The Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC) is a regional
cable news television channel
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serving the
Western Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania is a region in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, covering the western third of the state. Pittsburgh is the region's principal city, with a metropolitan area population of about 2.4 million people, and serves as its economic ...
area. It is owned by
Cox Media Group, which also owns
WPXI, another Pittsburgh-area station from which PCNC
simulcasts
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or replays much of its programming. It continues to produce two original
talk shows
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, "Pittsburgh Now" and "Night Talk", along with local news and regional business news.
History
PCNC first started broadcasting on January 1, 1994, created in a partnership between
WPXI (Channel 11) and the region's largest
cable TV
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company at the time,
TCI. That partnership existed between WPXI and Comcast. Comcast stopped carrying PCNC on January 1, 2020.
Since 1996, PCNC has produced the local
prime time
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talk show "Night Talk", featuring one-on-one interviews of local newsmakers. It is currently hosted by
Beaver County sports hall-of-fame broadcaster
Ellis Cannon
Ellis G. Cannon is an American talk show host, television personality and publisher.
He was born on March 28, 1959, and was raised in Midland, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Midland in 1977. Cannon received his B.A. and J ...
. Other shows aired on the channel include "Pittsburgh Now"; "Our Region's Business", hosted by Bill Flanagan of the
Allegheny Conference;
and local newscasts multiple times per day with reporting from WPXI.
References
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Cox Media Group
24-hour television news channels in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Cable television in the United States
Television stations in Pittsburgh
1994 establishments in Pennsylvania