The 10-year struggle to maintain an all-news cable channel serving the sprawling Orange County area of Southern California appears to have petered out. Cable operator Adelphia Communications, which currently operates the OCN channel, the oldest regional news operation in the country, announced Tuesday that it will be shut down on Sept. 7. The online Multichannel News quoted Bill Rosendahl, Adelphia’s Southern California chief, as saying: “It’s a great channel and it fills a great need, but we’re running a business … ad sales are flat, as they are elsewhere in the business. The revenues are not enough to keep OCN going.”
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