# Which is your local news channel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171 "2010-02-16T05:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/21 "2010-02-19T06:03:47Z")
In Detroit they are interchangeable. They are all bad and chock full of commercials. I watch PBS Lehrer Report . What is weird is they all advertise themselves on their own newscasts. It always drives me nuts. I am watching ,show me what you have. But they advertise what they will have some other time. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/22 "2010-02-20T05:21:35Z")
ABC, simply because there are no NBC, CBS, or Fox stations in NH. All of those stations are in Boston or Portland instead. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/23 "2010-02-20T05:54:53Z")
“News radio 780! WBBM.” I don’t listen to it enough to know their network, though by their call letters they are probably CBS. What I listen to is enough of people talking to wake up, which doesn’t work with music stations, and one loud enough to wake me up, which despite my complaints tends to discount most FM stations. Some years back I set my clock radio to an overpoweringly strong, able to hear it on your fillings, extremely-local, FM station, but I found that theological debates, even those in which my mental response began, “You have got to be kidding…,” were not sufficiently different from my regular dreams to wake me up. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/24 "2010-02-20T07:19:06Z")
I don’t always watch local news, but when I do, it’s KING5, the Seattle NBC affiliate. (Mostly for Jean Enersen, since she’s been there for about twice as long as I’ve been alive.) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/25 "2010-02-20T19:06:42Z")
I’ve found local news to be uniformly terrible. I remember how once, when it was a slow news day, they (I think it was CTV here in Edmonton) ran a story about a shooting somewhere in Alabama. The only explanation I could think of for why a local news show reported on a crime halway across the continent is that they feel that they _have_ to air something sensational to put their viewers on edge. I generally just watch CBC News Network (24hr cable news). ---
**Author:** ![heavybuhbuh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@heavybuhbuh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heavybuhbuh)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/26 "2010-02-20T21:45:08Z")
In Los Angeles, I only watch the local news when there is an exciting car chase… ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/27 "2010-02-21T00:05:01Z")
> [@Jman](#): > > Our CBS affiliate is probably the best of the local broadcasts (not that it’s stellar in all regards, but it’s not bad most of the time). WBNS 10 TV in Columbus. Yeah, this. One of my cases was well-covered by the local media, and CBS screwed up the details the least. They SUCK at meterology, though. NBC’s news is best in Columbus for weather–you can’t beat Jym Ganahl, horribly-spelled name and all. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/28 "2010-02-21T05:01:49Z")
ABC. I’ve always watched Channel 9 News, forever, and so does everyone else in Central NY, and this includes the noon news. (At night they have “11 at 11” - a list of 11 headlines on a list behind the anchor, and just TRY to change the station!) They always come out on top. CBS comes in dead last and always has. But I do watch NBC Channel 3 local news in the early morning, like at 5 a.m. because I like the people. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171/29 "2010-02-22T17:47:34Z")
This is curious to me. Why would NBC have more than double the other three major networks combined?\* Is there something about the network that draws the better local affiliates? Or is this an artifact of the form of the question (i.e. nobody wants to admit in a public poll to watching anything other than the “best” news media)? \*ETA: With 88 votes in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-your-local-news-channel/529171.md?page=1)