Get Email Updates Write to us and we will send you an email when a new feature appears on the site. Non-ABC affiliates are free to use STN2 news stories should ABC affiliates decline. International news organizations are welcome to purchase current and archival STN2 pieces. The company specializes in co-productions with reputable organizations both in the U.S. and overseas. STN2 Background Television station managers and news directors have maintained that budgetary cutbacks in their stations make it impossible for them to spend time and resources collecting and reporting news about science.
Stations can no longer afford to pay camera crews and producers to report on complicated stories.
In 1997, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recognized the value of filling this news void and supported ScienCentral to study whether television stations would indeed broadcast more science and technology stories. The results were surprising in light of the paucity of science news actually broadcast on local television. By creating an infrastructure like ones that already exist for sports, business, and weather, science news was made as easily obtainable as other staples of the newsroom. The first STN2 pieces were delivered to local TV stations in May,1998. To date more than 120 markets have carried STN2 stories.