local programming
Nearby station content
Local programming refers to television or radio content produced by and for a specific geographic area, as opposed to nationally syndicated or network broadcasts.
Local news, weather, and community affairs programs are the most common forms: The station cut away from the network feed for local programming.
The term often appears in discussions of broadcast licensing, since regulators historically required stations to serve their communities with locally relevant content.
- communityCollective of connected people
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
- stationFixed stopping point
- call lettersBroadcast frequency designation
station ID · news · regional · cable · affiliate · hometown · airwaves · channel · syndication · public access · antenna · network · neighborhood · municipal · grassroots · town hall · civic · hyperlocal
- TV broadcastingTV stations, cable networks, regional news, TV towers, transmitters
- cable TVESPN, CNN, cable TV, cable box, HBO
- TV programmingprimetime, talk shows, game shows, prime time, sitcoms
- Community Radiocommunity radio, college radio, public radio, listener-supported, grassroots media
- local broadcastingregional TV, regional network, affiliate station, NPR, PBS
- TV schedulesprime time, showtimes, primetime, time slots, listings
local programmingnational broadcast
Transmission reaching entire country
network television · satellite broadcasting · regional programming
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