Local markets
IPTV and local channels, market by market
The most common pre-sale question in IPTV is whether you will get your local stations. It is also the one a channel count cannot answer.
Short answer
Does IPTV include local channels?
Local broadcast is licensed market by market, so no IPTV service carries every US local station everywhere, and any that claims to is describing something not sold that way. This site publishes 231 US networks by name and all of them are national. In most metros the broadcast stations are free over the air with an antenna; regional sports networks are the part that no antenna solves.
- DMA #1New York9 stations listed, 3 regional sports networks
- DMA #2Los Angeles9 stations listed, 3 regional sports networks
- DMA #3Chicago9 stations listed, 2 regional sports networks
Why only three markets
Because a page per market is only worth publishing if it says something true about that market. These three are written by hand, with the stations and networks that actually serve them. Generating two hundred more by swapping a city name into a template is how sites earn a thin-content problem, so the next one gets written when these have been measured.