# How Reachable Is Local TV News? — Featured TV Newsroom Report

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- **Published:** Oct 20, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC
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### FEATURED TV STATIONS REPORT · OCTOBER 2026

## How Reachable Is Local TV News?

What 1,757 U.S. television stations publish about how to reach their newsrooms, and what the 470 newsrooms that do publish a way in look like, based on 5,835 contacts compiled for Featured's Find TV Stations.

**Prepared by Featured, October 2026** · Contacts date-stamped Sept. 24–25, 2026

1,757

TV stations tracked (Full-power and Class A stations in the Find TV Newsrooms database)

470

Newsrooms with published contacts (Stations that post a newsroom email or phone number on their own site)

5,835

Published contacts (Desk inboxes, department desks and staff emails at those 470 newsrooms)

## Most stations don't advertise a way in

Of the 1,757 stations tracked, 464 (26.4%) publish a newsroom email or phone number on their own site, and 409 (23.3%) publish an email. Among the 785 big-four affiliates — the stations most likely to run a newsroom — the share rises to 56.8%. Among the 470 newsrooms that do publish a contact, the picture flips: 88.3% list a newsroom email, 77.7% list a news or assignment desk address, and 71.1% list a newsroom phone number. 468 of the 470 publish at least one of the two.

![Newsrooms by number of published contacts · n = 470 · 1 contact: 100 · 2: 50 · 3–4: 83 · 5–9: 80 · 10–19: 36 · 20–49: 110 · 50+: 11 · The 100 single-contact newsrooms are almost all (93%) a news desk inbox. The 121 newsrooms with 20+ contacts are mostly Gray Media (88) and Fox Television Stations (16), which publish full staff rosters.](https://haro-com-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/newswire/images/cf333516f259c2455e6e47db0bb8558307334d5c.webp)

Reachability and depth by network (of the 470 newsrooms with published contacts)

Network

Newsrooms

Contacts

Median contacts

Any email

Desk email

CBS

132

1,795

4

87.1%

78.0%

NBC

127

1,712

5

87.4%

78.0%

ABC

127

1,121

5

92.1%

80.3%

FOX

63

919

3

87.3%

73.0%

### About the data

Station census

2,023 rows, 1,757 after excluding low-power stations and translators/repeaters. Includes network group, owner, market, facility class, newsroom status and, where captured, newsroom contact details. Base records come from Wikipedia network affiliate lists retrieved September 24, 2026 (865 stations) and a 2018 StationIndex snapshot via the yinleon/LocalNewsDataset (1,158 stations).

Newsroom contacts

5,835 rows, each one published contact at one station — a named staff member, a news or assignment desk, or a department inbox. Contacts were crawled from station websites and date-stamped September 24–25, 2026. 5,120 emails are flagged 'printed on station website (crawler) – verify,' 302 as published on the station site or bio page, and 7 come from third-party listings.

Definitions

A station is a broadcast licence. A newsroom is a station that produces local news — 241 confirmed on the station site, 475 likely big-four affiliates. A newsroom with published contacts is a station entry in the contacts file (n = 470); 468 of those publish an email or phone.

Caveats

Crawled emails should be verified before use at scale. Staff-directory rows (4,593) carry an email but usually no title, so role-level analysis is limited to the 1,242 typed rows. Ownership and some affiliations reflect 2018 data for 1,158 stations. The 'likely newsroom' category is an inference from big-four affiliation, not a confirmation.

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