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

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

• 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

• 1 contact: 100
• 2: 50
• 3–4: 83
• 5–9: 80
• 10–19: 36
• 20–49: 110
• 50+: 11

n = 470

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%	69.7%
NBC	127	1,712	5	87.4%	78.0%	70.9%
ABC	127	1,121	5	92.1%	80.3%	69.3%
FOX	63	919	3	87.3%	73.0%	76.2%