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Todd Smith

Todd Smith

Tod Smith is President and General Manager of WWL-TV, a CBS affiliate in New Orleans owned by TEGNA Media, a position he has held since July 2012.

Jul 26, 2026

8:54
Can you tell us a little bit about that? Does TV newsroom and a studio, they look substantially different from when you started back in 1980?
9:02
You know, they do, and then sometimes it really doesn't.
9:08
AI has allowed people to be more efficient in some of the work that they do, but at the end of the day, it takes an individual or a human being to make certain that if you're using AI to do your research and your background, that you're verifying whatever you see there, number one.
9:26
From a technology standpoint, that's where it really looks different.
9:29
If you go into a television station, say in 1980 when I started, the footprint is a lot smaller.
9:35
And a lot of that is technological advances.
9:38
You know, it was not unusual back in the day if you were going out to do a story.

7 MINS LATER

16:28
What do you think, Todd, I mean, it's so tough to ask this, but in three years from now, what do you think your station will look like? What if these ancillary ideas?

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