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Local TV news faces two existential threats: The first is the advancing age of the average viewer. Most viewers in the 55+ demographic are the ones who grew up watching local news. The younger demographics mostly don't tune in every night, preferring to get their local news off of social media. The second threat is cord cutting, since the majority of revenue is from cable subscriptions, and the retransmission fees that they generate. That revenue stream is dropping fast, and will only get worse. It doesn't help that the majority of stations are owned by "too big to fail" companies, like Sinclair and Nexstar. Sinclair is in panic mode, not only closing down newsrooms to cut costs, but also trying to unload a third of their stations that they own. I worked in local TV for over 30 years. I don't seeing this situation getting better. My gut feeling says, in five to ten year, the major broadcast networks will end their affiliations with local stations and go full time into streaming. This is why NBC is pushing Peacock so hard, even when it still loses money. My guess is the biggest tipping point is when the next NFL TV rights contracts are negotiated in 2033.
Imagine you are living in a town in Alaska, and the local news coming out of the state of Florida? Why watch local news if the news being reported from another state who could report the wrong information? That needs to be stop. Local news should be covered by reporters in the state who could reach out better.
I've noticed an increase is news production where I live. The cities that have these TV stations are 50 and 80 miles away. All three cities are 100k in population, but they also service a large viewing area of small communities and several towns that are 15 to 20k. The biggest trend is fewer long term people on TV. This broadcast area has always been a starting point for those starting in broadcasting. It's just the turnover has increased drastically. I gave up on broadcasting in my area after I got my degree. The money is just not there unless you are in a LARGE market. I make about twice as much working for a software company. Some of these stations are owned by Nexstar and Sinclair.
All the local channels in my area have increased the time allocated for local news. Where the evening local news used to be from 5PM to 6:30, it is now 4PM to 6:30. Two stations in my market, one a Fox affiliate and one not affiliated with any network, now broadcast local morning news from 5AM to 10AM. In prime time, I can now get local news on various channels at 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM.
Local news is cheap to produce and can usually be recycled for hours for almost no cost. If the advertising is selling, they will keep doing hours of it.
Maybe if they got back to “PRESENTING THE NEWS WITH OUT COMMENT” instead of treating it as a form of entertainment which they have to gussy up in-order to attract mindless viewers, they wouldn’t be in this predicament
"The actress who played Lucy...." Jeez I'm old. I always thought Lucille Ball was really famous but I guess she is starting to fade from living memory.
Newspapers were hurt because people started getting the news from the internet. That may also be hurting the local tv news but I think local news still have a lot going for them in many markets.
*No, we are not seeing the same thing for Local TV news. Sinclair Broadcast Group as I've known as a long history of not committing to keep local TV news departments in their tv stations.* *And just because SBG does that doesn't mean every non SBG TV stations, such as CBS owned and operated stations, would end local TV news broadcasting.*
@Speed.Racer.5 True, but for free. I get them OTA. Not paying for the nonsense 😂. Three houses, three zip codes, three markets of local news for freeeee!
They're not telling you what's going on anymore, just what they want you to think is going on. But the local news just might come in handy. How are we gonna know if they got that cat out of the tree?😮
My wife and I have had this discussion about the local news decline. I live in a small town is S. Carolina. We used to have local Radio with local news and local papers with local news. They have all died out local tv gives regional coverage. Spectrum has recently started a state wide news channel. Really the best way to find out local activity is now Facebook.
Our local Fox and NBC stations share the same weather people, and when severe storms come up? Both stations go live with the same people, and the same broadcast.
I've been saying for years that we eschew local news/journalism at our peril. Subscribe to your local newspapers and watch local news before it's too late and we have no one holding people accountable.
Local news if the affiliate is owned by a corporation is nothing more than a retread/amalgamation of processed, homogenized national stories under the guise of a local TV station's call letters.
Our local ABC station is owned by the Allen group. This station has gotten rid of about half of their staff (most all of the higher paid staff), now we are left with lower paid and inexperienced people. Very little of the local news (because they fired all of the reporters), and more news from outside of the area. Truly sad.
Allen Media-owned WLFI-TV in Lafayette, Indiana, gutted its news department. Of its veteran staff, only chief meteorologist Chad Evans remains to warn north-central Indiana residents about threatening storms.
I saw that metv in Rockford has kwwl 7.3 on channel 13.3. I think they are using the same streaming channel. Maybe Allen owned tv stations are trying to use the same streaming channels.
All I watch is local news. Networks like Fox News MSNBC CNN etc mean very little to me nowadays. All the national stuff I can get through local and check out what's on TH-cam. I cut my cable subscription about 12 years ago.
The problem with local TV news is that it became too formulaic. Each segment from day to day is pretty much the same as the day before. Some news about crime first, then some news about what the idiot politicians are doing or not doing, then sports, then the weather, then end up with a puff piece human interest story. In most books about "How to Not Waste Time" one of the first things mentioned is to stop watching TV news. A full 30 minute TV broadcast, if typed out, would be one single column in a newspaper, something you could read in less than 5 minutes. Oh yeah, we don't read those newspapers anymore either. (I do subscribe online to a national newspaper, the Washington Times. For local news, I am fortunate to have a decent radio station).
As far as the Paramount merger, there's huge concern particularly with CBS News that they are no longer a neutral broadcast and Regulators are planning on pushing the FCC to force that as per their licensing agreement with the fcc. CBS is among the worst when it comes to political bent, it's a shame.
These companies raise their prices because they KNOW that there are way more people stupid enough to pay these outlandish prices than people who see that its not worth it. Its just like concert tickets.... People always complain at how expensive concert tickets are... Well, STOP BUYING THE TICKETS you keep complaining about.... If MORE people don't pay for it... then maybe, and I say maybe, these companies will understand that they have gotten way too greedy.
I rarely watch local news on TV anymore, since our local TV news outlets are extremely biased in their reporting. we do have an excellent local radio station with a news department for my local news fix.
Newspapers have been a dieing outlet for over 30 yrs. Most are strictly online. My husband is a printer and the only thing that is still a requirement to be printed is the legal news. They need to have a hard copy still. Even that has been taken down to 2 or 3 days worth of print unlike before when it was everyday. Over the air local news is still going strong in my area. Although for the times slots that they have most of the stories are repeated on those slots.
My local major paper used to have hundreds of pages, multiple sections, inserts, etc, and it was 50 cents a copy and sold pretty well. Was common to see it sell out. The current version of that same paper is down to less than 10 physical sheets of newsprint and they charge $2.50 a copy for it, or they WOULD charge that for it but nobody is buying a pamphlet for that kind of money. Copy sales are nothing. Ad sales are nothing because nobody is reading it. There's no going back.
Local news isn't going to disappear from major markets, top-20 markets just yet. It's the mid-sized, and small-market stations that are getting their newsrooms shut down.
Yeah. I always thought it was funny to see 4+ reporters around the same city during a blizzard saying it's snowing. All I have to do is look outside. 😂
Local news has gone downhill. They really do very little news and almost no investigative journalism anymore. They only talk about a couple of national stories that have already been talked sbout by everyone else, then a couple local stories and then on to an overly long feature report that isn't even news. If they have an hour long news broadcast the second half hour is basically a repeat of the first half hour. Local news pretty much goes unreported since newspapers are all but dead. Weather and sports are the only things people tune in for.
I predict ABC, CBS, and NBC give up the 10 pm prime time hour and give it back to the local stations just like The CW and FOX already do in the very near future
FOX never utilized the 10 PM hour. CW was a joint venture with what they used to be and CBS and now that Nexstar owns the majority if not all of it that isn't even an issue. CW was always more of a concession after the dissolution of WB and UPN anyway. Without it the other 3 networks would have absorbed the affiliates a long time ago.
@@AmericanBandstandAgainNBC should. They never had good programming in that hour. Even back in the day ABC I'm surprised they still utilize the 7 PM to 9 PM hour let alone the 10 PM hour.
I have not seen a degradation in local TV news in Ohio. However, the local coverage on our local newspaper is not as good, since USA Today took ownership. They also started mailing the newspaper rather than delivery. We mostly read the newspaper online now. Even the local TV news has online apps and TH-cam videos, which is a plus!
Yeah these corporations just greedy and too greedy for their own good. They don't serve the interests of the people the only serve the interests of their gritty shareholders and big fat executives.
I have seen no decrease in local news. In fact I have heard atleast in past that local news was one of biggest moneymakers if not biggest for local stations. My NBC station has local news on most of morning and starts back at 4pm until Nightly News at 6:30 m. If this is not enough they also have a 24 hour station with local new and own Fox affiliate and put news on there as well.
Cincy is a highly competitive news market. Dayton has one dominant station that still has an outstanding reach and a fairly solid product considering the times. Local news is cheaper to air than syndicated programming. You're seeing fewer people doing more. That's going to be the trend until local news on TV ends.
Local news is a side effect of the big networks. The networks PAY the locals to carry the network feed. In turn, the locals leverage the network branding to do local news and sell all the ads they can. This is where locals make their big money. If viewers are not watching the networks, and they aren't like they used to, there are far fewer eyeballs being brought to watch the locals, which means lower ad rates and revenue craters. That's why local news is being pinched. It used to be a money printing machine. It is no longer the case. The bigger story is that networks are what fund a lot of these stations. If viewers keep moving to streaming, the networks won't need local stations or heck, the networks won't need exist at all.
ICYDK, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married in real life. Everybody knew the baby was coming. Lucy logically had the family growth written into the show. But it was a “first” for sure. 9:43
Not really seeing a decline in quality, but less content in our local news. It seams that each night they go over a few stories that were covered the night before without any more details than the previous days news cast.
I live in metro New York. My ABC station for 1 has local news 4AM-7AM 10-11AM 4:00-6:30 PM, The local CBS and NBC has almost the same. Does that sound like local news is going away? And they keep repeating the same stories ALL DAY
Who watches much local or national TV news shows anymore? Not an efficient way to get news, the web or YT is much better! Years ago I worked in a place that distributed the transcripts of the major network's national news casts from the night before each day. Each transcript was only a couple of sparse pages, something that you could easily read through in about 2 minutes. So who has time to waste 28 more minutes than that, just to see the commercials? Probably no one given a choice.
I moved from the Boston area 20 years ago down to FL with my wife and young son at the time. The news was very good. Not sensationalized as it is now. Back then the anchors were making a lot of money. Those top anchors were all let go and the stations hired “eye candy” and they weren’t reporters. They only read the news. I know for a fact that most if not all earn approximately 80k/yr. That’s down from the average of 500k plus. When we moved to FL the “eye candy” women were wearing short skirts with heels. Since then the skirts got shorter and the heels got longer. Same with the men. Ok they don’t wear skirts lol but they’re also good looking guys. I only watch the news now if a storm is coming. They devote maybe 15 minutes combined in weather and sports. Every thing else is a quick story of a local shooting or a robbery. It’s ridiculous.
it happened at KDBC CBS 4 in El Paso, Texas. Local news has been cut back from a traditional newscast to a community show, looks cheapened, Sinclair stations have done this, as of 11/11/24 it's now ARC El Paso. only KFOX 14 remains as traditional local news we're used to seeing.
We have not watched any local TV news in more than a year since we ended our TH-cam TV subscription. Even when we had TH-cam TV we rarely ever watched local news.
I live in a area that’s to far to pick up the local channels,and live in a condo that allows no outdoor antennas.Not paying those crazy prices for the streaming services!I threw my dish network out Four years ago thinking that streaming would be affordable seems like throwing the dish out might have been a mistake!
The 1st date of the death of Local News was the Telecommunations Act of 1996 being passed,until then a corportation was limited to how many local radio or tv stations they could own,afterward Clear Channel bought up most radio stations across the country and made all stations in every genre follow rigid genre playlists and play the same songs across the country which destroyed regional music scenes. Also why fm radio dj's sound exactly the same way they did in the 90s. They basically created the model that Sinclair used to later destroy local tv news.
I don't watch much or any live TV. I have CBS through Paramount+ about it and Peacock. I pay $ 20+ tax annually, and they stream SNF and other things, but I don't have access to NBC. I do like to watch my local ABC news. They have an app called ABC Action News. I admit I watch it mainly during hurricane season. I can watch my local Fox News. I believe it is on Tubi.
Just got an email from TH-cam TV that my bill is increasing 10.00 a month. Starting on or after 1/13/2025. I don't have Verizon, the mail came from TH-cam.
I don't even watch the local news anymore, at least not on broadcast TV. I subscribe to TH-cam TV just so my mother can watch the local channels, but I rarely use it. I get all my news from the internet or local new websites.
There has been a decline in local news in our locale of Flint Michigan. Reporters hardly go out to cover and report and there are less of them. Most of the news is just a rehash of national news that I get from other sources. Also the MLive digital newspaper has been dramatically increasing their prices eventually I think they will put themselves out of business it is now about $40 for 5 weeks, which is over $400 a year.
Local news here starts at 4:00 in the afternoon and goes to 8:00 PM on 2 of the networks. The only reason the other 2 don't do it is Jeopardy etc type shows must get ratings.
PIX 11 is starting to have too much news and not enough comedy. I would always watch WLNY 55, but ever since they took off The King of Queens, Family Guy, and Bob's Burgers, I stay far away from that network. Now I'm stuck between all 5 of the networks!
Local TV in my country ended over 2 decades ago on October 28th 2002, it's all been national now ever since, which still infuriates me and many others to this day!
Kansas City has local news starting at 4am till 10am. Then it runs 11am to 1pm and 3:30p.m. to 7p.m. and then 10p.m. with one channel an hour. Then it reruns online.
@@alanvallazza9781 My local NBC station owns Fox affiliate and also puts local news on there most of morning. They also put their 10 pm news on Fox station. At least in past I heard that local stations made money on news and thats why news is on most of day and less reruns, talk shows and syndicated programs that were once widespread.
I've only noticed an increase in local news here in Michigan. Our local paper was sold but was bought by another local company. I've watched local channels increase the number of hours air and shifted hours so they're not all on at same time. Idk maybe I just see it different.
I was disappointed to learn that my cable provider was recently ending it's traditional TV options, forcing anyone who wished to continue to receive their current content, to rent "STREAMING" boxes and receive all content by way of streaming! This is after continual raises in price, with reduction of quality over the last couple years! I decided to only keep the internet portion from them although I've had multiple calls (all ridiculously long) to stop charging me for TV which they swear is resolved! I did like being able to see the local regional area news and weather which was not extensive, repeating every 30 minutes for 3-4 hours before updating. I wish it were available even as an inexpensive app since it was usually the 1st thing I'd check every day before leaving!
I just cut off my TH-cam Tv, because I don't watch much on it just only re-runs on most all of the channels and a waste of money. They were charging me be $129.99 and I just had it with the price hikes for nothing but re-runs and ole boring junk on their tv. Money will be better spent on better things so Yes cut the streaming on Tv. When I started the streaming service, it cost me only $59.99 and now 129.99 and now Goodbye TH-cam.
the loss of Broadcast TV fees from cable cos (as they are similarly shrinking) is part of the reason this is happening. Local stations in most markets get about 45% of their revenue from the sale of their broadcast to cable and satellite providers. Less money coming in means less ability to operate local news.
It’s depressing because the leaders in Seattle and Washington state are too focused on their wokeness and liberal agenda… which has caused so many of the problems…
I cut the cord and use my rabbit ears to watch all my local channels and then some with my smart log tv. I also have discovery plus and now peacock for my bravo shows and yes I’m a reality girl. I love my local channels, I watch Hell’s Kitchen on fox, bachelorette on abc when it comes on, football on Sunday on all the channels etc, minus my $160.00 bill. With crazy weather, I like my local weather guys jumping in showing live radar tornadoes nearby. I don’t think local channels will ever leave
Hopefully the FCC does not agree and change providers like TH-cam TV and Hulu into cable companies, that will really destroy things as far as price for cord cutters.
CONcast are the WORST offenders in stealing your money...and indoctrination. Ever scroll thru and see all the LGBT and trans ads and shows? Disgusting. Dropping them was a great day
Sinclair owns the station here in the Macon, GA market that has Fox on the main channel and ABC on a subchannel, they dropped the morning and 10pm news but kept the 5pm on the Fox side, but however on the ABC side, morning, 6pm and 11pm newscasts are retained They also produced the 10pm news for the Fox station in Albany, GA....when they got rid of the news for Fox here in Macon they also layed off everyone at the Fox station in Albany and discontinued the news down there as well....
It’s interesting when you talk about cable companies, adding streaming service services into their package to make a bundle. Sling is already doing this. Literally, they have six choices now for their base package. Orange, orange plus Max, blue, blue plus Max, orange and blue, orange and blue plus Max. It cost $6.99 per month to add Max to a base package on sling TV.
I’m not writing local news off just yet. Do some smaller markets have it worse than the big or medium yes. I think with the Trump administration you will have other media companies merging and there still a handful of media companies that owned local tv stations. Nexstar, Gray, aren’t big for anything and these companies want to buy more. They’re going to raised the cap on ownership. I do think some companies need to make a deal and merge ( yes talking to Scripps Howard) I do hope TEGNA rebounds.
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Control the news control the people. Jim Morrison.
Without local investigative news who will be looking at local government.
Local news is the only news that i watch
I watch Fox News and Newsmax for the news and local stations for weather and the first story...
My local news stations run the same stories for four hours. You can watch for about fifteen minutes and get everything that they are going to say.
without injury law firm ads there would not be any local news
i.e. Glasheen Valles & Inderman and Michael Gopin here in El Paso, Texas.
Lawyers, car dealers, furniture stores, and fast food chains make up the bulk of the advertising during local newscasts in my area.
Local TV news faces two existential threats: The first is the advancing age of the average viewer. Most viewers in the 55+ demographic are the ones who grew up watching local news. The younger demographics mostly don't tune in every night, preferring to get their local news off of social media. The second threat is cord cutting, since the majority of revenue is from cable subscriptions, and the retransmission fees that they generate. That revenue stream is dropping fast, and will only get worse. It doesn't help that the majority of stations are owned by "too big to fail" companies, like Sinclair and Nexstar. Sinclair is in panic mode, not only closing down newsrooms to cut costs, but also trying to unload a third of their stations that they own. I worked in local TV for over 30 years. I don't seeing this situation getting better. My gut feeling says, in five to ten year, the major broadcast networks will end their affiliations with local stations and go full time into streaming. This is why NBC is pushing Peacock so hard, even when it still loses money. My guess is the biggest tipping point is when the next NFL TV rights contracts are negotiated in 2033.
Imagine you are living in a town in Alaska, and the local news coming out of the state of Florida? Why watch local news if the news being reported from another state who could report the wrong information? That needs to be stop. Local news should be covered by reporters in the state who could reach out better.
People laugh about what was and wasn’t shown on the old tv shows, but look at the perversion that we see today. Yeah we’ve come a long way, down
hell that's all i watch...old shows because new shows are all crap and woke
I've noticed an increase is news production where I live. The cities that have these TV stations are 50 and 80 miles away. All three cities are 100k in population, but they also service a large viewing area of small communities and several towns that are 15 to 20k. The biggest trend is fewer long term people on TV. This broadcast area has always been a starting point for those starting in broadcasting. It's just the turnover has increased drastically. I gave up on broadcasting in my area after I got my degree. The money is just not there unless you are in a LARGE market. I make about twice as much working for a software company. Some of these stations are owned by Nexstar and Sinclair.
All the local channels in my area have increased the time allocated for local news. Where the evening local news used to be from 5PM to 6:30, it is now 4PM to 6:30. Two stations in my market, one a Fox affiliate and one not affiliated with any network, now broadcast local morning news from 5AM to 10AM. In prime time, I can now get local news on various channels at 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM.
Local news is cheap to produce and can usually be recycled for hours for almost no cost. If the advertising is selling, they will keep doing hours of it.
Maybe if they got back to “PRESENTING THE NEWS WITH OUT COMMENT” instead of treating it as a form of entertainment which they have to gussy up in-order to attract mindless viewers, they wouldn’t be in this predicament
The local stations do report new. Its cable TV stations like Fox News, MSNBC and NewsMax that report opinions and have shouting matches for ratings
maybe if they woild get rid of "fluff" and ckncentrae on actual content.
Sinclair bought a ton of them. It's part of their programming so unfortunately that's the cause of the change.
I couldn’t agree more….. News now is a tabloid.
"The actress who played Lucy" ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
Lmbo!😂😂😂
"The actress who played Lucy...." Jeez I'm old. I always thought Lucille Ball was really famous but I guess she is starting to fade from living memory.
I was thinking the same thing
I'm with you on that thought.
Lol!😂 Time is moving along. I watched the reruns. I was in July 1976 if that is any indication.
Newspapers were hurt because people started getting the news from the internet.
That may also be hurting the local tv news but I think local news still have a lot going for them in many markets.
We just lost WCBS Newsradio 880 in New York City last August!
*No, we are not seeing the same thing for Local TV news. Sinclair Broadcast Group as I've known as a long history of not committing to keep local TV news departments in their tv stations.*
*And just because SBG does that doesn't mean every non SBG TV stations, such as CBS owned and operated stations, would end local TV news broadcasting.*
I only watch local news. CNN, fox News & msnbc are irrelevant to me.
Unless your local news is independently owned, it's just different faces telling you the same.
@Speed.Racer.5 True, but for free. I get them OTA. Not paying for the nonsense 😂. Three houses, three zip codes, three markets of local news for freeeee!
They're not telling you what's going on anymore, just what they want you to think is going on. But the local news just might come in handy. How are we gonna know if they got that cat out of the tree?😮
Keep riding the merry-go-round and ignore the universe, and US issues. Don't be surprised when you don't know what country you're in.
@@montewhite-kw3ct Or why no one speaks English
My wife and I have had this discussion about the local news decline. I live in a small town is S. Carolina. We used to have local Radio with local news and local papers with local news. They have all died out local tv gives regional coverage. Spectrum has recently started a state wide news channel. Really the best way to find out local activity is now Facebook.
I hope my local channels don’t go away because we need them for weather alerts we get a lot of bad weather where I live
I love in tornado alley so I get that.
Our local Fox and NBC stations share the same weather people, and when severe storms come up? Both stations go live with the same people, and the same broadcast.
We had one local tv news that covered a big portion of central Nebraska. Now it’s gone and we have to watch news from Lincoln, Ne.
I've been saying for years that we eschew local news/journalism at our peril. Subscribe to your local newspapers and watch local news before it's too late and we have no one holding people accountable.
Local news if the affiliate is owned by a corporation is nothing more than a retread/amalgamation of processed, homogenized national stories under the guise of a local TV station's call letters.
Our local ABC station is owned by the Allen group. This station has gotten rid of about half of their staff (most all of the higher paid staff), now we are left with lower paid and inexperienced people. Very little of the local news (because they fired all of the reporters), and more news from outside of the area. Truly sad.
First the arrested all the journalist Then no one knows what happened after that.
Allen Media-owned WLFI-TV in Lafayette, Indiana, gutted its news department. Of its veteran staff, only chief meteorologist Chad Evans remains to warn north-central Indiana residents about threatening storms.
I saw that metv in Rockford has kwwl 7.3 on channel 13.3. I think they are using the same streaming channel. Maybe Allen owned tv stations are trying to use the same streaming channels.
All I watch is local news. Networks like Fox News MSNBC CNN etc mean very little to me nowadays. All the national stuff I can get through local and check out what's on TH-cam. I cut my cable subscription about 12 years ago.
I barely watch local news, too much bad news have to protect my mental health.
The problem with local TV news is that it became too formulaic. Each segment from day to day is pretty much the same as the day before. Some news about crime first, then some news about what the idiot politicians are doing or not doing, then sports, then the weather, then end up with a puff piece human interest story. In most books about "How to Not Waste Time" one of the first things mentioned is to stop watching TV news. A full 30 minute TV broadcast, if typed out, would be one single column in a newspaper, something you could read in less than 5 minutes. Oh yeah, we don't read those newspapers anymore either. (I do subscribe online to a national newspaper, the Washington Times. For local news, I am fortunate to have a decent radio station).
We haven't watched local news in years.
Like everyone else, we got rid of cable tv many years ago.
As far as the Paramount merger, there's huge concern particularly with CBS News that they are no longer a neutral broadcast and Regulators are planning on pushing the FCC to force that as per their licensing agreement with the fcc. CBS is among the worst when it comes to political bent, it's a shame.
True. CBS is bent. Broken actually.
These companies raise their prices because they KNOW that there are way more people stupid enough to pay these outlandish prices than people who see that its not worth it. Its just like concert tickets.... People always complain at how expensive concert tickets are... Well, STOP BUYING THE TICKETS you keep complaining about.... If MORE people don't pay for it... then maybe, and I say maybe, these companies will understand that they have gotten way too greedy.
Agree. I've given up concerts, cable TV and skiing. All out priced themselves. What's next 😁😳
I rarely watch local news on TV anymore, since our local TV news outlets are extremely biased in their reporting. we do have an excellent local radio station with a news department for my local news fix.
Newspapers have been a dieing outlet for over 30 yrs. Most are strictly online. My husband is a printer and the only thing that is still a requirement to be printed is the legal news. They need to have a hard copy still. Even that has been taken down to 2 or 3 days worth of print unlike before when it was everyday. Over the air local news is still going strong in my area. Although for the times slots that they have most of the stories are repeated on those slots.
Our local newspaper is only online and a hard copy is no longer available.
My local major paper used to have hundreds of pages, multiple sections, inserts, etc, and it was 50 cents a copy and sold pretty well. Was common to see it sell out. The current version of that same paper is down to less than 10 physical sheets of newsprint and they charge $2.50 a copy for it, or they WOULD charge that for it but nobody is buying a pamphlet for that kind of money. Copy sales are nothing. Ad sales are nothing because nobody is reading it. There's no going back.
I stopped watching the broadcast networks a long time ago. I couldn't tell you one show on ABC, CBS, NBC, or FOX, nor do I watch their news offerings.
Lucille Ball is her name.
Local news isn't going to disappear from major markets, top-20 markets just yet. It's the mid-sized, and small-market stations that are getting their newsrooms shut down.
So a reporter standing on a freeway overpass in Milwaukee, telling me that it's snowing, isn't good for ratings?
I'm shocked...🙄
Yeah. I always thought it was funny to see 4+ reporters around the same city during a blizzard saying it's snowing. All I have to do is look outside. 😂
Also the weather every 10 minutes on the hour when nothing basically changed 10 minutes ago🙄
Local news has gone downhill. They really do very little news and almost no investigative journalism anymore. They only talk about a couple of national stories that have already been talked sbout by everyone else, then a couple local stories and then on to an overly long feature report that isn't even news. If they have an hour long news broadcast the second half hour is basically a repeat of the first half hour. Local news pretty much goes unreported since newspapers are all but dead. Weather and sports are the only things people tune in for.
I don't watch any mainstream media at all... not even local news. I rely on the independent channels here on TH-cam.
My local CBS and FOX affiliates are locally owned, but they are even facing layoffs, with only a few news anchors and reporters.
how do you make local news for one state in another state?
I predict ABC, CBS, and NBC give up the 10 pm prime time hour and give it back to the local stations just like The CW and FOX already do in the very near future
CBS has said publicly in no way they are giving up the 10pm slot, although NBC definitely wants to do that, not sure about ABC
@@AmericanBandstandAgainNBC has never recovered from the *Jay Leno Show* debacle. They're still smarting from that.
FOX never utilized the 10 PM hour. CW was a joint venture with what they used to be and CBS and now that Nexstar owns the majority if not all of it that isn't even an issue.
CW was always more of a concession after the dissolution of WB and UPN anyway. Without it the other 3 networks would have absorbed the affiliates a long time ago.
@@AmericanBandstandAgainNBC should. They never had good programming in that hour. Even back in the day
ABC I'm surprised they still utilize the 7 PM to 9 PM hour let alone the 10 PM hour.
@@CCK1972 I think it depends on the time zone. Central uses 7-10pm, Eastern uses 8-11pm
I have not seen a degradation in local TV news in Ohio. However, the local coverage on our local newspaper is not as good, since USA Today took ownership. They also started mailing the newspaper rather than delivery. We mostly read the newspaper online now. Even the local TV news has online apps and TH-cam videos, which is a plus!
Yeah these corporations just greedy and too greedy for their own good. They don't serve the interests of the people the only serve the interests of their gritty shareholders and big fat executives.
I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have seen no decrease in local news so far.
Exactly I'm from Dayton and same here love local news more than National
@@little.zayzay Dayton OH old school resident here and yep, I still actually enjoy our local news coverage.
I have seen no decrease in local news. In fact I have heard atleast in past that local news was one of biggest moneymakers if not biggest for local stations. My NBC station has local news on most of morning and starts back at 4pm until Nightly News at 6:30 m. If this is not enough they also have a 24 hour station with local new and own Fox affiliate and put news on there as well.
Cincy is a highly competitive news market. Dayton has one dominant station that still has an outstanding reach and a fairly solid product considering the times. Local news is cheaper to air than syndicated programming. You're seeing fewer people doing more. That's going to be the trend until local news on TV ends.
Local news is a side effect of the big networks. The networks PAY the locals to carry the network feed. In turn, the locals leverage the network branding to do local news and sell all the ads they can. This is where locals make their big money. If viewers are not watching the networks, and they aren't like they used to, there are far fewer eyeballs being brought to watch the locals, which means lower ad rates and revenue craters. That's why local news is being pinched. It used to be a money printing machine. It is no longer the case. The bigger story is that networks are what fund a lot of these stations. If viewers keep moving to streaming, the networks won't need local stations or heck, the networks won't need exist at all.
Local news in the Cleveland/Akron area is thriving.
TH-cam and all these others wanting so much money we would have been better off with cable
No. Completely wrong
That would be the final nail in old media's coffin. Most people only still have it for local news and sports.
ICYDK, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married in real life. Everybody knew the baby was coming. Lucy logically had the family growth written into the show. But it was a “first” for sure. 9:43
With cable TV, you get more of what you don't want.
Back in the day, the word pregnant couldn't be used. Married couples slept in separate beds.
If TH-cam TV drops local channels, I drop it.
Woke up this morning turned to Fox 61 new in Connecticut and it was playing Fox News🤷🏾♂️
Might I suggest Channels 30, 3 or 8?
Not really seeing a decline in quality, but less content in our local news. It seams that each night they go over a few stories that were covered the night before without any more details than the previous days news cast.
Yes I have noticed our local news anchors,try to force smiles as they report bad news and they laugh a lot and talk about nonsense.
I live in metro New York. My ABC station for 1 has local news 4AM-7AM 10-11AM 4:00-6:30 PM, The local CBS and NBC has almost the same. Does that sound like local news is going away? And they keep repeating the same stories ALL DAY
I do not watch local news anymore. Have not bought a newspaper in years .
This happened to 4 stations in Wisconsin. It's not local broadcasting anymore it is corporate broadcasting
Who watches much local or national TV news shows anymore? Not an efficient way to get news, the web or YT is much better! Years ago I worked in a place that distributed the transcripts of the major network's national news casts from the night before each day. Each transcript was only a couple of sparse pages, something that you could easily read through in about 2 minutes. So who has time to waste 28 more minutes than that, just to see the commercials? Probably no one given a choice.
In the top 20 markets, local news is doing well.
I moved from the Boston area 20 years ago down to FL with my wife and young son at the time. The news was very good. Not sensationalized as it is now. Back then the anchors were making a lot of money. Those top anchors were all let go and the stations hired “eye candy” and they weren’t reporters. They only read the news. I know for a fact that most if not all earn approximately 80k/yr. That’s down from the average of 500k plus.
When we moved to FL the “eye candy” women were wearing short skirts with heels. Since then the skirts got shorter and the heels got longer. Same with the men. Ok they don’t wear skirts lol but they’re also good looking guys. I only watch the news now if a storm is coming.
They devote maybe 15 minutes combined in weather and sports. Every thing else is a quick story of a local shooting or a robbery. It’s ridiculous.
My local news stations used to run from 5 to 6:30 and now they run from 4 to 6:30
My local news is 4 to 6:30 (6:30 world news) and back at 7 -7:30.
82.99 per month!!! It’s all over for live TV!
Local tv news is a TV staple since the invention of the TV and will never go away.
I worked in local news. It's on life support.
*Exactly. Without Local TV stations, TV networks would not exist.*
Is like radio, but it going to evolve.
Depends if it's cheaper to produce than re-runs of "Cheers".
I stopped watching when the good story is 20 seconds and all the murders can be minutes long each. Too depressing.
it happened at KDBC CBS 4 in El Paso, Texas. Local news has been cut back from a traditional newscast to a community show, looks cheapened, Sinclair stations have done this, as of 11/11/24 it's now ARC El Paso. only KFOX 14 remains as traditional local news we're used to seeing.
Shocking the the Alphabet Corp would lie. They raised mine to 82 this morning starting next month
It's the beginning of the end of local tv
End of local news makes sense. All 3 in Santa Barbara, CA are owned by same company and have the same people for ABC, CBS, and FOX
We have not watched any local TV news in more than a year since we ended our TH-cam TV subscription. Even when we had TH-cam TV we rarely ever watched local news.
I live in a area that’s to far to pick up the local channels,and live in a condo that allows no outdoor antennas.Not paying those crazy prices for the streaming services!I threw my dish network out Four years ago thinking that streaming would be affordable seems like throwing the dish out might have been a mistake!
The 1st date of the death of Local News was the Telecommunations Act of 1996 being passed,until then a corportation was limited to how many local radio or tv stations they could own,afterward Clear Channel bought up most radio stations across the country and made all stations in every genre follow rigid genre playlists and play the same songs across the country which destroyed regional music scenes. Also why fm radio dj's sound exactly the same way they did in the 90s. They basically created the model that Sinclair used to later destroy local tv news.
I don't watch much or any live TV. I have CBS through Paramount+ about it and Peacock. I pay $ 20+ tax annually, and they stream SNF and other things, but I don't have access to NBC. I do like to watch my local ABC news. They have an app called ABC Action News. I admit I watch it mainly during hurricane season. I can watch my local Fox News. I believe it is on Tubi.
Fox also has an app called "Fox local" that has certain cities they play local news in.
@@tollboothwillie0Not really local.
@@tollboothwillie0 Thanks didn't know that. I have a news row on my Nvidia Shield just added it. The Interface is like Haystack News.
Our local newspaper is now published in Milwaukee Wisconsin. (Rockford Register Star. )
No absolutely not.
Just got an email from TH-cam TV that my bill is increasing 10.00 a month. Starting on or after 1/13/2025. I don't have Verizon, the mail came from TH-cam.
I rarely watch local news, even the weather has an app.
Newspapers and News DON'T tell the truth anymore...I rely on the Philadelphia trumpet magazine for my News...
I don't even watch the local news anymore, at least not on broadcast TV. I subscribe to TH-cam TV just so my mother can watch the local channels, but I rarely use it. I get all my news from the internet or local new websites.
I just got an e-mail from TH-cam TV stating a $10 increase for 2025, so it is true.
There has been a decline in local news in our locale of Flint Michigan. Reporters hardly go out to cover and report and there are less of them.
Most of the news is just a rehash of national news that I get from other sources. Also the MLive digital newspaper has been dramatically increasing their prices eventually I think they will put themselves out of business it is now about $40 for 5 weeks, which is over $400 a year.
I just got my TH-cam TV notice of increase to $82.99 in January.
Peacock has a new show The Day of the Jackal. It's pretty popular and AMAZING
Local news here starts at 4:00 in the afternoon and goes to 8:00 PM on 2 of the networks. The only reason the other 2 don't do it is Jeopardy etc type shows must get ratings.
Alive and strong in the NYC market👍🏽👍🏽
PIX 11 is starting to have too much news and not enough comedy. I would always watch WLNY 55, but ever since they took off The King of Queens, Family Guy, and Bob's Burgers, I stay far away from that network. Now I'm stuck between all 5 of the networks!
Facts 💯🗽💪🏾
@@MuffledScreaming agree. I remember when PIX used to have a tradition of showing The Honeymooners marathon on holidays. Not anymore.
Local TV in my country ended over 2 decades ago on October 28th 2002, it's all been national now ever since, which still infuriates me and many others to this day!
Too much local news in America and too much firings as staff is changed to keep cost low.
Kansas City has local news starting at 4am till 10am. Then it runs 11am to 1pm and 3:30p.m. to 7p.m. and then 10p.m. with one channel an hour. Then it reruns online.
@@alanvallazza9781 My local NBC station owns Fox affiliate and also puts local news on there most of morning. They also put their 10 pm news on Fox station. At least in past I heard that local stations made money on news and thats why news is on most of day and less reruns, talk shows and syndicated programs that were once widespread.
I've only noticed an increase in local news here in Michigan. Our local paper was sold but was bought by another local company. I've watched local channels increase the number of hours air and shifted hours so they're not all on at same time. Idk maybe I just see it different.
I was disappointed to learn that my cable provider was recently ending it's traditional TV options, forcing anyone who wished to continue to receive their current content, to rent "STREAMING" boxes and receive all content by way of streaming! This is after continual raises in price, with reduction of quality over the last couple years! I decided to only keep the internet portion from them although I've had multiple calls (all ridiculously long) to stop charging me for TV which they swear is resolved! I did like being able to see the local regional area news and weather which was not extensive, repeating every 30 minutes for 3-4 hours before updating. I wish it were available even as an inexpensive app since it was usually the 1st thing I'd check every day before leaving!
I just cut off my TH-cam Tv, because I don't watch much on it just only re-runs on most all of the channels and a waste of money.
They were charging me be $129.99 and I just had it with the price hikes for nothing but re-runs and ole boring junk on their tv.
Money will be better spent on better things so Yes cut the streaming on Tv.
When I started the streaming service, it cost me only $59.99 and now 129.99 and now Goodbye TH-cam.
the loss of Broadcast TV fees from cable cos (as they are similarly shrinking) is part of the reason this is happening. Local stations in most markets get about 45% of their revenue from the sale of their broadcast to cable and satellite providers. Less money coming in means less ability to operate local news.
Chicago’s WGN runs news from 4am til 10am then 11am til 1pm then 4pm till 7pm then 9pm till 10:30pm!
Commercials in so much programming is so out of control…
I don't know about Seattle. I don't really watch the local newscasts, they tend to be too depressing.
It’s depressing because the leaders in Seattle and Washington state are too focused on their wokeness and liberal agenda… which has caused so many of the problems…
@@robtucker6303 💯
@@robtucker6303 Boom!
A person doesn't need a network to watch their local news. They can go to the new's website or download the app.
I cut the cord and use my rabbit ears to watch all my local channels and then some with my smart log tv. I also have discovery plus and now peacock for my bravo shows and yes I’m a reality girl. I love my local channels, I watch Hell’s Kitchen on fox, bachelorette on abc when it comes on, football on Sunday on all the channels etc, minus my $160.00 bill. With crazy weather, I like my local weather guys jumping in showing live radar tornadoes nearby. I don’t think local channels will ever leave
Hopefully the FCC does not agree and change providers like TH-cam TV and Hulu into cable companies, that will really destroy things as far as price for cord cutters.
If news were presented as just news rather than with a political spin or commentary, more people would likely watch it.
Comcast Xfinity just sent me a notice today of price hikes. Everything seems to be going up by $3 to $5.
CONcast are the WORST offenders in stealing your money...and indoctrination. Ever scroll thru and see all the LGBT and trans ads and shows? Disgusting. Dropping them was a great day
Sinclair owns the station here in the Macon, GA market that has Fox on the main channel and ABC on a subchannel, they dropped the morning and 10pm news but kept the 5pm on the Fox side, but however on the ABC side, morning, 6pm and 11pm newscasts are retained
They also produced the 10pm news for the Fox station in Albany, GA....when they got rid of the news for Fox here in Macon they also layed off everyone at the Fox station in Albany and discontinued the news down there as well....
It’s interesting when you talk about cable companies, adding streaming service services into their package to make a bundle.
Sling is already doing this. Literally, they have six choices now for their base package.
Orange, orange plus Max, blue, blue plus Max, orange and blue, orange and blue plus Max.
It cost $6.99 per month to add Max to a base package on sling TV.
I’m not writing local news off just yet. Do some smaller markets have it worse than the big or medium yes.
I think with the Trump administration you will have other media companies merging and there still a handful of media companies that owned local tv stations. Nexstar, Gray, aren’t big for anything and these companies want to buy more. They’re going to raised the cap on ownership.
I do think some companies need to make a deal and merge ( yes talking to Scripps Howard) I do hope TEGNA rebounds.