---
title: "Local TV: Good News After the Fall"
description: "After a couple of difficult years, finally there was some good news for local television. Thanks to the economic recovery and a busy election year, revenues rose sharply in 2010. As more stations continued to add newscasts in new time slots, the overall audience for local TV news actually held steady and new delivery platforms, including mobile, raised hope for the future."
date: "2011-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Katerina Eva Matsa"
    job_title: "Director, News and Information Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/katerina-eva-matsa/"
  - name: "Amy Mitchell"
    job_title: "Former Director, Journalism Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/amy-mitchell/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2011/03/19/local-tv-good-news-after-the-fall/"
categories:
  - "Local News"
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
---

# Local TV: Good News After the Fall