New England Cable News, known on-air as "NECN", is a regional cable television network serving the New England region of the United States. It is very similar to CNN in structure and style, but focuses more on regional news items and events. The channel is also similar to Northwest Cable News, which covers the Pacific Northwest. Its main studios are located in Newton, Massachusetts, but operates several news bureaus in the New England area including: Manchester NH, Hartford CT, Worcester, Portland ME, and Burlington VT. New England Cable News also maintains a news bureau within the building of the Boston Globe in the Dorchester section of Boston. NECN is owned and operated by two companies: the Hearst Corporation and Comcast. Both companies have 50% holdings in the station, although NECN identifies itself on-air as a "Comcast News Network". New England Cable News can be seen throughout New England in 3.6 million homes and produces several original programs. The station launched its own website on January 1, 2008, although it still provides video to Boston.com, which had hosted the station's site.

NECN was launched March 2, 1992 as a joint partnership between Continental Cablevision (now part of Comcast) and the Hearst Corporation. Since the station is half-owned by the Hearst Corporation, NECN uses the resources of several Hearst-Argyle owned and operated stations in New England to assist in news coverage of the region. The Hearst-Argyle stations include: nearby ABC affiliate WCVB in Needham (which also provides NECN with national news from ABC News), New Hampshire's ABC affiliate WMUR, ABC affiliate WMTW in Portland (NECN maintains a news bureau within the same building as WMTW, though the operations are physically separate, and uses vehicles with NECN signage locally in Maine), and WPTZ & WNNE, Vermont's two NBC affiliates.

NECN is known for employing some of the elder statesmen of the Boston television market including: R.D. Sahl, Tom Ellis, and Chet Curtis. The station is also a training ground for local news reporters. Some of the better known reporters who got their start at NECN include ABC's Dan Harris, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, and CNBC's Maya Kulycky. Several of Boston's current television reporters and anchors also began at NECN.

In addition to its cable production operations, it has also produced 10 PM newscasts for two other Boston television stations: the first FOX 25 News at 10 on WFXT from 1993 to 1995 and UPN 38 Prime News on WSBK from 1995 to 1998 (intermission updates during Boston Bruins games continuing for a time afterward). Both outside productions were cancelled by NECN management. Currently, NECN assists in the production of Worcester News Tonight on WCTR cable 3 in Worcester.