News 8 Austin
| Spectrum News Austin | |
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| Launched | September 13, 1999 |
| Owned by | Charter Communications |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | Your News Now. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Austin, Waco, Fredericksburg and San Antonio, Texas |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas |
| Formerly called | News 8 Austin (1999–2011) YNN Austin (2011–2013) Time Warner Cable News Austin (2013-2016) |
| Sister channel(s) |
NY1 Spectrum News Buffalo Spectrum News Central New York Spectrum News Capital Region Spectrum News Rochester Spectrum News North Carolina |
| Website |
www (Austin) www (San Antonio) |
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Availability
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| Cable | |
| Spectrum (Austin, Waco and Fredericksburg) |
Channels 1, 8 and 308 (SD) Channel 1508 (HD) |
| Spectrum (San Antonio) |
Channels 14 and 200 (SD) |
Spectrum News Austin (formerly Time Warner Cable News Austin) is an American cable news television channel that is owned by Charter Communications. The channel provides 24-hour rolling news coverage focused primarily on Central Texas. Its main taped feed serves the Austin metropolitan area, while the channel maintains sub-feeds for San Antonio and Waco.
The channel's studios are located at 1708 Colorado Street in Austin, just north of the Texas State Capitol and immediately south of the main campus of the University of Texas. It is available only to Time Warner Cable subscribers within the cable provider's Central Texas division, which includes Austin, San Marcos, Round Rock, Temple, Killeen and Waco.
The channel was launched on September 13, 1999 as News 8 Austin. The channel changed its name to YNN Austin (for "Your News Now") on January 10, 2011, as part of gradual transition to a uniform brand for most of Time Warner Cable's other regional news channels that originated the year prior on its Buffalo and Rochester news channels in New York.
On December 16, 2013, the channel once again rebranded, this time as Time Warner Cable News Austin as part of a new rebranding attempt to standardize channels across the provider's news channels that included the introduction of a new graphics and music package.
On March 11, 2014, Time Warner Cable announced a second attempt to launch a regional news channel for the San Antonio market by launcing a subfeed, Time Warner Cable News San Antonio. (News 9 San Antonio was the first attempt by TWC in 2003-2004.) It would operate out of TWCN Austin's headquarters and share managerial staff, with reports being filed for cablecast by San Antonio-based mutli-platform reporters in a separate bureau that was established in that city. It was soft-launched on April 8, with a series of weeknight preview broadcasts of two programs airing on the channel (the political discussion program Capital Tonight and the sports highlight program Sports Night) that began. The feed formally launched on June 2, 2014. Plans call for the future hirings of additional journalists based in San Antonio.
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