---
title: "Local TV: Audience Rise After Years of Decline"
description: "After years of losing audience and revenue, local television news appears to have settled into a kind of equilibrium. Stations made less income in 2011 than the year before, but the decline was about what might be expected in a non-election year. And the overall audience for local TV news grew as stations added newscasts at different times and on additional platforms, including their digital channels. Local stations also expanded their online, mobile and social media offerings, but most have not yet generated a substantial audience."
date: "2012-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Katerina Eva Matsa"
    job_title: "Director, News and Information Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/katerina-eva-matsa/"
  - name: "Jane Sasseen"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
  - name: "Amy Mitchell"
    job_title: "Former Director, Journalism Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/amy-mitchell/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2012/03/19/local-tv-audience-rise-after-years-of-decline/"
categories:
  - "Local News"
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
---

# Local TV: Audience Rise After Years of Decline