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

- Published: 2026-10-20
- Author: [Featured](https://press.featured.com/author/featured.md)
- Topics: [Research](https://press.featured.com/research.md)
- Source: https://press.featured.com/research/how-reachable-is-local-tv-news-featured-tv-newsroom-report/
- Publisher: Featured Press Room

### 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://featured-com-images.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/featured-sites/press.featured.com/uploads/2026/10/chart-tv-newsrooms-by-contacts-ece25e36.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% |