Southern Arizona News Network
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Southern Arizona News Network (aka SANN) was a regional 24-hour
cable news
television network based in Tucson, Arizona
. The network was a partnership between Cox
cable, and KVOA
, the Tucson NBC
affiliate. SANN broadcast news and weather reports live as well as replays of earlier broadcasts. The network reported on happenings in Tucson and other Southern Arizona areas. SANN was broadcast on channel 3 on the Cox cable system in Tucson, and was not available over the air or on any other cable system.
On March 31, 2010, the partnership agreement between KVOA and Cox was terminated, and SANN was removed from the Cox cable lineup.
24-hour news cycle
The 24-hour news cycle arrived with the advent of television channels dedicated to news, and brought about a much faster pace of news production with increased demand for stories that can be presented as news, as opposed to the day-by-day pace of the news cycle of printed daily newspapers...
cable news
United States cable news
Cable news refers to television channels devoted to television news broadcasts, with the name deriving from the proliferation of such networks during the 1980s with the advent of cable television. In the United States, early networks included CNN in 1980, Financial News Network in 1981, and CNN2 ...
television network based in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
. The network was a partnership between Cox
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
cable, and KVOA
KVOA
KVOA is a full-service NBC-affiliated television station serving Tucson, Arizona. It broadcasts in digital on UHF channel 23 from its transmitter on Mount Bigelow, northeast of Tucson. Per FCC regulations, the station identifies itself on television tuners as channel 4 through PSIP...
, the Tucson NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate. SANN broadcast news and weather reports live as well as replays of earlier broadcasts. The network reported on happenings in Tucson and other Southern Arizona areas. SANN was broadcast on channel 3 on the Cox cable system in Tucson, and was not available over the air or on any other cable system.
On March 31, 2010, the partnership agreement between KVOA and Cox was terminated, and SANN was removed from the Cox cable lineup.