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Time Warner Cable to Launch 24-Hour News Channels in Charlotte and Raleigh North Carolina
November 01, 2000 |
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Time Warner Cable will launch 24-hour local television news channels in its Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina operations. One of the leading companies in the creation of 24-hour local news channels, Time Warner Cable expects the North Carolina channels to begin operation by late 2001. The two North Carolina news channels will be the sixth and seventh 24-hour news operations launched by Time Warner Cable. "We look forward to providing our customers in Charlotte and Raleigh with award winning local news, whenever they want it" said John Newton, Senior Vice President of Time Warner Cable. "It is the kind of unique local television news programming that Time Warner Cable has been pioneering around the country." In North Carolina, work has already begun on the creation of local news gathering operations in the Charlotte and Raleigh markets.The projects are being coordinated by Time Warner Cable's Local News Group staff, based at the company's corporate headquarters in Stamford, CT. Working with local cable management teams from both the Charlotte and Raleigh divisions, each local news channel will be built on state-of-the art digital technology. Recruiting of local staffs, which will operate each news channel, will begin shortly. A site selection process in each city also is under way.In addition, each news channel in North Carolina will also have its own interactive, broadband web site. These sites will contain a number of unique features which will allow users to access additional information about the stories covered each day by the local news channels, as well as the unique ability for viewers to build their own newscast. This feature, which is currently available on the web site for New York 1 (www.ny1.com) is one more way that Time Warner Cable's local news channels deliver innovative local news coverage around the clock.Time Warner Cable's New York 1 was one of the nation's first 24-hour local news channels, premiering in 1992. It now serves nearly 1.5 million subscribers in the five boroughs of New York City, with unparalleled coverage of local news, weather and sports. The cable company has continued its innovative local news offerings across the country, with the creation of 24-hour local news channels in Tampa Bay and Orlando, Florida, as well as in Rochester, New York and most recently in Austin, Texas. In all, Time Warner Cable's five local news channels are seen by nearly three and half million of its subscribers. The company also recently announced joint ventures with the A.H. Belo company of Texas, to create local news channels in Houston and San Antonio, Texas."News 8 Austin has just celebrated its first year of service to subscribers in Central Texas," Newton said, "It is a model upon which much of the North Carolina channels will be based. Staffed by some 80 television professionals, News 8 Austin offers 24-hour local news from one of the most technologically advanced newsrooms in the country. With dependable features like top stories at the beginning of each of its half-hour news wheels, the channel also provides complete local weather forecasts every ten minutes and unmatched live coverage of local breaking news stories whenever they happen. In its first months of operation, News 8 Austin's live continuing coverage of the tragic bonfire collapse at Texas A&M University received critical acclaim, as well as leading journalism awards from the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Radio Television News Directors Association."Time Warner Cable owns and manages the world's most advanced, best clustered cable television operations, with 90 percent of its 12.6 million customers in systems of 100,000 subscribers or more. It is a division of Time Warner Entertainment.
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