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

- Type: Research
- Published: October 20, 2026

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.

## Key findings

- FEATURED TV STATIONS REPORT · OCTOBER 2026
- <p>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.</p>
- 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)

Source: https://featured.com/press/research/how-reachable-is-local-tv-news-featured-tv-newsroom-report

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