Five years ago this week, the television industry rose to the challenge of keeping news, daytime and late-night talk shows and other topical series on the air during the harsh early months of the COVID pandemic.
We didn’t know it then, but March 2020 marked a huge inflection point for the television business. Stay-at-home orders, masks and antigen tests — it seems distant and not so distant all at once. The story of how COVID helped supercharge the streaming business — and the streaming wars — has been well documented in recent years.
But another big TV story unfolded during the early months of lockdown that hasn’t gotten
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