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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.

C.R. Roberts is a Tacoma native. Before joining The News Tribune, he worked as a freelance writer and part-time cowhand on a cattle ranch in Northern Idaho. He writes about small business, personal finance and other business issues.

John Gillie writes about the aerospace and airline industries, commercial development and consumer issues. During his 30-year-tenure at The News Tribune he has covered issues as diverse as the Native American fishing rights disputes, crime and the courts, the wood products industry and energy. He lived in Tacoma with his family for 25 years, but now lives in Kent because his wife heads a five-state non-profit foundation headquartered in Ballard, and it only seemed a sensible compromise to make considering their workplaces are 40 miles apart.

Kelly Kearsley has been a business reporter at The News Tribune since 2005. She covers the Port of Tacoma and international trade. Being born and raised in Spokane she’s used to living in cities with inferiority complexes and, in fact, prefers it. Prior to working at The News Tribune, she spent three years as a reporter for The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon and another year working stints for The Associated Press and Seattle Times. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and miniature schnauzer.

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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Posted by Kelly Kearsley @ 10:20:50 am

Click! Cable TV is adding 16 new channels to its lineup Wednesday – including 13 high-definition channels.

The new HD services include A&E, CNN, Discovery, ESPN2, Food Network, Fox News, FX, HGTV, Speed, TBS, TLC, USA and Versus/Golf.

Click! will also three standard-definition channels: Chiller - a channel for horror movie fans, ESPNU – a college sports service with over 550 live games from 25 Division One conferences and RTN – Retro Network featuring classic reruns like Wild, Wild West, Hogan’s Heroes, Quincy and Happy Days.

“Customers have been clamoring for more HD programming and we’ve delivered,” said Mitch Robinson, Click! Cable TV’s marketing and business operations manager.

Robinson said that as far as Click! knows, no other cable operator has launched more HD in one day in Washington.

The cable provider is also offering free workshops Wednesday to familiarize customers with HD equipment.

“Cable 101: the ABC’s of HD” workshops will take place at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Tacoma Public Utilities Auditorium, 3628 S. 35th St.

Customers should call (253)502-8900 to reserve a spot for the 7 p.m. class. The 3 p.m. class is full.

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