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Hot List: What You Need to Know this Week
PLUS: Come see TVREV IRL. Check out the TVREV track in NYC March 11 at Marketecture Live III.
Hot List: Everywhere Is War
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The Future Of Local TV Programming May Look More Like A Podcast
Video podcasts will not reverse cord-cutting or restore the economics of peak syndication. But they may represent a pragmatic bridge between legacy linear TV and the conversational, multiplatform media environment that now defines viewer behavior.
Hot List: 10 Originals: How AI, Social, Data are Changing TV/Hollywood
PLUS: The Revisionists with OpenAP’s Brittany Slattery, Warner Bros. hijinks, and more
POTUS Day: Ads, Frauds and Local Tensions
PLUS: ChatGPT’s ads thing, freeing the airwaves, audits and accreditation, and more
Hot List: Pre-Game Reading on TVs Biggest Day
PLUS: ChatGPT’s ads thing, freeing the airwaves, audits and accreditation, and more
Hot List: The Cost And Spoils Of Fragmentation
PLUS: Surviving the distraction economy, Alan Wolk’s Week in Review, and eliminating the FCC.
Holiday Hot List: Netflix Wins A Bad Fight, VIZIO Shows Holiday Spirit
PLUS: TikTok is digital North Korea and PBS stations going independent
Hot List: Abnormal Is The New Normal
PLUS: Alan Wolk looks at what porn can teach us about the future of AI, Jesse Redniss on Disney’s OpenAI deal, and more
Hot List: For Every Answer, More Questions
PLUS: Alan Wolk takes on the death of the sitcom, hear from LG’s Keith Norman, and don’t forget to download our new local TV report
Hot List: YouTubeTV’s Fumble And Paramount’s Comeback
PLUS: TVREV’s new report on local, Alan Wolk on polling and the brand conundrum, hear from Premion’s Daniel Spinosa and Comscore’s Melinda Gladnick
Hot List: AI Creators, Amazon’s Attack on TTD, YouTube wins Late Night
TVREV’s new report on local, Alan Wolk on Paramount, AI creators, and more.
The Automation Of Authenticity: Why AI-Powered Local Media Should Give Us Pause
Automation and AI together threaten to replace human journalists, hollow out local newsrooms, and erode the trust and civic value audiences rely on.
Local TV News For A Post-TV World
Smartphones, streaming, creators, and AI aren’t existential threats — they’re the raw materials for a next-generation local news model.
Broadcast TV’s Existential Crisis Is (Now) Unavoidable
The Jimmy Kimmel spectacle may have grabbed headlines, but it was a sideshow compared to the real story: the accelerating obsolescence of the broadcast TV model itself.
Defunding NPR And PBS Threatens Rural America’s Lifeline
Eliminating support for public media will ensure that millions of Americans — especially those in less populated, less profitable zip codes — will be more disconnected, unheard, and unseen.
Wither The Weather?
The fast-disappearing local forecast - a lament for TV meteorologists and community connection.
The Long, Slow Demise Of Over-The-Air TV
Until broadcasters recognize the value of nurturing their free-to-air audience, OTA viewing will remain a niche option rather than a mainstream alternative to paid services.
FAST Forward: How Regional Focus Could Change Sports Media
As FASTs increasingly skew local, the case for live sports grows stronger. Brandon Katz unpacks.