NEW YORK—Consumers of local broadcast news continue to deem it as a valuable source of information—whether it’s political races, local sports teams or weather—regardless of accessing it on their TVs ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With 76% of U.S. households now able to receive a NEXTGEN TV broadcast signal, America’s local TV broadcasters are hailing the introduction of new ATSC 3.0 receivers that ...

After years in development, a programmatic solution for buying and selling local linear advertising is finally ready to launch. “We have a newly formed partnership with ITN that is going to change the ...

Local TV news is in trouble. For decades, 24/7 cable news and digital news sites have chewed away at its audience base. Younger audiences have little interest in tuning in at 6 or 11 p.m. to catch a ...

Across the country, the kinds of budget cuts that have decimated newspapers over the years are now slicing into local TV news stations. A trend of TV news layoffs “is only just the beginning,” one ...

Meteorologists at 27 local TV news stations are facing uncertainty about their jobs after Allen Media Group announced a new local weather initiative with The Weather Channel. The group, which owns TV ...

One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism ...

Over 50 local meteorologists who belong to local TV stations under Allen Media Group face layoffs. The Allen Media Group, which also owns The Weather Channel, is creating a centralized hub for weather ...

When FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appears before the Senate Commerce Committee on Dec. 17, Democrats will likely spend their energy projecting. After years of colluding with Big Tech to censor ...

A proposed merger that would form the biggest local TV company the country has ever seen risks driving up monthly TV bills for tens of millions of Americans, undercutting President Donald Trump’s ...

Last November, I posted this article about the state of MLB teams’ local TV packages and where they stood back then, and where they were going into the 2025 season. Since then, there have been some ...