News 24 Houston is a defunct

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television channel featuring a

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format, serving the

Greater Houston Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Co ...

and

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areas. It was a

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by Belo Corp. (then-owner of local television station

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, which assisted the cable channel with newsgathering) and

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(operators of the region's cable television systems at that time). The cable channel started up in December 2002, and was shut down on July 23, 2004, citing low viewership and a lack of advertising revenue. It was shut down along with sister cable station News 9 San Antonio (also a joint venture between Belo and Time Warner). Upon closure, both News 24 and News 9 had instructed viewers to leave their thoughts and comments about the cable channels on sister station

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's message boards. This had also affected former sister cable channel

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, which reverted to full Time Warner Control when Belo exited the joint venture, costing 50 jobs at that statewide cable channel's various news bureaus.Mark Washburn, "News 14 Carolina Cuts Its Staff by about Half, " ''The Charlotte Observer'', August 17, 2004.

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News 24 Houston.com (defunct)

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