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

- **Issued by:** [Featured](https://www.helpareporter.com/news-releases/featured)
- **Published:** Oct 29, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC
- **Category:** [Research](https://www.helpareporter.com/news-releases/research)
- **Topics:** Research
- **Web page:** https://www.helpareporter.com/news-releases/how-reachable-is-local-tv-news-featured-tv-newsroom-report-2
- **Original source:** https://press.featured.com/research/how-reachable-is-local-tv-news-featured-tv-newsroom-report/

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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/db79f74fe998087abe1982b7bac226018f43883e.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%

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