Local News Service
The name Local News Service refers to a variety of news resource share services all started in 2008 and 2009. It sometimes does not refer to a specific sharing service but to the category in general. Typically, these services include pooling video crews to cover routine events and sharing helicopters used for newsgathering.
For 2009, the biggest development for local TV was content pooling.[1]
NBC-Fox partnerships are called Local News Service.[2]
History
Since 2000, Fox News, ABC and CBS have been partners in a national news pool partnership.[3]
In January 2009, NBC Local Media and Fox Television Stations set up the first Local News Service with their Philadelphia stations after testing since the summer 2008. Fox and NBC then added other markets where they both own stations.[4] In March, the first local news pool not formed by the NBC-Fox alliance was formed in Columbus, OH by Media General's WCMH-TV and Sinclair Broadcast Group's WSYX and WTTE.[5] On April 1, Fox Stations entered into its first pooling agreements without NBC in Phoenix (KSAZ-TV) with Scripps' KNXV-TV and Meredith's KPHO-TV and in Detroit (WJBK) with Scripps's WXYZ-TV.[5] The Fox(WFLD)-NBC (WMAQ-TV) partnership on May 11 started its Chicago pool its first with outside members: Tribune's WGN-TV and CBS's WBBM-TV.[6] On June 29, 2009, six weeks after the start of the Atlanta group, WGCL-TV exited the pool as they considered it restraining their ability to differentiation.[1] The Orlando local news service launched July 16, 2009 is the first to include a local news cable channel, Central Florida News 13.[7]
Issues
There is some concern that these agreements will cause local news coverage to be overly similar "or will enhance it." The involved stations claim that it will help the stations by allowing more specialized reporting by not tying up resourcing for routine events. Many of the stations involved have reduced news staff due to decreased advertising revenue. Fracturing audiences will continue the revenue decline and the need to continue to reduce costs. These partnerships are a natural solution along with outsourcing and other partnerships and content sharing to the revenue decline. However, the member stations may use the local news services as a reason for even more reduction in personnel.[6] Others say that it will be difficult for rivals to work together.[1]
| Market | Launch date |
Station | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia[8][9] | Test: Summer 2008 January 2009 |
WCAU | NBC TV Stations |
| WTXF-TV | Fox Television Stations | ||
| Washington, DC[10] | June 15, 2009 | WUSA | Tegna |
| WRC-TVa | NBC | ||
| WTTGa | Fox Television Stations | ||
| Boston[11] | June 1, 2009 | WFXT | Cox Media Group |
| WBZ-TV | CBS Corporation | ||
| Chicago[6] | May 11, 2009 | WGN-TV | Tribune Broadcasting |
| WFLD | Fox Television Stations | ||
| WBBM-TV | CBS Corporation | ||
| WMAQ-TV | NBC | ||
| Phoenix[5] | April 1, 2009 | KSAZ-TV | Fox Television Stations |
| KNXV-TV | Scripps | ||
| KPHO-TV | Meredith | ||
| Cleveland[6] | April 2009 | WKYC-TV | Gannett |
| WOIO | Raycom Media | ||
| Columbus, OH[5] | March 2012 | WCMH-TV | Media General |
| WSYX | Sinclair | ||
| WTTE | |||
| Atlanta[2] | May 18, 2009 | WAGA | Fox Television Stations |
| WGCL-TV | Meredith1 | ||
| WXIA-TV | Tegna | ||
| Tampa[12] | June 2, 2009 | WTVT | Fox Television Stations |
| WFTS-TV | Scripps | ||
| WTSP | Gannett | ||
| Detroit [5] | April 1, 2009 | WJBK | Fox Television Stations |
| WXYZ-TV | Scripps | ||
| Los Angeles[13] | June 15, 2009 | KTTV | Fox Television Stations |
| KTLA | Tribune | ||
| KNBC | NBC Stations | ||
| New York[14] | June 22, 2009 | WNYWa | Fox Television Stations |
| WNBCa | NBC Stations | ||
| WCBS-TV | CBS Corporation | ||
| WPIX | Tribune | ||
| Grand Rapids, MI[15] | July 13, 2009 | WOOD-TV | Media General |
| WWMT | Sinclair | ||
| WZZM | Gannett | ||
| Orlando, FL[7] | July 16, 2009 | WKMG | Graham Media Group |
| WOFL | Fox Television Stations | ||
| Central Florida News 13 | Bright House Networks | ||
| Dallash[16] | January 9, 2009 | KDFW | Fox Television Stations |
| KXAS | NBC Stations |
a. Also share in an "aerial news footage partnership" h. Helicopter shares 1. WGCL dropped out of the news share pool.[1]
| Market | Station | Owner |
|---|---|---|
| Phoenix[17] | KTVK | Meredith |
| KPHO-TV | Meredith | |
| KPNX | Tegna |
See also
- Concentration of media ownership
- Local marketing agreement
- Media cross-ownership in the United States
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