Using TV news “chyron” text overlays in the “lower third” (from human editors), image-to-text (OCR), grouping/filtering, and AI gpt to summarize – we social post hourly: “What’s on TV?” The non-captions news text (eg: BIDEN VISITS MEXICO) that shows up at the bottom of the screen (like those overhead monitors in airports showing news) is gold, written in real-time by editors during live broadcasts. However, the data is not carried anywhere inside the video streams (just visually). What’s a girl with robots to do? Using CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC News feeds, we use ffmpeg to crop the relevant image area; tesseract to OCR the image into text; and GPT AI to summarize, remove ads, and cleanup the text. We then post hourly summaries to mastodon. This talk was presented at Demuxed 2024, a conference by and for engineers working in video. Every year we host a conference with lots of great new talks like this in San Francisco. Learn more at https://demuxed.com