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Texas Cable News (TXCN) was an American regional cable news television channel that was owned by the Gannett Company. The channel operated out of offices in Dallas, Texas, located on Young Street in the city's downtown district. ==Background== The 24-hour channel launched on January 1, 1999, and was founded by its original owner, the Belo Corporation. TXCN combined the news staffs of four television stations in Texas owned by Belo at the time – ABC affiliates WFAA in Dallas and KVUE in Austin (acquired from Gannett around the same year as this channel's launch), and CBS affiliates KHOU in Houston and KENS in San Antonio – in addition to ''The Dallas Morning News'' (which was co-owned with TXCN and the four television stations under common ownership until 2008) and the company's Washington, D.C. news bureau. During the first few years on the air, most of the cable operators have aired TXCN on channel 38 as advertised by the channel itself. On December 4, 2004, Belo announced the layoffs of 45 of the channel's 75 staffers. This resulted in the programming on Texas Cable News being scaled down on January 1, 2005. Belo attributed the failure of Texas Cable News to a lack of distribution on cable providers in Texas' largest television markets. From that time until closure, TXCN aired repackaged content from the aforementioned stations in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin. All original programming, with the exception of weather segments and occasional original programming, was dropped along with on-air talent, except for weather department staff. In 2008, Belo decided to split its broadcasting and newspaper interests into separate companies. TXCN remained with the broadcasting side, which retained the Belo Corporation name, while the newspapers (including ''The Dallas Morning News'') were spun off to the similarly named ''A.H.'' Belo Corporation. However, the former corporate cousins maintained a news partnership. On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo for $2.2 billion, including TXCN and its sister stations. The deal was granted FCC approval on December 20, and was finalized on December 23.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/72866/fcc-oks-gannettbelo-and-tribunelocal )〕〔(Gannett Completes Its Acquisition of Belo ), TVNewsCheck, Retrieved December 23, 2013〕 On March 3, 2015, WFAA's website announced that TXCN was shutting down after 16 years. A meeting between the owner, Gannett Company, and various cable outlets have agreed to shut down the statewide newschannel. After the shutdown, only Time Warner Cable News in Austin, Waco and San Antonio are the only 24-hour local or regional newschannels left in the state of Texas. It was slated to go off the air on April 1, 2015,〔(TXCN to sign off on April 1 ) ''WFAA.com'', March 3, 2015. Retrieved March 5, 2015.〕 but the cut-off time was extended to May 1, 2015 at 12:01 a.m. Central time, in which the channel quietly ceased operations after the 11:00 p.m. cycle of the repackaged newscasts. Roger Barry, the last remaining TXCN on-air personality announced that he's retiring earlier that day. 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「TXCN」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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