It might be a good idea to rotate the local news. Wednesday - Pittsburg. It's all the same. Then they tease you with the weather and say we'll be right back. After the commercial break you get the weather and it is a pretty good presentation and reasonably accurate as far as it goes.
Weather is one of the things TV does better.
Once upon a time almost every household got the newspaper. They might weasle out of paying their paper boy, but they got it. That is no longer true and it is a shame. The Beacon Journal has top notch coverage of National news but the really important thing is that it has local and regional coverage. It tries to cover the State House which no one else pays any attention to and the County Government and City Council.