Fact-checking isnt just for journalists. Here are 5 reasons its for you, too
My friends and family know Im a fact-checker, so they send memes on a regular basis, asking me, “Is this true?” Its usually a post that makes them sad or […]
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Telekom Slovenije Opens Local Ads On International TV Channels
Telekom Slovenije is opening new local advertising opportunities on international linear TV channels through Synamedia Iris, a regional ad insertion system from Synamedia. The service lets advertising airtime on international …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:19 PM
Senator Asks If All-GOP FCC Would Violate Federal Law
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has asked Commissioner Anna Gomez, the FCC's only Democrat, for her legal opinion on whether the Communications Act permits the FCC to do its work with a 3–0 panel of Republicans.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:50 PM
Ellison Picks HBO Content Chief To Run Paramount-Warner Streaming Business
Paramount streaming head Cindy Holland is leaving the company, making way for HBOs Casey Bloys.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:26 PM
Trumps taxpayer-funded ads look like campaign spots. Are they legal?
Weeks before the midterm elections, the Trump administration released a series of taxpayer-funded ads prominently featuring President Donald Trump promoting his agenda, and Democratic lawmakers called them illegal propaganda. One […]
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U.S. Presidents Cup Comeback Delivers Viewership Boost For NBC
NBC drew 2 million viewers for the final round, up from the 1.37 million viewers the network averaged in 2024.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:28 PM
SABC Upgrades Johannesburg Studios With Ikegami Cameras
The South African Broadcasting Corp. is upgrading its main production center in Johannesburg with Ikegami UHK-X600 camera systems as part of a wider move to IP-based production. The rollout will …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:44 PM
ANI Adopts Grass Valley Tools For High-Volume News Workflow
Asian News International, a South Asian multimedia news agency, has deployed Grass Valley‘s AMPP and Framelight X to manage ingest, media handling and content distribution across its news operation. ANI …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:45 PM
Station Trading Roundup: 2 Deals, $4,175,000
The purchase of KJYY Portland & KCKW Eugene, Ore., 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 Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:21 PM
What we know about the suspected U.K. terror plot. And, why the Gulf remains in limbo
What we know — and still don't — about the suspected terror plot near a U.K. air base. Trump rejects Iran's offer to pause fighting. And CNN prepares for new owners with ties to Trump.
NPR News at Monday, September 28, 2026 7:15:05 AM
Evan Gershkovich spent 491 days imprisoned in Russia. Now hes telling his story.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested while reporting in Russia on March 29, 2023. When he learned he was being charged with espionage, he was, believe it or […]
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Sinclair Refreshes Branding Of Former ABC Affiliate KDNL St. Louis
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:27 PM
Veteran TV Reporter Who Walked Away From NBC News Is Making A Comeback
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Audiences want great journalism. Our job is to help them find it.
There are works of journalism that resonate many years after publication. Lane DeGregorys haunting story for the Tampa Bay Times on a family trying to help a young girl recover […]
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XR Integrates With Kinetiq Political Insights To Link Ad Data
XR, the advertising operations platform formerly known as Extreme Reach, has integrated with Kinetiq Political Insights to give political campaigns and agencies faster access to real-time ad intelligence and campaign …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:22 PM
Meta Forms Business-Facing AI Product Platform
As Meta continues to invest billions into the development of superintelligence and AI, the tech giant will begin selling its artificial-intelligence tools to businesses and developers via its newly founded “Meta Enterprise Platform.”
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:51 PM
Fuse Media Rebrands As Streaming-First Company
Fuse Media is rebranding to reflect a shift from a multicultural television company into a streaming-focused business built around free ad-supported streaming television, connected TV, content monetization and culturally specific …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:43 PM
Starling Launches New CTV Platform For TV Ads
Starling, a connected TV supply-side provider, has launched a new platform built for connected TV, aiming to help advertisers and publishers deal with fragmentation, weak audience signals and limited transparency …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:43 PM
Charlie & Martin Sheen To Star As Father & Son In Comedy Happy Jack For AMC
The half-hour family comedy has been greenlit for six episodes and will start production at Warner Bros. Studios, in the studio where Friends was filmed, for a 2027 launch.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:38 PM
Fox Deportes Launches New Programming Lineup
Fox Deportes is rolling out six new original studio shows and several new sports properties as it celebrates its 30th anniversary this fall. The Spanish-language sports network said the new …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:24 PM
KNBC & KVEA To Host Live Los Angeles Mayoral Debate
KNBC (NBC4) and KVEA (Telemundo 52) will host a live one-hour debate for the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race on Oct. 13, with incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:31 PM
AI learned how to write from humans. Now humans are trying not to sound like AI.
Artificial intelligence is making editors do strange things, like second-guess skills built over entire careers or blanch at the sight of punctuation marks. This manifested at the recent ACES: The […]
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MIW Announces Free Webinar On AI For Content Creators
Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio will host a free webinar next month focused on how artificial intelligence is changing content creation for radio professionals. The 45-minute panel, titled “AI …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:24 PM
Sony Chief Wayne Garvie: Its Very Difficult To See How Channel 4 Survives In Present Form
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:51 PM
Newspapers: White House Favors AI At Expense Of Publishers
News organizations suing OpenAI are urging a federal judge to give little weight to the Department of Justice's opinion that training large language models on copyrighted material is a fair use.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:37 PM
Disney Hit By Layoffs, A Couple Hundred Workers Cut
Disney has initiated layoffs as it continues to tighten its belt under recently appointed CEO Josh DAmaro. The cuts are said to impact a couple of hundred employees, largely in areas such as tech and HR, which is a smaller number than the two previous rounds of layoffs earlier this year.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:42 PM
Seven Local TV Weather Promos From Across The Country
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:18 PM
Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill To Overhaul College Sports
The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill Monday that would overhaul the multibillion-dollar college sports industry — a major legislative victory shared by members of both parties and President Donald Trump, who wants to sign the package as soon as possible.
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WAGA Atlanta To Air NHL Predators Games
WAGA (Fox 5 Atlanta) will bring Nashville Predators hockey back to local viewers this season through a new agreement with Scripps Sports. The games will air on BUZZR, ch. 5.3, …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:20 PM
KCRA Names Kristin Kay News Director
She will lead the news operations for Hearsts KCRA and KQCA in Sacramento after moving from co-owned WGAL Lancaster, Pa.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:35 PM
Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
The White House calls the spots public service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:34 PM
CW & NHRA Reach Multi-Year Broadcast Deal
The CW Network has reached a multi-year broadcast agreement with the National Hot Rod Association that will bring the final seven races of the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:22 PM
News organizations ask court to bar White House enforcement of access ban
Three news outlets that President Trump banished from White House grounds asked a federal court to block the ban until the case is resolved.
NPR News at Tuesday, September 29, 2026 3:13:11 AM
WRALs New Documentary Examines Ignored Warning Signs Before Teachers Murder
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:18 PM
PGA Tour Taps Ryan Holcomb To Lead Original Content
Holcomb, most recently with Box to Box Films, will help develop the golf tour's content strategy.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:39 PM
Audiohook Acquires Podscan And Opens Data To Industry
Audiohook Corp. has acquired Podscan Inc. and is making most of the podcast intelligence platforms data available to the industry at no cost. The deal closed Aug. 24, according to …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:23 PM
Reacher Gets Early Season 6 Renewal Shortly After Season 4 Wraps With 66M Viewers In 28 Days
Prime Video is picking up the pace on its Reacher renewals, handing its flagship drama starring Alan Ritchson a Season 6 pickup just 12 days after the Season 4 finale and four months after the early Season 5 order — the first time the show has received two renewals in the same year.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:52 PM
OpenAI Scraps Release Of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
The model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra was due to make its debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:48 PM
TV Journalist Crowned King Of A Traditional Monarchy In Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A journalist on Tuesday was crowned king of a traditional monarchy that lost its onetime “boy king” last month, triggering widespread grief and a succession dispute …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:29 PM
ARRI Targets Content Creators With New Honor Smartphone
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:28 PM
Cindy Holland Leaving Paramount Ahead Of WBD Merger
Cindy Holland is leaving Paramount where she was chair of direct-to-consumer since the close of the Skydance-Paramount merger, having served as an adviser to Skydance CEO David Ellison prior to that. She announced her departure in a company memo Tuesday.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:30 PM
At White House, Trump Asks AI Titans To Police Themselves
President Trumps meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” the term the president prefers. ( Jacquelyn Martin/AP )
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:26 PM
Guy Raz Acquires Ownership of How I Built This Podcast, Partners With Vox Media
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:28 PM
How a New York Times reporter documented the brazenness of a notorious sex-trafficking corridor in L
This story began, as they often do, with a tip. In the spring of 2023, Emily Baumgaertner Nunn heard from a high-ranking official who was struggling to contain a problem […]
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Veritone, ATP Media Strike Tennis Archive Licensing Deal
Veritone Inc. said today it has reached a multi-year content licensing agreement with ATP Media that will make the ATP Tours tennis archive available for licensing across North America. The …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:46 PM
Georgia Natural Gas To Sponsor Atlanta Hawks On WANF
The Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta News First (WANF) today jointly announced that Georgia Natural Gas (GNG) will serve as an official broadcast sponsor for Hawks game telecasts on ANF throughout …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:20 PM
West Tenn. PBS To Air Weekly EPW Wrestling Program
West Tennessee Public Broadcastings WLJT Lexington, Tenn. (West TN PBS), will begin airing EPW Wrestling on Oct. 3, bringing weekly professional wrestling to public television in the region. The Booneville, …
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Darby Brown Leaves KEYE Austin For KPNX Phoenix
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:41 PM
Qvest Names Katlyn Alexander North America CEO
Qvest has appointed Katlyn Alexander as chief executive officer for Qvest in North America, effective Aug. 16, as the media-services company moves through a planned leadership transition in the region. …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:41 PM
Nexstar Stations To Host 41 Live Candidate Debates
Nexstar Media Group says its local television stations across 12 states will host and broadcast 17 live candidate debates in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 midterm elections. …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:33 PM
With Bans And Taunts, Trump Escalates His Assault On The Media
The attacks come at a precarious moment for public trust in the media, with more Americans saying limits on the press can be justified to combat misinformation.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:47 PM
NPR, The Quintessential Audio News Brand, Adapts To A Video-First Future
NPRs new chief content officer Nadine Zylstra on how the public media company acquired the Machine Gods podcast — which she thinks can be “the Car Talk of AI.”
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:32 PM
Dow Drops 132, Nasdaq Loses 23, S&P 500 Falls 13
Stocks closed modestly lower on Wall Street Tuesday as another increase in long-term Treasury yields weighed on the market. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% after wavering between modest gains and …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:33 PM
NewsNation To Simulcast Nexstar Media Groups Debate Week In Michigan On Oct. 8
NewsNation will simulcast Nexstar Media Groups Debate Week in Michigan on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. ET. The one-hour program will feature a debate between U.S. Senate nominees Congressman …
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:41 PM
ABC News Weighs Major Shakeup At Good Morning America
ABC News is weighing a major shakeup at GMA after the iconic broadcast lost its No. 1 ratings berth last season to NBCs Today , sources say. During 2025-26, GMA amassed 2.8 million total viewers and 477,000 viewers in the coveted 25-54 demo — while Today reeled in 2.9 million total viewers and 612,000 viewers in the demo.
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TVs Addressability Opportunity Goes Beyond Audience Targeting
TV doesn't need to reject addressability. It needs to decide what addressability is for .
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:27 PM
What do braids, cornrows, and Bantu knots have to do with the news?
This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a public editor who analyzes local coverage can elevate audience […]
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Public Advocacy Group Urges Broadcasters To Stop Airing Trump Taxpayer Funded Ad
Public Citizen filed complaints with the FCC, FTC, GAO and U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:40 PM
SGO Unveils Workflows Slate To Enable Automated Burn-ins, Slates
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TV News Check at Wednesday, September 30, 2026 12:02:39 PM
Sen. Eric Schmitt confused the Hawks and Hawkeyes and the political press had a field day
The Republican senator thought he was going to dunk on his opponent. Instead, he ended up flat on his back in a wild moment on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Get […]
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