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YNN Austin Type Cable television network Branding YNN Austin Country United States Availability Time Warner Cable systems in Austin, Waco, and Fredericksburg Slogan "Your news now." Owner Time Warner Cable Launch date September 13, 1999 Official website austin.ynn.com 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.
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
Contents
Staff
On-air staff
Anchors:
- Todd Boatwright (Morning Anchor)
- Paul Brown (Day Anchor)
- Heidi Zhou-Castro (Evening Anchor)
- Jennifer Borget (Weekend Anchor)
Weather:
- Burton Fitzsimmons (Chief Meteorologist)
- Rich Segal (Weather Anchor, Meteorologist)
- Adam Krueger (Weather Anchor, Meteorologist)
- Dan Robertson (Weather Anchor, Meteorologist)
- Mary Wasson (Weather Anchor, Meteorologist)
- Miguel Montoya (Spanish) (Weather Anchor, Meteorologist)
- Carolina Saiz (Spanish) (Weather Anchor, Meteorologist)
Sports:
- Ricky Doyle (Sports Anchor)
- Julia Morales(Sports Anchor)
- Mike Berman (Sports Anchor)
- Joaquin Sanchez (Sports Anchor)
Reporters:
- Karina Kling (State Capitol Reporter)
- Russell Wilde (Hays/Caldwell County Bureau Chief)
- Jeff Stensland (General Assignment)
- John Salazar (General Assignment)
- Victor Diaz (Entertainment/Sports/General Assignments)
- Bonnie Gonzalez (Morning Reporter)
- Alana Rocha (General Assignment)
- Chie Saito (Bell County Bureau Chief)
Management
News Director:
- Michael Pearson
Executive Producers:
- Sarah Grady
Assignments Manager:
- Cyndie Espinosa
Assignments Editors
- Ross Blake
- Rick Breckenridge
- Tina Ho
- Develon Douglas
Online Producers
- Kevyn Oakes
- Anne Szilagyi
- Paul Foster
Producers
Senior Producers:
- Jean Schlitzkus
- Lessly Stallings
Special Projects Senior Producer
- Eddie Garcia
Political Producer:
- Allison Sandza
Producers:
- Michelle Cortez
- Bob Hernandez
- Sydney Liles
- Rachel Smith
Associate Producers:
- Aaron Franco
Photographers
Chief Photographer:
- Ed Keiner
Senior Photographers:
- Roy Kuntz
- John Pope
- Drew Moses Special Projects
Photojournalists:
- Chris Cybulski
- Mike DaGrossa
- Robert Vaughn
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
External links
Broadcast television in the Austin/Hill Country region Local stations KTBC (7.1 Fox) • KQUX-CA 11 (IND) • KBVO/KBVO-CD (14.1/51.1 MNTV) • KVAT-LD (17.1 Mexicanal, 17.2 RTV) • KLRU (18.1 PBS, 18.2 Create, 18.3 KLRU Q, 18.4 V-me) • KVUE (24.1 ABC, 24.2 Estrella TV, 24.3 Weather radar) • K29HW-D (29.1 IND / Bloomberg / Fuse) • KXAN (36.1 NBC) • KXLK-CA 40 (HSN) • KEYE (42.1 CBS, 42.2 TMD) • KNVA (54.1 The CW, 54.2 theCoolTV)
Spanish language KADF-LP 20 (AZA) • KTFO-CD (31.1 TFU, 31.2 UNI/KAKW) • KGBS-CA 32 (Tr3́s) • KTXU-LP 47 (Spanish Religious) • KAKW (62.1 UNI, 62.2 TFU/KTFO-CD)
San Antonio area,
licensed within the
greater Austin areaOutlying areas Cable channels METV • YNN Austin
Defunct stations Texas Broadcast television areas by city: Abilene/Sweetwater • Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) • Austin • Beaumont/Port Arthur • Corpus Christi • Dallas-Fort Worth • Del Rio • Eagle Pass • El Paso • Houston • Laredo • Lubbock • Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin) • Presidio • Rio Grande Valley • San Angelo • San Antonio • Sherman/Ada, OK • Texarkana/Shreveport, LA • Tyler/Longview (East Texas) • Victoria • Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) • Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK
Important people Glenn Britt (CEO) · Robert Marcus (CFO) · Landel Hobbs (COO)Internet properties Cable television channels Cable news channelsYNN affiliatesOther regionsCable sports channelsMetro Sports · New Lakers Networks (part ownership; launches fall 2012) · SportsNet New York (part ownership) · Time Warner Cable SportsNet (Upstate New York) · Time Warner Cable Sports 32Annual Revenue: $17.2 billion USD (FY 2008) · Employees: Unknown at this time. · Stock Symbol: NYSE: TWC · Website: timewarnercable.comUnited States NECN · YNN Central New York · News 12 Networks · News Channel 5 · NY1 · NY1 Noticias · PCNC · NewsChannel 8 · YNN · YNN Buffalo · YNN Rochester · YNN Capital Region · CN8SoutheastNews 14 Carolina · SNN Local News 6 · Bay News 9/Bay News 9 en Espanol · Central Florida News 13 · NewsWatch 15Other areasYNN Austin · CLTV · Arizona NewsChannel/Arizona Mas · Northwest Cable News · ONN · OC Channel · News Now 53 · TXCN · 24/7 · Kansas 22 · 6 News Lawrence · Noticias 24/7Defunct Florida's News Channel · KAUT-TV1 · KMYT-TV1 · KNWS-TV1 · Las Vegas One · LNC5 · News 24 Houston · News 9 San Antonio · Niagara News TV · Orange County Newschannel · SANN · WMTW All News Channel · WRNN-TV1
1 - Still on the air, but no longer carrying a dedicated news format.Note: This is an incomplete listCategories:- Your News Now channels
- Television channels and stations established in 1999
- 24-hour television news channels in the United States
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