Profitability of TV news in the U.S. 2000-2022

Published by
Amy Watson,
Oct 25, 2023
According to the most recently available data, 55.2 percent of surveyed non-satellite TV stations in the United States reported that they were showing profit in 2022, with 4.4 percent showing a loss. The percentages of respondents who said their newsrooms were profitable in 2021 and 2022 were the lowest recorded since before 2015.

Profitability of television news stations in the United States from 2000 to 2022

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Release date

May 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

2000 to 2022

Number of respondents

2022: 1,780

Supplementary notes

*Responses came from 1,336 television stations.

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