Wood TV media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Wood TV in the centre. We have seen it on 12 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Wood TV biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Wood TV in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Wood TV left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Wood TV in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Wood TV reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Wood TV are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Wood TV has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Wood TV’s own report linked underneath.
Democrats are projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives and have taken control of the Senate following the US midterm elections. The results mark a significant setback for Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Wood TV reported it asMidterms may bring in wave of historic firsts for some states and the country (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
Gold prices surpassed $4,000 per ounce and silver neared $52 as the US dollar index dropped to a five-week low. Markets reacted to potential Democratic control of Congress and geopolitical tensions.
Wood TV reported it asMidterms may bring in wave of historic firsts for some states and the country (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign with former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens in Detroit. This marks their first joint public appearance in months, with Rep. Jim Clyburn also set to attend a get-out-the-vote event.
Wood TV reported it asEl-Sayed's primary opponent stuns Democrats by endorsing Republican opponent in Michigan Senate race (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
A Red Baron employee, Walt Z, became the subject of a viral prank that caused him distress. A GoFundMe fundraiser organized for him has since raised over $500,000, with his employer confirming he remains employed and supported.
Wood TV reported it asGoFundMe for Michigan man pranked in viral video hits $500,000 (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
Former US President Barack Obama campaigned for Democratic candidates in Ohio, delivering a sharp critique of the Trump administration. He blamed the administration for rising living costs and called the war in Iran 'unnecessary.' The event focused on the upcoming US midterm elections.
Wood TV reported it asTrump campaigns in Port Huron with Michigan GOP candidates James, Rogers (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
President Donald Trump labelled Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed a "jihadist" and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Trump also questioned El-Sayed's loyalty to the US and his qualifications as a doctor.
Wood TV reported it asTrump campaigns in Port Huron with Michigan GOP candidates James, Rogers (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired American teacher, has been released by Russia after nearly five years of detention. He was convicted of serving as a mercenary. The release was announced by former President Donald Trump, who stated Russia demanded nothing in return.
Wood TV reported it asRussia frees American Stephen Hubbard after over 4 years behind bars (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
A man killed eight people, including his pregnant daughter and her two young children, before dying by suicide in Erie, Pennsylvania. Police are investigating the motive and noted the man had a history of controlling behavior.
Wood TV reported it asPennsylvania man who killed family had controlled their movements and finances: police (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
Hassan Kariem, a teacher at Wesley International Academy, died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Police stated he was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling. Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar roller coasters.
Wood TV reported it asOne person is dead, several injured in incident involving Six Flags roller coaster in Georgia (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
A former Michigan NICU nurse, Kieran L. Ansley, has been charged with child abuse. The charges stem from injuries discovered on a premature infant girl who had spent months in hospital. Court records indicate the baby suffered multiple fractures and bruising.
Wood TV reported it asHospital nurse charged after baby suffers broken bones (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
Wood TV reported it asActress Hayden Panettiere dies at 36, reports say (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens has become a high-stakes battle over the party’s future, with El-Sayed backed by progressives and Stevens by the establishment. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Wood TV reported it asMichigan Democrats vote for Senate candidate Tuesday (opens Wood TV in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Nexstar Media GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Official site
- woodtv.com
- Seen publishing on
- woodtv.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 12
- Reports listed
- 12
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
12 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Wood TV is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 12 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Wood TV’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 2 days after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 7 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 November 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Wood TV, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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