Local television stations KIEM (Channel 3) and KVIQ (Channel 14) — both owned by Cox Media Group — are being sold to Imagicomm Communications, an affiliate of “general entertainment cable network” INSP, under an agreement announced by the companies March 30, which describes the transaction as furthering “the strategic evolution of CMG’s broadcast station portfolio […]
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Redheaded Blackbelt Receives Facebook Grant for COVID-19 Coverage
Yesterday, Facebook notified Redheaded Blackbelt that we would be getting the entire grant we applied for through its Facebook Journalism Project COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program — $44,215! We applied for that money to go directly to stories for you, our readers. Every cent will translate into either photos or words that will […]
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We Got You, Get Us at Home
We know staying connected to your community and getting vital information about what’s happening with Covid-19 is important. We also know you’re taking the self-isolation/shelter in place guidelines seriously and that means getting your triple-washed hands on a physical copy of the North Coast Journal is not in the picture right now. And good on you! […]
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Should You Blame the Media?
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Anchors Aweigh!
The North Coast has a new TV news program. Back in spring the Journal caught wind that KRCR out of Redding was launching a news program to rival our local NBC affiliates at KIEM. The news program, which debuted yesterday at 6 p.m., apparently (although they have web content dating back to Sunday), will air […]
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New News News
The empty, dilapidated front room of the KAEF building at Sixth and E streets in Eureka will soon be bustling with news hustlers, if all goes according to plan, and Humboldt County’s only TV news program will have competition for the first time in almost 10 years. “We are looking forward to elevating the level […]
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Times-Standard Announces New Publisher
Eureka’s “paper of record” has a new publisher. On Oct. 1, Paula Patton will make the jump from Marysville, where she published the daily newspaper The Appeal-Democrat and three weekly newspapers serving the Central Valley north of Sacramento. Read the full announcement here.