It's really convenient that most TV stations have their local TV newscasts available for free over the internet live at the time they are broadcast, and some stations have them available on demand when you want. But are there TV stations that restrict them to only their coverage area; for example, a station in Pittsburgh limiting them only to a 40 mile radius of the city so that someone in Boston, MA could not receive them?
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Local Newscasts available over the internet
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How small are these stations that prompt them to not broadcast their signal nationwide? If it's a big one like Network O&O's then they allow their newscasts to be broadcast nationwide via their app. Or Tegna, Hearst, Sinclair, Gray, Allen Media , Nexstar,and EW Scripps it's on apps they own.
Huh? Which station does this? As far as I'm aware, all the majors stream live and broadcast regardless of area.
Even some PBS affiliates like KPBS San Diego broadcast newscasts and stream them on their website, PBS app and on Youtube. Which ones are referring to?
Are we talking about stations that use other languages besides English and Spanish that they cannot broadcast news because of broadcast rights reasons.
I know there are a few stations that are like KTSF-TV that broadcast news in Chinese and Tagalog. However the Tagalog portion of the news is owned and produced by ABS-CBN Philippines. KTSF-TV San Francisco gets a broadcast contract from them. The Chinese portion of the newscast is owned and made by the KTSF crew itself. Probably there are more stations like KTSF but that may vary by broadcast rights on who is actually producing the content. Note some of this is going to be more rare in the future given that more networks and stations are moving to their respective apps to reach their audience.
How common is it for local PBS stations to do a "real" newscast, and does it gain enough viewership to justify it?
I know WOUB in Athens OH (Ohio University) does an evening newscast, which serves an area of Southeastern Ohio pretty much ignored by the Columbus and Charleston-Huntington stations (you would think that WTAP in Parkersburg would provide comprehensive coverage of Athens County, but AFAIK it's not even on cable in Athens, despite the close proximity), but it is pretty much just a vehicle for OU broadcast journalism students. That's not a bad thing, but they don't seem to have major resources to provide a newscast that compares to commercial network affiliates.
Depends on the market? Some PBS affiliates do documentaries or do a local talk show or have some of their staff serve as corespondents Newshour for whenever the PBS Newshour Crew wants to do a segment about other parts of the country besides Washington DC.
I think if it's on the internet regardless where you live you can watch. Like Pluto tv and tubi and other streaming platforms they have News from select areas.
NBC is in the process of putting their O&O's newscasts on the Peacock app. This may be a partial explanation why some stations are not streaming online yet on TV apps.
How small does the station have to be to justify a geofencing. I heard of radio stations geofencing because they are small operations that don't have the budget that Audacy, Iheart, Cumulus, Alpha, Cox and Townsquare does or a statewide NPR News/Talk affiliate or a large market NPR News/Talk affiliate have.
WOUB-TV should provide a natural pipeline to WTAP. I don’t know, as we get WOUC instead, and we are in the wrong county to get WTAP via Dish (our cable system-which churned through many owners- finally bit the dust during the 2009 digital conversion).
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Not really. They still stream their newscasts separately online. NBC O&O's have been streaming live online a long time ago prior to this.
True too on web browsers.
Peacock already has the news streams of most of the NBC O&Os--NYC, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Miami, with the others (Dallas, San Francisco, San Diego, Hartford, and DC) coming before year's end.
Of course, many of us already know of the efforts from the network-owned station groups in recent years. Fox has their owned stations' news streams on Tubi and FoxNow; CBS and their continued growth of their streaming news networks, and ABC recently with the launch of their "24/7" streams of their eight O&Os.
For what it's worth...all of these of streams are available nationwide, and at no charge. Unless you're in charge of the CBS News Sacramento stream and sometimes forget to switch-off from KOVR's network/syndicated shows when news programming is done, just don't expect to see any network or syndicated shows on these other streams.
Of course, many of us already know of the efforts from the network-owned station groups in recent years. Fox has their owned stations' news streams on Tubi and FoxNow; CBS and their continued growth of their streaming news networks, and ABC recently with the launch of their "24/7" streams of their eight O&Os.
For what it's worth...all of these of streams are available nationwide, and at no charge. Unless you're in charge of the CBS News Sacramento stream and sometimes forget to switch-off from KOVR's network/syndicated shows when news programming is done, just don't expect to see any network or syndicated shows on these other streams.
I know Nexstar at least for Los Angeles and San Francisco you would have to pay for their stream to get access for 24 Hour News and Documentary access.
KTLA+
KRON On
These two Nexstar owned stations you must pay directly to get access for their 24 Hour News stream.
Note Gray Owned Stations Have their segments and Feeds on the Investigate TV app and the Vuit app
Hearst Television stations have their News feeds on the Very Local App and Youtube.
EW Scripps on the Newsy app
Spectrum News on their respective apps
Sinclair on STIRR and Newson
Tegna on NewsON and their respective apps.
KTLA+
KRON On
These two Nexstar owned stations you must pay directly to get access for their 24 Hour News stream.
Note Gray Owned Stations Have their segments and Feeds on the Investigate TV app and the Vuit app
Hearst Television stations have their News feeds on the Very Local App and Youtube.
EW Scripps on the Newsy app
Spectrum News on their respective apps
Sinclair on STIRR and Newson
Tegna on NewsON and their respective apps.
Dallas, Hartford, and DC are already available on The Roku Channel.
Umm... those are free.
I have found the FoxNow show (OTA on 45.1 in PHX) to be much less than valuable. Most days they simply join a speech or other political BS but then they just cut it off at multiple points to run commercials.....even PSA's at times. It is actually worse than the local news shows if you can believe that.
To be fair they did show live part of the January 6th Select Committee hearings but I turned it off due to too much political posturing.
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Not entirely true
1). Unless things have changed recently, I've NEVER had to pay to watch KRON 4 or KTLA 5
2). Last I checked, Hearst stations are still on NewsOn & stream on Tubi
3). I dpn't think Scripps stations are on the Newsy app (But as I usually don't watch Newsy on its app like I do CourtTV as Newsy is also available on The Roku Channel (Which is LIVE TV on a Roku Smart TV), I can't attest to this for sure
4). NewsOn isn't the only app TEGNA stations are listed on (I've found them on Tubi as well)
JeeperOne
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Live Now From Fox is basically intended to be a commercialized version of C-SPAN powered by Fox Television Stations (Only thing thing is you don't see the commercials on the live stream)
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