PBS Stations that still produce local news

[e-dawg]

Are there still some PBS stations that still produces daily newscast? I know WGBH, KERA used to produce a daily newscast before it was cancel.

 

[fybush]

Are there still some PBS stations that still produces daily newscast? I know WGBH, KERA used to produce a daily newscast before it was cancel.

Pretty close to being a thing of the past. The handful that still have daily newscasts are generally outside productions - "NJ Spotlight News" on what's now NJ PBS (ex-NJTV, ex-NJN) or"Cronkite News" on KAET in Phoenix (produced by the Cronkite J-school at ASU, which shares a building and ownership with KAET). The University of Florida J-school was producing a daily half-hour for WUFT, the UF-owned PBS station in Gainesville, but I don't see it on the schedule now (perhaps because it's summer break?)

It looks like Lakeland PBS in northern Minnesota still has a nightly "Lakeland News," a survivor of that small breed of public stations in areas that were unserved/underserved by commercial TV and started their own newscasts in the 70s and 80s. Once upon a time, that was also NJN News, the Delaware Tonight newscast on WHYY, and a few others, but the vast majority of PBS stations have decided they can better allocate public affairs resources in other ways, whether it's documentaries or weekly shows. And even the weekly shows are fading away - the studio show we did at WXXI-TV in Rochester quietly ended a couple of years ago with little outcry.

 

[itsTheRolyPoly]

Pretty close to being a thing of the past. The handful that still have daily newscasts are generally outside productions - "NJ Spotlight News" on what's now NJ PBS (ex-NJTV, ex-NJN) or"Cronkite News" on KAET in Phoenix (produced by the Cronkite J-school at ASU, which shares a building and ownership with KAET). The University of Florida J-school was producing a daily half-hour for WUFT, the UF-owned PBS station in Gainesville, but I don't see it on the schedule now (perhaps because it's summer break?)

It looks like Lakeland PBS in northern Minnesota still has a nightly "Lakeland News," a survivor of that small breed of public stations in areas that were unserved/underserved by commercial TV and started their own newscasts in the 70s and 80s. Once upon a time, that was also NJN News, the Delaware Tonight newscast on WHYY, and a few others, but the vast majority of PBS stations have decided they can better allocate public affairs resources in other ways, whether it's documentaries or weekly shows. And even the weekly shows are fading away - the studio show we did at WXXI-TV in Rochester quietly ended a couple of years ago with little outcry.

UF still is. WUFT News - First at 5:00 is only on from the Fall-Spring semesters with summer usually taken off. I know because I used to live there in Gainesville.

 

[crainbebo]

NewsCenter 22 still runs on WVUT Vincennes, IN during the school year (no summer). It's operated by Vincennes University, with a student body of over 18,000.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

KPBS San Diego airs a local evening newscast. It's one of the most notable PBS affiliates in California airing a daily newscast on TV.

 

[Mr Tony]

It looks like Lakeland PBS in northern Minnesota still has a nightly "Lakeland News,"

yup still do. And since KAWE/KAWB is considered in the Minneapolis DMA (even though they are 200 miles away from Mpls) they are carried on satellite throughout the whole market. My dad likes it because he has a lake house on Lake Mille Lacs that gets KAWB over the air and he can see the news from there at his house in Minneapolis