In case you missed this news last week, here's an item from our sister paper The Charlotte Observer about a name change taking place at Time Warner Cable's News 14 Carolina channel:

News 14 Carolina, the 24-hour local cable news channel, will be changing its name by year’s end to Time Warner Cable News.
Alan Mason, the Raleigh-based vice president of News 14, said Friday that the rebranding will include all 13 of the TWC local channels across the country, including the flagship NY1 channel in New York City. Currently there are three different branding protocols for stations serving TWC cable systems in the Carolinas, New York and Texas.
By settling on one name, it makes it easier to share content between the stations without changing microphone flags three times for stories developed by the Washington or NYSE bureaus for regional distribution.
It will also end some confusion among viewers who don’t understand that the channel is an exclusive service available only on Time Warner Cable, said Melissa Buscher, director of media relations for the Carolinas. News 14 debuted in North Carolina a decade ago.
Newscasts will get updated graphics for the change, expected in the fourth quarter, said Mason.

The folks in New York have not been pleased about the rebranding of NY1. The New York Times recently published a list of criticisms in their City Room blog, including a this one from the Twitter feed of the band They Might Be Giants: “Time Warner — rebranding NY1 into TWC News might be your dumbest move since merging with AOL.” Ouch.

UNC-TV, WRAL, WTVD, WNCN (NBC-17), and News 14 Carolina will all carry a live broadcast of the memorial service for former University of North Carolina President William Friday from the UNC campus in Chapel Hill at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.

UNC-TV and WRAL will repeat the broadcast Wednesday evening at 7.

Friday died on October 12 at the age of 92. He was president of the UNC system for 30 years, from 1956 to 1986, a nationally-recognized leader in higher education, and was the host of UNC-TV's longest-running program, "North Carolina People with William Friday," which went on the air in 1971 and has been on the air weekly ever since. Friday had just launched the 42nd season of the show in August.

In case you missed it, here's the story from this weekend's News & Observer about the local TV news stations and what they're all doing to win viewers.

Nutshell: WRAL is the ratings leader overall, but WTVD rules with women. And tonight, former longtime WRAL anchor Pam Saulsby (left, with Wes Hohenstein and Penn Holderness) co-anchors her first nightly newscast on NBC-17. 

There's lots of stuff here about Nielsen ratings and market rankings, and a UNC-CH journalism school professor offers context.

Read more.

The North Carolina candidates for governor will appear together for the first time in Wilmington on Saturday, at a forum which will later air on News 14 Carolina.

Democrat Walter Dalton and Republican Pat McCrory will take part in a forum sponsored by the North Carolina Bar Association at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside Hotel. Janet Ward Black, former president of the NCBA, will moderate the forum, with questions presented by a pool of local tv reporters.

The forum is not open to the public but will be videotaped and air commercial-free on News 14 Carolina on Sunday, June 24, at 11 a.m. and again at 8 p.m.  Starting June 25, it will be available on Carolina On Demand (channels 199 and 1047).

The forum will also stream live today from WRAL.com.

News 14 Carolina and Carolina On Demand are cable channels offered free to Time Warner Cable customers.

Time Warner Cable and News 14 Carolina will telecast all eight NCHSAA state championship basketball games live Saturday, March 10.

That includes the Millbrook girls game against West Forsyth, which is scheduled to start at 5 p.m.

All of the games will also be streamed live over news14.com. Beginning early next week, the games will be available on Carolina On Demand, digital channels 1047 and 199.

The full Saturday schedule is listed below.

For the third year in a row, News 14 Carolina will televise Christmas Eve services live from Duke Chapel tonight.

The telecast of the Traditional Service of Lessons and Carols will air at 11 p.m.

News 14 Carolina is a news station available for Time Warner Cable customers.

News 14 Carolina will televise the state 4AA high school football championship game between Matthews Butler and Wake Forest-Rolesville live from Carter-Finley Stadium this morning.

Coverage begins Saturday, December 11, at 10:30 am.  Kick-off is scheduled for 11:00 am.

The telecast will include half-time and post-game coverage with highlights from other championship games played at UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University.

News 14 Carolina's high school football highlight show has returned. "Discount Tire Friday Night Final" airs on Friday nights at 11pm.

The half-hour show features highlights from about two dozen big games from across the state, and the show's hosts, Jim Connors and Mike Solarte, also present their weekly statewide poll, "14 to Watch."  They also pick the top play that week, the "Play of the State."

The series airs each Friday night through December 10. The December 10 show is a preview to the state championship games.

The show repeats Saturday mornings at 11am on News 14. You can also watch at their website or on their Carolina on Demand digital channels 199 and 1047.

News 14 Carolina is a 24-hour news channel available to Time Warner Cable customers.

News 14 Carolina will televise the Class 4-A state high school
basketball championship games live Saturday, with Durham Hill facing
West Charlotte in the girls game at 5 p.m. and Fayetteville Terry
Sanford meeting Mt. Tabor in the boys game at 7:30 p.m. at the Dean
Smith Center in Chapel Hill.

News 14 Carolina will televise the Class 4-A state high school basketball championship games live Saturday, with Durham Hill facing West Charlotte in the girls game at 5 p.m. and Fayetteville Terry Sanford meeting Mt. Tabor in the boys game at 7:30 p.m. at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill.