| News 14 Carolina | |
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| Owned by | Time Warner Cable |
| Picture format | 4:3 standard definition |
| Slogan | "Your news now." |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters | 2505 Atlantic Avenue, Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Sister channel(s) | Capital News 9, News 8 Austin, NY1, News 10 Now |
| Website | news14.com |
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| Time Warner | 14 |
News 14 Carolina is a 24-hour news service offered in North Carolina, USA, by Time Warner Cable. There are News 14 Carolina channels in Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, and Wilmington each primarily with local content but some content of statewide interest is shared. A regular feature is "Weather on the Ones", which gives a local weather forecast every ten minutes.
Their Piedmont Triad channel debuted on September 25, 2006. They launched Wilmington on August 18th, 2008.
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History
News 14 Carolina was not the first local 24-hour 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, 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].
On-Air Personalities
Anchors:
- Rob Boisvert - Weekday Morning Anchor
- Tim Boyum - Weekday Evening Anchor/Senior Political Reporter
- Heather Childers - Weekday Evening Anchor
- Claudine Chelfant - fill-in anchor
- Tracey Early - Weekday Morning Anchor
- Johnny Chappell - weekend anchor
- Johnnell Johnson - weekend anchor
- Heather Waliga - weekend anchor
Meteorologists:
- Kristy Blasey - Meteorologist
- Bob Child - Weekday AM Meteorologist
- Meredith Croke - Meteorologist
- Jeff Crum - Chief Meteorologist - Charlotte-Triad
- Pati Darak - Weekend Morning Meteorologist
- Matthew East - - Weekday Morning Meteorologist
- Cody Yates - Weekend AM Meteorologist
- Joshua McKinney - Weekend PM Meteorologist
- Monte Montello - Weekday PM Meteorologist
- Matt Morano - Weekday AM Meteorologist
- Lee Ringer - Weekday Morning Meteorologist
- Gary Stephenson - Chief Meteorologist - Raleigh-Coastal
- Mark Watkins - Meteorologist
Sports:
- Tim Baier - Sports Anchor
- Jason Brown - Sports Anchor
- Jim Connors - Sports Director, Anchor
- Mike Solarte - Sports Director, Anchor
- Jason Spells - Sports Anchor
- Ryan Welch - Sports Anchor
Reporters:
- Becky Bereiter - Triad Area Reporter
- Brad Broders - Charlotte Area Reporter
- Jessica Cervantez - Triangle Area Reporter
- Ilin Chen - Triangle Area Reporter
- Caitlin Cissne - Sandhills Area Reporter
- Bob Costner - Triad Area Reporter
- Shelvia Dancy - Triangle Area Reporter
- Adrianne Flores - Triad Area Reporter
- Shawn Flynn - Charlotte Area Reporter
- Kate Gaier - Charlotte Area Reporter
- Conan Gasque - Sandhills Area Reporter
- Bryn Hough - Charlotte Area Reporter
- David Kernodle - Charlotte Area Reporter
- Jonathan Lowe - Triad Area Reporter
- Gavin MacRoberts - Sandhills Area Reporter
- Smitha Rao-Coastal Reporter
- Kira Mathis - Triad Area Reporter
- Aaron Mesmer - Charlotte Area Reporter
- Heather Moore - Triangle Area Reporter
- Jennifer Moxley - Salisbury Area Reporter
- Shannon Peluso - Charlotte Area Reporter
- Ed Scannell - Triad Area Reporter
- Stephanie Stilwell - Triad Area Reporter
- Amy Thorpe - Triangle Area Reporter
- Deborah Tuff - Triangle Area Reporter
- Breanna Walden - Coastal Area Reporter
Feature Segment Hosts:
- Adam Balkin - Tech Talk
- Chef Dan Eaton - Cooking at Home
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.
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