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Who covers Abilene, TX?

Nexcom Media polls 5 local news feeds covering Abilene and Taylor County — 4 were publishing when last tested — and has indexed 2,958 articles from them.

Conflict of interest — read first. Nexcom Media is a commercial competitor to the outlets counted here. We operate an advertising-supported local-news site in every market listed, competing for the same readers and ad inventory as the stations and newspapers whose feeds we track. No Nexcom-owned domain is counted as a tracked outlet (verifiable: every feed's host is published below). We publish this anyway because every row is checkable — but weigh the source, and verify anything you intend to cite.
4/5Feeds publishing
2,958Articles indexed
1,000In live window
70%local

The outlets

These are the 5 sources Nexcom monitors for Abilene coverage — 3 television, 2 government. Outlets that do not publish a machine-readable feed are not represented.

Outlet / feed hostTypeStatus (tested 2026-07-18)
City of Abilene - Calendar & Events
abilenetx.gov		 Government Publishing
latest 2026-07-13
City of Abilene - Pages & Programs
abilenetx.gov		 Government Reachable
HTTP 200
BigCountryHomepage (KTAB CBS / KRBC NBC) - News
bigcountryhomepage.com		 Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-17
BigCountryHomepage (KTAB/KRBC) - Sports
bigcountryhomepage.com		 Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-17
KTXS (ABC 12) Abilene News
ktxs.com		 Television Publishing
latest 2026-07-18

4 of 5 tracked feeds returned a recently-dated item when last tested.

What the coverage is about

Of 50 recent Abilene articles, the classifier labelled them:

■ local 70%   ■ safety 16%   ■ government 10%   ■ parks 4%

Labels come from a documented keyword classifier, not human review. 55.6% of articles network-wide match no topic keyword and fall through to "local", so that share is best read as "general local coverage", not a topic. How this is measured →

Read the news itself

This page measures the Abilene news ecosystem. For the actual reporting, Nexcom Media publishes Abilene News in this market.

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