing driven mostly by digital delivery of video, many of the biggest media companies, far bigger than Scripps and our peer-group broadcasters, have taken steps to break their content out of the exclusivity of existing bundles that have served the industry so well for the last 50 yea...
TV News Check at Tuesday, April 23, 2024 1:01:11 PM
Ex-National Enquirer publisher is back on the stand in Trump hush money trial
David Pecker has previously cooperated with federal investigations into payments made to two women who were going to allege they had affairs with Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
NPR News at Tuesday, April 23, 2024 1:00:24 PM
In Paramount Takeover Effort, Silicon Valley And Hollywood Worlds Collide
David Ellison, 41, would not be the first rich guy to arrive in Hollywood with a fat bank account and dreams of making movies, though the son of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison boasts the rarest of attributes for a budding media mogul: a Silicon Valley pedigree. In an industry where many get their start fetching coffee or moving props, Ellison spent summers writing computer code for his father's software company and getting insights on the movie business from Pixar Animation Studios co-...
TV News Check at Tuesday, April 23, 2024 6:30:45 AM
Nexstar Urges FCC To Reverse Its Ruling Ordering Sale Of WPIX
Nexstar Media Group is asking the Federal Communications Commission to cancel its order that WPIX New York be divested by Mission Broadcasting, claiming that the agreements under which Nexstar runs the station for Mission are legal and approved by the commission. Nexstar also wants a $1.2 million fine levied against it by the FCC canceled. Mission was also fined $612,395 as part of the commissions Notice of Apparent Liability. “Through the NAL, the commission seeks to wield its enforcement auth...
TV News Check at Tuesday, April 23, 2024 5:09:44 AM
CSI: Vegas & So Help Me Todd Canceled By CBS
CBS has canceled CSI: Vegas after three seasons and So Help Me Todd after two. That despite CSI: Vegas and So Help Me Todd being solid ratings performers. With the entire CBS schedule doing well this season and three new drama series joining in 2024-25 — NCIS: Origins, Matlock and Watson (in addition to a second season of the Australian NCIS: Sydney ) — the network was faced with painful decisions, and So Help Me Todd and CSI: Vegas are the least watched CBS drama series this sp...
TV News Check at Monday, April 22, 2024 8:07:20 AM
Sesame Workshop Writers Reach Tentative Deal To Avert Threatened Strike
Writers Guild members at Sesame Workshop have reached a tentative deal with management to avoid a threatened strike. A ratification vote on the new five-year collective bargaining agreement will be held in the coming days. The writers had voted earlier to authorize a strike against the nonprofit organization, and picketing would have begun April 24 outside Sesame Workshops offices in New York City, had a deal not been struck.
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TV News Check at Monday, April 22, 2024 8:07:19 AM
House Passes New Bill To Force TikTok Sale
The fate of TikTok in the United States is even more uncertain as the House on Saturday voted on a package that requires that parent ByteDance divest its popular social media platform or face a ban on app stores. Lawmakers passed the bill 360-58, part of a series of votes to break a six-month standoff over a $95 billion aid package to Ukraine as well as to Israel and to Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific. The Senate is expected to take up the package of bills, including Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan aid, ...
TV News Check at Monday, April 22, 2024 8:07:19 AM
Terry Anderson, AP reporter held captive for years, dies at 76
Snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985, reporter Terry Andersen chronicled his years of imprisonment in a 1993 best-selling book. He died at home in New York on Sunday.
NPR News at Sunday, April 21, 2024 6:00:25 PM
Streaming Ratings: Quiet On Set Delivers Maxs Biggest Showing Yet
The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV posted Maxs best streaming numbers to date for its premiere week. The show, which streamed on Max concurrent with its on-air premiere on ID, had 1.25 billion minutes of viewing for the week of March 18-24. Thats the largest weekly total for any series on Max in the nearly four years of Nielsens streaming rankings, edging out the 1.19 billion for The Last of Us in early 2023.
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TV News Check at Saturday, April 20, 2024 6:07:04 PM
Netflix Adds 9.3M Subscribers In Another Strong Quarter
Netflix added 9.3 million subscribers in the quarter ended March 31, reaching 269.6 million worldwide, and outperformed expectations in other key areas in its latest strong financial report. Revenue and earnings per share both handily exceeded Wall Street forecasts at $9.37 billion and $5.28, respectively. The top line was up 15% from the same quarter in 2023, while EPS came in at nearly double the year-ago periods $2.88. In its quarterly letter to shareholders, Netflix said it planned to stop ...
TV News Check at Saturday, April 20, 2024 5:07:23 AM
FCC Targets Pay TV Contract Terms Deemed Harmful To Independent Programmers
Federal regulators on Friday announced a new plan designed to advance the interests of independent video programmers that have complained for years about restrictive contract terms demanded by pay TV distributors. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said she launched the rulemaking in response to independent programmers that “continue to express concern about the challenges they have getting their programming on the channel lineup of cable and satellite television.”
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TV News Check at Friday, April 19, 2024 7:46:15 PM
Nexstar Dropping Scripps-Owned CW Affiliates In 7 Markets
Nexstar Media Group said it does not intend to renew the affiliations of The CW stations owned by E.W. Scripps in seven markets. In two of those markets — Norfolk, Va., and Lafayette, La. — Nexstar-owned stations will become the new The CW affiliates, effective Sept. 1. “We have interest from other station groups in the five remaining markets and expect to make announcements about those affiliations soon,” Nexstar said in a statement.
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TV News Check at Friday, April 19, 2024 3:02:40 PM
Remembering Robert MacNeil, longtime host of PBS 'NewsHour'
During his decades-long career, MacNeil reported on the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1986 and 1995.
NPR News at Friday, April 19, 2024 2:00:25 PM
Pornhub, XVideos, Stripchat Face Strict EU Rules, Commission Says
Adult content companies Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will have to do risk assessment reports and take measures to address systemic risks linked to their services to comply with new EU online content rules, the European Commission said on Friday. The three companies were designated as very large online platforms last December under the Digital Services Act, which requires them to do more to remove illegal and harmful content on their platforms.
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TV News Check at Friday, April 19, 2024 7:11:26 AM
Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study
A new study finds that in news stories about scientific research, U.S. media were less likely to mention a scientist if they had an East Asian or African name, as compared to one with an Anglo name.
NPR News at Friday, April 19, 2024 7:00:29 AM
Comcast Intros Prepaid Broadband, Mobile And TV
Comcast on Thursday surprised with a suite of prepaid products that includes wireless, fixed broadband, Wi-Fi and streaming TV, all under the new Comcast “NOW” brand. Wireless has offered prepaid mobile plans for years. These plans have typically been targeted to lower-income people; they dont require good credit scores (since theyre prepaid); and they can easily be switched on and off. But prepaid has not been widely offered in the fixed broadband world.
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TV News Check at Friday, April 19, 2024 5:08:48 AM
As AI-Created Photorealistic Images Proliferate, Documentary Producers Draw Up Guidelines
On Tuesday, a group of archival producers presented a draft set of best practices for using generative AI tools in Los Angeles, noting a danger of forever muddying the historical record. Pictured: In a demonstration of OpenAI's video tool Sora, this still was created from the prompt, The camera directly faces colorful buildings in Burano, Italy. An adorable dalmatian looks through a window on a building on the ground floor. ( OpenAI )
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TV News Check at Friday, April 19, 2024 2:07:42 AM
Broadcasters Foundation Of America Honors Industry Leaders
The Broadcasters Foundation of America held its annual breakfast Wednesday during the NAB Show in Las Vegas. The Foundation honored several industry leaders. Six honorees received the Leadership Award, and Erica Farber received the Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award. L-r: Mike McVay , president, McVay Media Consulting; Kathleen Kirby , partner, Wiley; Don Bouloukos, CBS and ABC Radio executive; Erica Farber , president-CEO, Radio Advertising Bureau; Frank Comerford , chief revenue...
TV News Check at Friday, April 19, 2024 1:08:24 AM
Live With Kelly & Mark Retains Strong Daytime Audience As Consuelos Celebrates Co-Hosting Ann
At a time when daytime talk shows are on a relative decline in viewership Live seems to have found the secret sauce to retaining its audience. This season, it is one of just two syndicated talk shows to improve on its average total viewership from the previous year. Live remained the No. 1 entertainment talker on television over the past year, growing 3% in average total viewers to 2.23 million per episode. According to Nielsen data, the show has been the most-watched syndicated talk show in...
TV News Check at Friday, April 19, 2024 12:08:20 AM
Tennis Channel Looking to Score With Fans Across Multiple Platforms
The Tennis Channel is lining up to play on multiple distribution courts in 2024 as it looks to serve its hard-core viewers wherever and whenever they want to see live tennis and Pickleball action, according to Tennis Channel president Ken Solomon. The Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned service is planning to launch a direct-to-consumer offering in 2024 to complement its lineup of the Tennis Channel linear service, its Pickleballtv and T2 FAST Channels and its Tennis Channel Plus SVOD service.
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TV News Check at Thursday, April 18, 2024 5:11:01 AM
How Sahan Journal grew into a vital source of news and information for Minnesotas immigrant communi
Changes are coming to Sahan Journal — a mark of the award-winning digital newsrooms success and its lasting impact on the media ecosystem in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Mukhtar Ibrahim, the pioneering founder, is stepping down as founding publisher and CEO. After building a robust, award-winning nonprofit news site covering immigrant communities, Ibrahim announced in...
Nieman Labs at Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:07:06 AM
NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns with blast at new CEO
The senior editor says CEO Katherine Maher has divisive views that confirm the issues he wrote about in an essay accusing NPR of losing the public's trust.
NPR News at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 12:00:19 PM
The Life And Death Of Hollywood
Thanks to decades of deregulation and a gush of speculative cash that first hit the industry in the late Aughts, while prestige TV was climbing the rungs of the culture, massive entertainment and media corporations had been swallowing what few smaller companies remained, and financial firms had been infiltrating the business, moving to reduce risk and maximize efficiency at all costs, exhausting writers in evermore unstable conditions. Now, film and television writers face an existential threat.
TV News Check at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:07:48 AM
March Madness, State Of The Union Help Cable Stem Months-Long Viewing Decline
Cable captured 28.3% of all TV viewing in March, according to Nielsen's monthly Gauge report, up from 27.6% in February. Thats the first time since August 2023 — a span of seven months — that cable has seen its share of TV use increase. The State of the Union amassed 14.1 million viewers on cable channels (about 44% of the overall audience of 32.23 million), and the top six telecasts on cable for the March reporting period (which ran from Feb. 26 to March 31) were related to the annual address.
TV News Check at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 9:07:01 AM
Warner Bros. Discovery Hires Canoe Ventures CEO David Porter As Head Of Ad Sales Research
David Porter, an ad industry veteran and former Turner exec, is joining Warner Bros. Discovery as head of ad sales research, data and insights. Porter reports to Jon Steinlauf, Warner Bros. Discoverys chief of U.S. advertising sales, and will split his time between WBDs New York City and Atlanta offices. The announcement of Porters hiring comes a month ahead of the sale orgs May 15 Upfront presentation in New York City. Porter replaces Andrea Zapata, who exited WBD at the end of 2023 and is ...
TV News Check at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 9:07:00 AM
Former Spotify Exec Max Cutler Launches New Media Company
Max Cutler, the former Spotify executive who oversaw the audio streamers deals with the likes of Alex Cooper and Joe Rogan, is launching his own company. Cutler, who founded Parcast Studios, which Spotify acquired in 2019 for $56 million, left Spotify as part of a reorg last year. He is now launching PAVE Studios, which will focus on audio, video, books and live experiences. The name stands for Podcasts, Audiobooks, Video and Entertainment.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 9:07:00 AM
March TV Viewing: YouTube And Netflix Post More Gains, Streaming Up 12%
YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu posted viewing gains in March versus February contributing to streaming's continuing virtual dominance — up 12% in persons age 18 plus viewing year-over-year, according to Nielsen. YouTube posted another gain (up 0.4 point from February) to a leading 9.7% best share of a platform TV-video. Netflix was right behind with an 8.1% share, up 0.3 point — helped by three original shows Love is Blind, The Gentleman and Avatar: The Last Airbender . Hulu added 0.2 of a point,...
TV News Check at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 9:06:59 AM
Sesame Workshop Writers Unanimously Authorize Strike, Will Walk Out Friday If No Deal Is Reached
Writers at the Sesame Workshop have voted unanimously to authorize a strike against the non-profit organization, the Writers Guild of American announced Tuesday. The guild says that there was 100% participation in the strike authorization vote from the 35-member bargaining unit. The writers are prepared to walk the picket line if a tentative deal isnt reached by Friday, which is when the current contract expires. The strike would include any and all work for Sesame Street.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 9:06:58 AM
Participant, Studio Behind ‘Spotlight,’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ Shutters Af
Billionaire Jeff Skoll told his staff of 100 in a memo shared with The Associated Press Tuesday that they were winding down company operations. This is not a step I am taking lightly, Skoll wrote in the memo. But after 20 years of groundbreaking content and world-changing impact campaigns, it is the right time for me to evaluate my next chapter and approach to tackling the pressing issues of our time.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 9:06:57 AM
CBS Greenlights First Black Daytime Soap Opera In 35 Years
The network has handed out a formal series order to The Gates . The network on Monday announced that the series, following the lives of a wealthy Black family in a posh, gated community, will debut in January 2025. The specific time period, launch date and other details will be revealed later. The official series pickup comes a month after CBS announced it was teaming with the NAACP to develop The Gates .
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TV News Check at Wednesday, April 17, 2024 1:06:53 AM
YouTube To Cut Down On Mobile Third-Party Ad Blockers
YouTube made an update Monday in relation to third-party ad-blocking apps, which may make it more difficult for users to watch YouTube videos without paying for the companys ad-free tier. Specifically, viewers using these third-party apps to access YouTube may begin experiencing “buffering issues” or be met with an error message stating that “the following content is not available on this app.”
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Voting technology company settles lawsuit against OAN over 2020 election claims
The settlement between Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies targeted by fraud claims related to the 2020 election.
NPR News at Tuesday, April 16, 2024 9:00:22 PM
NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
NPR has suspended Senior Editor Uri Berliner after he wrote an essay accusing the public radio network of becoming too progressive in its news coverage and losing the public's trust.
NPR News at Tuesday, April 16, 2024 5:00:27 AM
A company linked to a large “pink slime” network is being hired by big publishers like Gannett
The largest newspaper chain in the United States has an ongoing business relationship with a company linked to a sprawling network of over a thousand “pink slime” publications — sites that profess to be local but have no local staff and do not disclose funding theyve received from political sources. A Gannett spokesperson confirmed the...
Nieman Labs at Sunday, April 14, 2024 12:07:10 AM
A window into Facebook closes as Meta sets a date to shut down CrowdTangle
A widely used window into Facebook is closing for good. Meta had already disbanded the team behind the social monitoring tool CrowdTangle and prevented new users from signing up. On Thursday, users were told CrowdTangle will no longer be available after August 14, 2024. The free tool allowed newsrooms and journalists to follow trends and...
Nieman Labs at Sunday, April 14, 2024 12:07:10 AM
AI news thats fit to print: The New York Times editorial AI director on the current state of AI-po
Hi, Im Zach Seward, the editorial director of AI initiatives at The New York Times, where Im building a newsroom team charged with prototyping potential uses of machine learning for the benefit of our journalists and our readers. Before that, I cofounded and spent more than a decade helping to run the business news startup...
Nieman Labs at Saturday, April 13, 2024 12:07:29 AM
The National Trust for Local News buys a “mission-driven” printing press in Colorado
Plenty of talk in newsrooms these days might be about how to navigate new technologies like artificial intelligence — but one string of Colorado newspapers is jazzed about a decidedly retro development. The National Trust for Local News, a nonprofit that has been buying newspapers in multiple states and investing in their modernization, has gone...
Nieman Labs at Saturday, April 13, 2024 12:07:29 AM
'Hilltop,' Howard University's student newspaper, is going strong at 100 years old
Howard University's student newspaper hit 100. The paper that Zora Neale Hurston helped found is still going strong.
NPR News at Friday, April 12, 2024 6:00:18 PM
Google blocks California news in response to bill that would force tech giant to pay
The company on Friday said it has started blocking California-based news outlets to protest a pending bill that supporters say would extend a lifeline to the ailing news industry.
NPR News at Friday, April 12, 2024 5:00:23 PM
Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS 'NewsHour,' dies at 93
MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday...
NPR News at Friday, April 12, 2024 4:00:22 PM
The CW President Dennis Miller Talks Up Nets Reboot And Whats Coming Next
Dennis Miller took over as president of The CW in October 2022, after the network was acquired by Nexstar Media Group. He quickly set about refashioning The CW by bringing in more live sports, decreasing the number of scripted series that are exclusive to the network and deploying a coproduction model that sees series air on The CW and another network in a different country, Canada. Here, he talks about his eventful first 18 months atop The CW, including the networks shift away from the younger...
TV News Check at Friday, April 12, 2024 1:07:42 PM
Broadcasters Invest In Run3TV To Bolster Over-the-Air Audience Measurement
Local television station owners including Gray Television, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Hearst Television, Tegna and the E.W. Scripps Co. have invested in the ATSC 3.0 Framework Authority, whose Run3TV platform can provide detailed data about over-the-air broadcast viewership. Run3TV also creates apps that provide NextGen-enabled TV sets that give viewers additional features and programming.
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TV News Check at Friday, April 12, 2024 1:00:22 PM
Mexican journalists launch a new outlet from the ashes of the countrys shuttered state news agency
Former employees of Mexicos now-defunct state news agency, Notimex, launched the Mexican Association of Information (AMEXI) last Thursday as a new news outlet covering the countrys deepest challenges, according to an announcement posted on Twitter. ?? #ULTIMAHORA ?? A más de dos meses de concretarse el cierre de #Notimex por instrucción del presidente @lopezobrador_, este...
Nieman Labs at Friday, April 12, 2024 12:07:33 AM
YouTube Rolls Out Shopping Tools To Boost In-Stream Commerce
Approaching spring shopping trends, YouTube is unveiling new in-stream shopping tools in an effort to facilitate new ways for creators to show off products, push more purchase activity, and gain more revenue opportunities in the video-sharing app. YouTube says its new “Shopping Collections” feature provides creators with a thematic way to curate products from their favorite brands. The feature — which is intended to highlight a creators tastes in a similar way to a Pinterest board — may enhance...
TV News Check at Thursday, April 11, 2024 6:07:31 PM
The Night Manager Revived At BBC, Amazon With Two-Season Pickup
Amazon and the BBC are teaming to revive the Emmy- and BAFTA-winning thriller The Night Manager , eight years after its initial run. Tom Hiddleston will reprise his role in the show, which scored a two-season order from the BBC and Amazons Prime Video streaming platform. Series creator David Farr is also set to return as writer. Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, who starred in the first season, will also be executive producers.
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TV News Check at Thursday, April 11, 2024 5:08:04 PM