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Just curious, how many TV stations in the U.S. do this? WHDH in Boston does, hence it has always been the news leader in Boston, as they currently have local news 6 hours per day. It looks like most ABC O&O affiliates do as well, such as WABC, WPVI, and KABC. Anyone know of any others? Besides, how popular is the live stream?
 
I'm pretty sure KTTV/KCOP and KTLA do as well.
 
In the San Francisco- Bay Area market;
KTVU 2(FOX) Oakland
KRON 4(Ind/My Net) SF
KPIX 5(CBS) SF
KGO 7(ABC)SF
KNTV 11(NBC) San Jose
Stream their news.
 
There used to be a live stream of the WFXT/Boston 10 PM news awhile back; not sure if it was a "pirate" feed or not...
 
MarcB said:
I know FOX CT in Hartford streams at least their 4PM News...
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Weird - you'd think what's good for the baby goose at 4 PM is good for the rest of the flock at 10 PM, et al.
 
... but you need to be a Cablevision ("Optimum") subscriber to view it, though. (This is the same company that put a paywall up on the Newsday website.)
 
DToTheJ said:
... but you need to be a Cablevision ("Optimum") subscriber to view it, though. (This is the same company that put a paywall up on the Newsday website.)
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No, I have Verizon Fios and it works. They must have some agreement since Verizon doesn't carry the actual tv channel.
 
I'm pretty sure all the newsrooms in Cleveland do live newscast video of at least one newscast.

CBS affiliate WOIO/19's "19 Action News" recently went off the air for an hour or so due to a storm/power outage, and relentlessly promo'ed its online stream on its Twitter account.

In addition to streaming its newscasts, Fox affiliate WJW/8 "Fox 8" used to stream "The Robin Swoboda Show", and I believe they still stream its replacement, "Good Day Cleveland".
 
All of the Atlanta TV stations air some of their newscasts with the exception of WSB-TV. They only stream when it is severe weather. Oh yeah, WAGA-TV only streams its weekday newscasts. WGCL-TV only airs its 4-6pm newscasts, and WXIA-TV only does mornings and severe weather or breaking news.
 
WKRG-TV and WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama stream all of their newscasts live. WALA-TV streams "Studio 10", a local entertainment and lifestyle program, live also.
 
This is an interesting topic because there seems to be different mindsets by local tv on when and how much streaming should take place. Some stations go full-bore, streaming every newscast. Others choose selected newscasts. Some don't stream entire newscasts at all. The jury is still out as to how this effects ratings. (IMHO, doesn't effect ratings one way or the other, perhaps bringing up another topic of how streaming should be measured).

Five years ago, there were just a few stations that streamed their local news. It certainly has increased, but certainly is not universal. My question is: do the stations who don't stream protect their product, or are they hopelessly hanging on to the past?
 
searadiofreak said:
This is an interesting topic because there seems to be different mindsets by local tv on when and how much streaming should take place. Some stations go full-bore, streaming every newscast. Others choose selected newscasts. Some don't stream entire newscasts at all. The jury is still out as to how this effects ratings. (IMHO, doesn't effect ratings one way or the other, perhaps bringing up another topic of how streaming should be measured).

Five years ago, there were just a few stations that streamed their local news. It certainly has increased, but certainly is not universal. My question is: do the stations who don't stream protect their product, or are they hopelessly hanging on to the past?
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I think it is the latter "hopelessly hanging on to the past". A growing segment of viewers aren't going to sit in one place to watch entire newscast from a TV nowadays unless they have the time to do so.
 
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