The Lear Center Local News Archive publishes full reports of the findings on each election year cycle. All past reports for 1998, 2000, and 2002 are available in pdf format on this Web site.

Language TV Coverage of the 2004 Campaigns
This report contains the results of the most extensive study ever conducted of English and Spanish language network and local news coverage over the course of a campaign. The study examined a total of 424 network the press release.

Report -- Local TV Coverage of the 2004 Elections
This Final Report on local TV coverage summarizes findings from a study of 44 television stations in 11 markets during the 2004 general election the press release.


• Interim Report ­- Local TV Coverage of the 2004 Elections
  This Interim Report summarizes initial findings from a study of 44 television stations in 11 markets during the 2004 general election campaign. The report finds that a viewer of local news would see less than three minutes of campaign coverage per half hour of evening news, on average, but just over four minutes of paid political advertising aired during the the press release.