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Local cable news channel requirement?

Kemosabe

Kemosabe

A few months ago, Verizon announced it would end its hyperlocal FiOS1 News channel that covers the Hudson Valley, Long Island, and New Jersey. In response, two New York State lawmakers are preparing a bill that would require any cable company operating in their state to offer a local news channel that delivers "news, weather and public affairs programming."

From The New York Times: Local News Is Dying. New York May Try to Pass a Law to Save It.
 
The idea is based on a false premise. Local TV news isn't dying. Local newspapers are dying.

Forcing cable companies to duplicate a service already provided by local TV stations is unnecessary.

What most cable companies do is make a deal with a local TV station to provide the local news channel.
 
Here I thought it was a renamed NY-1. Anyways...

Here in Connecticut, many systems carry NECN (New England Cable News), which is based on Wells Street in Newton, MA. They're directly connected with NBC Boston, as Comcast owns it. I'm certain that Frontier does not carry it. (My mother had Frontier from 2016 until July. We couldn't recall seeing the station even once.) I think I've seen NECN on cable in Portland, ME. Previously Time-Warner and now Spectrum for that city.

There is the Cablevision News 12 channel. However, I think they're only available in southern Fairfield County up to Stratford. A friend of mine, who lives in Stratford, gets that channel. I saw the Long Island version when I had lunch in Central Islip, NY on October 1st.
 
Sprectrum News Channel is one but hasen't launched yet in KC area and CCI/Google Fiber and so on don't have Sprectrum Sports yet that the News Channel is replacing.
A problem is the CFNEWS13 and Baynews9 isn't allowed on other providers but that would have to change.
 
Kemosabe said:
A few months ago, Verizon announced it would end its hyperlocal FiOS1 News channel that covers the Hudson Valley, Long Island, and New Jersey. In response, two New York State lawmakers are preparing a bill that would require any cable company operating in their state to offer a local news channel that delivers "news, weather and public affairs programming."

From The New York Times: Local News Is Dying. New York May Try to Pass a Law to Save It.
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Wait in some cities like San Francisco and Sacramento these areas do not have local Cable TV News. In the case of San Francisco and Sacramento its internet TV News that is coming into play here case and point local editions of CBSN is pending for Sacramento and San Francisco plus Nexstar's KRON-ON outlet (note as of 2019 other Nexstar Owned stations may consider having an outlet similar to KRON-ON). The last time there was a cable only news outlet for San Francisco was back in 2000-2001 when KRON managed Bay-TV but that was killed off due to Young Broadcasting having to deal with NBC ending its affiliation deal with KRON and taking over KNTV 11 at the time though.
 
KML-224 said:
Here I thought it was a renamed NY-1. Anyways...

Here in Connecticut, many systems carry NECN (New England Cable News), which is based on Wells Street in Newton, MA. They're directly connected with NBC Boston, as Comcast owns it. I'm certain that Frontier does not carry it. (My mother had Frontier from 2016 until July. We couldn't recall seeing the station even once.) I think I've seen NECN on cable in Portland, ME. Previously Time-Warner and now Spectrum for that city.

There is the Cablevision News 12 channel. However, I think they're only available in southern Fairfield County up to Stratford. A friend of mine, who lives in Stratford, gets that channel. I saw the Long Island version when I had lunch in Central Islip, NY on October 1st.
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I don't think operators outside of Comcast carry NECN.
 
But also Comcast,AT@T U-Verse,Google Fiber and so on in Central Florida area and they aren't allowed to carry it. Don't know about OTA picks it up.
 
When Cable TV was new, local communities put requirements in their franchise deals with cable providers. We want a news channel (which helped CNN), we want a religion channel (which helped The Family Channel, originally CBN, which made televangelist Pat Robinson crazy rich), we want a weather channel (which helped The Weather Channel), we want quality kids programming (which helped Nickelodean) and we want video of our town council meetings and other meetings.

Since the cable providers need access on local streets, the deal was fair. You get the access you want, we get the channels we want. So I suppose Verizon, which also needs access on local streets, can be held to this regulation that it must provide a local news channel.

According to the Wikipedia page for News 12, it has already made a deal with Verizon. On Nov. 1, when Fios 1 shuts down, News 12 will take its place on Verizon Fios' channel line up.
 
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Kemosabe said:
A few months ago, Verizon announced it would end its hyperlocal FiOS1 News channel that covers the Hudson Valley, Long Island, and New Jersey. In response, two New York State lawmakers are preparing a bill that would require any cable company operating in their state to offer a local news channel that delivers "news, weather and public affairs programming."

From The New York Times: Local News Is Dying. New York May Try to Pass a Law to Save It.
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https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/live/cbsn-bay-area/

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/live/

In some parts of the country Local Cable TV News may not even exist and streaming App TV News is starting in some places though like San Francisco and Minneapolis.
 
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