Ross, with his distinctive afro, soothing voice and sunny outlook, empowered millions of viewers to make and appreciate art through his show The Joy of Painting. More than 400 half-hour episodes aired on PBS (and eventually the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) from 1983 to 1994, the year before Ross died of cancer at age 52. - NPR
As affiliates, they’re not happy. And as they lobby the FCC to abolish the cap on how many stations one company can own (currently maxed at a number that all together reaches no more than 39% of TV households in the country), a bulked-up Nexstar and Sinclair are flexing their power and heft. - Variety
“(We) collected TikTok watch histories from 1,100 users. We created a database of roughly 15 million videos served up to them in a six-month period last year. Our analyses showed just how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to swipe more and watch more on its platform.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
“BBC executives are hoping to ease the burden on the stretched Foreign Office budget (which usually funds the World Service) by classifying some of its spending as national security. That would probably include its efforts to monitor foreign media and to put out information to counter propaganda from other countries.” - The Guardian
“Paramount said Monday that it has bought the news and commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss” — a long-controversial opinion writer who has gradually leaned more conservative in recent years — “as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, saying it believes the country longs for news that is balanced and fact-based.” - AP
The contrast could not be clearer. On one side is Day-Lewis, embodying a role that carries the weight of decades of human experience and on the other is a simulation designed to approximate star power without ever touching the messy, unrepeatable humanity that gives cinema its soul. - Los Angeles Times
WCSB, which opened in 1975, had offered an extremely wide range of programs (classical, reggae, jazz, talk, hip-hop, etc.) typical of student-run university stations. Last week CSU (which is keeping the broadcast license) abruptly turned over the frequency to Ideastream Public Media, which is airing its previously online-only Jazz Neo channel. - Inside Radio
There have, of course, been AI actors before. Carrie Fisher was famously resurrected for The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. James Cameron used background “actors” to populate Titanic in 1997, but until now no AI creation has achieved the media cut-through that Tilly has. - The Conversation
This observation could potentially have serious consequences in a society where images of big, engaged crowds at public events like rock concerts, protests and political rallies have major currency. - NPR
“They are going to use our work, use all this information, to perfect every possible inflection and expression. And they are just going to steal all of that?” - Los Angeles Times
“The proportion accessing news via social media and video networks in the United States (54%) is sharply up,” the report’s authors write, “overtaking both TV news (50%) and news websites/apps (48%) for the first time.” - NiemanLab
Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now turning people away, shortening shows, alternating time slots, and running training programs just to keep up with the demand from aspiring student DJs. - Emily White Noise
What’s next? The union’s new president says AI, of course, but also in regard to Kimmel, "I somehow doubt this is the last instance we’re going to see where censorship and free speech are going to be a topic.” - Los Angeles Times
“The women of HUNTR/X, the fictional pop trio that leads the sleeper hit, provided the kicker to a sketch that poked fun at what it’s like to be on the inside (and outside) of a huge cultural phenomenon.” - The Atlantic
“The idea of priesthood, to devote yourself to others, really, that’s what it’s about. I realized I don’t belong there. … And I tried to stay, but they got my father in there, and they told him, ‘Get him out of here.’ Because I behaved badly.” - Variety
