From the Publisher

Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 4:35 a.m.By Jeff Noedel John J. Nance. Alan Budwill. Lori Stokes. Dave Schnuckel. A board of directors to be proud of. What Jeremy Tyler and I started 15 months ago as a business built around a news blog for San Juan Island was transformed Wednesday into a non-profit community television…

UPDATED: Monday, June 24, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. With our first live video stream in October 2023, our ambition for CNL2 was to reach Google’s 10,000 “Unique Visitors,” or “UVs,” milestone by December 31, 2024. CNL2 is on a faster track than that. CNL2’s rolling 28-day has reached 8,400 UVs, a measure similar to households….

CNL2 offers “equal time” on a wide range of views on the important issues in island life. To schedule an interview by CNL2 (for internet TV, internet radio, or text-only), write to Publisher Jeff Noedel at jeff.noedel@CNL2.com or phone us at (360) 378-9810. We treat our studio as a “digital town square,” and we try…

A message from Jeff Noedel After investing money in — and working without pay — to build CNL2 for the past 1-1/2 years, Jeremy Tyler and I have decided to give up ownership of CNL2. The process has begun to convert CNL2 into a non-profit. With this change, CNL2 will never make us wealthy, no…

Observed on the last Monday of May, Memorial Day (formerly Decoration Day) is the federal holiday for honoring U.S. military people who died in service to U.S. Armed Forces, as well as Gold Star Families. And now is a good time to remember the sacrifices made by active and veteran service people who are still…

CNL2 has one position available for Broadcast Video Editor Intern in our studio. This is a three-month internship. It does not pay a wage, but the training and experience could prove to be extremely helpful to any student looking to break into the video productions, documentaries, or television news. For the successful intern, in three…

UPDATED: Saturday, May 18, 2024: The number of people (Google calls them “unique visitors”) visiting CNL2 in a one-month period has risen to 1,700 — a 21 percent increase from the last time we shared data (see Google Analytics dashboard screen shot above). Web traffic in news sites tends to look like a roller coaster….

CNL2 is not 24/7 yet. (The original CNL in Missouri was! For six years!) But someday CNL2 will be 24/7. For now, we’re just promising to work seven days a week to keep you informed.

CNL2 now publishes comments on each and every post, if they are deemed to be kind and constructive. We strive to be a community hub — among the 18,000 souls of the San Juans archipelago — and among the one million U.S. and Canadian citizens of the 48th Parallel west of the Cascades. The kind…

CNL2 loves small town video! In CNL2’s first six months in production here in The San Juans, we’ve produced 85 videos. Six months from now we expect CNL2 to be producing four per day (annualized rate of 1,460 videos per year). That doesn’t include audio podcasts, which we also plan to be publishing daily, as…