TCA Cancels Summer Press Tour, Exploring “Virtual Alternatives” With Networks

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By Dade Hayes Finance Editor The Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, an annual marketing ritual held at LA’s Beverly Hilton, has become the latest industry event to be canceled by the coronavirus.

In a memo sent Friday to its members, the TCA said it is “working with the networks to explore virtual alternatives both within the original press tour time frame and later in 2020.

But, given the current state of television production, as of now, this is a cancellation not a postponement.” No decision has been made, the board said, about the TCA Awards, which are handed out in the middle of summer tour.