The network incorporated news content purposed from four Tegna-owned stations in the northwestern United States – NBC-affiliated stations KING-TV in Seattle,
KGW in
Portland, KTVB in Boise and
CBS affiliate
KREM in
Spokane. In addition, the channel maintained content sharing agreements with several other stations. In addition to rolling news and weather coverage throughout the day, Northwest Cable News produced the nightly sports highlight and discussion program
Northwest Sports Tonight (weeknights at 9:00 p.m.) and the call-in shows
Gardening with Ciscoe LIVE (which aired Friday evenings at 6:00 p.m.) and
Northwest Sports Tonight Game Day (which aired evenings after
Seattle Seahawks games during the
NFL season). The channel also aired rebroadcasts of sister station KING-TV's lifestyle program
Evening each evening at 10:00 p.m. Three other KING-TV programs,
Gardening with Ciscoe (a pre-recorded program which the live NWCN program was spun off from),
Northwest Backroads and
The 5th Quarter (which aired during the NFL season), were also rebroadcast on the channel on weekends. In addition, the channel aired the KGW-produced Sunday evening discussion program
Straight Talk. In February 2011, NWCN switched their format from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio. At the time of the channel's shutdown, NWCN was the last news station in the Tegna portfolio that did not air their newscasts in HD (although some of its content has been aired in HD digitally online). ==Notable former staff==