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Local TV: Share of total revenue produced by news (2016)

 

Year % of revenue
2002 39.7%
2003 46.1%
2004 42.8%
2005 44.9%
2006 42%
2007 45%
2008 43.5%
2009 44.7%
2010 46.8%
2011 48.2%
2012 48.6%
2013 50%
2014 51.8%

Note: Based on survey responses of news directors at all commercial local TV stations in the fourth quarter of 2014 among operating, non-satellite-television stations.
Source: RTDNA/Hofstra University Surveys.
“State of the News Media 2016”

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