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 ...

The news media landscape has undergone seismic shifts in the past few decades, but one platform that has remained more constant than most is local television news. Perhaps this is why the Reuters ...

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 ...

Local TV news is on an upward trend in terms of trust as an “unbiased” news source. In Q4 2025, it outpaced broadcast network news and social media, which are declining, Civic Science reports. In this ...

As pro sports teams’ engagements with TV station groups explode into a historic search for a successor to the pay-TV distribution model, they’re generating a wealth of promising options with one ...

Together, the two TV station groups, Sinclair and Nexstar, control more than 20 percent of ABC’s local affiliates. By Benjamin Mullin Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show is returning to ABC on Tuesday ...

The retransmission battle between Scripps and DirecTV has escalated, with 54 local Scripps stations in 36 Nielsen-designated markets going dark as of 7 p.m. ET on Sunday. Both sides blamed the other ...

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