Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

NewsChannel 8 (cable channel)

Index NewsChannel 8 (cable channel)

NewsChannel 8 is an American regional cable news television channel that is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and managed by the company's ABC-affiliated station WJLA-TV (channel 7) in Washington D.C. The channel provides 24-hour news coverage primarily focused on Washington, D.C., northern Virginia and suburban areas of Maryland within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. [1]

52 relations: ABC News, Al Jazeera America, American Broadcasting Company, Analog television, Arlington County, Virginia, Baltimore, Britt McHenry, Broadcasting & Cable, Co-channel interference, Comcast, D.C. United, Digital cable, Digital television transition in the United States, DirecTV, Dish Network, ESPN, Flagship (broadcasting), Goddard Space Flight Center, High-definition television, Hunt Valley, Maryland, Infomercial, Joe Witte, Landover, Maryland, Lisa Fletcher, Major League Soccer, Maryland, Morris Jones (television journalist), Multichannel News, NBC Sports Washington, Politico, RCN Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, Rosslyn, Virginia, Shenandoah Valley, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Standard-definition television, TBD.com, Television channel, The Stream, United States cable news, Verizon Fios, Virginia, Washington metropolitan area, Washington, D.C., WBFF, WJLA-TV, WNUV, WUSA (TV), WUTB, 24-hour news cycle, ..., 480i, 720p. Expand index (2 more) »

ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and ABC News · See more »

Al Jazeera America

Al Jazeera America (AJAM) was an American basic cable and satellite news television channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Al Jazeera America · See more »

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and American Broadcasting Company · See more »

Analog television

Analog television or analogue television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Analog television · See more »

Arlington County, Virginia

Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia, often referred to simply as Arlington or Arlington, Virginia.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Arlington County, Virginia · See more »

Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Baltimore · See more »

Britt McHenry

Brittany May "Britt" McHenry (born May 28, 1986) is an American former ESPN reporter, a contributor for ''The Federalist'' and Fox News Channel.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Britt McHenry · See more »

Broadcasting & Cable

Broadcasting & Cable is a weekly television industry trade magazine published by NewBay Media.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Broadcasting & Cable · See more »

Co-channel interference

Co-channel interference or CCI is crosstalk from two different radio transmitters using the same channel.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Co-channel interference · See more »

Comcast

Comcast Corporation (formerly registered as Comcast Holdings)Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Comcast · See more »

D.C. United

D.C. United is an American professional soccer club based in Washington, D.C. The club competes as a member of the Eastern Conference in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top level of professional American soccer.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and D.C. United · See more »

Digital cable

Digital cable is any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression for distribution.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Digital cable · See more »

Digital television transition in the United States

The DTV (an abbreviation of digital television, also called digital broadcast) transition in the United States was the switchover from analog (the traditional method of transmitting television signals) to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Digital television transition in the United States · See more »

DirecTV

DirecTV (stylized as DIRECTV) is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider based in El Segundo, California and is a subsidiary of AT&T.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and DirecTV · See more »

Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation +1-855-553-9444 is a U.S. television provider.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Dish Network · See more »

ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and ESPN · See more »

Flagship (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, a flagship (also known as a flagship station) is the broadcast station which originates a television network, or a particular radio or television program that plays a key role in the branding of and consumer loyalty to a network or station.This includes both direct network feeds and broadcast syndication, but generally not backhauls.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Flagship (broadcasting) · See more »

Goddard Space Flight Center

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Goddard Space Flight Center · See more »

High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) is a television system providing an image resolution that is of substantially higher resolution than that of standard-definition television, either analog or digital.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and High-definition television · See more »

Hunt Valley, Maryland

Hunt Valley is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Hunt Valley, Maryland · See more »

Infomercial

An infomercial is a form of television commercial, which generally includes a toll-free telephone number or website.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Infomercial · See more »

Joe Witte

Joe Witte (born 1943) is currently an Outreach Specialist for Adnet, a contractor of Goddard Spaceflight Center.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Joe Witte · See more »

Landover, Maryland

Landover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Landover, Maryland · See more »

Lisa Fletcher

Lisa Fletcher is an American television journalist.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Lisa Fletcher · See more »

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by U.S. Soccer that represents the sport's highest level in both the United States and Canada.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Major League Soccer · See more »

Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Maryland · See more »

Morris Jones (television journalist)

Morris Jones is an American television journalist.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Morris Jones (television journalist) · See more »

Multichannel News

Multichannel News is a magazine and website published by NewBay Media that covers multichannel television and communications providers, such as cable operators, satellite television firms and telephone companies, as well as emerging Internet video and communication services.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Multichannel News · See more »

NBC Sports Washington

NBC Sports Washington is an American regional sports network that is owned by NBCUniversal and Monumental Sports & Entertainment, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and NBC Sports Washington · See more »

Politico

Politico, known earlier as The Politico, is an American political journalism company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Politico · See more »

RCN Corporation

RCN Corporation, originally Residential Communications Network, founded in 1993 and based in Princeton, New Jersey, was the first American facilities-based ("overbuild") provider of bundled telephone, cable television, and internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network as well as dialup and DSL Internet service to consumers in the Boston, New York, eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Chicago areas.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and RCN Corporation · See more »

Rockville, Maryland

Rockville is a city and the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Rockville, Maryland · See more »

Rosslyn, Virginia

Rosslyn is a heavily urbanized unincorporated area in Northern Virginia located in the northeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, north of Arlington National Cemetery and directly across the Potomac River from Georgetown and Foggy Bottom in Washington, D.C. Rosslyn encompasses the Arlington neighborhoods of North Rosslyn and Radnor/Ft.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Rosslyn, Virginia · See more »

Shenandoah Valley

The Shenandoah Valley is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Shenandoah Valley · See more »

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group is a publicly traded American politically conservative telecommunications company that is controlled by the family of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Sinclair Broadcast Group · See more »

Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV or SD) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high- or enhanced-definition.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Standard-definition television · See more »

TBD.com

TBD.com was a hyperlocal news site focused on the Washington D.C. area.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and TBD.com · See more »

Television channel

A television channel is a broadcast frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Television channel · See more »

The Stream

The Stream is a daily television programme on Al Jazeera English.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and The Stream · See more »

United States cable news

Cable news channels are 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.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and United States cable news · See more »

Verizon Fios

Verizon Fios, also known as Fios by Verizon, is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and television service that operates over a fiber-optic communications network with over 5 million customers in nine U.S. states.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Verizon Fios · See more »

Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Virginia · See more »

Washington metropolitan area

The Washington metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Washington metropolitan area · See more »

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and Washington, D.C. · See more »

WBFF

WBFF, virtual channel 45 (UHF digital channel 46), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and WBFF · See more »

WJLA-TV

WJLA-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to the American capital city of Washington, District of Columbia.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and WJLA-TV · See more »

WNUV

WNUV, virtual channel 54 (UHF digital channel 40), is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and WNUV · See more »

WUSA (TV)

WUSA, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to the American capital city of Washington, District of Columbia.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and WUSA (TV) · See more »

WUTB

WUTB, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 46), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and WUTB · See more »

24-hour news cycle

The 24-hour news cycle (or 24/7 news cycle) is 24-hour investigation and reporting of news, concomitant with fast-paced lifestyles.

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and 24-hour news cycle · See more »

480i

480i is a shorthand name for the video mode used for standard-definition analog or digital television in Caribbean, Myanmar, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Laos, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay).

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and 480i · See more »

720p

720p (1280×720 px; also called HD Ready or standard HD) is a progressive HDTV signal format with 720 horizontal lines and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HDTV (1.78:1).

New!!: NewsChannel 8 (cable channel) and 720p · See more »

Redirects here:

News Channel 8, News channel 8, NewsChannel 8, NewsChannel 8 (DC Cable Channel), Newschannel 8, TBD TV.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsChannel_8_(cable_channel)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »