ABSTRACT
News is a business, and its survival depends on a business model that enables it to take in more money than it costs to produce news. The latest radio-television digital news association (RTDNA)/Hofstra University Survey shows again that the TV news business is not limited to TV anymore. Consequently, even as the number of TV newsrooms originating local news has been shrinking, the size of those newsrooms has grown enough to keep employment high. TV news continues to make money, and stations continue to invest in news. In television, rating is the percentage of homes watching a TV program of all the homes that have a television set. TV still dominates the media jungle—both in time spent overall and in where people get most of their news. Three-quarters of stations provide local news content to one or more other media—beyond their own station or website.
