Soledad O'Brien: We’re finally feeling empowered to speak openly about racism in the newsroom.

The CW has opted not to proceed with a second season of Katy Keene. Warner Bros. Television, the studio behind The Riverdale spinoff headlined by Lucy Hale, is planning to explore options for keeping the show going.

Stocks climbed Thursday following positive jobs data. The S&P 500 rose 0.5%, its fourth-straight gain. The index ended the holiday-shortened week with a gain of 4%. The Nasdaq composite climbed to another all-time high, aided by more gains in technology companies.

Game On! got its A game back last night, but Univision still won another Wednesday in the key adults 18-49 demo. This primetime victory makes it three weeks in a row (including one tie). Univision was first in ratings with a 0.5 rating/3 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demo, but fifth in total viewers with an average of 1.6 million, according to preliminary numbers.

A longtime host of both Today and 20/20, he held the Guinness-certified record for most total hours on commercial network television for many years.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact people and newsrooms, Tegna has implemented corporate policies to keep reporters, producers and news executives safe.

The network, which has a coronavirus-proof fall schedule, will aim to film its four dramas and two comedies as soon as it's safe to do so.

Conan O’Brien is heading to Largo at The Coronet in Los Angeles to shoot his TBS talk show, becoming the first of the latenight hosts to move his show out of his house and make tentative steps to a return to full production. Conan will begin filming at the comedy club from Monday, July 6, in accordance with government and industry health and safety protocols.

“Broadcast television has seen a bit of a renaissance with COVID-19…. Local news ratings have actually been up 20%-40% depending on the market. We haven’t seen those kinds of ratings gains in years,” Wells Fargo Securities media financial analyst Davis Hebert said at a virtual Media Institute event Tuesday. “That has really kept the retrans outlook intact. That piece of the revenue stream should be quite visible for the most part.”

In the wake of Carl Reiner‘s death, CBS will pay tribute to the comedy icon with an hourlong, colorized Dick Van Dyke Show special. Airing Friday, July 3 at 8/7c, the special — titled The Dick Van Dyke Show — Now in Living Color! A Special Tribute to Carl Reiner — will feature two episodes of the classic sitcom in which Reiner appears.

CBS’s action crime drama Magnum P.I., starring Jay Hernandez, is targeting a mid-August tentative production start date for its upcoming third season. The reboot of the classic CBS series shoots in Hawaii where the show is set.

Satellite TV company Dish Network says it has closed on its acquisition of the prepaid service Boost Mobile from T-Mobile, effectively making the pay-TV company the country’s fourth major mobile provider alongside Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. Dish is now focusing its new investments on building out a 5G network as the satellite TV business continues to shrink.

Fox News Channel and MSNBC also had record-setting quarters ending in June, according to  Nielsen. But CNN's audience increased at a higher pace than its rivals, and it is also seeing strong numbers for its digital operation.

TVNewsCheck will present Reporting on Protest: Lessons from the Front Lines, featuring three veteran reporters, an attorney from Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a remote workflow expert. The Media Financial Management Association continues its summer-long series of virtual sessions this week, while Ross Video continues its series of weekly webinars. Matrox will present a half-day on How to Control Workstations from a Distance, and MediaKind will discuss Getting Your Disruption On — Uncovering Media Opportunities. Rohde & Schwarz will look at EMC Filter Design. Details and links to registration pages are on TVNewsCheck’s Virtual Events Directory.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck's Media Job Center include an opening for an assistant director of technology at Graham Media Group’s NBC affiliate WDIV Detroit.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news director, a newscast producer and a multimedia account executive. All three openings are at WWSB in Sarasota, Fla.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a meteorologist at a Nexstar station in New York state, and an opening for a chief meteorologist/anchor at a Standard Media station in Nebraska.