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News 12 Connecticut is the state service of the News 12 Networks, broadcasting to the Connecticut towns inside the Optimum footprint along the coast and inland. Its feed covers Fairfield and Milford among other communities, with local reporting, weather, traffic and community stories.

The newsroom works the shoreline corridor, where Bridgeport, Fairfield, Westport, Norwalk, Darien, Stamford and Greenwich sit within a few miles of one another and share the problems of congestion, housing costs and coastal flooding.

State politics is followed from Hartford, and the coverage connects decisions taken there to their effect on the towns: school funding, transport projects, energy costs and the storm response that matters on a coast exposed to nor'easters and hurricanes.

The Network

The channel is one of the News 12 Networks, a chain of regional cable news services in the New York metropolitan area operated by Optimum Communications. Every service in the group broadcasts twenty-four hours a day and attends to the territory outside Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. The group's history starts on Long Island, where Cablevision launched News 12 on 15 December 1986 as the country's first twenty-four-hour regional cable news service. Other channels were added across the Cablevision footprint over the following years, and Altice USA continued the operation after buying the company in 2016.

Access

Since December 2005 the network's website and app have required a subscription from people living outside the viewing area and have been free to Optimum, Spectrum and Xfinity subscribers, an arrangement used in marketing against satellite and telephone-company television. In October 2016 newspaper reports described the consolidation of the Westchester and Connecticut operations, with studio and anchor work moved to New Jersey and Long Island.

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