News Central is an American series of primetime newscast television programs on television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group . The programs mixed locally produced news with nationally produced news and an opinion segment from Sinclair's Hunt Valley, Maryland studios, along with weather segments customized for each market also originating from Hunt Valley. News Central was broadcast between October 2002 and March 2006.
5-478: News Central may refer to one of the following television news programs: News Central (American TV program) , hybrid local-national newscast formerly produced by Sinclair Broadcast Group. News Central (Philippine TV series) , Filipino television newscast. CNN News Central , news programming carried by CNN. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
10-458: A news program. WYZZ and WUHF went into LMAs with other stations in their markets. Sinclair later revisited the concept of a centralized news operation with The National Desk , a national news program that features contributions and reports from Sinclair's local stations. The local station news operation provided the first ten minutes of news. Then national News Central operation produced 12 minutes of international and national news of
15-483: The News Central format. News Central ended all newscasts effective March 31, 2006; after that date, its stations either returned to a more traditional in-house newscast format, outsourced their newscast to a larger station in the market, or cancelled their newscasts entirely. Others, like WSMH, teamed up with non-affiliate stations in their market to either simulcast other stations' newscasts or jointly produce
20-491: The title News Central . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=News_Central&oldid=1161972583 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages News Central (American TV program) News Central
25-466: Was launched on October 28, 2002, with WSMH 's News At Ten . The format was original announced to be rolled out to Sinclair stations currently not offering news. But after a successful trial run at WSMH, Sinclair announced that three stations with newscasts would be next in converting to the format during the first quarter of 2003. By April 2003, News Central was planning to launch its own Washington bureau. By December 2003, 12 Sinclair stations were using
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