This is in the US. I know other countries have different broadcasting support models.
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Internet newspapers do get revenue from their ads but, because the internet is such a huge market literally anyone with decent intelligence and information about website creation can create websites that look considerably professional to real reliable sources, as well as using google promotion or tiktok and other social medias to promote users to search for them or direct them in a way using google sponsored/promo. With subscriptions, u don’t care about none of that cause users paid money for it, plus most newspapers websites disables the ads when u subscribe so users feel more pleased for paying and in turn when it runs out, and people who used it a lot cause they paid before, will invest and use it again cause they felt it was a reliable source.
Local broadcasting is normally ran by bigger companies or more organized organizations so their’s a more solid basis and some TVs channels actually pay local broadcasters to do their thing.
Basically, internet newspapers has a tougher market and is easier to replicate. Local broadcasting has big dadda company and gets paid for doing it and ads.
US broadcasters actually get [about 30% of revenue from ads](https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/blog/ad-revenue-playing-a-decreasing-role-in-cable-network-revenue) and the rest from retransmission fees collected via cable companies. [On average $21.48/mo per cable subscriber](https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/research/broadcast-tv-fees-burden-monthly-consumer-bills-in-2024). Regardless of that video is a more engaging media format than newspaper. It just brings more revenue.
The government funds the tv channels to *program* us with *tv programs*… These news paper websites just are trying to beg you for any extra penny they can get.
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