---
title: "State of the News Media 2006: Local TV"
description: "Local TV news continues to face a complex future. The situation with audiences is hardly ideal. Ratings for the key early evening newscasts appear in most markets to be continuing their decline, and there may be trouble now in the early morning. But there are some indications that late local news, the programs that air after prime time, may be improving their audience appeal."
date: "2006-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media staff"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2006/03/19/state-of-the-news-media-2006-local-tv/"
categories:
  - "Local News"
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
---

# State of the News Media 2006: Local TV