Talking TV

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp and Glen Dickson discuss the knock-on effects of the NAB Show's October cancellation on vendors and the implications for future trade shows, including December's planned IBC.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Dr. Duane Varan, CEO of audience research firm MediaScience, about what's next in video ad formats, the context effects of news programming on ads and the "choose your own adventure" ads he sees coming over the horizon.

TVNewsCheck' s Michael Depp talks with Dan Abrams, host of an eponymous new live show on Nexstar's NewsNation, about drawing lines between his brand of bias and primetime cable's penchant for left/right absolutism.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with latenight legend Jay Leno about his reboot of the classic game show You Bet Your Life this month, the pandemic's bruising impact on young comics' careers and if he misses manning The Tonight Show desk in these volatile times.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Branden Frantz, president and GM of Hearst's WLWT Cincinnati, about the station's revival of editorials in a period of stark political divisions and tenuous media trust among viewers.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with David Chu, co-founder and CEO of Digital Media Rights, about the viability of niche-oriented AVOD options on streaming.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp and TVB President-CEO Steve Lanzano discuss persistent agency silos, audience measurement woes and automation resistance in the world of TV advertising, prompting the question of whether the whole business could use some time on the couch to work through its issues.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp and Paige Albiniak discuss TV stations' winding path back to the office as the Delta COVID variant plays havoc with developing plans.

TVNewsCheck ’s Michael Depp talks with Inside Edition host Deborah Norville about supporting the Broadcasters Foundation of America as its fundraising efforts have been hampered by the pandemic.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp and Harry Jessell discuss the uncertainty lingering at the FCC, where Acting Chair Jessica Rosenworcel may be facing contention for the permanent job and a fifth commissioner has yet to be appointed.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Vanessa Otero, founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media, about the company's Media Bias Chart and where prominent TV news organizations fare in its measure.

TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp talks with Stephen Brown, EVP of programming development for Fox First Run and Fox Television Stations, about the strategic role of game shows in Fox's syndication lineup, along with how programming is progressing at Fox Soul, the group's African-American-targeted streaming channel.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Brodie Fenlon, editor in chief of Canada's CBC News, about the organization's month-long suspension of comments on its stories posted on Facebook amid a climate of rising toxicity on social platforms.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Shawn Wheat, executive producer of Gray Television's Local News Live, about the new, digital-only streaming initiative that stitches together news from across Gray's stations via a small team of anchors and producers.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Devra Prywes, CMO and CPO of Applicaster, about how media companies are moving toward hybrid revenue models in a banner year for OTT and where station groups should be pursuing more monetization potential from their own streaming apps.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Michael Senzon, SVP and GM of Local Now, about the Allen Media-owned OTT platform's emergence from beta and how it's angling for an audience with a value proposition of ZIP code-level localized content.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp and Harry Jessell discuss Gray Television's acquisition of Meredith and other potential moves on the M&A chessboard, along with changes at the top at CBS's stations.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Mim Davey, VP of news at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis, about the station's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial and how Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement have impacted newsroom priorities.

TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp talks with Mariel Myers, Nzinga Blake and Porsha Grant, executive producers of ABC Owned Television Stations' new race and culture reporting team, about the project's bold goals to bring depth and context to reporting on underrepresented communities across the group's eight stations.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp and Paige Albiniak discuss the pandemic's blows to live television and why advertisers still prize it.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp and Janet Stilson discuss sports betting's meteoric rise in spot TV, what's accelerating the trend and the patterns it's tending to follow in DMAs following its legalization.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Stu Weiss, founder of Studio City/PXL about daytime television's best ongoing value proposition — the longstanding relationships viewers forge with its offerings.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Brian Weiss, president and GM of Tegna's multicast networks, about diginets' younger skewing audience, and with Evan Moore, VP of commerce partnerships at NBCUniversal, about the growing phenomenon of shoppable TV.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp and writer Paige Albiniak look at Facebook's ongoing primacy for TV station groups in their social media efforts, though the relationship has evolved and monetization hopes tempered.

TVNewsCheck 's Michael Depp talks with Hadassa Gerber, TVB’s chief research officer, about its latest media comparisons research study and with Harry Jessell, TVN 's editor-at-large, about a broadcast investment alternative to paying dividends along with the clarifying picture about sports rights negotiations.