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Our Open Letter To The FCC Commissioner
Dear FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr,
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New York's Anchorman Signs Off For The Final Time
Chances are, if you lived in New York City or the surrounding region that is generally known as “the Tri-State area” in the years since the late 1970s…
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Some Friday Fun: One Year In
A few thoughts on writing "The Topline" for twelve full months.
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Live, Local, On Stage?
Tonight at 5 pm, a different kind of production will take the stage at the Hogg Memorial Auditorium at the University of Texas in Austin.
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Taking The Broad Out Of Broadcasting
For decades, the working assumption of American broadcasting was simple enough to embroider on a throw pillow: the bigger the tent, the bigger the…
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"The Factor" is back. For One Night. Probably.
Let’s be direct about what is actually happening on NewsNation this Wednesday at 8 p.m.
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In This War, Nobody's In The Hotel
On January 17, 1991, at approximately 2:35 in the morning local time, CNN’s Bernard Shaw was in a room at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad.
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February 2026

The Fateful Decisions of Two Men Named Ted
Ted Sarandos decided he didn’t need four days to think about it.
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Better Late Than... No, The FCC's Just Late To This Game.
There is a particular kind of announcement in Washington, DC, that arrives with great fanfare--and the approximate urgency of a melting glacier.
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Bonus Monday Memo: Is The Olympics "The Last Big Tent" For Network Television?
There is a scene in virtually every circus movie ever made — and Hollywood has made quite a few of them — where the rain comes down, the crowd starts to…
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Transformational, or Just Another Trendy Tool?
Our weekend scanning of YouTube was interrupted by a video the Google algorithm served up to us.
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What everyone has missed in "Colbert vs. CBS"
Unless you have spent the past 48 hours living “off the grid” we’ll assume that you are familiar with the kerfuffle that blew up on Monday evening when…
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