Featured Adds Local TV Stations to AI PR Platform, Enabling Newsjacking for Local News Desks

Featured, an AI co-pilot for public relations, has added U.S. local TV stations to its platform, enabling PR teams to find stations covering a client's market and draft pitches to news desks while stories are still developing. The new capability, called Find TV Stations, runs inside the same Featured chat used for Newsjacking, so the workflow stays in one place. Users set up Newsjacking with the client's beats and city markets, and when a story card arrives, they can ask for TV stations in the client's market—for example, “Find TV stations in New York”—and then draft a pitch from a station card, leading with the local angle and the person who can be on camera today.

For Texas businesses and organizations, the announcement means a more direct path to local television coverage. The platform's TV station database covers 1,757 U.S. TV stations and carries newsroom contacts for 470 of them across 195 TV markets, including news desk emails for 365 stations and news desk phone numbers for 332. It also holds 269 department desk addresses for weather, sports, consumer and investigative teams. Users can search by state, TV market, city, or call sign, and Featured shows which stations it can draft a pitch to. Find TV Stations and Newsjacking are available on every Featured plan, including Free.

The timing matters because local news desks look for a local angle on national stories every day. Muck Rack's State of Journalism 2026 survey found that 78% of journalists say a pitch is relevant when it directly affects the community their audience belongs to, and only 16% say the pitches they receive usually reflect that community. Local television is where that audience is. The Pew Research Center reports that 65% of Americans get local news from local TV stations at least sometimes, and in the Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report, 56% of U.S. respondents rated local TV news trustworthy, ahead of every national brand in the survey.

At the same time, local TV newsrooms are stretched. The RTDNA/Newhouse survey published in September 2026 counted 26,458 full-time local TV news employees in 2025, down 2.2% in a year, with nearly two-thirds of stations relying on multimedia journalists who shoot, write and edit their own stories. “Every national story has a local version, and the local news desk usually wants it the same day,” said Brett Farmiloe, Founder and CEO of Featured. “Newsjacking finds the story and the angle. Now the stations in your client's market are one more question in the same chat.”

Featured is the AI co-pilot for PR, a platform that helps PR professionals and subject-matter experts land media placements, build brand authority, and grow AI visibility. The company owns and operates HARO (Help a Reporter Out) and Connectively as standalone products within its portfolio. Find TV Stations is live now at featured.com.