What's the vibe around TV right now?

The vibe around TV is that there's there's a lot of TV still out there.

You know, we've come down from like whatever peak TV was in 2022.

Right.

We have fewer than 600 scripted shows on the air, but there's still a lot happening.

I think in Southern California, the question is sort of like what TV is being made here.

Right.

Dodgers is The Pit now.

Does it result in less programming, less stuff for us to watch as consumers, or does it result in just worse stuff? What do you think is the outcome if more and more of the production is farmed out to AI?

Well, the guilds have drawn their lines in the sand, so the way AI is being rolled out is, is something that still has to be negotiated between, you know, the Writers Guild, the Actors Guild, and the studios.

And one thing that they came out of those strikes with in 2023 was, you know, informed consent and compensation.

If you're gonna have an AI component, somebody has to get comped for, you know, using their likeness, using their work.

Um, but it is ...

I don't, I don't think at this stage there's a threat of suddenly seeing a bunch of, like, totally AI-generated shows.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and so, you know, I, I talked to a bunch of 20-somethings for a story that we ran this week on The Angler, and, um, their stories are wild.