Time Warner Cable planned to debut its own North Carolina-focused 24-hour local news channel simultaneously in Raleigh , Durham , Fayetteville and Goldsboro in December 2001 , which would have given the channel an estimated reach of 425,000 subscribers . After the September 11 attacks in 2001 , Alan Mason , the channel 's general manager , said the debut would be delayed until February or March 2002 . The reason for the change in launch date was because the channel 's employees needed training that would have taken place at the new studio facility of sister network NY1 in New York City , however NY1 was concentrating on providing coverage of the attacks and had not yet moved into its new studios . The channel finally made its debut on March 22 , 2002 as '' ' News 14 Carolina ' '' . Reporters used digital cameras instead of videotape , downloading their stories to the newsroom over the computer . Sets , however , more so resembled those used by broadcast television stations
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