News 13 (also officially known as Spectrum News 13 as of September 24, 2017) is an American

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owned by

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. The channel provides

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rolling news coverage focused primarily on

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, specifically Brevard, Flagler,

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, and

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counties.

History

The channel originally launched in October 29, 1997 as Central Florida News 13; it was originally partnered with the

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to help with 24-hour newsgathering operations and the channel was originally operated by

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, which relinquished cable television franchise rights in the

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in 2001. On December 14, 2010, the channel was added to Bright House's system in the Tampa Bay area, on

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channel 1213; the channel is offered in addition to the provider's local news channel in the area, Bay News 9. Bright House News 13 at KSC

On November 1, 2011 Central Florida News 13 launched a high definition simulcast feed and began airing its newscasts in the format. As part of the upgrade, the channel installed a new

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system, and unveiled a slightly modified graphics package. The channel unveiled a major branding overhaul on August 27, 2013, the most significant in the channel's history. It shortened its name from "Central Florida News 13" to simply News 13 (its website domain was accordingly changed cfnews13.com to mynews13.com); the channel also adopted a logo based on that used by its sister channel in the Tampa Bay region known as Bay News 9 and introduced a new news music ("Primetime News" by Non-Stop Music, which has been used by Bay News 9 since its September 1997 launch) and graphics package, the latter of which is designed to fit 16:9 television sets. Its longtime slogan "All Local, All The Time." was also dropped in favor of the succinct "News. Weather. Now.". The logo has been designed by the network's in-house team. The network had expanded away with its newscasts with original programming. Also that day, they launched ''News 13 24/7'', but with the name change, it kept the ''News 13'' branding, when the network ran that channel. On April 1, 2015,

announced that it would be acquiring Bright House Networks, alongside its merger with Time Warner Cable. The acquisition, which was valued at around $71 billion, was completed on May 18, 2016. To reflect this change in ownership, News 13 underwent another name change, going from "News 13" to Spectrum News 13. On June 12, 2016 during the

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, News 13 received a call from the perpetrator,

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. He told News 13 at 2:45 a.m., "I'm the shooter. It's me. I am the shooter." He then said he was carrying out the shooting on behalf of

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and began speaking rapidly in Arabic. Mateen also said the shooting was "triggered" by a U.S.-led bombing strike in Iraq that killed

Abu Wahib Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi al-Dulaimi (1986 – May 6, 2016), better known as Abu Waheeb ("''Father of Waheeb''"; Arabic: أبو وهيب), was a leader of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Anbar, Iraq. He killed three Syr ...

, an ISIL military commander, on May 6, 2016.

Programming

News 13 carries weather forecast segments in ten-minute intervals, under the brand "Weather on the Ones" (which is also used by the sister regional news channels of

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). During the

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, News 13 provides tropical weather updates twice each hour. It also airs regular traffic reports that immediately follow the weather segments, called "Real Time Traffic", each weekdays between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. News 13 also provides coverage of the rocket launches occurring at the

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and

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. News 13 is also an affiliate of the national and international video news service

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Notable personalities

Notable current personalities

Dick Batchelor Dick J. Batchelor (born December 12, 1947) is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives. He is president of Dick Batchelor Management Group, Inc., a management consulting firm that specializes in business development, strategic gov ...

– political analyst *

Lou Frey Louis Frey Jr. (January 11, 1934 – October 14, 2019) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 until 1979. He represented Florida's 5th congressional distric ...

– political analyst

Notable former personalities

Vinnie Politan Vincent Joseph "Vinnie" Politan (born February 4, 1965) is a former New Jersey county prosecutor, practicing private attorney and broadcast journalist. He serves as lead anchor of Court TV (formerly co-hosted with Seema Iyer). He hosts and cr ...

– anchor/reporter; now at

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Jessica Yellin Jessica Sage Yellin (born February 25, 1971) is an American journalist. Focused primarily on politics, she was the White House press corps, Chief White House Correspondent for CNN in Washington, D.C. from 2011 to 2013. Described as "one of the ...

– anchor/reporter; now national political correspondent at

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Affiliated channels

Central Florida News 13 en Español

On March 11, 2011, Bright House Networks announced that it would merge Central Florida News 13 and Bay News 9's respective Spanish-language news channels into a single regional channel, InfoMás. The regional network was launched on July 12, 2011.

References

External links

www.mynews13.com
- News 13 official website {{Advance Publications 1997 establishments in Florida 24-hour television news channels in the United States Advance Publications Charter Communications English-language television stations in the United States Television channels and stations established in 1997 Television stations in Florida