As of 8pm last night, Time Warner Cable subscribers in Western New York have a 24-hour news channel.
In Jamestown, Cable 8 news will still continue to have a local newscast at 7pm and 10pm while the other 22 hours of the day will be whatever is on YNN out of Buffalo. Well, I say out of Buffalo loosely. The main sports anchor will broadcast from Rochester, which some Jamestown residents will like just fine because at last word that will be Cable 8 veteran Kevin Carroll. Then there's programming that comes from Albany (Capitol Tonight). Weather? That's being done from somewhere else as well. I believe Albany handles the weather reports you see if you watch R News in Rochester or the Time Warner news station in Syracuse.
Either way, there will now be a place you can watch whatever the top 4 stories of the day are for this section of the state over and over and over. Don't get me wrong, I love tuning into R News when I'm visiting my parents in Rochester. I know that if I miss something, it'll be on again in roughly 29 minutes. Ditto for the weather, except that happens ever 9 minutes. I just hope that when given that many hours a day to fill with content, that we get quality coverage.
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To be fair, RNews does have a rotating schedule of "special interest" categories. Gardening, Pet Pointers, Dan Eaton (who we despise because he has the personality of a doornail, yet love because he does some veg*n stuff), Fitness, and a few others. They rotate between the 2rd and 3rd 10 minutes of the 30-minute rotation, and break things up nicely.
Seems strange to have 24 news in Jamestown.
Up in Buffalo at least they can cover all the shooting and businesses going out of business...
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