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 · 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.
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% |