''Right This Minute'' (alternatively abbreviated as ''RTM'') is an American syndicated

television program A television show, TV program (), or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is broadcast via Terrestrial television, over-the-air, Satellite television, satellite, and cable te ...

which debuted on September 12, 2011. Produced by MagicDust Television in conjunction with

television station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's s ...

groups

Cox Media Group CMG Media Corporation (doing business as Cox Media Group) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 29% minority stake in the company. The company p ...

Gray Television Gray Media, Inc., doing business as Gray Television, is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 statio ...

, and the

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglom ...

, it was a daily half-hour program which featured various viral videos and was presented by a team of hosts. The show was cancelled in 2022, with its last episode airing on April 29, 2022. Reruns of the show (preferred to as "remixes" by the hosts) continued to broadcast on syndication until September 2, 2022.

Overview

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 ''Inside Edition'' is an American tabloid television program that is distributed in Broadcast syndication, first-run syndication by CBS Media Ventures. Having premiered on January 9, 1989, it is the longest-running syndicated-newsmagazine progr ...

''. On July 27, 2015, Beth Troutman left the show for

WCNC-TV WCNC-TV (channel 36) is a television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, affiliated with NBC. The station is owned by Tegna Inc. WCNC-TV's studios are located in the Wood Ridge Center office complex off Billy Graham Parkway (Ch ...

Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 United ...

to anchor its weeknight 6 and 11pm newscasts. Weekly episodes included Jessica Hord sharing lifestyle content. Videos shown on ''Right This Minute'' included

dashcam A dashboard camera or simply dashcam, also known as car digital video recorder (car DVR), driving recorder, or event data recorder (EDR), is an onboard camera that continuously records the view through a vehicle's front windscreen and somet ...

and

security camera A closed-circuit television camera is a type of surveillance camera that transmits video signals to a specific set of monitors or video recording devices, rather than broadcasting the video over public airwaves. The term "closed-circuit televisi ...

footage of criminal acts and police pursuits; freak accidents; people and animals displaying interesting talents; rescue footage; epic fails (such as

extreme sports Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk of injury or death. These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion and highly specialized gear. Extre ...

mishaps, and other various stunts which go wrong); humorous or dangerous stunts;

practical joke A practical joke or prank is a trick played on people, generally causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.Marsh, Moira. 2015. ''Practically Joking''. Logan: Utah State University Press. The perpetrat ...

parodies A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation. Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can als ...

; and original user-created content culled from various user-submitted video websites (such as

YouTube YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in ...

, LiveLeak, Break.com and eBaum's World) and sent directly to the program's website and

mobile app A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a smartphone, phone, tablet computer, tablet, or smartwatch, watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop appli ...

. The program also features one or more interviews with those involved in a particular video in each episode. In a break from the usual format, after airing an

Instagram Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be ...

video of magician John Stessel, he appeared live on the ''Right This Minute'' set and performed magic for the hosts. 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

''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 Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom ...

(itself acquired by

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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, formerly known as MGM/UA Television, is the television studio arm of the American film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), specializing in broadcast syndication and the production and distribution of television sh ...

to distribute the program to stations owned by other broadcasting companies. In April 2014,

Fox Television Stations Fox Television Stations, LLC (stylized as FOX TV STATIONS; also known as FTS) is a group of television stations in the United States owned-and-operated by Fox Corporation. It owns LiveNOW from Fox, Fox Local, and Fox Soul. It also oversees ...

picked up ''RTM'' for broadcast on

Fox Foxes are small-to-medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull; upright, triangular ears; a pointed, slightly upturned snout; and a long, bushy tail ("brush"). Twelve species ...

owned-and-operated station In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an network af ...

s in ten markets. 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. 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 Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is o ...

. The program moved its production and operations to the

Ahwatukee Ahwatukee Foothills (also Ahwatukee) is an urban village of Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix. Ahwatukee is the southernmost part of Phoenix and is considered part of the East Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area), East Valley region of the Phoenix metropo ...

neighborhood of Phoenix. The series was temporarily hosted from the homes of its hosts via

videotelephony Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video calling) is the use of audio signal, audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication. Today, videotelephony is widespread. There are many terms to refer to videotelephony. ''Vide ...

due to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, 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.

Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses ...

's CHCH picked up the program to air throughout

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

from September 12, 2016 to September 7, 2018. According to Nick Calderon on the show's

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

page, 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

External links

Official website
* {{EWS CORP 2010s American television talk shows 2020s American television talk shows 2011 American television series debuts 2010s American television news shows 2020s American television news shows 2022 American television series endings First-run syndicated television programs in the United States American English-language television shows 2010s American video clip television series 2020s American video clip television series Television series by Sony Pictures Television Television series by MGM Television Television series by Disney–ABC Domestic Television Mass media about Internet culture Television series about social media Cox Media Group E. W. Scripps Company Gray Media