one of the things that surprised me when i moved to austin was “News 8 Austin”, a 24-hour local news station. i grew up in houston, and i don’t remember any 24 hr news station.
so is this unique to austin? how many doper’s out there have a local newse (and only local news) staion? and if you do, what city do you live in?
and to you houston dopers, am i just remembering incorrectly? was there in fact an all local news station that has slipped my memory?
thanks to all y’alls input.
There’s one in Rochester, NY and a cable local news station in New York City.
Here’s a list of 24-hour news stations around the country. Wherever the population can support the ad revenue, it seems you’ll find one, judging byt this map. So, yes, it is normal.
Orlando News Channel 13
Most of the local (and major national) news is covered within the first 8 minutes, followed by 2 minutes of international coverage, and ‘fluffy’ fun local feel-good stories, mixed in with weather & traffic).
Coverage repeats for about 6 hours (except for the traffic & weather). You can tell, becuase the anchorperson makes a slightly different broad-sweeping hand gesture.
These are cable news stations right?
nope, news 8 in austin isn’t cable Markxxx. i’d imagine the others mentioned are on regular tv, too.
I believe CLTV in Chicago is cable-only, and I’m also pretty confident that New England Cable News, Local News on Cable(Norfolk), Pittsburgh Cable News Channel, Texas Cable News(Dallas), NorthWest Cable News(Seattle) are not broadcast. Also, I think the channels with “One” in their names are cable-only, as there is no broadcast channel one.
