Evaluating Local News on the Radio

Abstract

News radio stations function as major sources of local news and information for their listeners, but radio stations across the United States are facing unprecedented challenges with constant drops in advertising revenue and decreasing numbers of stations devoted to an all-news or talk format. A national survey of news radio station executives from stations in different-sized markets found that stations in smaller markets were likely to broadcast a greater percentage of locally produced content compared to syndicated or outsourced content than stations in larger markets. Ownership structure, such as whether a smaller station was owned independently or by a large media conglomerate, did not appear to have an effect on the levels of local programming.

Local language programs in cultural radios to maintain Indonesian national identity

“…There are still, fortunately, some ways to preserve it, one of which is by implementing localism, a condition where a radio is focused on local contents such as local news and discourses (Hood, 2010). In a further study, Wu (2017) also stated that one of the ways to survive in the community and maintain the radio listenership is that a radio station should provide more local contents in its programs. This can be understood, as a certain community may have a certain contentment in certain radio programs.…”