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1 week ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Michael Depp
Sean McLaughlin, the veteran executive who joined Graham Media Group as its VP of news in April 2024, will also take over as VP and GM of KPRC, its Houston NBC affiliate, he said Wednesday. McLaughlin, who also writes the Reinventing the News column for TVNewsCheck, replaces Phil Lane, who left the station in April. McLaughlin will begin the new role July 1.
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1 month ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Michael Depp
Most TV meteorologists have well-honed routines logging on for the day: Check the latest data from the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, start to prep the day’s forecasts and ready the graphics, maybe bang out an early post on social.
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1 month ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Michael Depp
LAS VEGAS — Conventions are often a bubble from the outside world, but at this week’s NAB Show, tariffs popped it. Salvos in President Trump’s trade war were continuously fired, and news alerts buzzed over attendees’ phones. Market uncertainties compounded. A nervous fissure widened. And while vendors said tariffs were seldom an explicit topic of conversations with their broadcaster customers gathered here, they colored everything.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Peter Engel |Michael Depp
Carys Hughes, principal engineer, video presentation and PQ display engineering at Sky, and Catherine Koutsaris, product manager at Matrox Video, will receive TVNewsCheck’s 2025 Technology Women to Watch awards during a presentation ceremony and reception at NAB Show in Las Vegas next month. Within just two years of entering the media and entertainment industry, Hughes marked a swift ascent from broadcast engineer to a key role on Sky’s emerging technologies design team.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Michael Depp
Sam Guzik has a warning for TV news groups that have left their websites and apps gathering dust as they’ve channeled all their digital energy into streaming and FAST: Do so at the peril of losing one-to-one relationship prospects with audiences.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Rachel Ziemba |Janet Egan |Michael Depp |Noah Feldman Greene
In September 2024, the French government, in collaboration with civil society partners, invitedtechnical and policy experts to share their opinions on emerging technology issues relevant to the agenda of the 2025 AI Action Summit in Paris. The AI Action Summit is the third iteration of the AI Safety Summit, following the inaugural meeting hosted by the United Kingdom in 2023, which resulted in the Bletchley Declaration. The South Korean government hosted the second gathering in Seoul in 2024.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Michael Depp
NEW YORK — Outside the TV of Tomorrow Show in Times Square here last week, the cloud shelf hung low and a steady rain shrouded everything into gauzy abstraction. Inside, where dozens of TV and CTV advertising buyers and sellers, vendors and analysts had gathered to lay out better pathways to revenue, things were no clearer. About the only thing the experts could agree on was that nothing in the complex world of multiplatform TV advertising was functioning nearly as well as it should be.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Michael Depp
Business People TVNewsCheck PlusExecutive SessionEXECUTIVE SESSIONNov 13, 2024 | Michael DeppE.W. Scripps’ Adam Symson says polarization of both viewers and the ad community dealt critical blows to upstart Scripps News, a dynamic that will continue to challenge the TV news industry at large. This story is available to TVNewsCheck Plus subscribers only. Become a TVN Plus subscriber or log in here. Remember Me Business People TVNewsCheck PlusExecutive Session
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Michael Depp
As the relationship between networks and affiliates simmers towards a boiling point, Chris Ripley sees the latter camp as being better leveraged than ever before. The president and CEO of Sinclair sees more equilibrium at the bargaining table, all down to how much money affiliates are bringing to it. That’s leverage that will be critical as reverse comp fees rise and retrans inches towards a plateau.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
tvnewscheck.com | Michael Depp
AMSTERDAM — It’s a funny thing doing business with an industry you know is in trouble: It tends to bring a fresh sense of frankness into conversations, a real let’s-get-to-the-bottom-line-edness to things. It prompts a snapping out of the airy abstract into the cold, hard reality of the market.
