NewsTECHForum Video: Liquid Content & The New AI-Enabled Architecture Of News Products
The future of news is about building an information architecture where journalists become developers, archives become semantic databases and the “website” may eventually become obsolete, say leaders from CNN, The New York Times , Reuters and Hacks/Hackers. This story is available to TVNewsCheck Plus subscribers only. Become a TVN Plus subscriber or log in here .
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:46 PM
Bart Story, Longtime Entertainment Research Executive, Dies At 63
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:44 PM
KHOUs Dr. Neil Frank Dies At 94
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:38 PM
Ad Tech & CTV Experts Forecast 2026s Biggest Trends
From AI to voice control, execs sound off on 2026 trends that are reshaping the CTV and ad tech businesses.
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TV News Check at Friday, December 26, 2025 10:44:27 PM
A Father, A Son And Their $108 Billion Push For Media Moguldom
Larry and David Ellison didnt always have a close relationship. Now theyre one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:38 PM
Inside Bari Weisss Decision To Pull A 60 Minutes Segment
A conflict over the CBS News editor in chiefs decision to hold a segment spotlights internal tensions over editorial standards.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:33 PM
US Sees Surge In Violence Against Journalists Under Trump, Report Says
The US press have suffered about as many assaults this year as in the previous three years combined. ( Ethan Swope/AP )
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:50 PM
The Marketing Master Trying To Make Us Fall In Love With Disney Again
The companys first chief brand officer, Asad Ayaz, is Bob Igers pick to depoliticize Americas best-known entertainment company.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:23:51 PM
Warner Bros. Discovery Says It Will Carefully Review and Consider Paramounts Revised Offer
David Ellison submitted his revised tender offering, backed by his father Larry Ellison, Monday morning.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:42 PM
FTC Vacates Order Against Deceptive AI Firm, Cites Need For Speed
The Federal Trade Commission has vacated its 2024 order against the artificial intelligence firm Rytr, which the agency previously alleged enabled people to write phony reviews.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:51 PM
Latenight TV Got More Liberal In 2025, Study Says
Pressure from the right, whether direct in Jimmy Kimmels case or implied in Stephen Colberts, was a defining feature of the year for the sector so its not a huge surprise that the content of these shows got more liberal, according to a new study from conservative watchdog Media Research Center.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:53 PM
Jimmy Kimmel Uses Christmas UK TV Speech To Declare Victory Over King Donny Trump
The U.S. late-night host addressed the British nation in Channel 4s Alternative Christmas Message, but the real audience for his speech may have been closer to home. Kimmel said the outcry over his brief suspension from ABC — following a clumsy monologue about Charlie Kirk — was a “miracle” for free speech in a nation where tyranny is “booming.”
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:37 PM
NewsTECHForum Video: How Broadcasters Are Operationalizing A News Everywhere Strategy
Leaders from Hearst Television, NBCUniversal Local, CBC and Fox Television Stations say the era of prioritizing one platform over another is over and its time for a ruthless reimagining of the newsroom. This story is available to TVNewsCheck Plus subscribers only. Become a TVN Plus subscriber or log in here .
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:46 PM
David Finfrock Celebrates 50 Years At KXAS Dallas
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:38 PM
Bari Weiss Yanking A 60 Minutes Story Is Censorship By Oligarchy
Margaret Sullivan: Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor — not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:23:52 PM
ESPN Renews Deal For Heisman Trophy Coverage
The 2025 Heisman Trophy Ceremony averaged 4.3 million viewers, delivering the events best audience since 2012.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:44 PM
NFL Streaming Record Still Stands Nearly A Year Later
While the NFLs linear rights holders are reaching historic heights this season, the leagues streaming situation remains somewhat different.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:36 PM
Layoffs Expected As Marketers Face Pressure Over AI Savings, Survey Finds
At the largest companies, 47% of marketing executives expect to be handing out pink slips, and some have already started.
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TV News Check at Friday, December 26, 2025 10:44:32 PM
Carr Lays Out FCCs Key Wins In 2025
The chairman's lengthy list includes holding broadcasters accountable to their public interest obligations, work on the NextGen TV transition and launching an inquiry into network affiliate relations.
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TV News Check at Friday, December 26, 2025 10:44:28 PM
Would Major Hollywood Unions Accept A Five-Year Contract? AMPTP Mulls Offer As 2026 Talks Near
Hollywoods top labor groups usually operate on three-year deals, but the negotiations body for studios and streamers is contemplating longer pacts.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 11:21:19 AM
Bari Weiss CBS News Gaffes Pile Up As Paramount Tries To Woo Warner
The hard-charging news chief keeps running into walls instead of breaking down silos, all as the parent corporation tries to show its media-industry mettle.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:38 PM
YouTube Has A Firm Grip on Daytime TV
YouTubes big streaming lead over Netflix and other competitors stems in large part to its dominance during daylight hours.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:31 PM
IES, AES Promote Graham Kirk, Brienne Willcock
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TV News Check at Friday, December 26, 2025 10:44:27 PM
Why Gen Z & Gen Alpha Are Feasting On TV Comfort Food
Your kids favorite shows may be the ones you grew up with as they dig deep into TV libraries.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:55 PM
Stranger Things Shatters Nielsen Record It Already Held
Stranger Things outdid itself with the premiere of its final season over the Thanksgiving holiday. The Season 5 premiere ushered in the highest weekly viewing total ever for a streaming title.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 11:21:17 AM
NYT Reporter John Carreyrou, 5 Others Sue OpenAI, Google, Meta For Copyright Infringement
The New York Times itself filed suit against Perplexity AI earlier this month.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:52 PM
Rob Reiner — Scenes From a Life Special On CBS News Hits 6.2M Viewers
The 45-minute special on Dec. 21 featured new interviews with the late filmmakers friends, including Kathy Bates, Annette Bening, Albert Brooks, Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Jerry OConnell and Mandy Patinkin, who reflected on his his career and legacy.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:44 PM
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:37 PM
Charles Scott, Houstons First Black TV Photojournalist, Dies
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:37 PM
Trump Says New York Times A Serious Threat To National Security After Epstein Piece
President Trump on Tuesday condemned a New York Times report outlining his proximity to Jeffrey Epstein amid the disgraced financiers illegal activities tied to an underground sex trafficking ring.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:51 PM
Dow Climbs 80, Nasdaq Rises 133, S&P 500 Adds 31
S&P 500 closed at another record Tuesday, beating the high it set earlier this month.
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TV News Check at Friday, December 26, 2025 10:44:31 PM
Bari Weiss Plans Overhaul Of CBS News & 60 Minutes Standards & Procedures
CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, is planning to create a masthead for the broadcaster that is meant to drive a more streamlined hierarchy and set of processes across show and news gathering teams to prevent disparate editorial procedures and standards.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:42 PM
CBS News Announces Tour For Launch Of CBS Evening News With Tony Dokoupil
His tenure as the new face of CBS Evening News will begin in Miami, as the network this week announced a 10-city, 10-day tour of the evening broadcast.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:37 PM
Here are your favorite Poynter journalism memes from 2025
Its a weird time to be a journalist. Digital news archives are disappearing. Generative AI is giving em dashes a bad name. Layoffs. Consolidations. Buyouts. Burnout. Countless, daily insults from […]
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Poynter Institute at Friday, December 26, 2025 6:48:25 PM
EVS Announces Landmark Investment By North American Media Customer
EVS, a global provider of live video technology for broadcast and new media productions, today announced the signing of a “significant, long-term agreement with a North American media customer. The …
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:54 PM
The True & Traumatic Origins Of Festivus, the Seinfeld-Popularized Christmas Alternative
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TV News Check at Friday, December 26, 2025 10:44:26 PM
Gray Media Renews Its NBC Affiliations
The stations in 54 markets reach more than 14 million households.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:59 PM
NewsTECHForum Video: Storycentric Workflows & AI Help Broadcasters Meet Multiplatform Demand
Integrating newsroom systems and personnel that produce stories for broadcast and digital remains a stubborn challenge, but leaders from ABC News, Bloomberg and Cuez offer prospective solutions. This story is available to TVNewsCheck Plus subscribers only. Become a TVN Plus subscriber or log in here .
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:45 PM
The Poynter stories readers talked about — and we couldnt stop thinking about — in 2025
This is a special end-of-year edition of Open Tabs, your weekly roundup of Poynters best journalism. Subscribe to get three must-read stories in your inbox every Friday. If youve spent […]
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Poynter Institute at Friday, December 26, 2025 6:48:25 PM
NBC To Air Stumble Episodes On Mondays Next Month
NBC is ending its linear run of Peacocks The Paper earlier than expected. Instead, starting on Jan. 5, NBC will air episodes of its freshman comedy Stumble in the Monday at 8:30 p.m. ET time slot — where broadcast-friendly versions of The Paper have been airing since Nov. 10.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 11:21:18 AM
Dozens Of MLB, NBA RSNs Could Collapse Without DAZN Deal
After emerging from bankruptcy, regional sports network operator Main Street Sports is once again teetering on the brink of financial calamity.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:35 PM
Trumps First-Term Trust Buster Is Now Working To Get Paramount Its Deal
Former Justice Department antitrust chief Makan Delrahim is at the center of Paramounts bid to wrestle Warner Bros. from Netflix.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:32 PM
Lizzie Avery Dies: Long-Serving NBCUniversal TV Sales Exec Was 54
The well-respected and much-liked Avery passed away unexpectedly earlier this month, her family said. She had spent nearly 24 years with Comcast-owned NBCU, rising from a sales administration manager role to eventually become SVP & EMEA lead sales liaison for TV distribution.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:23:51 PM
Radio drama 'The Archers' turns 75
The world's longest-running radio drama turns 75 in January. 'The Archers' chronicles a fictional farming family in England, navigating climate change, mental health and romance.
NPR News at Saturday, December 27, 2025 11:20:45 AM
FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones Over National Security, Spying Concerns
The ruling will hit Chinese drone-maker DJI the hardest.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:34 PM
NewsTECHForum Video: Media Leaders Are Finally Breaking Up With Algorithms
Digital leaders from Wired, NBCUniversal Local, Subtext and x.news explain how the future is about deep, direct ownership rather than broad reach. This is available to TVNewsCheck Plus subscribers only. Become a TVN Plus subscriber or log in here .
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:47 PM
Whats A Subscription? Warner Bros. Discovery & ESPN Find Out The Hard Way
Dish Network leveraged ambiguity around the term in licensing deals with Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney to offer short-term Sling TV subscription passes.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:41 PM
The Voice Of Primetime Football: Al Michaels Is Still Going Strong At 40 Years Of Calling NFL Games
Except for two years in 1974 and 75, when Michaels did afternoon games for NBC and CBS, Michaels broadcasts have been mostly in primetime. He has also called 11 Super Bowls. Tomorrows Christmas night game between the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs on Prime Video will be his 779th NFL broadcast. ( Mark Zaleski/AP )
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TV News Check at Friday, December 26, 2025 10:44:29 PM
Comcast Extends Michael Cavanaghs Contract Through 2029
Michael Cavanagh, as hes set to assume the role of Comcasts co-CEO on Jan. 2, extended his employment contract with the cable and media conglomerate that runs through Jan. 1, 2029. He will be entitled to an annual base salary of $2.75 million and his annual performance-based cash bonus target will continue to be 300% of that base salary.
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TV News Check at Saturday, December 27, 2025 1:24:43 PM
Station Trading Roundup: 3 Deals, $31,550,000
The purchase of WBBJ Jackson, Tenn., by Gray Media tops the latest list of TV station transactions submitted to the FCC for its approval, according to BIA Advisory Services.
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TV News Check at Friday, December 26, 2025 10:44:30 PM