The Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC) is a regional

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serving the

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area. It is owned by

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, which also owns

WPXI WPXI (channel 11) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Cox Media Group. The station's offices and studios are located on Evergreen Road in the Summer Hill neighborhood of Pittsbur ...

, another Pittsburgh-area station from which PCNC

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or replays much of its programming. It continues to produce two original

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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

(Channel 11) and the region's largest

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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

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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

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. Other shows aired on the channel include "Pittsburgh Now"; "Our Region's Business", hosted by Bill Flanagan of the

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; and local newscasts multiple times per day with reporting from WPXI.

References

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