News-Press NOW

News-Press NOW is a 24-hour local cable news and weather channel based in St. Joseph, Missouri and serves Buchanan, DeKalb, and Andrew counties.

It is carried on Suddenlink cable channel 3 and in high definition on digital channel 103 throughout the St. Joseph metropolitan area (including the communities of Maryville, Savannah, Country Club, and Agency).

Since June 2, 2012, it is also rebroadcast as a digital subchannel of KNPN-LD, broadcasting over-the-air on UHF channel 26.3 in 16:9 standard definition widescreen.

[1][2] Originally launched as St. Joe NOW in January 2006[citation needed], News-Press 3 NOW was sold by News-Press & Gazette Company in April 2011, as part of the sale of NPG Cable, Inc., the company's cable television division that operated cable systems in Missouri, Arizona and California, to Suddenlink Communications for $350 million.

The channel's format changed from a cable-only service that offered a mix of live newscasts and news rebroadcasts exclusive to the channel to one that simulcasts and re-airs KNPN-LD's, KNPG-LD's and KCJO-LD's weekday morning, noon and nightly newscasts, along with a simulcast of the Storm Tracker weather radar during overnight and weekend daytime hours.