Almost every day is a slow news day. Many TV stations are doing 2 to 3 times more news in a day than they did just 5-10 years ago. That is a lot of content that is now needed but which used to be too inconsequential to run. My last station did 2 1/2 hours of news per day when I started. By the time I left they did 6 1/2. Since people don’t want to watch the same thing over and over again you get lots of stories that did not make it on the air in the past.
You would be amazed at the number of inane calls that we get every day asking us to cover their stories.