We are having a discussion in the Schedule Forum about KXGN, the eastern Montana best known as America's smallest market TV station. It also has no local news, just simulcasting news from Billings MT stations. What station (excluding stations with no big 4 affiliations) has no local newscasts. And what is the smallest market where no stations have news?
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Biggest station with no local news
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Surely the "big 4" station in the largest market without newscasts is the ABC station in St. Louis, KDNL.
KSTW a CBS owned CW affiliate in Seattle has no local news for now but that's because the stations master control is at the KPIX-TV/KBCW offices in San Francisco.
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KSTW's Seattle's master control and offices in San Francisco.
KCOP Los Angeles and WWOR New York has no local produced newscast for now due to its newscasts are produced by their respective primary Fox Owned stations Fox 11 Los Angeles and Fox 5 New York.
Why would a newscast produced by WNYW (Fox 5) for WWOR not be a "local produced newscast"?
What newscast would that be?
Point taken, Scott. It's not locally produced because it doesn't exist!
I think the only Fox O&Os doing any significant news for sister stations are the ones that have "Fox Plus" stations - WDCA in DC, KICU in SF/SJ and KZJO in Seattle.
Also I remember KCOP-TV had to cut newscasts because of the economic conditions of the time at Fox and yes the move was to protect KTTV Fox 11 News when those cuts took place.
Don't forget WRBW Orlando (8-9pm ET) and WFTC Minneapolis (7-8pm CT) too.
Channel 62 has always been a mess, at least since WGPR became WWJ. They had news for a few years before going defunct. It had a fraction of the shares of channels 2, 4 and 7. Then WWJ was a weaker signal than the other stations, and that was the case going back to when it was a black-orientated station as WGPR. No station wanted to make a deal in Detroit to take over WJBK's old CBS affiliation. I'm sure there were some OTA viewers that flipped to WTOL Toledo after ch 2 went Fox, thanks to WGPR's signal issues!
WWJ-TV was one of the stations owned by CBS with WUPA-TV Atlanta whose newscasts were made from other CBS owned stations. WWJ-TV and WKBD-TV the CBS duopoly in Detroit have their newscasts made at KTVT Dallas the CBS owned station in Texas.
WUPA also has their newscasts made in Dallas too.
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For a long time WXLV Winston-Salem NC didn't have news. They just gave up. It was the newest station to be affiliated with one of the Big Four and three other stations had strong news operations. For a while they did a Spectrum newscast produced by the people who do news for Spectrum Cable. Or maybe it was Time Warner. Now they have a newscast but I don't know how well it's doing.
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