Despite the optimistic outlook from the stations’ directors, it’s no secret that the audience for local television news is shrinking. Stations around the country are hemorrhaging viewers, and TV news executives are worried, with good reason. In the past five years, the number of Americans who say they regularly watch local television news has declined by more than 20 percent, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

See side-by-side comparisons of KCCI and ABC5’s 10 o’clock news casts from Feb. 12.

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