Here’s some good news: TV news employment is soaring. According to the annual RTDNA-Hofstra University survey on the state of TV news staffing and profitably, TV news employment is up to the second highest level ever and more hiring is expected over the next year.
There’s more hiring on the horizon, too: 36.7% of news directors polled said that they expected to increase the size of their staffs over the next year.
TV news profitability is also on the rise. In 2012, 59.6% of news stations showed a profit–that’s the highest level it’s been since 1998. Markets 51-100 showed the most profit in 2012, with 68.2% of those stations turning a profit, compared to 54.7% in markets 1-25.
As well, Papper found that there are now 725 TV stations originating local news. Those stations air their news on an additional 242 stations, meaning that there are a total of 967 stations across the country running local news.
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