There’s a question being asked inside television companies everywhere right now: What can we automate? Fair question. AI is moving incredibly fast, and local television would be foolish to ignore it. Broadcasters are already using AI and automation to streamline workflows, repurpose content, create clips, generate captions, analyze information and distribute content across multiple platforms.
CARVER CORNER: What station managers can do now to attract, develop, and keep the people who will determine what local television becomes next. Let’s be honest: most television stations do not have a talent shortage. They have a talent-retention problem, a compensation problem, a leadership problem, or a reputation problem. In some cases, they have
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Carver Corner By Ty Carver Every industry has business models that make perfect sense, and then there are a few that leave you wondering how they’ve survived for decades without anyone seriously questioning them. One that has always fascinated me is the traditional television talent agent model. Before anyone misunderstands where I’m going with this,
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The FCC Just Changed the Rules. Here’s What I Think It Means for Television. Today’s FCC vote to eliminate the 39% national television ownership cap is one of the most significant regulatory changes our industry has seen in years. While opinions will vary on whether it’s the right decision, I don’t think there’s much debate
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The layoffs at Scripps are not just another corporate restructuring story. They are a signal. A blunt one. And if you work in local television, you should pay attention. For years, local broadcast executives have comforted themselves with the idea that their business is different. And in some ways, it is. But that argument starts
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The television industry received a major signal this week. Not a press release, not another earnings call, and not another corporate memo about “optimizing efficiencies.” A signal. FOX announced its acquisition of Roku in a deal valued at approximately $22 billion. On the surface, it looks like another large media merger. It isn’t. This deal
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For years, local television executives talked about AI like it was some distant Silicon Valley experiment — something for tech conferences, something for the digital team to “look into.” That phase is over. Artificial Intelligence is no longer coming to local television. It’s already sitting in the newsroom, writing web stories, clipping highlights, generating graphics,
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The Real Canary in the Coal Mine Isn’t Recruiting. It’s Gen Z. For decades, local television was untouchable. Massive reach, political cash, network affiliation power, monopoly-level local news dominance — if you owned a local TV station, you owned attention in your market. Then the internet happened. Then streaming happened. Then mobile happened. Then social
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The New Broadcast Talent Playbook: Recruiting Across Four Generations Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth. Most hiring managers say they want diversity of thought, and then they hire someone who thinks exactly like they do. The General Manager who came up through sales wants another sales-minded leader. The News Director wants someone who came up
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Walk into any television station in America and you’ll find something fascinating. The newsroom assignment desk may be staffed by someone who remembers editing tape with a razor blade, sitting next to someone who has never owned a DVD player. The General Manager might still remember when newspaper revenue was king. The Digital Sales Manager
