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:''No relation to the radio station in Potsdam, New York, WSNN.'' WSNN-LD, commonly referred to as the Suncoast News Network (SNN) is an American regional cable news and over-the-air television channel that is owned by Citadel Communications and managed by LDB Media, LLC. The channel provides 24-hour rolling news coverage focusing primarily on the Sarasota, Florida area (including Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties). The Suncoast News Network operates in conjunction with the ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune'', and is headquartered in the newspaper's offices in downtown Sarasota. The channel is carried on Comcast channel 6 (SD), 400 (HD) in Sarasota and Charlotte Counties, on Verizon FiOS on channel 9 (SD) and 509 (HD) and over the air on channel 39. ==History== The channel was launched on September 17, 1995, exclusively on Comcast. Over its history, the channel was branded as SNN Local News, SNN Local News 6, SNN News 6 and Six News Now, which were often used interchangeably. The channel received national attention in 2007, when a clip of chief meteorologist Justin Mosely (who worked with the channel from 2004 to 2013 and returned in March 2014) reacting frightened after a cockroach crawled up his leg during a live weather segment went viral after it was posted on various video websites including YouTube. In November 2008, the ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune'' (then owned by The New York Times Company) announced that it would sell SNN News 6, and stop broadcasting at the end of December 2008. This deadline was extended after the company struck agreements with a group of investors, led by SNN general manager Linda DesMaris and her husband Doug Barker, to purchase the channel; however on January 25, 2009, one of the investors dropped out of the deal. On January 29, 2009, the ''Herald-Tribune'' announced that SNN News 6 would go dark, effective at midnight on January 29, 2009. The company would later find another investor in Phil Lombardo, CEO of the television station group Citadel Communications in Bronxville, New York. On February 26, 2009, after a four-week hiatus, SNN was back on the air under the management of LDB Media, LLC, with the majority of its former on-air staff. Since its inception, the channel was exclusively carried on Comcast's systems in Sarasota and Charlotte Counties. In the summer of 2012, SNN struck a carriage deal with Verizon FiOS to add the channel; FiOS began carrying SNN in the Sarasota area at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time on September 13, 2012. In January 2014, Lombardo and Citadel Communications acquired a majority interest in the company. As a result, Citadel took over broadcast operations of SNN. During February 2014, the SNN studio facilities underwent a major remodeling. One month earlier on February 12, SNN debuted a new graphics package, and began incorporating the ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune'' logo on its lower third banner graphics; the weather graphics were rolled out on February 22. On March 2, the channel debuted a new logo (an "SNN" wordmark with a blue wave underneath) and rebranded as SNN: Suncoast News Network. The following day on March 3 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern, SNN unveiled a new main news set and weather center (the latter of which incorporates the logo previously used under the "SNN Local News 6" brand). The station's image resembles those of Citadel stations WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island and KLKN in Lincoln, Nebraska, who have become sister stations to SNN. On September 24, 2014, Citadel announced that SNN's operations would be merged with its over-the-air television station in Sarasota, WLWN-LD (channel 39), on October 15; as part of the consolidation, WLWN changed its call letters to WSNN-LD. The combined station retains SNN's existing programming and cable carriage; WSNN also intends to add a second digital subchannel carrying entertainment programming.〔〔 WLWN had previously been affiliated with the Live Well Network, and before that was a repeater for the Trinity Broadcasting Network. On April 15th, SNN launched two subchannels from Katz Broadcasting, GRIT and Laff. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WSNN-LD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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