AnchorTracker — Follow your favorite local TV personalities across stations
Get notified the moment your favorite local news anchor or reporter moves to a new station, retires, or launches a new show — across every US market.
Boston-area news viewers who follow specific on-air reporters
- Subscribe to individual anchors and reporters; push + email alerts on career moves
- Timeline view showing the full station history of every local personality in your market
- Auto-detect departures from on-air bios, station press releases, and social posts
- Weekly 'who's new, who moved, who retired' digest filtered to your market
Local TV talent churn is at historic highs as cord-cutting forces station consolidation and reporters like Samantha Chaney cycle through Boston stations every few years; viewers increasingly follow personalities rather than channels.
Confirmed real interest via the cited Samantha Chaney WBZ-TV departure (multiple outlets: boston.com, MSN, el-balad.com, legalunitedstates.com), but search interest is event-driven and concentrated around individual departures — not sustained demand.WBZ-TV reporter announces her departure from the station ↗Samantha Chaney Ends 2-Year WBZ-TV Run ↗
No direct consumer app tracks local anchor moves across stations; closest adjacent products (Media Watcher broadcast monitoring, Feedspot reporter lists, Local News Map) target industry/research users, not viewers — the specific consumer niche is unoccupied.Broadcast Monitoring for TV and Radio Media Insights | Media Watcher ↗List of CP24 Reporters and Journalists with Contacts ↗
Local TV advertising and retransmission fees are flat or declining per Poynter, and niche local-news consumers have not demonstrated willingness to pay for tracker apps; ad-supported freemium or a very low subscription is the only realistic path.Is business broadcast journalism in trouble? ↗Remote Control: How Consolidation Is Changing Local TV News ↗
Cord-cutting and consolidation are accelerating anchor churn (Newscast Studio notes FCC could unleash biggest local TV shakeup in decades), so the underlying signal persists — but local TV as a category is structurally shrinking and could be partially displaced by station-side or news-org-side features.New FCC boss could unleash biggest local TV shakeup in decades ↗
MVP is buildable for one metro (Boston has ~6 major stations) by scraping station bios, parsing boston.com/local outlet articles, and matching social handles — but requires a maintained NLP pipeline for entity/move detection.WBZ-TV reporter announces her departure from the station ↗