TV Networks In Aprils In Abandon Universe

The big networks only officially broadcast to stations in PGUSA territory now, though the signals can still be picked up in many other parts of the country and bootlegged. (Forgive me if that doesn't make sense, I don't know much about the mechanics of broadcasting.) Stations and transmission infrastructure in territory outside the PGUSA have either been commandeered by local forces or abandoned. In some cases commandeering a station or cell tower means using it for strictly tactical purposes, either for relaying orders or giving snipers a superb vantage point, but with the larger and more organized factions it usually means setting up for civilian broadcasting capabilities.

As you said, in the WAWA this sort of thing is extremely localized. With the Sons and the Gadsden Militia it varies. Some places have local TV news networks, others (especially in Sons territory) just have propaganda run by the militants themselves, and huge swaths of territory don't have any coverage at all.

All broadcasting in the EAWA is controlled by the Department of Information. A centralized news network called the People's Broadcasting Collective is the only entity allowed to dispense TV and radio news. The TV infrastructure in the NRG isn't robust enough to support a news network, but if one existed it would follow the EAWA's model.

All broadcasting infrastructure in White Rider territory is property of the Mormon Church. News is kept to a minimum and mostly consists of exaggerated good news from the front lines of the war. Most programming is religious. By contrast, the Knights haven't forced TV stations to hand themselves over to the Catholic Church, but all TV must meet religious content standards, and through this and the quiet threat of violence they manage to keep a tight wrap on what the handful of local stations broadcast. The Floridian cell is in the same boat as the NRG here, so this only applies to the Knights in Louisiana.The big networks all withdrew from the FRA when it seceded. The new government then auctioned off channels to bidders who were willing to work within the FRA as if it were legitimate. The biggest buyer was the America Now Network, a new and previously online-only news platform founded by right-wingers in the 2016 election to criticize the GOP from the right after the contentious nominating convention. ANN now basically holds a monopoly on television news in the FRA.

Local stations in Hawaii and Alaska have formed their own networks since the two states seceded. They've maintained their old names since lawsuits aren't much of a concern for the time being, so networks like Fox Hawaii and MSNBC Alaska provide coverage without any connection to the national networks back in PGUSA territory.

There is no coverage to speak of in the territory controlled by the warlords, the Three-Percenters, or the Klan.

Jon Stewart retired from The Daily Show in late 2017, and was succeeded as host by Stephen Colbert. It became harder to tastefully satirize the news as the war progressed, and both viewership numbers and ad deals had begun to plummet, so the show was discontinued in 2018. Stewart is now retired in New Jersey and Colbert does stand-up in New York.

Here's a bit about Alex Jones and InfoWars from another question:Jones used InfoWars to spread conspiracy theories about the Gore administration during the 2000s, including rumors that the Clinton-Gore political dynasty was a cabal of elites trying to establish a new world order, that Gore orchestrated 9/11, that the rise of the left was a controlled burn by the liberal establishment, and more. He reached peak notoriety during the 2008 election, when he initially sided with Cheney and railed against Lieberman as the latest member of the cabal, then defected and endorsed the Libertarian candidate because Cheney was a “neoconservative fraud and a Zionist pedophile” (his words, not mine), then defected again and announced his own candidacy late in the game, though he only managed to secure write-in status in a few states. Throughout the Cheney years, he continued to propagate theories about the president, who he claimed was just as much of a “liberal shadow elitist” as Bill Clinton, all of which culminated in a slightly more organized run for president in 2012, where he received national ballot access but still only netted about ten thousand votes. He relocated to the FRA in 2017, where he has continued producing InfoWars content. His current conspiracy theory of choice is that the civil war is the battle of Armageddon foretold by the Bible, and that the apocalypse is imminent.

If you read the last news mockup, you might notice that the conspiracy theories Jones has been rambling about lately aren't far off from the ideas the dominionist preacher Marcus Winshape espouses. Might want to keep an eye on that.

The Young Turks and other primarily web-based news shows are accessible anywhere the internet is available, which isn't the entire country, but applies to regions of every faction's territory.

Obviously that's not an exhaustive answer, but I think it covers all the base