YNN Buffalo is the Your News Now

Your News Now

YNN ' is the brand for Time Warner Cable's 24-hour cable news television channels.The channels operate on the half-hour wheel format popularized by CNN Headline News. Weather reports are aired every 10 minutes and a Top Stories or Your News in a Minute is aired at the top and bottom of every hour,...

 affiliate for Western New York

Western New York

Western New York is the westernmost region of the state of New York. It includes the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Niagara Falls, the surrounding suburbs, as well as the outlying rural areas of the Great Lakes lowlands, the Genesee Valley, and the Southern Tier. Some historians, scholars and others...

. The 24-hour

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...

 commercial cable news

United States cable news

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 television station is carried on Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

 channel 9 throughout most of the region. It was initially seen in the city of Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

 on channel 14, then moved to channel 9 on the Buffalo cable system in late 2009. It is a sister station to YNN Central New York in Syracuse

Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...

; YNN Rochester in Rochester

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

; YNN Capital Region in Albany

Albany, New York

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; and the much larger NY1

NY1

NY1, New York One, is a 24-hour cable-news television channel focusing on the five boroughs of New York City. In addition to news and weather forecasts, the channel also features human-interest segments such as the "New Yorker of the Week" and the "Scholar Athlete of the Week", and specialty...

 in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

; the stations share content with each other.

YNN provides weather every 10 minutes on the 9's of every hour, as well as local news and sports throughout the day and breaking news as events warrant.

YNN launched at 7pm on March 25, 2009. Jim Aroune was the original Executive Editor of the channel.
Aroune is no longer with the company.

The channel is available in almost all of western New York except for portions of Cattaraugus County served by another cable provider

Atlantic Broadband

Atlantic Broadband is a privately held cable company with headquarters in Quincy, Massachusetts. The company has over 700 employees and 285,000 customers in four operating regions: Florida, Maryland/Delaware, South Carolina and Central Pennsylvania...

. It is also available on Time Warner Cable's Rochester cable system on channel 1277. YNN Buffalo became available on the HD tier of both cable systems in early 2010.

Anchors

Weekdays

• Scott Patterson
• Virginia Butler
• Amy Young

Weekends

• Jon Dougherty
• Katie Morse
• Doug Sampson

Reporters

• Kaitlyn Lionti
• Jennifer Mobilia
• Ryan Whalen
• Ryan Burgess
• Meg Rossman
• Kate McGowan
• Kevin Jolly

Sports

YNN Buffalo shares its sports staff with YNN Rochester.

• Kevin Carroll - sports anchor
• Tom Carroll - weekend sports anchor
• Don Heins - sports reporter
• Greg Vorse - sports reporter

Weather

The station employs no meteorologists of its own, instead piping its forecasts from YNN Central New York in Syracuse.

• Michael Gouldrick - Director of Meteorology
• Dan Russell - meteorologist
• Todd Kerkman - meteorologist
• Ryan Finn - meteorologist
• Erick Adame - meteorologist
• John Koska - meteorologist
• Vanessa Richards - meteorologist

Traffic

• Mike O'Brian

In addition, YNN Buffalo utilizes personnel from the other Time Warner Cable news channels across the state.

External links

• YNN Buffalo