For Immediate Release:

Los Angeles, Calif., May 26, 2026: Good Tape has launched “This Is TV Now,” a new weekly podcast extending its editorial mandate to explore the ideas, people, and forces shaping podcasting.

At a time when many media workers question their place in a video-first environment, “This Is TV Now” will remove the corporate spin and self-fulfilling narratives to reveal what many of us in podcasting feel deeply: No one actually knows what they’re doing. 

“This Is TV Now” will invite guests with experience and knowledge of podcasting’s impact on culture and ask whether this medium can be solidified within the broader entertainment ecosystem. While the meta-narrative of our industry tends to be in the hands of executives and business leaders who are several steps removed from the cultural production of podcasts, “This Is TV Now” will focus its lens on the people who make this medium one to follow: hosts, showrunners, producers, and the occasional creative executive. 

“Cohosting this podcast pulled me out of my cynicism about this industry,” says Stella Young, owner of Tiny Legends Productions. “The medium has become so saturated and commercialized that it’s easy to forget what made it powerful in the first place: authenticity. The conversations we’re having won’t be overly polished or manufactured — they’ll be transparent, messy, honest, and above all else, real.”

“Podcasting is in a weird place,” says Dane Cardiel, founder and publisher of Good Tape. “Our medium’s historic ability to produce good content cheaply was what made it innovative and unpredictable. Now that strength is being used by platforms ravenous for constant streaming content in a desperate search to replace well-paid union work with its cheapest possible facsimile. It’s shaping our industry in unprecedented ways, and we’re now left to decide what to make of it. I can’t wait to dig into this with Stella and our guests as we explore the ‘This Is TV Now’ era of podcasting.” 

The series launches with James Kim (Overtones Media) and continues with Keida Mascaro (The Cave), Bree Webber (Actor, “That’s Her”), Laura Ramadei (“Girls On Porn”), and Hannah Doyle (The Publish Press). 

“This Is TV Now” is coproduced by Good Tape Studio and Tiny Legends Productions, engineered by Thomas Ouellette, edited by Fred Muñoz; artwork designed by Sami Wittwer for Good Tape Studio with photography by Maggie Shannon; and social media clips design by Andrew Callaway. New episodes will be published weekly starting June 2, 2026, on all major podcast platforms, with full video episodes available on YouTube.

For more information, episode previews, partnership inquiries, or to arrange interviews, please contact: info@goodtape.com. You can follow “This Is TV Now” on all platforms at @ThisIsTVNow.