CNL3 videos already connecting with audiences
CNL3 Promotions
Friday, March 6, 2026
Updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
In the first 14 days of CNL3’s “48th Parallel News at Noon,” our videos are already connecting with Northwest Washington audiences.
Total views of two videos tracking the progress of H.B. 1923, “The Mosquito Fleet Act” will likely surpass 1,000 soon — with an impressive watch time of 160 hours in one week, so far. Average duration of the viewing of CNL3tv’s was 11 minutes, which means most of the videos were watched to their ends.
“I’m most focused on the watch time. It means we are hosting podcast conversations that hold viewers’ attention, and many finish watching to the end,” said Jeff Noedel, CNL3 co-founder.
Noedel hopes viewers subscribe to the “CNL3tv” YouTube channel, and — when deserved — like the videos by clicking on the thumbs-up icon. The YouTube algorithm gives great weight to subscriptions and likes, and that’s how they decide when to show the content to wider audiences.
“There is a straight-line relationship between liking a video or subscribing to our YouTube channel and then YouTube suggesting our videos to more viewers. It’s the biggest boost a viewer can give to our work, which we are providing at no cost to our audience,” added Noedel.
48th Parallel News at Noon leverages Noedel’s 44 years in television and video production, and his decade in journalism. At age 22, he was producer/director of a live audience, public affairs television series aired on KPLR-TV Channel 11 in St. Louis. The series starred U.S. Congressman Richard A. Gephardt, who eventually rose to top leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Noedel is a news brand known in the San Juan Islands, as well as viewers around the Salish Sea and in the State Capitol. He was lead host and reporter for CNL2’s SanJuans.Today from 2023 to 2025, where he published 200 interviews and livestreams. In addition to his video news reporting, Noedel has written for the Journal of the San Juan Islands and the Port Townsend Leader. Noedel’s photography has been published in 2,000 U.S. newspapers, including on the front page of the legendary St. Louis Post-Dispatch, when it was Pulitzer Publishing’s flagship brand.
Noedel’s first online news creation was CountyNewsLIVE in rural Missouri. It was known by its very large audience simply as “CNL.” It was hugely popular from 2008 to 2013, drawing a large regional audience, including viewers in St. Louis. CNL(1) was reviewed twice by The Columbia Journalism Review.
CNL3’s ability to conduct live and recorded split-screen interviews, as well as the channel’s ability to deliver multi-camera remote livestreams of events (like conferences and debates) is the work of CNL3 co-founder Jeremy Tyler. Tyler is also Adobe-certified in the After Effects animation platform, as well as being an FAA Part 107 licensed drone pilot.
To find CNL3 original content on YouTube, search for “CNL3tv” inside the YouTube platform.
The Peter Phillips interview is here.