The WisconsinEye cable channel will be available to Time Warner Cable Wisconsin digital subscribers on Channel 163 and to Charter digital customers in southern Wisconsin, including Madison, Janesville and Beloit, on Channel 200. Charter plans to expand the distribution of the service into additional Charter markets within the next few months.

WisconsinEye president Chris Long said the new cable channel will carry live coverage of the state Assembly floor session scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. Tuesday.

WisconsinEye is a private, not-for-profit statewide public affairs network that provides independent, nonpartisan coverage of civic and community life in Wisconsin, beginning with gavel-to-gavel coverage of the actions of state government in Madison. The network debuted May 16 with broadcasts over its Internet site, www.wiseye.org.