37% often watch local TV news (link)

That's more than responded in Pew Research's survey that they often watch national evening
network television news, such as ABC World News, CBS Evening News, or NBC Nightly News (26%) or often watch cable television news, such as CNN, The Fox News cable channel, or MSNBC (28%).

Local television news also reaches an ideologically diverse audience, and 85% trust local TV news at least somewhat for information, higher than any other source and even greater than friends and family who clock in at 77%.

Also see, "Local News and National Politics" at

http://joshuamccrain.com/localnews.pdf

Abstract:

The level of journalistic resources dedicated to coverage of local politics is in a long
term decline in the US news media, with readership shifting to national outlets. We
investigate whether this trend is demand- or supply-driven, exploiting a recent wave
of local television station acquisitions by a conglomerate owner. Using extensive data
on local news programming and ratings, we find that the ownership change led to 1)
substantial increases in coverage of national politics at the expense of local politics,
2) a significant rightward shift in the ideological slant of coverage and 3) moderate
decreases in viewership, all relative to the changes at other news programs airing in the
same media markets. These results suggest a substantial supply-side role in the trends
toward nationalization and polarization of politics news, with negative implications for
accountability of local elected officials and mass polarization.

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Link: 2017 PEW RESEARCH CENTER’S AMERICAN TRENDS PANEL

Posted: 04/02/2018 at 8:28PM

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