They‘re more aesthetically pleasing in my opinion, I understand why the current trends are what they are, but I really enjoy the less…cinematic and more atmospheric live feel for sports you get on those mid-late 2000’s and early 2010’s HD broadcasts when 16:9 wasn’t fully the standard yet.

Fascinating that this promo has zero local video content relevant to this market (KXAN). This is an interesting idea - and probably where the industry will be fully headed if I had to make a bet.

The whole reason the big groups are lobbying for removal of the ownership cap is so they can compete with the likes of Google, Meta, etc.

So I'd bet its safe to say that future broadcast news will probably just be essentially stringers and contractors, no more employees. Nexstar/Gray/whoever is the uber app, content creators are the drivers. Which is what I've been saying for years. Traditionally it seemed like any market smaller than like Houston was never interested in buying video from stringers, even if it meant they'd have an exclusive which I always thought was so strange. But now, they're literally asking you to apply to do it. Here we have market 30ish (whatever Austin is) asking people for it.

I used to read FTV Live but Scott Jones has gotten pretty obnoxious over the past few years. Lately, it's pretty clear he's been using ChatGPT to write stories (just run any of his well-written posts through an AI checker and you'll see what I mean), and I just find that hypocritical given his very strong convictions about what he thinks the TV journalism industry should be (how are you going to criticize people for what you think is poor journalism when you're over there re-writing New York Post stories using AI?!)

So my bookmarks need updating. What sources do you regularly check for news about the industry? Looking for free, non-paywalled outlets.

Curious for those with direct knowledge. I’m hearing salaries are dropping significantly.