Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Straight from corporate...

I've simply cut and paste this from our corporate E-zine (from yesterday):


NEWS 14 CAROLINA TO EXPAND TO THE COAST

News 14 Carolina will expand its 24-hour operation to the North Carolina coast. The service will begin Monday, September 22nd. The all local television news network is owned by Time Warner Cable and is an exclusive service for TWC customers. It originally launched in the Raleigh and Charlotte areas in 2002, expanding to Greensboro in 2006.

News 14 Carolina is hiring reporters, producers and managers to staff new offices in Wilmington and Newport. Time Warner Cable's advanced fiber network will connect these newsrooms to a network of others currently operating in Charlotte, Raleigh, Salisbury, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Chapel Hill and Goldsboro. News 14 Carolina will also add a coastal component to its award-winning website, www.news14.com . The website has more localized coverage across the state than any other website in North Carolina.

Along with customized news and sports, News 14 Carolina has the largest team of meteorologists at any television news organization in North Carolina. The Weather on the Ones feature offers viewers a customized local forecast every ten minutes.

Currently, News 14 Carolina is available exclusively to Time Warner Cable customers in 1.3 million homes. The additions of Wilmington and Newport will bring that number to more than 1.5 million subscribers. “It's important for us to have the capability to cover as much of the state as possible,” says News 14 Carolina general manager, Alan Mason. “The addition of Wilmington and surrounding areas will bring residents access to around the clock local and statewide news they have never had access to before.”

Since it's beginning, News 14 Carolina has been recognized for its quality journalism. This year, News 14 Carolina won a national Gracie Award for an outstanding local sports program for its series 18 Holes of Pine Needles. The Associated Press awarded Sports Night best sports program in North Carolina. Among its many accomplishments, News 14 has also been honored with an Emmy Award and Regional Edward R. Murrow award.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can't help but notice that your organization is hiring producers and reporters for Wilmington, but no meteorologists? How does that work?

Bob Child said...

Well, uh...good question. In general, the state will be split east and west, so the Raleigh weather department will handle the bulk of Wilmington forecasts. You did read correctly that no additional meteorologists are being hired, at least not at this time.