The Orange County Newschannel (often branded as OC Newschannel and OCN) was a regional cable news network pioneering a rolling news format, serving Orange County, California south of the Metropolitan Los Angeles area. The channel also pioneered the producer - presenter work format where the reporters self produced television news items using the then emerging light weight cameras and video digitising ingestion systems based on Apple Computers and Oracle database software. Needless to say this change to the work place drew the ire of unions, who experienced the digital revolution of news rooms first hand.
Technically a network because it was carried by multiple cable operators then in business in Orange County, OCN, launched in 1990 by Freedom Communications, was among the earliest regional 24-hour cable news cable television channels (the first being the Cablevision-owned News 12 Networks, which all launched in December 1986).[1] As early as 1992, OCN began producing news for KTLA[2] (which would eventually attempt to rival the cable channel in its home county). Freedom sold OCN to New Canaan, Connecticut-based Century Communications, which at the time operated other cable entities in California, most notably in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, in 1996.
The network was purchased by Adelphia Cable in 1999 (eventually the name was changed slightly to Orange County News Channel) and struggled with decreasing profits and ad revenue until finally closing in 2002. Throughout its life, OCN had a largely captive audience, as the only other sources for news in Orange County were KTLA and KOCE-TV.
OCN's website continued to operate as an internet-only news portal for Orange County, offering daily news to subscribers. Several members of the news staff that had worked at OCN eventually found a new home at KOCE-TV's news desk.[3]
The network was a founding member of the Association of Regional News Channels. The station is not related to the currently-operating (and similarly named and formatted) OC channel (a digital subchannel of KOCE-TV).
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Major channels in bold |
- KCBS-TV (2.1 CBS, 2.2 Decades)
- KNBC (4.1 NBC, 4.2 Cozi TV)
- KTLA (5.1 CW, 5.2 Antenna TV, 5.3 This TV)
- KSFV-CA 6.1 (HSN)
- KABC-TV (7.1 ABC, 7.2 LWN, 7.3 Laff)
- KFLA-LD (8.1 RTV, 8.2 CSTV, 8.3 Tuff TV, 8.4 Vmas)
- KCAL-TV 9.1 (Ind)
- KIIO-LD (10.1 Ind., 10.2 infomercials)
- KTTV (11.1 Fox HD)
- KTBV-LD (12.1 Cornerstone TV, 12.2 3ABN Dare to Dream, 12.3 GBN, 12.4 3ABN, 12.5 Al Karma TV, 12.6 CNL)
- KCOP-TV (13.1 MNTV, 13.2 Buzzr, 13.3 Movies!, 13.4 H&I)
- KNET-CD 25.1 (MeTV)
- KVHD-LD 26.1 (EVINE Live)
- KPXN-TV (30.1 Ion, 30.2 Qubo, 30.3 Ion Life, 30.4 Ion Shop, 30.5 QVC Over the Air, 30.6 HSN)
- KMEX-TV (34.3 Bounce)
- KTAV-LD (35.2 GuideUS TV, 35.4 SBN, 35.5 CTVN, 35.6 Peace TV)
- KVME-TV 38 (MeTV)
- KHIZ-LD (39.1 ZUUS Country, 39.2 JTV)
- KTBN-TV (40.1 TBN, 40.2 Church, 40.3 JUCE TV/Smile, 40.5 Salsa)
- KFTR-DT (46.2 GetTV, 46.3 Escape, 46.4 Grit)
- KHAK-LP 48 (Mormon/Latter-Day Saints programming, i.e. BYU-TV)
- KDOC-TV (56.1 Ind, 56.3 MeTV, 56.4 Comet, 56.8 The Works)
- KILM 64.1 (SBN)
- KBLM-LP 67 (MeTV)
- KEDD-LD (69.1 HSN)
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| Public television |
- KVCR-DT (24.1 PBS, 24.2 FNX, 24.3 KVCR Desert Cities, 24.4 Create)
- KCET (28.1 Public Ind, 28.2 Link TV, 28.3 V-me (Spanish), 28.4 NHK World)
- KOCE-TV (50.1 PBS-HD, 50.2 PBS Plus, 50.3 Daystar, 50.4 World)
- KLCS (58.1 PBS, 58.2 Kids, 58.3 Create, 58.4 FNX)
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Foreign-language television stations in the greater Los Angeles area
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| Outlying areas |
- KHIZ-LD 2 (GAC, Victorville/Barstow)
- KABN 3 (3ABN-Seventh-day Adventist Church), Loma Linda)
- KMEX-LD 3 (Univision), Victorville/Barstow)
- KVTU-LP 3 (Galavision, Agoura Hills/Thousand Oaks)
- KRVD-LP 5 (Rel, Banning)
- KUHD-LP 6 (Rel, Camarillo)
- KZNO-LP 6 (Independent/community, Big Bear Lake)
- KCIO-LP 6 (Galavision, Lancaster/Palmdale)
- K12PO 12 (Ind, Murrieta/Temecula)
- KPOM-LP 14 (EVINE Live, Ontario)
- KHIR-LP 16 (Rel, Lucerne Valley)
- KTSK 17 (Spanish language Ind, Barstow)
- KIMG-LD 19.1 (silent, Ventura)
- KICN 21 (Farsi language, Ventura)-translator of KXLA 44.1
- KHIR-LP 22 (Rel, Big Bear Lake)
- KERO-TV (23.1 ABC, 23.2 Azteca, 23.3 MeTV, Bakersfield, available in High Desert region)
- KZSW-LP 27 (Ind, Hemet/Temecula)
- K27DS/K15FC (ABC/KESQ, Yucca Valley)
- KVKV-LP 29 (Rel)-Victorville
- KBAK-TV (29.1 CBS, 29.3 Grit, 58.2 Fox, Bakersfield, available in High Desert region)
- KVMD (31.1 Ind, 31.2 XHUDG-TDT, 31.3 FilAm TV (Filipino), 31.4 Guangdong TV, 31.5 Skylink 1, 31.6 Rel, 31.7 TBWTV, 31.8 WCETV, 31.9 CCTV News, Twentynine Palms)
- KVVB-LP 33 (Ind, Victorville)
- K55CW 34 (Ind, Victorville)
- K36JH 36 (Vida, Barstow)
- KCIO-LP 38 (Galavision, Ontario)
- K41CB (KOCE-TV 50, (PBS), Lucerne Valley)
- KIJR-LP 47 (Rel, Lucerne Valley)
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| Defunct stations |
- KKOG-TV 16 (Ind, Ventura/Oxnard)
- KHDT 38 (ABC substation of KABC 7, Victorville/Barstow)
- KPAL-LP 38 (A1, Palmdale)
- KEEF-TV 68 and KVST-TV 68 (Ind), public-access, Los Angeles area)
- KVST 68 (Ind, public-access, Ventura/Oxnard)
- ICTN (Inland Community Television Network, Inland Empire region)
- La Cadena Deportiva
- Orange County Newschannel, (OCN, Orange County, California)
- SportsChannel Los Angeles
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Regional and local television news channels in North America
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| Defunct |
- 1 - Still on the air, but no longer carrying a dedicated news format.
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