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Dylan Byers • March 27, 2024

Ronnaghazi & The Hunger Screams of Late-Stage Linear

Inside 30 Rock, the dueling narratives over the lengthy courtship and rapid firing of the 2020 election-denying former R.N.C. chair highlight a behind-the-scenes blame game over the network’s conflicted vision of political diversity, and itself.
Dylan Byers • September 20, 2023
Mark Thompson’s Message & MTP Overheating
Mark Thompson
News and notes on the latest preoccupations of the television news business: Mark Thompson’s Five Year Plan and Kristen Welker’s debut on ‘Meet the Press.’
Dylan Byers • September 2, 2022
The September of Stelteritis
Chuck Todd
Various and numerous personnel changes across the network landscape, from Reliable Sources to Meet the Press, all point toward a single cruel reality: the industry can’t program its ways out of the apparent and very real Linear Big Bang. It’s here.
Chuck Todd
Dylan Byers • May 18, 2022
The Tao of Chuck Todd
Can an anchor cut from the Russertian mold re-reinvent a historic franchise as a modern media brand? And is NBC betting on the future for Meet the Press or merely paying a “talent management tax” to fund Todd’s vision?