While its main feed serves the Austin metropolitan area, it also maintains sub-feeds for San Antonio and Waco.

It is available only to Spectrum Cable subscribers within the provider's Central Texas division, which includes Austin, San Marcos, Round Rock, Temple, Killeen and Waco.

[4] On March 11, 2014, Time Warner Cable announced a second attempt to launch a regional news channel for the San Antonio market by launching a subfeed, Time Warner Cable News San Antonio.

In addition to running regular weather segments every 10 minutes "on the 1's", the channel also provides wall-to-wall severe weather coverage whenever tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings are in effect for any part of viewing area of Spectrum News 1 Austin or its subfeeds.

Its reporters occasionally set up, shoot and edit their own stories without the assistance of a photojournalist (a format known as videojournalism).