# 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**

-   **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%

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