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REVIEW
Call Your Publicist is a podcast in a TV channel's clothing.
JMG PR's twice-weekly conversation about media strategy got a Roku channel in February 2026. It plays. There is not much else to say about it as a TV experience.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Call Your Publicist
GRATITUDE GROUP
OUR SCORE
5.4
ROKU
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
There is a category of Roku channel that exists less to be watched than to be findable. Call Your Publicist, the JMG Public Relations podcast that arrived on Roku in February 2026, sits squarely in it. The show itself — twice-weekly conversations between founder Jenna Guarneri and Head of Content Alexandra Anastasio about pitching reporters, building a brand, and surviving a crisis cycle — is a credible mid-sized industry podcast with a sensible host pairing and roughly thirty-six episodes on record by the time it landed on the platform.
The Roku channel does not change any of that. It is the same audio in a different launcher. The cover art sits on screen, the episode plays, and the television does the job a Bluetooth speaker would do faster, with a worse remote. Nothing about a podcast becomes more useful when you watch it from the couch.
The reason this exists is discovery. Roku’s home grid puts the tile in front of an audience that would never search the Spotify catalogue for a PR show, and for a working agency that is reason enough to build it. As a TV experience to actually use, though, the recommendation is short — open the podcast app on the device already in your hand.
The Roku channel exists. Whether it should is a different question — there is no TV here, only a podcast playing on a TV.
FEATURES
Streams the back catalogue of the Call Your Publicist podcast — hosted by JMG Public Relations founder Jenna Guarneri and Head of Content Alexandra Anastasio — to a Roku-connected TV. New episodes drop Mondays. As of early 2026 the library sits in the mid-thirties of episodes, dating back to the June 2025 launch.
Free to install, no account, no subscription. The channel is a thin wrapper around audio episodes with a static cover-art frame on screen — there is no original video production, no waveform visualiser, no chapter navigation, no transcripts inside the channel.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Getting onto Roku at all is the achievement worth naming. Most independent PR-industry podcasts never bother with a TV channel because the audience is on phones during commutes. JMG's bet, in partnership with Forest Media Group, is that Roku's discovery surface puts the show in front of small-business owners who would not search for it on Spotify. That is a defensible bet and the channel certifies cleanly, installs in a few seconds, and starts playback without buffering on current Roku hardware.
The host pairing is the show's actual strength — Guarneri runs the agency, Anastasio runs the content, and the dynamic is closer to two colleagues working through a case study than the usual single-host monologue. That carries over intact to the Roku version because nothing about the production changes.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
A podcast on a TV is still a podcast. The Roku channel does not add video, does not add per-episode artwork, does not add a sleep timer or chapter markers, and does not surface the transcript that would make the show genuinely useful as a desk-time reference. Sitting in front of a television to listen to two people discuss earned-media strategy is a strange use of the room.
The five-button remote does not help here either. Skipping back fifteen seconds to re-hear a quote — the single most common podcast gesture — requires a sequence of D-pad presses that a phone handles with a thumb tap. Roku's channel framework simply was not built for spoken audio and it shows.
CONCLUSION
Install it if you already watch a lot of Roku and want one more idle-listening tile, or if you run a small business and the on-screen reminder to engage with PR is itself the value. Everyone else should keep listening on Spotify or Apple Podcasts where the show was designed to live. The TV channel is a distribution play, not a TV show.