Local TV stations are a crucial resource for keeping tabs on news, weather, and sports in your neighborhood. If you’ve cut the cord and no longer have access to cable, you may be a bit lost when it ...

As broadcasters push to end ownership caps that they contend has hurt their competitive position, new data from Guideline provides some depressing details on just how much the local TV ad spend has ...

TV watchers in Indianapolis may soon flip through the local news channels and find three of them owned and their broadcasts produced by the same company. Nexstar, the largest TV station owner in 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 ...

Local stations are continuing to push to reclaim the 10 p.m. hour from broadcast networks, a top industry exec said Wednesday. Mike Hayes, President of Hearst Television, was asked during a panel ...

In a bid to examine the difficulties Americans face in getting their hands on lifesaving drug narcan, NBC News in February turned to what would once be seen as an unlikely resource: reporters at many ...

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 ...

Political spending will spike next year, but stations will struggle to reverse a longstanding shift away from local TV ...

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 ...

Gray Media and the E.W. Scripps Co., two of the largest U.S. owners of local TV stations, have engineered a swap of stations in five small and mid-sized markets. The move will create new duopolies, ...

Back in 2013, TV watchers were disappointed to learn that local TV station KMTR had let Renee McCullough and co-anchor Matt Templeman go — after a decade — when the station went to a new ownership.