LTP GIVES US NEW POSSIBILITIES    

As you know from previous blog postings, ThinkTech has deployed its new Live to Playlist system to achieve higher production values, more punctual start times, and to provide hosts and guests the chance to see and learn from watching their talk shows on the airdate after their production date.

Shows produced on Mondays are aired on Tuesdays and so on through the week.  But there's something else.  LTP gives us the opportunity to populate our Sunday and Monday Playlists with special focused collections of videos, and we intend to do just that.

The first thought was to air our weekly Top Five and Staff Pick shows, which are selected on Sundays, on the LTP playlist for Monday.  That way, our Top Five and Staff Pick winners and our viewership in general can see and celebrate the Top Five and Staff Pick shows through the broadcast day on Mondays.  

But a Sunday Playlist offers new opportunities, too. There are many great collections on our YouTube page, many of them already organized into our YouTube playlists there.  We can, of course, take shows from these playlists and focus on certain shows and subjects and include them in the Sunday Playlist.  An interesting possibility is our long-time Golden Oldies shows, which date back ten years to the beginning of our coverage.  Some of them are really interesting if not amusing, and they remind us in palpable nostalgia of how things were back when.  It's a kick to see the hosts, guests and subjects we covered in those days.

Thinking about it, there are even more fascinating possibilities for the Sunday Playlist.  For one thing, we have been covering Donald Trump since his 2016 campaign.  We had a weekly show called Trump Week for years in that period, and we covered the remarkable and shocking things he was doing every week. The country was not yet acclimated to the destructive changes going on under Trump, but we covered them, and soon enough we realized it was important to continue that coverage and connect the dots.  So one of the collections we want to present in our Sunday Playlist are shows from the Trump Week series back then.  Suffice it to say, it will interest and trouble all of us to see how far we've come, and gone, since then.

Those possibilities are now actually and tragically expanding.  We've done a number of shows on the Ukraine invasion over the past few months, where we have interviewed dozens and dozens of guests all over the world, and especially in Ukraine, on the events and atrocities that are happening there.  So we'll also bundle up a focused collection of those shows for the Sunday Playlist to give our viewers a handle on how Mr. Putin's outrageous war has progressed from one week to another.  Along similar lines, we will also assemble Sunday Playlist collections on other international issues and events we've been following with hosts and guests from around the world in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia, and the U.S.

And now, the country is suffering in shock and awe over the future of American democracy.  ThinkTech shows have been covering the terrifying events in Congress and our very special Supreme Court, and seeing troubling directions in abortion, gun control, the environment, voting rights, and of course the January 6 Select Committee.  The events and revelations on these issues, and the damage that was done during the Trump Administration and by Trump followers even now for the elections to come.  It's not only the evidence adduced in the January 6th Committee.  See the bombshell article in Axios.com, a Radical Plan for Trump's Second Term - https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-2025-radical-plan-second-term.

The country is under attack, and we should all be informed about what is happening and likely to happen in the months and years to come.  ThinkTech has a number of shows that cover theses national issues, including American Issues Take One, American Issues Take Two, History is Here to Help, The Rule of Law in the New Abnormal, and It's Time for Responsible Change.  We're also doing a ThinkTech Webinar called "National Burning Issues" on September 30.  This will be moderated by Constitutional Law Professor Avi Soifer, former Dean of the Richardson School of Law, so stand by for more on that.  All this coverage presents a continuing array of provocative talk show discussions for our Sunday Playlists.

Yes, so stay tuned and see what we are lining up for you in our new LTP Playlists on Sunday and Monday.

 Every Sunday and Monday Better, of course, at ThinkTech.