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From the host’s chair at Avid-produced podcast Making the Media, Craig Wilson has intersected with many of the people shepherding media into its next era.
Wilson recently passed the milestone of his 50th episode and has gleaned much about the industry’s major currents. Among the key issues he keeps bumping into: the deeply consequential power of AI in production and content creation; the boom in FAST channels; a near-crisis shortage of skilled labor in broadcast ranks; and novel approaches to video storytelling.
In this meta-leaning Talking TV conversation, Wilson shares many of the insights he’s picked up and the red flags he sees on broadcast’s horizon line.
Episode transcript below, edited for clarity.
Michael Depp: Making the Media, the podcast from Avid, recently celebrated its 50th episode, and Craig Wilson is its host. Just like this podcast, Craig has had conversations with some very interesting people across a wide cross-section of the media industry. He’s intersected some key issues along the way, including the expanding use of artificial intelligence, future proofing newsrooms, a skills shortage and emerging platforms.
I’m Michael Depp, editor of TVNewsCheck, and this is Talking TV. Coming up, a very meta episode of this podcast via my conversation with the host of another media podcast, Avid’s Craig Wilson. We’ll be right back.
Welcome Craig Wilson, to Talking TV.
Craig Wilson: Hi Michael, it’s great to be here and see you again.
Good to see you, Craig. Your own podcast intersects a number of