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| Created by | MagicDust Television |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 11 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Network | First-run syndication |
| Release | September 12, 2011 (2011-09-12) – April 29, 2022 (2022-04-29) |
Right This Minute (alternatively abbreviated asRTM) is an Americansyndicatedtelevision program which debuted on September 12, 2011. Produced by MagicDust Television in conjunction withtelevision station groupsCox Media Group,Gray Television, and theE. W. Scripps Company, it was a daily half-hour program which featured variousviral 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.
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 newsmagazineInside Edition. On July 27, 2015,Beth Troutman left the show forWCNC-TV inCharlotte, North Carolina to anchor its weeknight 6 and 11pm newscasts. Weekly episodes included Jessica Hord sharing lifestyle content.
Videos shown onRight This Minute includeddashcam andsecurity camera footage of criminal acts andpolice pursuits;freak accidents; people and animals displaying interesting talents; rescue footage;epic fails (such asextreme 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 asYouTube,LiveLeak,Break.com andeBaum's World) and sent directly to the program's website andmobile app. The program also features one or more interviews with those involved in a particular video in each episode.[1]
In a break from the usual format, after airing anInstagram video of magician John Stessel, he appeared live on theRight 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.
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 byGray 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 withMGM Television to distribute the program to stations owned by other broadcasting companies.
In April 2014,Fox Television Stations picked upRTM for broadcast onFox'sowned-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 onHLN, a cable channel, from February to September 2014. During its first season,Right This Minute was produced at theWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication atArizona State University. The program moved its production and operations to theAhwatukee neighborhood ofPhoenix.[1][5] The series was temporarily hosted from the homes of its hosts viavideotelephony due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, with off-air production and direction being done remotely.
On January 19, 2016, it was announced thatDisney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution would take over the distribution ofRight This Minute for the 2016–17 television season. As result of the change of distributor, the eightABC O&O stations picked up the program beginning in the fall of 2016, replacingFABLife, a show which lasted one season.[6][7][8][9]Hamilton, Ontario'sCHCH picked up the program to air throughoutCanada from September 12, 2016 to September 7, 2018.
According to Nick Calderon on the show'sFacebook 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.