Four TV stations in New York, the nation's largest TV market, have formed a local news service to pool video newsgathering resources. The news service will launch June 22.
The four
stations are: Fox Television's WNYW-TV; NBC Universal's WNBC-TV; Tribune's WPIX-TV; and CBS's WCBS-TV. The stations will share video of commonly covered stories, but each station can put its own
spin on the content. WNYW-TV and WNBC-TV already share aerial news footage.
Stations have launched similar local video news services in several large markets including, Chicago, Atlanta
and Tampa. A local service will go into effect in Los Angeles on June 15. Like the other news services, the New York service is run by an independent managing editor who determines the stories to
be covered each day. The shared video will then be used for local on-air TV, online and mobile news reports.
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