Entering a crowded field, Charter Communications plans to launch a news network this fall that will serve its 1.5 million Spectrum pay-tv subscribers in Southern California.
Akin to the company’s New York 1, a mainstay of New York media since the 1990s, the new channel plans to cover the sprawling market 24 hours a day when it goes live in November. It will compete with broadcast network affiliates and other outlets which have had a head start of several decades. On the plus side, Charter and other pay-tv operators have seen the local news initiatives as an effective way to retain customers during this era of cord-cutting and re-bundling.
Cater Lee, a former exec at E.W. Scripps, has been charged with leading the effort. Her title is VP of News and Content at Spectrum.
In a report Saturday in the Los Angeles Times, Lee and Mike Bair, Evp of Spectrum Networks,...
Akin to the company’s New York 1, a mainstay of New York media since the 1990s, the new channel plans to cover the sprawling market 24 hours a day when it goes live in November. It will compete with broadcast network affiliates and other outlets which have had a head start of several decades. On the plus side, Charter and other pay-tv operators have seen the local news initiatives as an effective way to retain customers during this era of cord-cutting and re-bundling.
Cater Lee, a former exec at E.W. Scripps, has been charged with leading the effort. Her title is VP of News and Content at Spectrum.
In a report Saturday in the Los Angeles Times, Lee and Mike Bair, Evp of Spectrum Networks,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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