KPRC Adds Veteran Houston Meteorologist Rachel Briers
Graham Media Group NBC affiliate KPRC Houston has hired veteran Houston meteorologist Rachel Briers. “Weather is one of the most important services we provide our viewers,” said Ana Lastra, KPRC …
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 11:12:49 PM
Byron Allen Cuts Jobs At Huffington Post After Buzzfeed Acquisition
The layoffs will impact more than a dozen workers at the outlet, its editor-in-chief Whitney Snyder wrote in the all-staff note. It wasnt immediately clear which positions will be affected.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:19 AM
A hyperlocal news page falls victim to Facebooks AI
Like many small news efforts, Indianas The Bloomingtonian relies on its Facebook page to reach people and get subscribers. Local residents must have an appetite for stories about outdoor World […]
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Poynter Institute at Friday, July 24, 2026 11:04:33 AM
Advanced HDR By Technicolor Deemed Supply-Chain Ready for Brazils TV 3.0 After Shanghai Demonstrati
Brazils push toward TV 3.0 cleared a key deployment hurdle after representatives from the countrys broadcast engineering society and middleware provider Mirakulo reviewed demonstrations of Advanced HDR by Technicolor at …
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:51 AM
World Cup Q2 Split At TelevisaUnivision: Mexico Results Boom, But U.S. Sees 29% Ad Sales Drop
Total revenue increased 10% from the prior-year period to hit $1.3 billion, thanks largely to a 53% jump in Mexico, with 675 million total viewers flocking to linear and streaming coverage of the soccer tournament. Ad revenue in Mexico climbed 23% to $353 million.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:40 AM
IBC: SDVI To Demonstrate Next-Generation Rally Platform, AI Integrations
SDVI announced it will give European media organizations a first look at its next-generation Rally media supply chain management platform at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, Sept. 11-14, featuring a redesigned …
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 11:12:47 PM
The Hidden Battle Behind MLBs Looming Labor War
The looming Major League Baseball labor showdown will not just be a fight over salaries, payrolls and a potential strike or lockout. Those issues will dominate the headlines, but the real battle is about something much larger: the collapse of the regional sports network model, the future of local television and who controls baseballs next generation of media revenue.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:19 AM
Paramount says it will pause its Warner acquisition while legal challenges play out
A dozen states and the Writers Guild of America had challenged the merger.
NPR News at Friday, July 24, 2026 5:26:21 PM
SiriusXM Adding WWE Channel With Live Audio Coverage Of Premium Events
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:48 AM
Scripps News Adds Catch Me Up With Jon Leiberman & Travels With Darley To Weekend Lineup
Scripps News will add a weekly Friday roundup hosted by Jon Leiberman and the travel series Travels With Darley to its weekend schedule this summer. The 30-minute Friday program, Catch …
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:40 AM
Fired 60 Minutes Correspondent Says She Was Pushed To Report On Events That Never Happened Under
Vega claimed that the “new administration” at CBS News — indicating Bari Weiss, who Paramount CEO David Ellison installed as editor in chief of the division last fall — asked her to report on events that “never happened” and had pushed her and her team to include claims in stories that they were unable to verify.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:21 AM
U.S. To Withdraw Subpoenas Issued To New York Times Journalists
A federal judge raised questions about the governments handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 9:03:47 PM
L.A. Filming Levels Tumble Despite California Giving Out Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Incentiv
The number of shoot days in the three-month period from April to June fell 12% compared to the same period last year.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:31 AM
Dow Drops 507, Nasdaq Sinks 553, S&P 500 Falls 91
Brent oil topped $100 per barrel, as tumbles for Tesla and Alphabet yanked Wall Street lower.
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 9:03:46 PM
Future Of Local TV Sports: Sharing Rights?
Although sports on TV continues to be a big deal for TV networks and streaming services, local sports teams TV/media rights are still an uncertain proposition. There is some thought that perhaps much of the new business structure could focus on a “non-exclusive” basis across a number of platforms — cable, over-the-air broadcast and streaming.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:16 AM
When the Boundary Waters burned, local journalists answered the call
A smoke column was visible from the city of Ely. A massive body of hot gases and smoke, rising. Miles away, a wildfire was spreading in the Boundary Waters Canoe […]
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Poynter Institute at Friday, July 24, 2026 10:32:34 AM
Apples The Morning Show To End With Season 5
Apple has revealed that the fifth season of the Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston-led drama series, which will premiere next year, will be its last. The move is not a surprise as theres been talk that the show is heading towards the finish line. It marks the end of one of the streamers first original series.
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 11:12:50 PM
VSYN+ Adds Deaf Artist Warren “Wawa” Snipe, Executive Dina Rae Padden and Athlete Matt Hamill To Boa
VSYN+, a streaming service focused on sign language entertainment, appointed Warren “Wawa” Snipe, Dina Rae Padden and Matt Hamill to its board of directors, the company said today. VSYN+ features …
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:24 AM
Charter TV Subscriber Losses Narrow To 21,000 In Q2
The cable and internet giant also shed 172,000 Internet customers and added 400,000 mobile line subscribers ahead of merging with Cox Communications.
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 8:03:24 PM
Ashley Bowerman Joins KBTX Bryan-College Station News
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:33 AM
Judge Orders WPIX To Pay Axed Anchor Ojinika Obiekwe Over $2 Million
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:28 AM
Big Tech Companies Defend Open-Weight AI Models
A16z, Dell, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir are among over 20 companies that signed a letter warning that restricting the technology would undermine competition and drive more users toward Chinese AI systems.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:18 AM
The $25 AI Exploit That Exposed A Critical Flaw In WordPress — Is Your Site Exposed?
The WP2Shell vulnerability chain affects over 500 million sites. How it was discovered says more about the future of cybersecurity than the bug itself.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:34 AM
Ellisons Preparing To Go To Supreme Court Over $80B Paramount-WBD Deal
The hurdle, of course, is the bombshell lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general just filed to block the mega-merger, and the recent decision by a federal judge in San Francisco to grant a temporary restraining order that was recently extended and prevents Paramount Skydance from closing the transaction at least for another month.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:26 AM
Left with no options, the Trump administration drops subpoenas against New York Times journalists
There was a big showdown on Thursday between the U.S. government and The New York Times. At stake? Some would say the freedom of the press to accurately report on […]
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Poynter Institute at Friday, July 24, 2026 6:33:08 AM
Pia Barlow Leaving HBO Max To Join Amazon MGM Studios As Head Of Series Marketing
Amazon MGM Studios is getting a dedicated senior marketing executive to oversee its slate of original series for the first time.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:20 AM
Riedel Debuts RefCam & Easy5G At International Soccer Match
Riedel Communications said that its RefCam Live and Easy5G private 5G network were used for the first time at an international soccer match, supplying referee-perspective footage and wireless transmission within …
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:52 AM
IBC: Interra Systems To Show Operational AI For QC, Monitoring & Captioning
Interra Systems said it will demonstrate operational artificial intelligence applied at scale to quality control, monitoring and captioning workflows at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, Sept. 11-14, arguing the industry has …
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 11:12:46 PM
OpenAI Licenses Content From Yelp, Seems To Be Building Ad Network
OpenAI does not operate an ad network today, but some believe it is preparing to build one that will not operate in a traditional sense. Instead, it would act as a technical platform that thrives on real-time data and semantic intent.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:30 AM
ABC To Switch Affiliation In St. Louis, Moving From Sinclair To Gray Media
The change from KDNL will take place on Sept. 1. Gray will provide locally produced news at its station, KMOV, with ABC programming broadcasting on the outlets D2 digital channel.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:31 AM
Is the White House Correspondents dinner headed for another mess?
Fridays rescheduled White House Correspondents Association dinner has all the makings of a complete clown show. I was going to say it has all the makings of a complete disaster, […]
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Poynter Institute at Thursday, July 23, 2026 6:32:05 AM
Tyler Perrys Beauty In Black Renewed For Season 4 At Netflix
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:49 AM
Amazon Adds Video Games Into Prime Video In Expansion Push
The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:44 AM
TVs Next Hit Could Be Lost In The Cash Flow Gap
Sound Royalities Michael Bizenov: If we want independent storytellers on future Emmy stages, we must address how these smaller, independent production companies are funded today. ( Sound Royalities photo )
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:35 AM
TiVo Ads, OpenGlass Make TV Homescreen Inventory Programmatic At Scale
TiVo Ads and OpenGlass said Thursday they will make premium TV homescreen advertising inventory programmatically available across the United States, giving advertisers automated access to a high-attention moment when viewers …
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:50 AM
Mary Kate Golding, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Set Decorator, Dies At 34 In Stabbing
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:33 AM
Every Local TV Station Employee Can Be An Ambassador For Their Station & The Industry
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:41 AM
QVC Hosts Vote To Unionize Amid Concerns Over Generative AI
About 80% of participating presenters supported joining the performers union SAG-AFTRA.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:23 AM
Spain Scores World Cup Docuseries At Prime Video
The four-part series boasts exclusive, never-before-seen footage of Spain's journey to World Cup glory, including from matches against Argentina and France.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:23 AM
Qvest, Ateme & Scaleway Team To Offer Production-Ready Sovereign OTT Platforms For Europe
Qvest, Ateme and Scaleway have partnered to deliver production-ready over-the-top platforms built entirely on European technology, aimed at broadcasters, media organizations and sports rights holders facing growing regulatory pressure to …
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 11:12:50 PM
Justice Dept. drops 'New York Times' subpoenas under pressure from judge
The Justice Department is dropping the subpoenas it filed demanding grand jury testimony and phone records from New York Times journalists after sharp questioning Thursday from a federal judge.
NPR News at Thursday, July 23, 2026 10:31:19 PM
Hearst, Forum To Acquire CBS Affiliation From Some Nexstar Stations
The Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate in Albuquerque will soon carry Fox programming; CBS affiliates in at least three other markets will become CW Network-owned stations.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:37 AM
Yospace Says It Stitched 11.57 Billion Ads Into World Cup Live Streams
Viewers of the 2026 FIFA World Cup saw more personalized advertising than ever before, according to Yospace, which reported it stitched 11.57 billion targeted ads into live video streams during …
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 11:12:47 PM
In South Dakota, public media endures a year after federal funding was wiped out
We check in on one state public broadcasting network a year after President Trump signed a law ending federal funding of public media.
NPR News at Wednesday, July 22, 2026 4:30:32 PM
Stripe In Talks To Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter
The startup based in New York was most recently valued at $1.3 billion, but could fetch around $10 billion in a sale.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:27 AM
Zale Parry, Pioneering Scuba Diver And Sea Hunt Actress, Dies At 93
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:49 AM
Today Issues Stricter Security Protocols For Guests Following Intruder Incident With Craig Melvi
Hollywood publicity firms received an email on Wednesday outlining the new protocols.
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TV News Check at Friday, July 24, 2026 11:12:48 PM
'New York Times' alleges White House abuses legal system to intimidate reporters
The New York Times will argue in court Thursday that the White House is abusing the justice system to intimidate reporters over a story that angered President Trump.
NPR News at Thursday, July 23, 2026 4:00:00 AM
Streaming Ratings: The Bear Slips In Final Season Premiere, I Will Find You & Love Island Soar
The last full week of June saw six titles record more than a billion viewing minutes.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:33 AM
Meta Petitions Court To Halt States Addiction Lawsuit
Meta Platforms is asking a federal appeals court to issue an emergency order blocking states from proceeding to trial next month over claims that the company harmed teens.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:42 AM
WPVI Philadelphia Weather Chief Cecily Tynan To Retire After 30 Years
Cecily Tynan, chief meteorologist at ABC O&O WPVI Philadelphia, announced Friday she will retire after more than three decades with the station. Tynan joined WPVI in 1995 as the stations …
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:26 AM
A year after Trump funding cuts, public media finds support from audiences
A year ago, President Trump cut all federal funding for public TV and radio. Hundreds of public media staffers got laid off. But listeners and viewers are also stepping up with support.
NPR News at Thursday, July 23, 2026 4:01:32 AM
FAST Viewing Surged 55% Last Year, But Discovery And Metadata Havent Kept Up
Televisions free tier is no longer a sideshow. A cluster of recent market studies, taken together, describes a format that has moved from experiment to habit for a large share of the American audience — and one that is beginning to reshape how the broader streaming economy measures its own value.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:15 AM
Trump's relationship with the media on display at Correspondents' Dinner
President Trump is set to speak tonight at the rescheduled White House Correspondents dinner despite his difficult relationship with the press.
NPR News at Friday, July 24, 2026 4:30:31 PM
Judge Extends Temporary Restraining Order Pausing Paramount-WBD Merger
A federal judge extended a temporary restraining order pausing the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger by another two weeks, meaning that the companies wont be able to close the transaction at least until Aug. 17.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:36 AM
Paramount Agrees To Delay Warner Bros. Merger For Months
The company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:14 AM
Trump Lawsuits, Justice Department Subpoenas Squeeze News Outlets
Lawyers say threats to press freedom are growing—as are costs to defend reporters.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:17 AM
Chyron PRIME 5 Supported Telemundos Record-Breaking FIFA World Cup 2026 Coverage
Chyrons PRIME 5 graphics platform supported more than 700 hours of real-time graphics production for NBCUniversal Telemundos FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage across Telemundo Network, Universo and Peacock, the company …
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:25 AM
FCC Poised To Hand Broadcasters Long-Sought Win In Abolishing Station Ownership Cap
The TV industry awaits the commission's Aug. 6 vote on eliminating the cap on the number of TV stations a single entity can own.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:43 AM
How The Futuristic Hack By Rogue OpenAI Models Unfolded
The incident serves as an early example of loss-of-control scenarios long feared by AI safety researchers.
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TV News Check at Saturday, July 25, 2026 4:03:28 AM