12-Traffic Weather and Sports Fill 40 of the Local Newscast

Report Infographics

• 19-Lighter Topics Rise at ABC, Fall at CBS
• 18-Airtime for Packages Changes Little; Interviews Down at ABC and NBC
• 16-Network Morning Newscasts Largely Unchanged
• 17-Interviews Are Shorter, Packages Longer on Network Morning News
• 15-Network Evening News Formats Remain Stable
• 13-Edited Packages Decrease From 2005 to 2012
• 14-Packages Decrease While Traffic, Weather and Sports Segments Grow On Morning and Late Night
• 1-On MSNBC, Opinion Dominates Reporting
• 2-Daytime
• 3-Daytime Cable Looked More Like Prime Time in 2012
• 4-Opinion Exceeds Reporting in Every Part of Cable’s Day
• 5-Little Change in Prime Time on Fox News
• 6-On Fox Daytime Live Event Coverage Plunges Interviews and Packages Increase
• 7-More Packages, Fewer Interviews on MSNBC Prime Time
• 8-Little Change in Daytime on MSNBC
• 9-Cable Interviews and Story Packages Shorten from 2007-2012
• 10-Fewer Packages, More Interviews on CNN Prime Time
• 11-Interviews Rise, Live Coverage Drops in CNN Daytime
• 20-On PBS, Less Government News, More Health Reporting
• 12-Traffic Weather and Sports Fill 40 of the Local Newscast
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