Survey: Amount Of News Drops Slightly On Radio

Bob Papper, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University has released his latest survey of broadcast news. The data comes from the  latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Survey of TV and radio stations

Tracking local news highlights:

• The amount of TV news remains near record high
• News Directors anticipate amount of news to hold steady
• Small drop in radio news

Overall in the survey, 79.2% of local radio groups report that at least one station in the group runs local news.  That's almost 4 points higher than last year.

In total, 66.2% of radio stations in the survey run local news -- 71.9% of AM stations and 63.9% of FM stations.  The overall percentage running local news is down around 4 points (3.8) compared to last year -- which was down 7.7 from the year before.

AM and FM stations were down about the same amount.  Commercial stations ran local news at a much higher rate than non-commercial ones: 82.6% of commercial stations run local news vs. 64.9% of non-commercial ones.

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