Featured Brings Newsjacking to Local TV News

Highlights

• Scottsdale, AZ, Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026
• Featured, the AI co-pilot for PR, today added U.S. local TV stations to its platform. With Featured Newsjacking flagging breaking stories in a client's beats and cities, PR teams can now find the stations covering that client's market and draft a pitch to the news desk while the story is still moving.
• <p>The new capability, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://featured.com/product/features/find-tv-stations">Find TV Stations</a>, runs inside the same Featured chat used for Newsjacking, so the workflow stays in one place: set up Newsjacking with the client's beats and city markets, open a story card in chat and ask for the TV stations in the client's market (for example, 'Find TV stations in New York'), then draft the pitch to the news desk from a station card, leading with the local angle and the person who can be on camera today.</p>
• Local news desks look for a local angle on national stories every day. Muck Rack's State of Journalism 2026 survey found that 78% of journalists say a pitch is relevant when it directly affects the community their audience belongs to, and only 16% say the pitches they receive usually reflect that community. Local television is where that audience is: the Pew Research Center reports that 65% of Americans get local news from local TV stations at least sometimes, and in the Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report, 56% of U.S. respondents rated local TV news trustworthy, ahead of every national brand in the survey. The RTDNA/Newhouse survey published in September 2026 counted 26,458 full-time local TV news employees in 2025, down 2.2% in a year, with nearly two-thirds of stations relying on multimedia journalists who shoot, write and edit their own stories.
• Key Takeaways
• Local TV targeting: Featured adds local TV station targeting to its AI PR co-pilot, letting teams pitch news desks faster than rivals in 195 markets.
• Where audiences are: Featured helps PR teams connect local stories to local TV audiences, where 65% of Americans turn for community-relevant news.
• Inside Newsjacking chat: Featured's Find TV Stations works inside its Newsjacking chat, letting users search 1,757 stations by market and draft pitches from station cards.
• Fresh database: Featured's new database covers 1,757 U.S. TV stations and 470 newsroom contacts, collected from station websites in September 2026.
• Every national story has a local version, and the local news desk usually wants it the same day. Newsjacking finds the story and the angle. Now the stations in your client's market are one more question in the same chat.
• Featured's TV station database covers 1,757 U.S. TV stations and carries newsroom contacts for 470 of them across 195 TV markets, including news desk emails for 365 stations and news desk phone numbers for 332. It also holds 269 department desk addresses for weather, sports, consumer and investigative teams. Contacts were collected from station websites in September 2026.
• Users can search by state, TV market, city, or call sign, and Featured shows which stations it can draft a pitch to. Find TV Stations and Newsjacking are available on every Featured plan, including Free, and are live now at featured.com. Free to start. No credit card.