Northwest Florida News 21

Northwest Florida News 21 is a cable news television network located in Panama City, Florida. Owned by Charter Communications (through Charter's acquistion of Bright House Networks in 2016, although Bright House, in turn, acquired and absorbed Gulf Time Warner Cable in 2003), it currently serves the Panama City area including Washington, Jackson, Calhoun, Gulf, Bay, and Walton counties. The station, which is exclusive to Charter Spectrum customers, broadcasts news 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the exception of some special programming, including a weekly political program, Political Connections.

The station was created for Gulf Time Warner Cable by Elliott Wiser, who was hired as General Manager by Time Warner Cable in May 1997. At that time Time Warner was building a similar news channel in Orlando-Central Florida News 13. Wiser later created Northwest Florida News 21 en Espanol, Panama City on Demand, and Bright House Sports Network (now Spectrum Sports).

History
The channel originally launched on September 26, 1997 and gives weather updates every 10 minutes and more frequently during serious weather conditions. It was originally partnered with the Panama City News Herald to help with 24-hour newsgathering operations and the channel was originally operated by Gulf Time Warner Cable, which relinquished cable television franchise rights in the Panama City metropolitan area to Bright House Networks in 2003.

On November 1, 2011, Northwest Florida News 21 launched a high definition simulcast feed and began airing its newscasts in the format. As part of the upgrade, the channel installed a new master control system, and unveiled a slightly modified graphics package.

The channel unveiled a major branding overhaul on August 27, 2013, the most significant in the channel's history. The channel adopted a logo based on that used by its sister channel in the Tampa Bay region known as Bay News 9 and introduced a new news music ("Primetime News" by Non-Stop Music, which has been used by Bay News 9 since its September 1997 launch) and graphics package, the latter of which is designed to fit 16:9 television sets. Its longtime slogan "Panama City's 24 Hour News Service" was also dropped in favor of the succinct "News. Weather. Now.".

Programming
Northwest Florida News 21 carries weather forecast segments in ten-minute intervals, under the brand "Weather on the Ones" (which is also used by the regional news channels of Bright House (now Charter Spectrum) sister company, Time Warner Cable). During the Atlantic hurricane season, Northwest Florida News 21 provides tropical weather updates twice each hour. It also airs regular traffic reports that immediately follow the weather segments, called "Real Time Traffic", each weekdays between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Northwest Florida News 21 is also an affiliate of the national and international video news service CNN Newsource.