Automation and graphics take alerting to a new level
Max Alert Live , built into The Weather Companys Max platform for meteorologists, allows users to automate simple alerts in advance, while enhancing severe weather warnings with rich graphics, maps, county-by-county data and more. WKRC Cincinnati Chief Meteorologist John Gumm is pioneering use of the system along with over 70 other Sinclair stations that have signed on to use this technology.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:47 PM
Chyron Becomes Official Live Graphics Provider For FIL TV Broadcasts
The International Luge Federation (FIL) is partnering with Chyron, a global graphics technology and service provider. Starting with the 2024-25 pre-Olympic winter season, Chyron will serve as the official graphics …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:44 PM
Overseer Of The Bill-Board, Foxs Bill Hemmer Says Election Night Runs On Adrenaline – And 1 A.M.
The co-anchor of Fox News Channels Americas Newsroom explains the constant stream of incoming information, data and numbers feeds the story and gives it energy which in turn, gives you energy also.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:42 PM
Netflix Adds New Feature That Makes It Easy To Share Clips From Shows On Social Media
The Moments feature will let users clip and save moments from their favorite shows for easy rewatching, or to share on Instagram and other platforms, coinciding with a new brand campaign.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:21 PM
Samsung Reveals Its Reach: Free Streaming TV Service Is As Big As Major Players
The South Korean tech giant says that its Samsung TV Plus service now has 88 million monthly active users, on par with services like Roku Channel, Pluto, and Tubi.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:18 PM
Oscars Set Creative Team And Executive Producers For 97th Academy Awards
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:16 PM
Post-Olympic Ad Market Continues Double-Digit Expansion In September
September ad spending increased 10.1% over the same month a year ago, and while it decelerated from July's 14.2% and August's 12.1% expansion, both those months included incremental ad spending from advertisers on NBCUniversal's coverage of the Paris Olympic Games.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:16 PM
WLS Anchor Judy Hsu OK After Getting Hit By Foul Ball At World Series
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:14 PM
Tom Jarriel, Globetrotting ABC News Reporter, Dies At 89
In his 37 years at the network, he was a White House correspondent, weekend anchor and correspondent for 20/20 ” He won 19 Emmy Awards.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:13 PM
More Live, Local Sports & My Network Programming On WUAB Cleveland Next Fall
Gray Media announced today that more live local sports from its partnership with Rock Entertainment Sports Network will move or be simulcast from its existing low-power distribution network in Cleveland …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:10 PM
Now Is The Time For Local TV To Get It Right
The moment is here and urgent: TV newsrooms must double down on substantive election reporting with solid, irrefutable facts to inform an anxious public.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:08 PM
Newspaper Non-Endorsements At Washington Post, LA Times Fit A Trend, But Their Readers Arent Happy
The fallout from both decisions continued Monday, with Post owner Jeff Bezos taking the unusual step of publicly defending the move in the columns of his own paper. Three members of the Posts editorial board resigned their positions and some journalists pleaded with readers to not express their disapproval by canceling subscriptions. Many thousands have already done so.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:05 PM
Shohei Ohtani Lifts World Series TV Ratings To Record Levels In Japan
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:01 PM
Vivendi Board Approves Split Into Four Companies, Sets December Shareholder Vote
After final approval of the move designed to address a very high conglomerate discount, shares of pay-TV firm Canal+, ad giant Havas, and publisher Louis Hachette Group would start trading on Dec. 16. Pictured: Vivendi CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:05:01 PM
CNN Bans Ryan Girdusky From Network After Racist On-Air Attack Of Mehdi Hasan
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:58 PM
The Simpsons Tackle Monday Night Football In Disneys Latest Bid To Bring Kids To NFL
Characters from the long-running animated series will join a Dec. 9 Monday Night Football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys in an animated “alterna-cast” that will stream on Disney+, ESPN+ and NFL+ while the usual traditional broadcast airs on ESPN.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:58 PM
Saturday Night Live Visual Effects Artists Unionize With IATSE
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:56 PM
Six Biggest Content Giants Set For Major Spending Landmark
Disney, Comcast, Google, Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and Paramount will spend $126 billion on the content landscape this year, according to research from Ampere Analysis. For the first time, this will account for more than half (50.6%) of the entire landscape, up from 46.8% in 2020 and 47.5% last year. Pictured: Disney was the biggest spender of the six with titles like Shogun .
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:56 PM
Tech Groups Sue Florida Over Social Media Restrictions For Teens
In a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, the organizations NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association say the law (House Bill 3) violates the First Amendment in several ways — including by preventing minors from accessing lawful speech. ( Seth Wenig/AP )
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:53 PM
Fox News To Debut Immersive Graphics Tech During Election Night Coverage
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:51 PM
Sinclair Hurricane Relief Initiative Raises Nearly $1.3 Million
Earlier this month, Sinclair launched Sinclair Cares: Hurricane Relief, a fundraising partnership with The Salvation Army to assist with humanitarian relief efforts on the ground in Western North Carolina, South Carolina, …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:50 PM
Veritone To Manage And Monetize Court TVs Digital Library
Veritone Inc., a creator of human-centered enterprise AI solutions, today announced it will manage and monetize the expansive content library of Court TV. It says “this marks a significant step …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:47 PM
Viant Licenses Comscore Data For Training Viant Ai
Viant Technology Inc. today announced an expanded integration with Comscore, which will enable the use of its audience data to train ViantAI, an autonomous media buying platform. This integration, the companies …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:45 PM
Broadcasters Foundation Debuts Media Mixer In L.A., Bringing Young Professionals Together With Execs
More than 100 broadcasters, from CEOs to those just entering the business, turned out for The Broadcasters Foundation of America (BFOA) first Los Angeles Media Mixer, held last Wednesday, Oct. 23, at theKNBC …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:43 PM
Brian Williams And Amazon Are Asking Election Night News-Seekers To Take A Leap Of Faith With Them
Amazon is the pioneer streaming service to compete in live news with television on its biggest night, a presidential election. And its headliner is the quintessential TV guy, one who told the world about the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump from Rockefeller Center for NBC News.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:40 PM
Baltimore Sun Axes Entire Features Department
The 187-year-old paper, owned by Sinclair boss David Smith, will no longer have the “features, exhibit advances and reviews that make up the soul of features reporting,” the guild says.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:38 PM
Elon Musk Backs TV Spectum Auction Over Political Bias
Elon Musk is endorsing comments on his X platform that called on the federal government to auction broadcast TV spectrum. The legacy broadcast networks are using public spectrum, but act as an extension of the Democratic Party. No more free lunch for them, Musk said. ( Richard Drew/AP )
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:35 PM
Mary Anne Fox Named WABC VP Of Programming
She joins from CNN to succeed the retired Art More with responsibility for the programming strategy for all non-news programs across WABC, including Live with Kelly and Mark.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:33 PM
WRALs Music For The Mountains Concert Raises $1 Million For Hurricane Relief
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:31 PM
Spectrum News+ To Host Live Election Night Coverage
Spectrum News+ will host live coverage of the 2024 general election as well as the biggest races across the country on Nov. 5, beginning at 7 p.m. ET. Election night …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:28 PM
Paramount Global Head of Inclusion Moving Into New Role Working With Office of CEO, Skydance
Starting Jan. 1, Marva Smalls will focus on the transition to the post-merger state of things.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:26 PM
The Big Media Era Is Over
The mainstream media's dominance in narrative- and reality-shaping in presidential elections shattered in 2024. How and where Americans get informed has broken into scores of pieces — from young men on Joe Rogan's podcasts, to suburban women following Instagram influencers. ( Pixabay )
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:23 PM
Andrea Mitchell To Leave Daily MSNBC Show; Will Continue Reporting For NBCU Platforms
On MSNBCs Andrea Mitchell Reports today, she told viewers, “And after 16 years of being in the anchor chair every day, I want time to do more of what I love the most: more connecting, listening and reporting in the field, especially as whoever is elected next week is going to undertake the monumental task of handling two foreign wars and the political divisions here at home.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:21 PM
Deborah Norville To Host Syndicated Trivia Game Show
Deborah Norville has signed on to host The Pefect Line a first-run syndicated game show that CBS Media Ventures has in the works for 2025.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:18 PM
GroupM Bid To Push Ad Dollars To Womens Sports Exceeds Expectations
After launching an initiative earlier in 2024 to double the amount of money its clients spend on womens sports, GroupM, the large WPP-backed media-investment giant, says it has exceeded its initial goals.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:15 PM
Netflix Communications Chief Rachel Whetstone, Public Policy VP Dean Garfield To Exit
In a significant changing of the guard in Netflixs senior executive ranks, Chief Communications Officer Rachel Whetstone and Global Public Policy VP Dean Garfield are leaving the company.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:13 PM
Dick Clark Productions Taps Diana Miller As EVP Talent
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:10 PM
Teri Garr, Offbeat Comic Actor Of Young Frankenstein & Tootsie, dies At 79
Garr died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer. Garr battled other health problems in recent years, including an operation in January 2007 to repair an aneurysm. ( Mark Terrill/AP )
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:04:10 PM
AIMS Elects Board Members For 2024-25
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:12:06 PM
Why MADs Petition Deserves An FCC Hearing, Not Placed On The Back Burner
Foxs knowing distortion of election coverage compels the FCC to consider the Media and Democracy Projects petition challenging the license renewal of one of its stations.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:07:18 PM
Jessica Tarlov Is The Liberal That Fox News Viewers Love To Hate
A die-hard Democrat, she is a resident dissenter on The Five ” the most-watched show in cable news. Does she have the hardest job on television?
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:07:16 PM
Net Insights Chief Commercial Officer Leaving The Company
Mårten Blixt, Net Insight CCO, has chosen to step down from his role to pursue new opportunities outside the company, after more than four years leading GTM strategy, global sales …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:07:13 PM
Jon Stewart To Remain Host Of The Daily Show Through 2025
The comedian has extended his deal to remain as host of The Daily Show through the end of 2025. It means that Stewart will be behind the desk to poke fun at the next president — either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:07:11 PM
Nexstar Media Group Buys WBNX Cleveland
Nexstar Media Group today agreed to acquire the assets of WBNX-TV/TV55 in Cleveland, Ohio, from the Winston Broadcasting Co.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:07:08 PM
Local News Live Announces Election Night Coverage
Gray Media today announced comprehensive election night coverage plans on Local News Live, its 24/7 news network. Starting at 7 p.m. ET on Nov. 5, Local News Live will stream election …
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:07:06 PM
Americas Got Talent Showrunner Jason Raff Exits After 19 Seasons
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 12:07:04 PM
How to cover political violence and threats without making it worse
As vote counting begins and the nation prepares for a transition of presidential power, newsrooms everywhere — but particularly in swing states, swing counties, state capitals and near Washington, D.C. […]
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Poynter Institute at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 11:05:46 AM
Two Yankees-Dodgers World Series Games Up 66% In Viewers
Through the first two games of the 2024 World Series,TV viewing has skyrocketed versus a year ago — up 66% to 14.6 million Nielsen-measured viewers on the Fox Television Network, Fox Sports streaming, Fox Deportes and Univision.
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TV News Check at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 9:04:04 AM
First 50 public media stations selected for second phase of Digital Transformation Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 29, 2024) – The first 50 public media stations from across the country have been selected to participate in a second phase of the Digital Transformation Program […]
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Poynter Institute at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 8:06:09 AM
The Washington Post bleeds subscriptions as Bezos responds to endorsement criticism
The exodus at The Washington Post continues. Both from staff and readers. Two more Post writers have resigned from the editorial board in protest of owner Jeff Bezos blocking the […]
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Poynter Institute at Tuesday, October 29, 2024 7:06:32 AM
The future of true crime sounds like…public radio?
Not too long ago, the word “radio” meant something very particular: The turn of a knob to music stations cycling through the latest hits, or a Howard Stern/Rush Limbaugh-type spouting off, or an NPR member station, staidly delivering the news interspersed with occasional oddities like the musings of a horse born to be wind but...
Nieman Labs at Monday, October 28, 2024 5:03:28 PM
10 years after Serial: Nieman Lab looks at crime news now
“For the last year, Ive spent every working day trying to figure out where a high school kid was for an hour after school one day in 1999.” On October 3, 2014, the first episode of a new podcast dropped. Serial quickly generated a tsunami of interest in true crime, and in podcasts as a...
Nieman Labs at Monday, October 28, 2024 5:03:28 PM
Over 200,000 subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement
Over 200,000 people canceled their subscriptions in the first few days following news that The Washington Post would not endorse any presidential candidate.
NPR News at Monday, October 28, 2024 2:27:19 PM
'Washington Post' decides not to endorse a presidential candidate
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to former Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron about the paper's decision not to endorse a presidential candidate.
NPR News at Monday, October 28, 2024 7:00:26 AM
'Washington Post' columnists push back against non-endorsement decision
In a joint column, 17 Post columnists called the paper's decision not to endorse a presidential candidate a terrible mistake.
NPR News at Saturday, October 26, 2024 12:17:58 PM
Washington Post won't endorse a presidential candidate
The Washington Post's publisher says the paper is returning to its roots with its decision not to endorse a presidential candidate in this year's race, and that its job is to be independent.
NPR News at Friday, October 25, 2024 4:00:27 PM
'Washington Post' won't endorse in White House race for first time since 1980s
The Washington Post declined to make an endorsement in this year's presidential race. Its editorial board has written that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit for office.
NPR News at Friday, October 25, 2024 10:51:16 AM
'Washingon Post' won't endorse in White House race for first time since 1980s
The Washington Post declined to make an endorsement in this year's presidential race. Its editorial board has written that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit for office.
NPR News at Friday, October 25, 2024 10:51:16 AM
Did the 'L.A. Times' and other news outlets pull punches to appease Trump?
Inside the Los Angeles Times , MSNBC, and the Washington Post, journalists question whether news executives are making editorial decisions with an eye to appeasing former President Donald Trump.
NPR News at Thursday, October 24, 2024 2:31:37 PM
Los Angeles Times editor resigns after newspaper withholds presidential endorsement
The Los Angeles editorials editor Times resigned after the newspapers owner blocked the editorial boards plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president, a journalism trade publication reported.
NPR News at Thursday, October 24, 2024 12:55:05 AM