Who covers Plano, TX?

Name: Local news coverage in Plano, TX — Nexcom Local News Index
Creator: Nexcom Media
Published: 2026-07-18T21:58:50Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nexcom Media polls 4 local news feeds covering Plano and Collin County — 3 were publishing when last tested — and has indexed 1,639 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.

3/4Feeds publishing

1,639Articles indexed

797In live window

72%local

The outlets

These are the 4 sources Nexcom monitors for Plano coverage — 1 newspaper/digital, 3 television. Outlets that do not publish a machine-readable feed are not represented.

Outlet / feed host	Type	Status (tested 2026-07-18)
Star Local Media - Plano (local newspaper group) starlocalmedia.com	Newspaper / digital	Blocks our fetcher HTTP 429
CBS News Texas (KTVT DFW) - Latest cbsnews.com	Television	Publishing latest 2026-07-18
FOX 4 KDFW (Dallas-Fort Worth) - News fox4news.com	Television	Publishing latest 2026-07-18
WFAA (ABC 8, Dallas) - Local News wfaa.com	Television	Publishing latest 2026-07-18

3 of 4 tracked feeds returned a recently-dated item when last tested; 1 refused or failed our fetcher, which usually means bot-blocking rather than a closed newsroom.

What the coverage is about

Of 50 recent Plano articles, the classifier labelled them:

■ local 72% ■ parks 10% ■ schools 6% ■ safety 6% ■ business 4% ■ government 2%

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 Plano news ecosystem. For the actual reporting, Nexcom Media publishes The Plano in this market.

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Cite this Plano entry

Nexcom Local News Index, 2026-07 edition. Nexcom Media. https://nexcom.media/local-news-index (CC BY 4.0) — https://nexcom.media/local-news-index/market/plano-tx

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