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New England Cable News, known on-air as "NECN", is a regional cable TV network serving the New England region of the United States. It's very similar to CNN in structure & style, but focuses more on regional news items & events. The channel is also similar to NorthWest Cable News, which covers the Pacific Northwest. It's main studios are located in Newton, Massachusetts, but operates several news bureaus in the New England area including: Manchester, NH; Hartford, CT; Worcester; Portland, ME & Burlington, VT. NECN also maintains a news bureau within the building of the Boston Globe in the Dorchester section of Boston. NECN is O&O by 2 companies: the Hearst Corporation & Comcast. Both companies have 50% holdings in the station, although NECN identifies itself on-air as a "Comcast News Netwo

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  • New England Cable News, known on-air as "NECN", is a regional cable TV network serving the New England region of the United States. It's very similar to CNN in structure & style, but focuses more on regional news items & events. The channel is also similar to NorthWest Cable News, which covers the Pacific Northwest. It's main studios are located in Newton, Massachusetts, but operates several news bureaus in the New England area including: Manchester, NH; Hartford, CT; Worcester; Portland, ME & Burlington, VT. NECN also maintains a news bureau within the building of the Boston Globe in the Dorchester section of Boston. NECN is O&O by 2 companies: the Hearst Corporation & Comcast. Both companies have 50% holdings in the station, although NECN identifies itself on-air as a "Comcast News Netwo
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Homepage
station slogan
  • The Power of News
callsign meaning
  • New England Cable News
call letters
  • NECN: New England Cable News
digital
  • n/a
Affiliations
  • ABC News
station branding
  • NECN
analog
  • cable 6
Owner
  • Comcast 50%
  • Hearst Corporation 50%
Founded
  • 1992-03-02(xsd:date)
Location
  • Primary Studios: Newton, Massachusetts
  • Serves: New England, United States
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  • New England Cable News, known on-air as "NECN", is a regional cable TV network serving the New England region of the United States. It's very similar to CNN in structure & style, but focuses more on regional news items & events. The channel is also similar to NorthWest Cable News, which covers the Pacific Northwest. It's main studios are located in Newton, Massachusetts, but operates several news bureaus in the New England area including: Manchester, NH; Hartford, CT; Worcester; Portland, ME & Burlington, VT. NECN also maintains a news bureau within the building of the Boston Globe in the Dorchester section of Boston. NECN is O&O by 2 companies: the Hearst Corporation & Comcast. Both companies have 50% holdings in the station, although NECN identifies itself on-air as a "Comcast News Network". NECN can be seen throughout New England in 3.7 million homes & produces several original programs. The station launched it's own website on January 1 2008, although it still provides video to Boston.com, which had hosted the station's site. NECN was launched March 2, 1992 as a joint partnership between Continental Cablevision (now part of Comcast) & the Hearst Corporation. Since the station is half-owned by the Hearst Corporation, NECN uses the resources of several Hearst-Argyle O&O stations in New England to assist in news coverage of the region. The Hearst-Argyle stations include: nearby ABC affiliate WCVB in Needham (which also provides NECN with national news from ABC News), New Hampshire's ABC affiliate WMUR, ABC affiliate WMTW in Portland (NECN maintains a news bureau within the same building as WMTW, though the operations are physically separate & uses vehicles with NECN signage locally in Maine) & WPTZ & WNNE, Vermont's 2 NBC affiliates. NECN is known for employing some of the elder statesmen of the Boston television market including: R.D. Sahl, Tom Ellis, and Chet Curtis. The station is also a training ground for local news reporters. Some of the better known reporters who got their start at NECN include ABC's Dan Harris, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, and CNBC's Maya Kulycky. Several of Boston's current television reporters and anchors also began at NECN. In addition to it's cable production operations, it has also produced 10 PM newscasts for 2 other Boston TV stations: the 1st FOX 25 News @ 10 on WFXT from 1993-1995 & UPN 38 Prime News on WSBK from 1995-1998 (intermission updates during Boston Bruins games continuing for a time afterward). Both outside productions were cancelled by NECN management. Currently, NECN assists in the production of Worcester News Tonight on WCTR cable 3 in Worcester.
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