Grade the News, whose mission is “To help citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area assess the quality of the news they rely upon to maintain and enhance a vibrant democratic society”, doesn’t care too much for the news produced by San Jose’s new NBC affiliate KNTV. In fact, they have rated it the lowest of the local news broadcasts. Emotional stories overshadowed real news, ads for NBC were disguised as sports stories, and many items were superficially researched and contained little helpful information. Their report also mentions the continuing saga of the lack of NBC signal for more than 200,000 local households who do not have cable. But, in the case of the news, that could be considered a positive point.