A comprehensive report on the opportunities for local TV in an evolving media landscape was released by trade groups TVB and CIMM. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Major local TV station owner Sinclair Inc. says it has been conducting merger talks for several months with rival E.W. Scripps. In an SEC filing, the company said it had acquired 8% of Scripps Class A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Before cable news channels gave us all the news all day long, it was the local news that was the lifeblood of American journalism. National stories were essential, and the meat and bread of ...