YNN Austin
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| Launched | September 13, 1999 |
| Owned by | Time Warner Cable |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Slogan | Your News Now. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Austin, Waco and Fredericksburg |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas |
| Formerly called | News 8 Austin (1999-2011) |
| Website | austin.ynn.com |
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| Time Warner Cable (Austin, Waco and Fredericksburg) |
Channels 1 & 8 (SD) Channel 308 (HD) |
YNN Austin is a 24-hour local cable news television channel based in Austin, Texas, owned by Time Warner Cable. Launched on September 13, 1999 as News 8 Austin[1] it is available only to subscribers of Time Warner Cable's Central Texas Division, which includes Austin, San Marcos, Round Rock, Temple, Killeen and Waco.
News 8 changed its name to YNN (Your News Now) on January 10, 2011[2], matching the name of Time Warner's other cable news channels and following a gradual transition over the last several months.
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[edit] Programming
The channel operates on a wheel format, offering recorded blocks of news, features, and weather. During more limited times of the day it also provides traffic and sports segments. Producers update the wheel throughout the day, inserting new material as stories are filed and updated information becomes available. Weather segments air every 10 minutes "on the eights". The channel also provides nonstop "wall-to-wall" weather coverage during Tornado and Thunderstorm warnings.
YNN's studios are located at 1708 Colorado Street in Austin, just north of the Capitol and immediately south of the main campus of the University of Texas.
Without the traditional limitations faced by network affiliates, YNN is known in Austin for its coverage of community news and more restrained coverage of TV news staples such as crime and scandal. The channel is also distinct from traditional TV news operations in that its shows are traditionally hosted by a single anchor and in that its reporters occasionally set up, shoot and edit their own stories without the assistance of a video photographer.
YNN also operates several other video and information services, including:
- YNN's RadarNOW, a 24-hour Doppler Radar service, with NOAA Weather Radio audio
- YNN's Non-Stop Weather, 24-hour regional weather channels in both English and Spanish. Now also in HD
- YNN's TrafficNOW, a 24-hour traffic camera service utilizing TxDOT roadway cameras from around the Austin area
- YNN's Non-Stop Sports, a 24-hour sports headline channel featuring local and national sports highlights
- YNN on Demand, a video-on-demand archive of features, series and event coverage from YNN
[edit] News team
[edit] Current on-air staff[3]
Anchors
- Todd Boatwright - weekday mornings
- Jennifer Borget - weekend mornings and afternoons
- Paul Brown - weekday afternoons
- Karina Kling - weekend evenings and overnight loop; also government reporter
- Heidi Zhou-Castro - weekday evenings and overnight loop
Weather team
- Burton Fitzsimmons (associate member, AMS; member, NWA) - chief meteorologist; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Adam Krueger (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday afternoons
- Dan Robertson (NWA Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend evenings and overnight loop, also reporter
- Rich Segal (member, NWA) - meteorologist; weekday mornings
- Mary Wasson (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend mornings and afternoons
Sports team
- Ricky Doyle - sports director; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Julia Morales - sports anchor; fill-in, also sports reporter
- Mike Berman - sports anchor; weekend evenings and overnight loop, also sports reporter
- Joaquin Sanchez - sports anchor; fill-in, also sports reporter
Reporters
- Adam Balkin - technology reporter
- Lisa Chelenza - pet reporter
- Victor Diaz - videojournalist
- Marcie Fraser - health reporter
- Donna Friedenreich - garden reporter
- Bonnie Gonzalez - morning reporter
- Anne Hudson - fashion reporter
- Andy Langer - music reporter
- Carla McDonald - NowPlayingAustin.com arts reporter
- Jess Mitchell - general assignment, entertainment and sports reporter
- Alana Rocha - general assignment reporter
- Chie Saito - Bell County Bureau reporter
- Jeff "Big Boy" Stensland - city reporter
- Joe Taylor - weekday morning traffic reporter
- Tara Lynn Wagner - "Money Matters" consumer reporter
- Russell Wilde - Hays–Caldwell County Bureau chief
Contributors
- Dan Eaton - "Cooking at Home" contributor
- Harvey Kronberg - political analyst
[edit] Management
- Michael Pearson - news director
- Sarah Grady - executive producer
- Cyndie Espinosa - assignment manager
[edit] Assignment editors
- Ross Blake - assignment editor
- Rick Breckenridge - assignment editor
- Develon Douglas - assignment editor
- Tina Ho - assignment editor
[edit] Producers
- Jean Schlitzkus - senior producer
- Lessly Stallings - senior producer
- Eddie Garcia - special projects senior producer
- Allison Sandza - political producer
- Gwen Blackburn - producer
- Michelle Cortez - producer
- Aaron Franco - producer
- Bob Hernandez - producer
- Sydney Liles - producer
- Rachel Smith - producer
[edit] Web producers
- Kevyn Oakes - web producer
- Anne Szilagyi - web producer
- Paul Foster - web producer
[edit] Photographers
- Ed Keiner - chief photographer
- Roy Kuntz - senior photographer
- John Pope - senior photographer
- Drew Moses - special projects photographer
- Chris Cybulski - photojournalist
- Mike DaGrossa - photojournalist
- Robert Vaughn - photojournalist
[edit] References
- ^ Brass, Kevin (2004-09-03). "News 8 at 5: Can Austin's little news station that could survive the grim reapers at Time Warner?". The Austin Chronicle. http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:227255. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ http://www.news8austin.com/content/275590/news-8-austin-becomes-ynn
- ^ Our Team
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