One other thing to consider is suburbs. If you live in one of the 20-plus suburbs of Chicago, you're not likely to get much 'local' news from the Chicago television stations. Elmhurst, Schaumberg, Evanston and Hammond aren't rural, but are still dwarfed by Chicago proper.
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For Rural Viewers, Local News Is Anything But: TV Newscheck article
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Solano County, Ca is in that situation though. Local News that hits Solano County, CA is coming from San Francisco or Sacramento depending on the event though. Solano County is basically seen as a suburban area for both Sacramento and Bay Area. But the only time you would see both Sacramento and Bay Area News outlets go to Solano County at the same time is when theres an Earthquake damage or fallout of a wildfire though in the area.
I remember there was a rule that the FCC had for WWOR-TV (Fox Owned My Network affiliate) and NJTV (PBS Affiliate for New Jersey owned by WNET-TV) that they were required to air News Segments that affected that state though in able for WNET to keep the broadcasting license to NJTV and Fox to keep the license for WWOR-TV. New Jersey is one of these states where NYC and Philadelphia DMA's cover the state though and its urbanized.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2018/01...eys_channel_9_isnt_ser.html#incart_river_home
I could swear there was a reason WHYY-TV (PBS) channel 12 in the Philadelphia DMA is licensed to Wilmington, DE. I think one reason was due to spacing with WBNG-TV (CBS) channel 12 of Binghamton, NY in the analog TV days. I think the other reason was that every state had to have at least one VHF station licensed to it. That may have explained either (W)WOR-TV channel 9 or WNET-TV channel 13 being licensed to Secaucus and Newark, respectively.
Delaware is another state has to deal with the issue of Local News content coming from other states like New Jersey though and its not exactly like the Nebraska example but its a case where stations like WHYY, and WRDE would have to do news segments for Delaware in able to keep their license.
True, but the SLC stations are only shown in small parts of Nevada (Wendover/Elko), and small parts of Idaho, (Preston), but indeed further penetration into Southwestern Wyoming. Further north in Wyoming the Idaho Falls/Pocatello DMA takes over.
They bought the license from what was WVUE in Wilmington (a NBC then an Indy in the last 50s) because WHYY was on 35 before that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVUE_(Wilmington,_Delaware)
Then, in 1958, WVUE, a station on VHF channel 12 in Wilmington which had lost its NBC affiliation and then struggled as an independent station, went off the air. WHYY's owners applied to move to the vacant channel 12, which was the nearest available VHF allocation to Philadelphia. A few years earlier, the FCC had changed its rules to allow a station to have its main studio in a city outside its official city of license. The FCC granted WHYY's request to move the station to channel 12 in 1963, and WHYY began broadcasting on that allocation for the first time on September 12.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — When Dianne Johnson channel-surfs for news in her rural western Nebraska home, all she sees are stories about Colorado crime and car crashes from a Denver television station more than 200 miles away.
It’s frustrating for the 61-year-old rancher, who wants to know the latest developments in Nebraska politics and sports. When floods devastated huge swaths of Nebraska this year, Johnson struggled to keep tabs on what was happening.
“If we actually had local news, we would watch it,” she said. “But all we get is Colorado drug busts and stories about who got murdered in Denver. It has nothing to do with us.”
Johnson is among an estimated 870,000 households nationwide that receive at least one distant network affiliate’s feed from their satellite TV service providers because they don’t live close enough to get conventional over-the-air signals. With no local TV news stations and a dwindling number of newspapers, many rural Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to track local elections or government decisions that affect their lives.
“It’s your connection to what’s going on in your community,” said Jim Timm, president and executive director of the Nebraska Broadcasters Association.
Johnson’s plight is part of a congressional dispute pitting local broadcasters against satellite television providers, who are frequently the only option for viewers in America’s most remote corners.
Caught in the middle are the nation’s “neglected markets” — remote areas that can’t get local broadcast signals, forcing viewers to rely on satellite service that shows them news from other states. Two of the 12 “neglected markets” are in Nebraska, in regions with several of the nation’s least-populated counties. The others are in rural corners of Kentucky, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Maine and Michigan.
For many of those areas, two separate issues are at play.
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On this THANKSGIVING DAY, it might be wise to consider that having some form of television,
be it local, distant or even out of state, it better than nothing at all..... I'm certain it takes
quite a bit of money to put translators on the air and keep them running.
It’s frustrating for the 61-year-old rancher, who wants to know the latest developments in Nebraska politics and sports. When floods devastated huge swaths of Nebraska this year, Johnson struggled to keep tabs on what was happening.
“If we actually had local news, we would watch it,” she said. “But all we get is Colorado drug busts and stories about who got murdered in Denver. It has nothing to do with us.”
Johnson is among an estimated 870,000 households nationwide that receive at least one distant network affiliate’s feed from their satellite TV service providers because they don’t live close enough to get conventional over-the-air signals. With no local TV news stations and a dwindling number of newspapers, many rural Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to track local elections or government decisions that affect their lives.
“It’s your connection to what’s going on in your community,” said Jim Timm, president and executive director of the Nebraska Broadcasters Association.
Johnson’s plight is part of a congressional dispute pitting local broadcasters against satellite television providers, who are frequently the only option for viewers in America’s most remote corners.
Caught in the middle are the nation’s “neglected markets” — remote areas that can’t get local broadcast signals, forcing viewers to rely on satellite service that shows them news from other states. Two of the 12 “neglected markets” are in Nebraska, in regions with several of the nation’s least-populated counties. The others are in rural corners of Kentucky, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Maine and Michigan.
For many of those areas, two separate issues are at play.
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On this THANKSGIVING DAY, it might be wise to consider that having some form of television,
be it local, distant or even out of state, it better than nothing at all..... I'm certain it takes
quite a bit of money to put translators on the air and keep them running.
Unless you happen to be one of the one to ten million that are deaf or hard of hearing.
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