News 14 Carolina
| News 14 Carolina | |
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| Owned by | Time Warner Cable |
| Picture format | 16:9 standard definition |
| Slogan | "Your news now." |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters | 2505 Atlantic Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Sister channel(s) | NY1, Your News Now |
| Website | news14.com |
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| Time Warner | 14/114 (4:3) 1114 (16:9) |
News 14 Carolina is a 24-hour cable news service offered in North Carolina, USA, by Time Warner Cable on its cable TV systems in the state. There are News 14 Carolina television channels in Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, and Wilmington each primarily with local news but some local programming content of statewide interest is shared. A regular feature is "Weather on the Ones", which gives a local weather forecast every ten minutes.
Its Piedmont Triad channel debuted on September 25, 2006. It launched a Wilmington channel on August 18, 2008.
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[edit] History
News 14 Carolina was not the first local 24-hour television news channel in the Raleigh area. WRAL-TV started a news channel on the Time Warner Cable digital tier in July 2001.
Time Warner planned to debut the 24-hour local news channel in December 2001 in Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, and Goldsboro, reaching 425,000 subscribers. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Alan Mason, the channel's general manager, said the debut would happen in February or March 2002. This was because the station's employees needed training that would have taken place at new studios for NY1 in New York City, but NY1 was concentrating on coverage of the attacks and had not yet moved into its new studios.[1] News 14 Carolina finally made its debut March 22, 2002. Reporters used digital cameras instead of videotape, downloading their stories. Sets, however, looked similar to those at conventional TV stations.[2]
Plans were made to add Charlotte and eight surrounding counties in June.[3] A two-story addition to the Time Warner building on East Morehead Street housed "the nation's most technically advanced newsroom," with digital video that reporters could edit at their desks, and robot cameras. In addition, Gastonia and Salisbury had bureaus. After nine months of preparation, the Charlotte operation began June 14, with Jim Newman as news director.[4]
Jack Stanley, president of Time Warner's Greensboro division, said that if the Charlotte and Raleigh operations did well, a Greensboro news channel was likely. This was true even though WXLV-TV had recently shut down its low-rated news operation after failing to compete with the three established stations.[5]
After two years on the air, the Charlotte operation's web site won an Edward R. Murrow award for best web site among large-market TV stations.[6]
In 2004, Belo Corp. ended its partnership, forcing the Charlotte operation to cut costs by moving administrative, production and master control jobs to Raleigh and closing the Salisbury and Gastonia bureaus, resulting in the loss of about 50 jobs.[7]
From 2005 to 2008, News 14 was the cable home of the Charlotte Bobcats. Comporium, the main cable provider for the South Carolina side of the Charlotte area, simulcast News 14's Bobcats broadcasts on Tri-County 14.
News 14 Carolina will begin producing newscasts for WXLV-TV in the Piedmont Triad on January 2, 2012. The newscasts, branded simply as News 14 Carolina on ABC 45, will air at 6:30 a.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. on weekdays, and required an expansion in News 14's staff.[8] The deal between News 14 and WXLV was reached following the resolution of a retransmission consent dispute between Time Warner Cable and Sinclair Broadcast Group (WXLV's parent company) on February 2, 2011.[9]
[edit] News team
[edit] Current on-air staff[10]
Anchors
- Rob Boisvert - weekday mornings
- Tim Boyum - weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Claudine Chalfant - fill-in anchor
- Johnny Chappell - weekend mornings and afternoons
- Tracey Early - weekday mornings and afternoons
- Adrianne Flores - weekend evenings and overnight loop
- Cheryn Stone - Triad area anchor
- Heather Waliga - weekday evenings and overnight loop
Weather team
- Jeff Crum - Charlotte-Triad chief meteorologist; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Gary Stephenson (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - Raleigh-Coastal chief meteorologist; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Pati Darak - meteorologist; weekend mornings
- Matthew East (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings
- Tara Lane (NWA Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend mornings
- Doug Lindsay - Charlotte-Triad meteorologist; weekday mornings and afternoons
- Joshua McKinney (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend afternoons
- Monte Montello - meteorologist; weekday afternoons
- Matt Morano (AMS Seal of Approval; member, NWA) - meteorologist; weekday mornings
- Lee Ringer (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings
- Meredith Bell - freelance meteorologist
- Sandra Brogan - freelance meteorologist
- Bob Child - freelance meteorologist
Sports team
- Jim Connors - sports director; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Mike Solarte - sports director; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Tim Baier - Charlotte area sports anchor; weekend evenings and overnight loop
- Ryan Welch - Raleigh sports anchor; weekend evenings and overnight loop
- Jason Brown - Charlotte area sports reporter; also producer
- Jason Lucas - Wilmington area sports reporter
- J.B. Ricks - Triad area sports reporter
Reporters
- Becky Bereiter - Charlotte area reporter
- Caroline Blair - Triad area reporter
- Loretta Boniti - Triangle area reporter and senior political reporter
- Brad Broders - Charlotte area reporter
- Bob Costner - Triad area reporter
- Brittany Edney - Coastal area reporter
- Amy Elliott - Coastal area reporter
- Rebecca Fath - Wilson area reporter
- Julie Fertig - Raleigh area reporter
- Shawn Flynn - Charlotte area reporter
- Kate Gaier - Charlotte area reporter
- McKinsey Harris - Charlotte area reporter
- David Kernodle - Charlotte area reporter
- Caitlin Lockerbie - Triad area reporter
- Andy Mattison - Sandhills area reporter
- Heather Moore - Triangle area reporter
- Jennifer Moxley - Charlotte area reporter
- Sarah Pisciuneri - Salisbury area reporter
- Kevin Reopelle - Coastal area reporter
- Elise Roberts - Triad area reporter
- Ed Scannell - Triad area reporter
- Meg Smith - Triad area reporter
- Stephanie Stilwell - Triad area reporter
- Linnie Supall - Triangle area reporter
- Breanna Walden - Coastal area reporter
- Amanda Weber - Sandhills area reporter
- Ashley White - Coastal area reporter
Contributors
- Adam Balkin - technology reporter ("Tech Talk")
- Chef Dan Eaton - "Cooking at Home" contributor
- Lauren Fix - automotive correspondent ("The Car Coach")
[edit] References
- ^ David Ranii, "Rollout of Triangle's 24-hour News Channel Is Delayed," The News & Observer, October 18, 2001.
- ^ Adrienne M. Johnson, "Triangle Gets Its Own CNN," The News & Observer, March 17, 2002.
- ^ Mark Washburn, "24-Hour News Heads to Town; Cable Channel News 14 Debuts in June," The Charlotte Observer, March 24, 2002.
- ^ Mark Washburn, "Station Airing 24-Hour News to Debut Today," The Charlotte Observer, Friday, June 14, 2002.
- ^ Jamie Kritzer, "All News, All the Time: Is 24-Hour News Right for the Triad?", Greensboro News & Record, Sunday, August 4, 2002.
- ^ Mark Washburn, "News 14 Web Site a Big Winner: It's Been Judged Best in the Business Among Large-Market Stations," The Charlotte Observer, June 26, 2004.
- ^ Mark Washburn, "News 14 Carolina Cuts Its Staff by about Half, " The Charlotte Observer, August 17, 2004.
- ^ Covington, Owen (July 29, 2011). "New 14 Carolina adding staff for new newscasts". The Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2011/07/29/new-14-carolina-adding-staff-for-new.html. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
- ^ "WXLV to resume newscasts as Time Warner, Sinclair reach deal". News & Record. February 2, 2011. http://www.news-record.com/content/2011/02/02/article/wxlv_to_resume_newscasts_as_twc_sinclair_reach_deal. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
- ^ News 14 Staff
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