American television series
Right This Minute
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Genre
| - Viral video
- News magazine
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Created by
| MagicDust Television
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Presented by
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- Christian Vera
- Gayle Bass
- Nick Calderone
- Oli Pettigrew
- Charity Bailey
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Country of origin
| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 11
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Executive producers
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- Lisa Hudson
- Dennis O'Neill
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Running time
| 30 minutes
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Production companies
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Network
| First-run syndication
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Release
| September 12, 2011
(
2011-09-12
)
?
April 29, 2022
(
2022-04-29
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Right This Minute
(alternatively abbreviated as
RTM
) was an American
syndicated
television program
which debuted on September 12, 2011. Produced by MagicDust Television in conjunction with
television station
groups
Cox Media Group
,
Gray Television
, and the
E. W. Scripps Company
, it was a daily half-hour program which featured both serious and offbeat
viral videos
plus interviews and stories behind the videos. It was presented by a team of hosts. The show ended its 11-year run on April 29, 2022 with reruns ("remixes" as some of the hosts of the show have described them) continuing to be broadcast in syndication until September 2, 2022 after it was not renewed for another season.
Overview
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The program showcased a broad mix of viral videos trending online, interviews with content creators as well as caught-on-tape footage of stories in the news; the videos and interviews were introduced by five hosts?Charity Bailey, Gayle Bass,
Nick Calderone
,
Oli Pettigrew
, and Christian Vera. Steven Fabian left the show to work for the syndicated newsmagazine
Inside Edition
. On July 27, 2015,
Beth Troutman
left the show for
WCNC-TV
in
Charlotte, North Carolina
to anchor its weeknight 6 and 11pm newscasts.
Videos shown on
Right This Minute
included
dashcam
and
security camera
footage of criminal acts and
police pursuits
;
freak accidents
; people and animals displaying interesting talents; rescue footage;
epic fails
(such as
extreme sports
mishaps, and other various stunts which go wrong); humorous or dangerous stunts;
practical jokes
;
parodies
; and original user-created content culled from various user-submitted video websites (such as
YouTube
,
LiveLeak
,
Break.com
and
eBaum's World
) and sent directly to the program's website and
mobile app
. The program also features one or more interviews with those involved in a particular video in each episode.
[1]
Some episodes included staff member Jessica Hord doing a craft project or preparing a recipe after which the finished food was tasted by some of the hosts.
In a break from the usual format, after airing an
Instagram
video of magician John Stessel, he appeared live on the
Right This Minute
set and performed magic for the hosts.
[2]
Episodes initially were one hour long, but as a result of a revamp of the series' format in 2012, it began producing two half-hour episodes daily, as well as two half-hour "best of" editions on weekends featuring segments shown during the weekday broadcasts. Some stations carrying the program chose to air both daily half-hour episodes as a one-hour block, while others chose to air only one of the episodes or split them into more than one time slot.
Production and distribution
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Right This Minute
was syndicated to stations across the country. Originally, it aired only on stations owned by originating partners Cox Media Group,
Raycom Media
(itself acquired by
Gray Television
at the start of 2019; the on-air credit was changed to Gray Media Group), and the E. W. Scripps Company. In 2013, MagicDust Television and the Raycom-Scripps-Cox consortium partnered with
MGM Television
to distribute the program to stations owned by other broadcasting companies.
In April 2014,
Fox Television Stations
picked up
RTM
for broadcast on
Fox
's
owned-and-operated stations
in ten markets.
[3]
Through additional station distribution deals, the show's national clearances grew to approximately 91% of U.S. television markets as a Monday through Friday strip or run.
[4]
Rebroadcasts of the show aired on
HLN
, a cable channel, from February to September 2014. During its first season,
Right This Minute
was produced at the
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
at
Arizona State University
. The program moved its production and operations to the
Ahwatukee
neighborhood of
Phoenix
.
[1]
[5]
The series was temporarily hosted from the homes of its hosts via
videotelephony
due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
, with off-air production and direction being done remotely.
On January 19, 2016, it was announced that
Disney?ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution
would take over the distribution of
Right This Minute
for the 2016?17 television season. As result of the change of distributor, the eight
ABC O&O stations
picked up the program beginning in the fall of 2016, replacing
FABLife
,
a show which lasted one season.
[6]
[7]
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[9]
Hamilton, Ontario
's
CHCH
picked up the program to air throughout
Canada
from September 12, 2016 to September 7, 2018.
According to Nick Calderon on the show's
Facebook
page,
[10]
the show was not renewed for another season in 2022 thus ending its 11-year run on television. Since May, only reruns or "remixes" (shows with old video content mixed in) were shown on commercial TV stations until the final rerun aired on September 2, 2022 before going off the air for good.
References
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- ^
a
b
Kevin Downey (January 29, 2014).
"Time Looks Right For 'Right This Minute'
"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media
. Retrieved
June 5,
2015
.
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"Celebrity Magician John Stessel Joins RTM And Leaves Us Stunned"
. March 14, 2019
. Retrieved
April 2,
2021
– via www.rightthisminute.com.
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Kevin Downey (April 3, 2014).
"
'Right This Minute' Gets Fox Stations Pickup"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media.
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Price Colman (February 4, 2015).
"Raycom: Succeeding By Evolving, Innovating"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media
. Retrieved
June 5,
2015
.
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Kevin Downey (February 29, 2012).
"
'Right This Minute' Hopes Its Time Has Come"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media.
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Elizabeth Wagmeister (January 19, 2016).
"
'FABLife' Officially Canceled Following Tyra Banks' Departure, Disney/ABC Picks Up 'Right This Minute'
"
.
Variety
. Retrieved
January 20,
2016
.
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"
'Right This Minute' Going National In Fall"
.
TVNewsCheck
. NewsCheck Media. January 19, 2016
. Retrieved
January 20,
2016
.
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Errol Lewis (January 19, 2016).
"
'RightThisMinute' to Replace 'FABLife' on ABC Owned Stations Beginning Fall 2016"
.
Soap Opera Network
. Manti, Inc
. Retrieved
January 20,
2016
.
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"Disney/ABC Takes Over Distribution Of 'RightThisMinute', Clears It On ABC Stations"
. Deadline. January 19, 2016
. Retrieved
January 20,
2016
.
- ^
RightThisMinute - Get 'FIT' With RTM And Ritual FIT's Epic Giveaway | Facebook
, retrieved
May 24,
2022
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