The Stevens Point YMCA is joining a growing group of fitness centers at are banning cable news from their facilities.
The Stevens Point Journal reports that the Y has banned channels like CNN, Fox News and MSNBC from its large screen televisions because people were getting disruptive over media coverage of political news.
Staffers say those channels are still available on more personal screens like those on exercise equipment, and that local news is still allowed on the large TVs.