FCC Suspends Operations After Congress Fails To Keep Federal Government Open
Most filing deadlines that fall during the shutdown will be extended with submissions due the next business day after the FCC resumes normal operations.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:16 AM
Mattels Josh Silverman To Lead Paramount Global Products & Experiences Business
The former Disney and Marvel Entertainment executive will oversee consumer products, live experiences, publishing, partnerships and e-commerce for physical products.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:02 AM
Protest Disrupts First FCC Meeting Since Kimmel Suspension: Fire Brendan Carr, Censorship Czar!
Members of Bernie Sanders' PAC Our Revolution disrupted an FCC open meeting in the wake of Carr pushing affiliates to drop Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:30 AM
Broadcast TVs Existential Crisis Is (Now) Unavoidable
The crisis facing broadcast television isn't looming on the horizon anymore — it's here. Viewership has tipped decisively toward streaming, advertising is shifting to more-targeted digital platforms, and historically reliable revenue streams that have sustained local stations for decades are eroding rapidly. ( Bruna Araujo/Unsplash )
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:24 AM
Americans Trust In Media Hits New Low, Poll Finds
Twenty-eight percent of U.S. adults report having a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust that mass media will report the news fully, accurately and fairly, according to new Gallup polling, the first time that figure has fallen below 30%.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:25 AM
ACC Bets On Being 1st League In College Football To Bring TV Viewers Inside Live Replay Reviews
The ACC is the first college league to let viewers listen live to reviews during select broadcasts. Viewers can hear frame-by-frame discussions between stadium officials and the replay command center at the league headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. ( Colin Hubbard/AP )
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:04:56 AM
Call For Technical Papers & Panels Now Open For 2026 NAB Broadcast Engineering And IT (BEIT) Confere
Proposals for technical papers and panels are now being accepted for the 2026 NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) Conference, part of the 2026 NAB Show, held April 18-22, 2026, …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:35 AM
Trumps Threats Against Latenight TV Could Spell More Trouble For Advertisers
Latenight television has come under fire in recent months. That could leave advertisers and media companies, already clinging to whats left on live TV, with an even smaller pool of options. ( Jae C. Hong/AP )
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:21 AM
Jimmy Kimmel & Stephen Colbert Join Each Others Shows To Discuss Recent Latenight Wars: We Have To
The pair agreed that they both find themselves appreciating being on latenight more after their recent experiences. Kimmel joked that Colberts staff was asking if he was hiring. “Ill be Guillermos side kick,” Colbert said.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:29 AM
Kokusai Denki Electric America Amplifies Sales Team With Adam Daniul
Daniul Kokusai Denki Electric America continues to build momentum six months into its rebranding from Hitachi Kokusai Electric with the appointment of industry veteran Adam Daniul to its sales team. …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:18 AM
Spam & Scams Proliferate In Facebooks Political Ads
A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:24 AM
Family Entertainment Television Launches Networks On Mediacom
Family Entertainment Television, parent company of family-friendly networks FETV (Family Entertainment Television) and FMC (Family Movie Classics), announced today that both have launched on Mediacom, one of the nation’s leading cable …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:40 AM
'All Things Considered' bids farewell to host Ari Shapiro
All Things Considered is saying goodbye to Ari Shapiro, whose hosts his final show today following 10 years with the program and more than 25 with NPR.
NPR News at Friday, September 26, 2025 10:41:30 PM
Dow Adds 43, Nasdaq Climbs 95, S&P 500 Rises 23
Wall Street set more records Wednesday, but bond yields dropped following discouraging data on the job market.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:03 AM
Top AI Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google & Meta For New Start-Up
Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:26 AM
With grant-funded reporting, be careful what you wish for
A group of us in the nonprofit news biz had an honest chat about something we cant resist: reporting grants. They arent necessarily essential to nonprofit newsrooms (and more than […]
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Poynter Institute at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:33 AM
Jimmy Kimmel reflects on his comic roots and how he broke into late night
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host found himself at the center of a battle over free speech recently when his show was briefly suspended. He spoke to Fresh Air in 2013, when his show moved to late night.
NPR News at Friday, September 26, 2025 10:41:30 PM
ESPN Signs Stephania Bell To Multi-Year Extension
ESPN has signed senior writer and injury analyst Stephania Bell to a new multi-year extension. Bell will continue to appear regularly on ESPNs NFL and Fantasy Football coverage, including SportsCenter and Fantasy Football Now, in addition …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:42 AM
'Like ice melting': Journalists warn press freedom is in decline across Asia
China's jailing of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan highlights a deeper press freedom crisis across Asia.
NPR News at Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:49:08 PM
Tim Russert Department Of Communication Updates TV Production Studio With For-A Gear
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:31 AM
Bad Bunny is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show. The reaction says as much as the pick.
This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Latin superstar and multi-Grammy winner Bad Bunny has […]
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Poynter Institute at Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:49:59 PM
Telemundo Studios Head: Live Programming Is The Only Way To Beat Streaming
Javier Pons, in a spotlight appearance at the fifth annual Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid, highlighted his team's focus on fiction and formats that reinforce its identity in the U.S. Hispanic market.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:31 AM
The Pentagon Press Gears Up For A Fight
“None of us are signing this pledge,” said one reporter. ( Andrew Harnik/Pool via AP )
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:37 AM
Examining Kimmel's brief suspension and Trump's threats to free speech
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back, but New York Times reporter Adam Liptak and former Washington Post editor Marty Baron say the Trump administration is using federal power to control speech and the press.
NPR News at Thursday, September 25, 2025 2:34:19 AM
Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network Teams Up With Crescent City Sports For High School Sports
Gray Medias Fox affiliate WVUE New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network (GCSEN) are partnering with Crescent City Sports to air high school sports across the Gulf …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:20 AM
Everybody Loves Raymond Cast To Reunite For CBS Special
Ray Romano and series creator Phil Rosenthal will host the show, set to air in November.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:40 AM
Local Public Broadcasting Stations Begin Eliminating Local Programs And Services Without Federal Fun
Kate Riley, president-CEO of Americas Public Television Stations: “Without federal funding, local stations are eliminating or reducing local programs, including local history programs, community event coverage, agricultural programming and local public affairs programming, among others.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:34 AM
Meta To Sell Targeted Ads Based On User Interactions With Chatbot
In mid-December, Meta will update its privacy policy to begin selling targeted ads across its family of social media apps based on the data collected from consumer interactions with the company's AI products, including Meta AI.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:26 AM
What does free speech mean?
The First Amendment is meant to protect freedom of speech for the nation's people and press. But this week, that protection was tested.
NPR News at Sunday, September 21, 2025 6:30:49 PM
What Jimmy Kimmel's suspension says about the FCC's influence on broadcasters
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with longtime telecommunications lawyer Andrew Jay Schwartzman about the suspension of late night host Jimmy Kimmel and the influence of the FCC on broadcasters.
NPR News at Sunday, September 21, 2025 6:30:49 PM
NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting clash as federal funding declines
NPR asked a federal judge to block CPB from awarding a $57.9 million grant to a new consortium of public media institutions to operate the satellite that connects the public radio system.
NPR News at Friday, September 26, 2025 11:32:05 PM
Meta Defeats Antitrust Suit By Users
Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal judge has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit by Facebook users who claimed that the company monopolized the market for “personal social network services.”
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:28 AM
EDO Reports Spanish-Language TV Delivers 30% More Effective Ad Engagement Than English-Language TV
Spanish-Language Television (SLTV) is delivering outsize returns for advertisers, with a 30% lift in consumer engagement compared to English-Language TV (ELTV), according to new research released today by EDO, a TV outcomes …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:20 AM
Togethxr To Keynote New Sports Creators Get In The Game Event At NAB Show New York
Leaders Nancy Dubuc and Kati Fernandez of powerhouse womens sports media and commerce company Togethxr will headline “Sports Creators Get in the Game,” a new TVNewsCheck -produced programming block at NAB Show New York. The Oct. 23 event will connect creators with sports media leaders while inspiring conversations about creator-media partnerships. Register here .
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:01 AM
Jimmy Kimmel Was Just The Opening Salvo In A TV Affiliate Insurrection
Disney CEO Bob Iger eventually shut down a gambit by Nexstar and Sinclair to sideline the Trump-baiting latenight comic — but local broadcasters are gearing up for a much bigger fight.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:39 AM
At Poynter event, Jessica Yellin discusses reporting the news minus the anxiety
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Poynter Institute earlier this month honored two longtime Washington political reporters who went on to build their own news businesses and spoke with them at a […]
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Poynter Institute at Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:50:00 PM
EVS Completes Acquisitions Of Telemetrics & XD Motion
EVS, a global provider of live video technology for broadcast and new media productions, confirmed the completion of two acquisitions announced in the third quarter of 2025: Telemetrics and XD …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:17 AM
Landmark U.S. Cyber-Information-Sharing Program Expires, Bringing Uncertainty
Without legal protections, companies might stop reporting information about cybersecurity threats.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:04:57 AM
Apple TV+ Extends Its Deal To Be Exclusive Streaming Home For Peanuts Until 2030
The new extension — building on a partnership between WildBrain, Peanuts Worldwide and Lee Mendelson Film Productions — includes the classic Peanuts library, as well as plans for more new original series and specials.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:41 AM
Jimmy Kimmel will be back on air on Tuesday, Disney says
The late night comic was suspended last week under pressure from the Trump administration after comments about Charlie Kirk's killing.
NPR News at Monday, September 22, 2025 3:55:00 PM
Ikegami To Showcase IP Alternative To Conventional CCU At NAB Show New York
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:04:55 AM
Forget clicks. You can engage peoples curiosity.
S.P. Sullivan has covered nearly every beat except sports during his career at NJ Advance Media. Now, that coverage lives on social media. “I don’t sound like a news anchor,” […]
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Poynter Institute at Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:49:59 PM
Journalism falters when it fails to acknowledge history
This summer, I spent a week with my family in Washington, D.C., one of our favorite cities. We find the wealth of museums, historic landmarks and monuments particularly appealing. For […]
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Poynter Institute at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:33 AM
My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2
Comedian Norm Macdonald died in 2021. But, on OpenAIs new generative AI social media platform, hes releasing new material about China, artificial intelligence taking jobs and his drinking (he said […]
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Poynter Institute at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:33 AM
Trump said kids get 80 vaccines. The real number isnt close
President Donald Trump repeatedly exaggerated the number of vaccines recommended for small children, comparing it with vaccinating a horse. “They give — I mean, for a little baby to be […]
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Poynter Institute at Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:49:59 PM
Broadcasters, Ownership & The First Amendment
Bill Hayes: As we have seen in many businesses that consolidate, the mission and commitment to serving the customer is often diluted or completely abandoned in favor of the bottom line.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:33 AM
Pete Hegseths war on leaks has reached a new level of absurdity
This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Pete Hegseths assault on the media continued this […]
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Poynter Institute at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:33 AM
TV Ratings Were Undercounting Sports for Years. Not Anymore
A major shift is underway with how viewership is being counted — and football is a big beneficiary.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:04:54 AM
TiVo Video Trends Report Finds Growing Consumer Interest In Video Service Bundles Over Fragmented St
Today, TiVo, a wholly owned subsidiary of entertainment technology company Xperi Inc., released its Q2 2025 Video Trends Report detailing a “fragmented but vibrant entertainment landscape, where video remains king for consumers.” …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:15 AM
ASB GlassFloor Launches Subsidiary To Deliver 360-Degree Digital Sports Surface Solution
ASB GlassFloor, a Germany-based global provider of high-performance sports flooring, announces the official launch of ASB Arena and Event Services AG (AES), a subsidiary established in Zug, Switzerland. With 30 …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:18 AM
Ross Video Expands Into Experiential Technologies With Acquisition of Ioversal
Ross Video, a global provider of live production technology, today announced the acquisition of Ioversal, a provider of audiovisual production workflows and the creator of Vertex, a platform for immersive …
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:19 AM
The future of public media in South Dakota
With federal funding ending later this week, our media correspondent went to South Dakota to learn what people want from public media today.
NPR News at Tuesday, September 30, 2025 2:16:45 AM
Who will be left to cover the troops as the Pentagon limits journalists' access?
Smaller publications that cover the Pentagon are likely to be the most affected by a new press policy put into place by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
NPR News at Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:49:08 PM
The Chi To End With Season 8 On Showtime
The upcoming eighth season of the Chicago-set drama series created by Lena Waithe will be its last on Paramount+ with Showtime. The decision comes ahead of the start of production on Season 8, slated for early next year, allowing the creative team to craft a proper ending.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:38 AM
Trumps Threats Against Latenight TV Could Spell More Trouble For Advertisers
Latenight programming is facing upheaval — namely the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Its shining a spotlight on ratings and revenue for latenight standouts and spurred questions of political influence.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:36 AM
AI is everywhere. Editors should be, too.
Every day I read more about generative artificial intelligence, and pretty much every day I see ads trying to sell me some AI-powered app or service that claims it will […]
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Poynter Institute at Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:49:59 PM
Nielsen Kicks Off Big Data Era With Revamped Weekly Ratings Reports
Or, how Jimmy Kimmel Live! , a streaming NFL game and network evening newscasts joined the top 25 shows of the week.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:04:55 AM
Raquel Amparo New Texas Tegna VP Of Content
Ill be overseeing content strategy, driving innovation and supporting nearly a dozen news teams in Texas, Amparo posted on LinkedIn . She most recently served as president-GM of CBS News Texas, overseeing KTVT and KTXA Dallas-Fort Worth.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:04:58 AM
YouTube, Disney & Meta Have All Settled. Inside President Trumps $90-Million Payday
YouTube, Disney, Meta and other companies have paid more than $90 million to settled lawsuits filed by President Trump.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:25 AM
Talent Agents Circle AI Actress Tilly Norwood As Studios Quietly Embrace AI Technology
Actor, comedian technologist Eline Van der Velden has revealed that her recently launched AI talent studio Xicoia is in talks with a number of talent agents interested in signing its first creation, AI actress Tilly Norwood.
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TV News Check at Thursday, October 2, 2025 9:05:27 AM