On Board

In their previous lives, they'd merely been journalists.

Now (from left) Jason Carroll, Josh Borisoff, Katie Bogey, Bill McCarthy and Jenn Bernstein (below) can say they are trailblazers too.

 They were the first in the door of Buffalo's new

 24 news channel and that meant beginning to build the routines and the systems that would help a new group of people serve a region through electronic news gathering available on Time Warner Cable in Buffalo. 

The six will always remember their first weekend together in western New York,

responding to the crash of Continental Flight 3407 in Clarence. By summer, they'll 

realize that the first organizational steps they took in the third week of February are the ones that'll help them and the rest of the station's staff succeed.

To be fair, our two Operations guys, Jason and Josh, have been down this road before. Both have helped launch news channels. For Josh, it's the second with Time Warner after helping our Binghamton operation get off the ground.

 But every one of the half dozen will be leaders in their own way, reinforcing our methods as the group comes together.

Another half dozen staff members arrive in the final days of February. The rest, the following week. Two-thirds have local roots, like Bill (Angola), Molly (Kenmore) and Katie (Jamestown) One-third are from within the Time Warner Cable news division.

By then, we'll have three weeks of hardcore technical training before we start our news wheel turning at the end of March.