The Brunswick Channel is Brunswick's only daily television-style newscast serving Brunswick and the Golden Isles and beyond.

History

A small paper in Brunswick, Ga., has launched what essentially is a TV station on the Web. The market is unique because The Golden Isles were once served by a local TV station but have no local station now. This venture is similar to the likes of which we have seen at a few other places, such as Naples, Fla.

First, Brunswick is not served by a local television station. The Brunswick News was one of the first newspapers in this region to offer a Web site with more than a single page with a few stories thrown on it. In mid-2006, we began talking about creating a webcast to add to our newly redesigned Web site. That first vision was for nothing more than an anchor sitting behind a desk and reading highlights from that day's newspaper.

Brunswick lost its local television station about eight years ago, and residents now can only get their television news from stations based in Savannah, Ga., (located an hour north of us) or Jacksonville, Fla. (located an hour south of us). They rarely cover stories in Brunswick -- only showing up for big stories that we break or that gain national attention (such as the March kidnapping and death of a 6-year-old boy). We work very hard to cover all aspects of our community and felt adding this webcast could only broaden our reach.

Newscast

Everything in each day's newspaper is fair game for inclusion in the webcast. Just as in preparing the print edition, the news tries to ensure the webcast has a nice mix of both hard news and features. Brunswick News Channel is using original packages of materials that, while local, may or may not be in the print edition of The Brunswick News, and also promote stories that will be in the next day's print edition.
The paper updates posts new webcasts to the Web site at 4 p.m. (EDT) Mondays through Fridays.

The News launched the webcast on June 11,2007 but began doing video reports to serve as companion pieces to stories in the newspaper in mid-March. (Courtesy of Poynter.org)

Brunswick News Channel Team

Anchors<br>

Wainwright Jeffers - Anchor/Reporter<br>

Krista Harris - Anchor/Reporter<br>

Lindsey Adkison - Fill-in Anchor and (Reporter)

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Sports<br>

Kevin Price - Sports Director<br>

Dave Williams- sports Reporter<br>

Andrew Smith - Sports Reporter<br>

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Videographers<br>

Bobby Haven - Chief photojournalist<br>

Michael Hall - photojournalist<br>

Nick Nichols - photojournalist (Floor Director)<br>

Reporters<br>

Brandee Thomas<br>

Cody Trawick<br>

Amy Carter<br>

Carolina Murillo<br>

Emily Stranger<br>

Ellen Robinson<br>

Mary Starr<br>

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Graphics Team<br>

Stacey Willis<br>

Donte Nunnally<br>

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Technical Director<br>

Cody Trawick<br>

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Webmaster<br>

Mark Young<br>

Past personalities

Former Brunswick News Channel Employees<br>

Lauren McCallister<br>

Administration

C.H. "Buff " Leavy IV - President<br>

Vance Leavy - Executive Vice President<br>

Ron Maulden -General Manager<br>

Kerry Klumpe - Managing Editor<br>