Forward-looking station groups including Gray Television, E.W. Scripps and Graham Media are forming internal policy groups to tackle the challenges that will come with adopting generative AI in their newsrooms.

Artificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos. In a sign of ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s skyrocketing profile, CEO Sam Altman made his Davos debut to rock star crowds, with his benefactor, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, hot on his heels. Pictured: A huge advertising banner with a slogan about AI is fixed at a building at the Davos Promenade, alongside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The AI technology has taken a large and growing slice of attention in Davos, this year the theme of Artificial Intelligence “as a driving force for the economy and society” will get about 30 separate sessions. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

The veteran commercial and business development exec and Vizrt’s former chief revenue officer will move to ramp up adoption of the global video-over-IP connectivity standard.

The WPVI Philadelphia helicopter that crashed in New Jersey last month, killing its pilot and a photographer, had no engine problems that would have prevented normal operation, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

A December 2023 report from Parks Associates revealed a couple of somewhat surprising research findings: 20% of U.S. internet households own a TV antenna, and 12% of those that don’t plan to buy one in six months.

Siding against OpenAI, a judge in Georgia ruled Thursday that radio host Mark Walters can proceed with a defamation claim over false information provided by the chatbot ChatGPT. Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Tracie Cason didn’t spell out the reasons for her decision, other than to say she had reviewed the file and applicable law.

The network has been “slow to respond to the challenge” of declining linear audiences, he says.

Twenty influential screen production organizations, representing tens of thousands of companies in total, have issued a statement demanding lawmakers protect producers and local content.

The peak TV era may be over, but free, ad-supported streaming television is continuing to boom. With more than 1,500 FAST channels now operating in the U.S., though, is there a risk of that vast array of offerings overwhelming consumers and bogging down the programmers and distributors trying to manage them all?

Subscription streaming’s first boom period, which lasted roughly from 2019 to 2021, was “based on the false premise of exclusivity,” said a panelist. It also was “about convenience.” Now that content owners are more readily licensing titles out to multiple players and no longer hell-bent on clawing back exclusive rights, a new model and orientation toward relevance can assert itself.

With AI advancements proliferating and its role in media growing, media companies should step back and ask some key questions about the data being used to fuel its advancements.

Television usage increased 1.7% in December to its highest levels since January 2023, but the biggest jump came from video-game consoles, with streaming, broadcast and cable all losing share, Nielsen said. Broadcast viewing fell 4.3% — the first drop since July — and its share of TV usage dropped to 23.5% from 24.9% in November. Sports represented 28.5% of broadcast viewing. Compared to a year ago, broadcast usage was down 5.9%. Cable usage was up 1.3% but cable’s share of viewing dipped to 28.2% from 28.3% in November.