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TV Santa Barbara provides means for diverse communities to tell their stories, hear each other’s stories, and create new stories together. By providing virtual and physical spaces for individuals and organizations to come together, TVSB creates pathways to collaborate, build relationships, and strengthen our community. Our mission is to empower people to grow as a community by making media that matters.
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Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse checks in to offer his perspective on the two big issues that have consumed City Hall in recent weeks – the future of downtown development at the Paseo Nuevo shopping mall and the push by City Council’s liberal majority to impose a new set of strict rent control regulations on landlords and property owners. News-Press Editor Josh Molina joins the genial host to also interrogate the mayor about his 2026 re-election campaign.
The Santa Barbara News-Press this week named Josh Molina the first editor of the newly-launched, digital incarnation of the historic local news operation and, in his first extensive interview, he talks with Newsmakers TV about the vision for the new News-Press and its impacts on the media landscape, speaking emotionally about his deep roots in the community, long journey through a tumultuous period in the industry, and views on the importance of maintaining venerable values of credibility and fact-based reporting.
In a special Three Amigos episode of Newsmakers TV, Josh Molina and Nick Welsh join the genial host for droll stroll through the week’s top news stories in Santa Barbara, from the foggy future of Paseo Nuevo, simmering conflict over a homeless navigation center and private sector pushback on the city’s waterfront leasing policies, to the latest chapter in the endless story of the North County jail, a hopeful development in the saga of State Street’s future and a new twist in the tragic saga at UCSB.
The Santa Barbara City Council’s refusal to endorse a controversial redevelopment plan for the Paseo Nuevo shopping center has left the hugely consequential land use issue in limbo, and on this week’s edition of Newsmakers TV, Josh Molina and Ryan P. Cruz break down what comes next, as Christina McDermott reprises her reporting on the latest injuries inflicted on local communities by the Trump Administration. Plus: Jerry rants about what’s ultimately behind the mob boss president’s immigration policies.
On this week’s edition, Josh Molina and Ryan Cruz preview and handicap the vote for next week's City Council showdown decision on that controversial development plan for the Paseo Nuevo shopping center, while Callie Fausey reports “the threat is real” amid the Trump Administration’s move to open new areas off the coast of Central California to oil drilling. Plus: $8.3 million in public housing for new UCSB chancellor, an 18-story building proposed in Carp and Josh’s inside report on City Hall's attack on the massage therapy industry.
As City Council prepares to vote on a new plan for Paseo Nuevo, City Administrator Kelly McAdoo, State Street Master Planner Tess Harris and two of their key consultants join Josh Molina, Nick Welsh and the genial host for an in-depth and detailed conversation about the finances, housing and design impacts and implications of the project, Santa Barbara’s most complex and consequential land use issue of this century.
In a special bonus edition of Newsmakers TV, City Council member Kristen Sneddon announced she will seek election as Santa Barbara’s mayor, setting the stage for an intriguing generational challenge to incumbent Randy Rowse that will be shaped by conflicts over rent control, the future of downtown and how the city should accommodate ever-increasing demand for more housing and greater density.
Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse returns for a new “Ask the Mayor” episode, addressing questions from Josh Molina and the genial host about the controversial proposal to build housing at Paseo Nuevo; the new plan for the Sears site at La Cumbre Plaza; the state of State Street; the latest push for rent control; and a spate of bad news about the city budget. Plus: an update on his 2026 re-election plans.
Christina McDermott leads off this week’s edition of Newsmakers TV with breaking news, reporting that federal food stamp benefits appear to have restored, even as non-profits and other community groups were jumping into the breach to help thousands of local residents cut off by Donald Trump’s government shutdown. Nick Welsh also joins the genial host, recounting the latest remarkable turn in the Sable Offshore oil saga, while Josh Molina sorts through the complex, simmering feud over the future of State Street. Plus: new clues about the mysterious developers behind the outrageous plan for an eight-story tower behind the Mission.
On this week’s episode, it’s a special tour of the Halloween hellscape the Trump Administration is creating in Santa Barbara, as Christina McDermott, Ryan P. Cruz, Nick Welsh and Josh Molina join the genial host for a conversation about cuts to food stamps and housing aid, neighborhood terror and political clashes stemming from immigration raids, and the mob boss president’s hand in next Tuesday’s special election and the ongoing fight over offshore oil. Plus: Ryan’s search for ghosts and the never-ending horrors of what to do about State Street.
It’s a big week on the housing beat, as Newsmakers TV’s All-Star Panel of Top Local Journalists features Christina McDermott, Josh Molina, Ryan P. Cruz and Nick Welsh breaking down all the latest about that monstrosity project proposed for the Mission, the City Council’s latest misadventures with rent control, and the icy response city planners had to the first-look development at Paseo Nuevo. Plus: a big court ruling on the Sable Oil pipeline, local impacts of the federal government shutdown and a shock new budget report out of City Hall.
Rep. Salud Carbajal checks in with Newsmakers to discuss the ongoing shutdown of the federal government. He breaks down the key health care issue that Democrats are pressing in the conflict, talks about some of the real-life, day-to-day impacts of the government being closed, and expresses deep concern over some recent actions Donald Trump’s “fascist administration.”
Our All Star Panel of National Political Pundits returns, as veteran journalist Carla Marinucci, author Dan Morain and media strategist Bill Carrick join the genial host for a deep dive into Proposition 50, Gavin Newsom’s not-so-secret bid for president, and Donald Trump’s destruction of the East Wing of the White House, among other matters, including the governor’s race, what’s up with Nancy Pelosi and fond farewells to two giants of California politics.
Our All-Star Panel of Top Local Journalists roves through the full range of politics and public policy stories animating Santa Barbara this week, as Nick Welsh offers a behind-the-scenes view of the Independent’s Yes-on-50 front cover editorial, Josh Molina sheds light on the city’s meeting-before-the-meeting on the big Paseo Nuevo development and Ryan P. Cruz breaks down the agendas of the city council members pushing anew for rent control. Plus: why supes punted on health department layoffs, why Montecito Union School District decided to settle a $7.5 million, decades-old claim of child abuse, and why Nick went long in this week’s issue on Good Samaritan homeless services.
In an exclusive interview, celebrated public health leader Dr. Peter Marks joins Newsmakers for a far-ranging conversation about the clear and present danger posed to the nation by Robert F. Kennedy’s purge of science-based health and safety policies. Dr. Marks recounts his own defenestration by RFK, after years of government service - including his pivotal role in developing the Covid vaccine - and offers a sobering forecast of what it will take to repair and restore fact-based practices to the task of keeping the U.S. public safe from unnecessary disease.
It’s a special Three Amigos edition of Newsmakers TV, as Nick Welsh and Josh Molina join the genial host to break down the latest in this week’s top local news stories in Santa Barbara, including the showdown over expanding the Hilton Beachfront Resort, efforts by the city to find a new operator for the FARO homeless navigation center and the local multi-front battle to block Sable Oil’s restart of an antiquated offshore pipeline. Plus: the first you-heard-it-here-first gossip from the 2026 city council campaign trail.
Assembly member Gregg Hart returns to Newsmakers TV to discuss his just-passed milestone legislation requiring the rogue Sable oil company to undergo full environmental review in its bid to restart the failed pipeline that caused the disastrous Refugio spill. Hart also offers his up-to-date assessment of the Trump Administration’s efforts to dismantle California’s efforts on climate; concerns about Gov. Newsom’s support for new drilling in the Central Valley; and the Nov. 4 special election campaign to pass Proposition 50, the Democrat’s response to the Texas Republican gerrymander of congressional seats, which Trump triggered to head off GOP loss of the House in the 2026 mid-terms.
State Senator Monique Limon returns to Newsmakers TV for an urgent conversation about Proposition 50, the one and only issue in the Nov. 4 special election, by which Democrats are trying to respond to Donald Trump’s efforts to redo the national political landscape in advance of the crucial 2026 mid-term elections. Characteristically for Limon, she explains her support of the measure in practical terms – what it means in federal funds for education, health care and emergency services for constitutents, as well as the need to respond to the threats and intimidation that the president has inflicted on communities with large Latino populations, like Santa Barbara.
On this week’s edition, our all-star panel of top local journalists checks in with a batch of scoops,, as Nick Welsh reprises his reporting on the closing of Santa Barbara’s most venerable housing shelter and Sheriff Bill Brown’s double data sets detailing his dealings with federal immigration agents; Ryan P. Cruz has an updated picture of ICE activities on the Central Coast; and Josh Molina has the fascinating story of how SB’s art museum is prep
On a special “Back to School” edition, Santa Barbara Country Superintendent of Schools Superintendent Susan Salcido returns to Newsmakers TV for a conversation of about local districts are responding to a new set of urgent and demanding challenges inflicted by the Trump Administration’s attack on public education, from the looming threat of immigration raids and cuts in federal funding, to the assault on longstanding policies and programs put in place to protect the civil rights of all students. Plus: we try and fail to dent her deep-seated optimism.
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