Northwest Cable News is a regional 24-hour cable news network based in Seattle, Washington, U.S. It is similar to New England Cable News, which operates out of Boston and covers the New England area.
The service is owned by Belo, and operates out of the KING-TV building in Downtown Seattle.
NWCN covers news in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. It is available to 2.9 million cable TV and over-the-air users in those principal states, and, to a lesser degree, California, Alaska, and Montana.
[edit] Programming
The network uses material from co-owned stations KING in Seattle, KGW in Portland, KTVB in Boise and KREM in Spokane. Content-sharing agreements are in place with several other stations.
The network features news and weather programming throughout the day, plus NorthWest Sports Tonight each evening, and Gardening with Ciscoe LIVE call-in show each Friday. Fone Zone is a live call-in show which airs shortly after each Seattle Seahawks game ends on Sundays. The network re-airs Evening Magazine from sister-station KING-TV each evening. Also from KING-TV, Up Front, Gardening with Ciscoe (different from the live show), Northwest Backroads, Sounders FC Weekly, and The Pete Carroll Show re-air each weekend. In addition, KGW-TV provides Straight Talk to the Sunday evening line-up.
Some of the network's programming airs on the KTVB channel 7.3 in Boise. Prior to 2003, the entire network aired on Boise cable systems; it returned to Boise via KTVB-DT3 on August 28, 2009; it was re-added to CableOne on February 12, 2010.
[edit] News team
[edit] Current on-air staff[1]
+ denotes personnel also seen on KING-TV
Anchors
- Greg Copeland - weekday mornings
- + Meg Coyle - weekend evenings; also weeknight reporter
- Cam Johnson - weekday mornings and afternoons
- Shaniqua Manning - weekend mornings and afternoons
- + Rob Piercy - weekday evenings and overnight loop
Weather team
- + Jim Guy (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- Don Carson (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend evenings and overnight loop
- Keisha Burns - weather anchor; weekday mornings
- Ed Muir - meteorologist; weekend mornings and afternoons
- Lisa Van Cise - weather anchor; fill-in, also weekday morning reporter
Sports team
- + Paul Silvi - sports director; weekday evenings and overnight loop
- + Chris Egan - sports anchor; weekend evenings and overnight loop
- + Andrea Nakano - sports reporter
Evening Magazine
- Ciscoe Morris - host
- Meeghan Black - host
- Michael King - reporter
- Jim Dever - reporter
- Kim Holcomb - reporter
- Saint Bryan - reporter
- Eric Riddle - producer
[edit] Former on-air staff
- Nick Allard (2006-2009; now meteorologist for sister station KGW)
- Wilson Chow (KREM reporter, 2000-2004 and KGW reporter, 2004-2008; now works for Boeing)
- Scott Fralick (1998-2001; now correspondent for the CBC)
- Lisa Gangle (2006-2009; former sports reporter for sister station KING-TV)
- Mary Loos (2005-2008; now relief weather anchor at sister station KGW and reporter/anchor at KEX-AM)
- Jeff McAtee (1996-2004; formerly worked as an anchor for WWMT-TV in Grand Rapids) now commander for the Navy over in Italy)
- Craig McMorris (primetime launch anchor; formerly an anchor for KAYU-TV in Spokane; now anchor/reporter for WNEM-TV in Saginaw, MI)
- Dana Middleton (1995-2000; also former KOMO-TV Northwest Afternoon host)
- Shannon O'Donnell (1995-2001, 2007-2009; now weekend evening meteorologist for KOMO-TV)
- Erik Sandoval (?-2009; now digital content director for KESQ-TV in Palm Springs, CA)
- Renay San Miguel (2008-2010; now host/managing editor for Spark360.tv)
- Julia Sandstrom (1999-2003; now weekday morning and noon meteorologist for WRTV in Indianapolis, IN)
- Rebecca Stevenson (2001-2008; now chief meteorologist for KIRO-TV)
- Charlotte Starck (2008-2010)
- Diana Sullivan (1995-2000; was noon/5 p.m. anchor at KPHO-TV in Phoenix, now in real estate in Phoenix)
- Chris Swanson (2007-2010; now freelance sports producer for NWCN and KING-TV)
- Gaard Swanson (late 1990s-2002; now evening news for WKMG-TV in Orlando, FL)
- Chris Warren (?-2009; now relief meteorologist for The Weather Channel)
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1 KFWD is operated by Belo, owned by HIC Broadcast, Inc.
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Annual revenue: 600 million (USD) · Employees: 2,700 · Stock symbol: NYSE: BLC · Website: belo.com
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KOMO (4.1 ABC, 4.2 This TV) • KING (5.1 NBC, 5.2 LWN) • KIRO (7.1 CBS, 7.2 RTV) • KCTS (9.1 PBS, 9.2 V-me, 9.3 Create) • KSTW (11.1 CW) • KCPQ (13.1 Fox, 13.2 AccuWX) • KZJO (22.1 MNTV, 22.2 KCPQ SD, 22.3 Antenna TV) • KBTC/KCKA (28.1/15.1 PBS, 28.2/15.2 Worldview, 28.3/15.3 TVW)
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| Other stations |
KONG (16.1 Ind, 16.2 SD) • KTBW (20.1 TBN, 20.2 Church, 20.3 JCTV, 20.4 Enlace, 20.5 Smile) • KWPX (33.1 Ion, 33.2 qubo, 33.3 Ion Life) • KWDK (42.1 DS) • KFFV (44.1 Infomercials, 44.2 AZA, 44.3 AAT TV) • KUSE-LD (46.1 Tuff TV) • KUNS (51.1 Uni) • K08OU-D (73.1 3ABN, 73.2 3ABN Latino, 73.3 3ABN Radio, 73.4 Radio74)
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| Metro Portland |
KATU (2.1 ABC, 2.2 This TV) • KRCW-LP 5 (The CW) • KOIN (6.1 CBS) • KGW (8.1 NBC, 8.2 KGW 24/7, 8.3 Estrella TV) • KOPB-TV (PBS/OPB, 10.1 HD, 10.2 "Plus", 10.3 FM) • KPTV (12.1 Fox) • KNMT (24.1 TBN, 24.2 TCC, 24.3 JCTV, 24.4 Enlace, 24.5 Smile) • K26GJ-D (26.1 religious) • KOXI-LD (28.1 A1) • KORK-LD (41.1 HSN) • KKEI-CA (34.1 TEL) • KEVE-LD (36.1 3ABN) • KPXG-LD (42.1 ION, 42.2 Qubo, 42.3 ION Life) • KOXO-LD (44.1 TFR) • KGWZ-LD (46.1 Weather map) • KUNP-LP 47 (UNI) • KPDX (49.1 MNTV)
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| Metro Salem |
KOAC (PBS/OPB, 7.1 HD, 7.2 "Plus", 7.3 FM) • KORS-CD (16.1 HSN, 16.2 A1) • KWVT-LP (17.2 A1, 27.2 RTV, 37.2 AZA) • K21GX 21 (religious) • KPXG (22.1 ION, 22.2 Qubo, 22.3 ION Life) • KSLM-LD (27.1 RTV, 17.1 A1, 37.1 AZA) • KRCW-TV (32.1 The CW, 32.2 Antenna TV) • K50GG 50 (MNTV)
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