Several television stations in a handful of smaller communities in California were forced to air substitute programming this week after an employment-related strike affected its ability to produce daily newscasts.
The stations are owned by News Press & Gazette Company, where newsroom workers and other production staff are covered by a local chapter of the International Cinematographers Guild. Employees at News Press & Gazette stations in coastal Central California first voted to join the union in November 2024, and the company has been negotiating a collective bargaining agreement in the two years since.
Things came to a head this week when workers walked off the job after both sides failed to reach a firm agreement. The strike affected KEYT (Channel 3), the ABC affiliate serving the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo communities, as well as two other stations — KCOY (Channel 12, CBS) and KKFX (Channel 11, Fox) — that have local marketing agreements with News Press & Gazette.
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