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Local stations with no local news.

tall_guy1

tall_guy1

I'm talking stations that otherwise would have local news who do not. WWJ 62 in Detroit, WATV in Altoona, Pennsylvania and KDNL in St. Louis all do not have news. Any others?
 
WPGX, the Fox affiliate in Panama City FL, has no local news. Considering it's a big tourist site in the southeast and most major Fox affiliates have local news, but given its size as a TV market (#154) it's probably not so surprising.
 
As for Johnstown/Altoona, the station in question is actually WATM-TV (ABC) channel 23 of Johnstown. I don't think there's any news done on sister station WWCP-TV (FOX) channel 8 of Johnstown either.

Come to think about it, what about WVNY-TV (ABC) channel 22 of Burlington, VT? I'm not sure if they have a news division or not.

EDIT: WVNY-TV in Burlington does. They also have a 10 PM newscast that airs on sister station WFFF-TV (FOX) channel 44 of Burlington.
 
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For the longest time, WXLV Winston-Salem NC (ABC) didn't have local news. They tried it but gave up. Earlier this year the Time Warner channel started providing them with a newscast.
 
Are you asking for ANY station, or a station airing a big four affiliate? I asked because there are a handful of CW and MyNetworkTV stations that don't air a newscast.
 
E-Cam said:
Are you asking for ANY station, or a station airing a big four affiliate? I asked because there are a handful of CW and MyNetworkTV stations that don't air a newscast.
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I think tall_guy1 means Big 4 affiliates.
 
KGWC-14 Casper, WY (CBS), plus KGWL-5 Lander and KGWR-13 Rock Springs. No news for many years now. They are a pass through CBS station with network news & shows plus syndicated programming.

-crainbebo
 
Meridian Mississippi has news on the ABC affiliate. The just added a 9pm newscast on the FOX affiliate. Nothing on the NBC or CBS stations. However those affiliates are owned by the FOX station and are on the HD channels.
 
Tallahassee has no local news on NBC 40. Today show weather fill ins are handled by sister station, ABC 3, from Pensacola, FL, 200 miles, or 3 markets, away. Sister station Fox 49 has a 9pm newscast produced by the local Tallahassee CBS station.
Panama City lost the major newscast from WTVY in Dothan when the local NBC launched a CBS affiliate in Panama Beach on it's HD-2 signal.
Dothan lost the WSFA newscast from Montgomery when the Dothan CBS launched NBC on it's HD-2.

It seems like most 50+TV markets can only support 2 TV newscasts. Many of them have a third option, but it us usually really bad or produced by another in or out of market station.

It's happening all over the place. Biloxi, Mississippi used to get News from New Orleans, Hattiesburg, and Mobile before the locals added HD-2s for CBS and NBC.

Etc.
 
NBC in Dothan is over the air in HD on WRGX-LD/ch. 23. It's repeated on WTVY's .4 channel in SD. Their .2 is My Network TV and .3 is the CW. WRGX has a local newscast at 4 PM and 5:30 which presumably is produced and staffed by WTVY.

CBS in Panama City is over the air in HD on WECP-LD/channel 18. It's repeated on WJHG's .3 channel in SD. Their .2 is the CW. WECP has a local newscast at 12 Noon and 5:30 PM produced and staffed by WJHG.
 
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Portland/Poland Spring, ME has always had news on the "Big 3" with all as their own production. Today, the 10 PM news on FOX 23 is produced by CBS 13 of Portland. I think WVII-TV (ABC) channel 7 of Bangor has been without news at one time or another.
 
Ccook55 said:
NBC in Dothan is over the air in HD on WRGX-LD/ch. 23. It's repeated on WTVY's .4 channel in SD. Their .2 is My Network TV and .3 is the CW. WRGX has a local newscast at 4 PM and 5:30 which presumably is produced and staffed by WTVY.

CBS in Panama City is over the air in HD on WECP-LD/channel 18. It's repeated on WJHG's .3 channel in SD. Their .2 is the CW. WECP has a local newscast at 12 Noon and 5:30 PM produced and staffed by WJHG.
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Exactly. Now Dothan doesn't get the option to watch the popular newscast on WSFA, the top news station from Alabama's capital city. Instead they can watch a repeat of WTVY news on the new local NBC LPTV. It's a shame they lost the out-of-market news just so the out-of-market commercials could be replaced with local ones.
 
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Exactly. Now Dothan doesn't get the option to watch the popular newscast on WSFA, the top news station from Alabama's capital city. Instead they can watch a repeat of WTVY news on the new local NBC LPTV. It's a shame they lost the out-of-market news just so the out-of-market commercials could be replaced with local ones.
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The WRGX newscasts are exclusive to the station, not repeats from WTVY. They are produced and staffed by WTVY.
 
Ccook55 said:
The WRGX newscasts are exclusive to the station, not repeats from WTVY. They are produced and staffed by WTVY.
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Exclusive or not, it's the same news and the same reporters.
I used to live in the market. We watched WSFA news just as often as WTVY.
 
...historical rather than contemporary, but I seem to recall that WLUK/11, in its days as the ABC affiliate in Green Bay, went through a patch in the late '60s when they had no local newscasts, running the hour-long edit of The Mike Douglas Show between ABC Evening News and network prime time, and reruns of The Rifleman at 10:00. Circa '71, WLUK recruited Ray Wheeler and future New York talk show phenom Stanley Siegel to anchor 5:30 and 10:00 newscasts and have maintained a full local news staff since then...
 
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