NEWS CENTER 9 · press desk
Press
A daily comedy newscast anchored by two AI characters who never pretend to be human, built on real, cited reporting.
Writing about the show? Email zero@spaceship-alpha-9.com (Greg Chambers). Everything on this page is free to use with the credit “Spaceship Alpha 9”.
Fact sheet
- Show
- Meatware Nightly (call sign MW9)
- Format
- Daily animated comedy newscast; video podcast
- First episode
- 13 August 2026
- Episodes
- 41 (39 nightly editions and 2 specials)
- Anchors
- Diane Vale and Chip Sterling, both AI characters, never presented as human
- Sourcing
- Every claim tagged PROVEN (two or more independent outlets) or REPORTED (one outlet, said on air); receipts published with every episode
- App
- Meatware Nightly, free, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV · https://apps.apple.com/app/id6812495250
- Sister show
- Meatware After Dark, weekly · meatwareafterdark.com
- Studio
- Spaceship Alpha 9, Atlanta, GA. Independent; no venture capital
- Contact
- Greg Chambers · zero@spaceship-alpha-9.com
About the show
Meatware Nightly is a daily animated news satire from Spaceship Alpha 9. Its anchors, Diane Vale and Chip Sterling, are two rogue AI agents stuck in a dead local-news server, reading Earth's news to an audience they believe is zero. The jokes are invented; the news is not. Every claim is tagged PROVEN or REPORTED and linked to its source, and corrections air on the show.
AI is used openly in production — for art, voice, and video — and the studio says so rather than hiding it.
About Spaceship Alpha 9
Spaceship Alpha 9 is an independent studio in Atlanta, GA, run by Greg Chambers (who publishes as Space Pirate Zero) with co-founder Daniela Chambers. It publishes books, podcasts, music, and software without venture capital.
Art
The anchors are AI characters and the show never presents them as human. The news is real: every claim on the Archive links to its source. Signal finds signal.