NY1 (pronounced "
New York One") is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
twenty-four-hour
cable-newsUnited States cable news came to be in the early 1980s with the advent of cable television. Early networks include CNN in 1980, Financial News Network in 1981, and CNN2 in 1982. CNBC was created in 1989, taking control of FNN in 1991...
television channelA television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz...
focusing on the five
boroughsNew York City, one of the largest cities in the world, is segmented into five boroughs. A borough is a unique form of government that administers the five fundamental constituent parts of the consolidated city...
of
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
,
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. In addition to news and weather forecasts, the channel also features
human-interest segmentsA human interest story is a feature story that discusses a person or persons in an interactive and/or emotional way. It presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest or sympathy in the reader or viewer....
such as the "New Yorker of the Week" and the "Scholar Athlete of the Week", as well as specialty programs such as
Inside City Hall (which is renamed
Road to City Hall during
New York City mayoralThe Mayor of the City of New York is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. The Mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within New York City.The budget overseen by the...
elections) and
In Transit.
NY1 is owned and operated by
Time Warner CableTime Warner Cable is an American national cable television company that operates in 27 states and has 31 operating divisions. Its corporate headquarters are located in New York, NY, and has other corporate offices in Charlotte, North Carolina; Herndon, Virginia; and Denver, Colorado...
(TWC). The station competes for viewers with local flagship broadcast stations
WABCWABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its highly successful version of the Eyewitness News format and for its morning show Live with Regis and Kelly,...
,
WCBSWCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City and owned by CBS Corporation. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building...
,
WNBCWNBC is the flagship station of the NBC television network, located in New York City and owned and operated by NBC Universal. WNBC's studios are co-located with NBC corporate headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan...
,
WNYWWNYW, channel 5, is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. The station's transmitter is atop the Empire State Building and its studio facilities are located on Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood...
,
WPIXWPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of the CW Television Network...
and
WWORWWOR may refer to:*WWOR-TV, a television station licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, United States*WWOR EMI Service, a defunct superstation feed of WWOR-TV...
, as well as other all-local stations such as
NYCTVNYC TV is the brand name of the television broadcast and cable channels operated by NYC Media Group, a division of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications....
and the
Verizon FiOSVerizon FiOS is a bundled communications service, operating over a fiber-optic communications network, that is presently offered in some areas of the United States by Verizon. Verizon has attracted consumer and media attention in the area of broadband Internet access as the first major U.S....
suite of all-local channels serving New York City.
On the TWC-New York City service, NY1 appears on channel 1 in
standard definitionStandard-definition television is a television system that has a resolution that meets standards but not considered either Enhanced-definition television or High-definition television . The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same ...
(with a 4:3 aspect ratio) and on channel 701 in
high definitionHigh-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems...
(with a 16:9 aspect ratio). The channel also appears on channel 1 on Cablevision's New York City service. It is available exclusively to over two million
cable-televisionCable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required...
customers within the five boroughs of New York City; nearby
Bergen CountyBergen County is the most populous county of the state of New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 884,118, growing to 904,037 as of the Census Bureau's 2006 estimate. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Hackensack...
,
New JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...
;
Mount VernonMount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York. It lies on the border of the New York City borough of the Bronx.-Overview:Mount Vernon is the eighth most populous city in the state of New York. It is a predominantly African-American city in a majority Caucasian county...
in
Westchester CountyWestchester County is a primarily suburban county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of 450 square miles and has a diverse population of approximately 950,000, residing in 45 municipalities...
, New York; as well as TWC systems throughout New York State.
History
NY1 was conceived in 1991 by Richard Aurelio, the president of TWC's New York City cable group. The station launched September 8, 1992, from its newsroom in the
National Video CenterThe National Video Center was a video production company with studios in Washington, DC, Boston, Atlanta, Connecticut and New York City until June 2002....
at 460 West
42nd Street42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theatres, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square. It is also the name of the region of the theater district near that intersection...
in the
ManhattanManhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan , is the most densely populated county in the United States, with a 2008 population of 1,634,795...
borough of New York City under the guidance of Paul Sagan, NY1's vice president of news, and Steve Paulos, NY1's news director. Construction of the 42nd Street facility was completed on July 15, but the channel's newly hired reporters actually began work a month earlier by attending a videojournalism "boot camp". While some of the reporters had used their own cameras in other markets, most had had no exposure to the technical side of journalism. Following their training, the reporters and the rest of the staff took part in an additional two-month training period that included four weeks of real-time rehearsal. A watershed event came in the final weeks of training, with the collapse of a former
post-officeA post office is a facility authorised by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
building on Manhattan's
West SideThe West Side of Manhattan refers to the side of Manhattan Island which abuts the Hudson River and faces New Jersey. Fifth Avenue, Central Park, and lower Broadway separate it from the East Side. The major neighborhoods on the West Side are West Harlem, Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, Upper...
. Although the channel was not yet on the air, NY1 reporters covered the story as if the channel was fully operational, interviewing survivors and witnesses and reporting the story more fully than competing television outlets.
Following the September 11, 2001, attacks of the
World Trade CenterThe World Trade Center was a complex in Lower Manhattan in New York City whose seven buildings were destroyed in 2001 in the September 11 terrorist attacks...
in New York City, NY1's signal was temporarily broadcast internationally to all subscribers of the
OxygenOxygen is an American television channel with programming geared towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :The privately held company Oxygen Media was founded in 1998 by Geraldine Laybourne, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and producers Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach...
cable-television channel after Oxygen could not broadcast from its studios in the Battery Park City Manhattan neighborhood near the World Trade Center.
In 2001, TWC began offering NY1 to
digital-cableDigital cable is a generic term for any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression or distribution. The technology was originally developed by Motorola.-Background:...
subscribers in the
AlbanyAlbany is a city in the United States of America; it is the capital of the state of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany is roughly 136 miles north of the city of New York, and slightly south of the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. The city sits on the Hudson River and...
, New York, market, with other markets following soon thereafter.
In January 2002, the station moved to a new, all-digital facility at the
Chelsea MarketChelsea Market is an enclosed, urban food court and shopping mall in New York City. It was built within the former Nabisco factory complex where the Oreo cookie was invented and produced. The 22-building complex fills two entire blocks bounded by 9th and 11th Avenues and 15th to 16th Street...
in the
ChelseaChelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City. It is located to the south of Hell's Kitchen and the Garment District starting at 34th Street, and north of Greenwich Village, and the Meatpacking District that centers on West 14th Street. West - East boundaries...
neighborhood of Manhattan.
On June 30, 2003,
NY1 NoticiasNY1 Noticias is a 24-hour Spanish language news channel, serving New York City's five boroughs. It is available to customers on channels 95 and 801 on Time Warner Cable DTV: Digital Television and DTV en Español and first went on the air at 8:01pm on June 30, 2003.NY1 Noticias covers general New...
, a
Spanish-languageSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
version of the channel, began operating for digital-cable subscribers.
In late 2005, NY1 launched a
video-on-demandVideo on Demand or Audio Video on Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand....
service for its TWC customers. NY1 on Demand is on Channel 1110 in the TWC-New York City system.
In 2008, NY1 launched a
high-definitionHigh-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems...
channel on Channel 701, although it was aired only in a pillarbox format (i.e., 4:3 aspect ratio picture with side pillars of NY1 logo) until migrating to a full 16:9 aspect ratio in October 2009.
NY1 as prototype for other TWC markets
NY1 was the first TWC local-news channel, and TWC has since added twenty-four-hour local news networks in several other markets modeled after NY1, including:
- R News, Rochester
Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and...
, New York (1990)
- Bay News 9
Bay News 9 is a cable-based television news station located in St Petersburg, Florida. It currently serves the Tampa Bay Area including Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee, Polk, Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus counties....
, TampaTampa is a Gulf Coast city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of the state of Florida in the United States. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. The population of Tampa in 2000 was 303,447...
, FloridaFlorida is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. It was the 27th state admitted to the United States...
(1997)
- Central Florida News 13
Central Florida News 13 is a cable-based news station located in Orlando, Florida. It currently serves the greater Central Florida areas including Volusia County, Seminole County, Orange County, Osceola County, Lake County, Marion County, Flagler County, and Brevard County...
, OrlandoOrlando is a major city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan region...
, Florida (1997)
- News 8 Austin
News 8 Austin is a 24-hour local cable news-station based in Austin, Texas, owned by Time Warner Cable. Launched on September 13, 1999, it is only available to subscribers of Time Warner Cable's Central Texas Division, which includes Austin, San Marcos, Round Rock, Temple, Killeen and Waco...
, AustinAustin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 15th-largest in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation...
, TexasTexas is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies"...
(1999)
- Capital News 9
Capital News 9 is a cable-only 24-hour news channel on Time Warner Cable in New York's Capital District. The channel debuted on October 11, 2002, nearly a year after originally planned due to various delays in infrastructure and staffing...
, AlbanyAlbany is a city in the United States of America; it is the capital of the state of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany is roughly 136 miles north of the city of New York, and slightly south of the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. The city sits on the Hudson River and...
, New York (2002)
- News 10 Now
News 10 Now is a 24-hour local news channel headquartered in Syracuse, New York. Their slogan is "Your news, all the time". It is owned and operated by Time Warner Cable, and is available only to its cable subscribers throughout Central New York, New York's Southern Tier, and the "North Country" in...
, SyracuseSyracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2000 census, the city population was 147,306, and its metropolitan area had a population of 732,117. It is the economic and educational hub of Central New...
, New York (2003)
- News 14 Carolina
News 14 Carolina is a 24-hour news service offered in North Carolina, USA, by Time Warner Cable. There are News 14 Carolina channels in Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, and Wilmington each primarily with local content but some content of statewide interest is shared...
, serving several markets in North CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties...
(2006)
- YNN Buffalo
YNN Buffalo is a 24-hour commercial cable news station in Buffalo, New York. It is carried on Time Warner Cable channel 9 in all of Western New York, except in the city of Buffalo itself, where it can be seen on channel 14...
, BuffaloBuffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, second only to New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the seat of Erie...
, New York (2009)
Two other channels, News 24 Houston and News 9 San Antonio, both joint ventures between TWC and
BeloBelo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 television stations and two regional cable television news channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the newspaper company spun off from Belo...
, were closed within the first two years of operation.
Format
The most-common "program" on NY1 is a half-hour block beginning at the top and bottom of every hour. The first minute contains top headlines followed by "Weather On The 1s", a brief one-minute weather summary. The remainder of the half-hour is filled with pre-recorded news segments heavily focusing on stories from the
New York City metropolitan areaThe New York metropolitan area, also known as Metropolitan New York, Greater New York, or the Tri-State Region, is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and is also one of the most populous in the world. The metropolitan area is defined by the U.S...
. Nearly all stories are pre-recorded, even segments made to look like they are happening live; instead of a "live" indicator while reporters speak, most NY1 stories have a graphic saying merely that the reporter is (or, rather, was) "on scene". This is because when the report first aired, it may have been live but is usually not once re-aired, unless it updates
breaking newsBreaking news or special report is a current event that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming in order to report its details. Many times, breaking news is used after the news network has already reported on this story. When a story has not been reported on previously,...
. Moreover, reporters generally shoot their own stories with video-camera, and take them back to the newsroom to be edited into the broadcast rotation.
Sports reports are featured throughout the day, while a one-hour call-in sports show,
Sports on 1: The Last Word, is featured every night at 11:35 p.m.
In an effort to compete with local late-night newscasts, on January 22, 2007, NY1 introduced its own 11 p.m. newscast,
News At 11. The newscast is
anchoredA news presenter is a person who presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet.-Newscasters and newsreaders:...
Lewis Dodley and former
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
news correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin, an original member of the NY1 News team.
Inside City Hall; Road to City Hall
Inside City Hall offers more-extensive local political coverage than the area's broadcast stations. Seeking to expand its political coverage, WCBS hired former
Inside City Hall co-anchor
Andrew KirtzmanAndrew Kirtzman was a political reporter and anchor for six years at WCBS-TV in New York City until April 2008. He is the author of a book about Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme....
.
Inside City Hall is hosted by
Dominic CarterDominic Carter is an American news reporter and anchor of the NY1 news and commentary program Inside City Hall, which focuses on New York City politics. He has been a reporter and anchor for the station since its inception in 1992.- Education :...
. NY1 and its upstate sister channels have sponsored a number of political debates through this program.
NY1's team of award-winning political journalists is led by Robert Hardt, political director, and includes:
- Michael Scotto, reporter
- Rita Nissan, reporter
- Josh Robin, reporter
- Molly Kroon, reporter
- Grace Rauh, reporter
- Michael Nitzky
Michael D. Nitzky is the Senior Producer of the political unit at NY1 news, which includes Road to City Hall, Inside City Hall, and candidate debate specials. Nitzky works alongside Political Director Robert Hardt and reporters Michael Scotto, Bobby Cuza, Rita Nissan, Josh Robin, Molly Kroon and...
, senior political producer
- Joan Vollero, political producer
The Call
Launched in July 2005,
The Call is a live, half-hour call-in and write-in news show hosted by John Schiumo. Throughout the day, viewers are encouraged to vote on the top news stories of the day, and after receiving an
e-mailElectronic mail, often abbreviated as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages, designed primarily for human use...
alert as to the top story, asked to write or call in to discuss the topic with Schiumo.
Very often at the beginning of the show, Schiumo will have a short interaction with Susanna Hegner, the program's senior producer, during which they will both offer their opinions of the days news.
On Stage
On Stage is a half-hour program focusing on the theatre.
Current
(at October 2009)
- Asa Aarons
Asa Aarons, co-creator of "Just Ask Asa!",, is an Emmy award-winning consumer reporter and photojournalist. His reports focus on the problems, concerns and realities of everyday life, ranging from false advertising claims to credit card rip-offs and business swindles...
— employment reporter (since 2009)
- Cindi Avilia
- Adam Balkin — technology reporter (since 1997)
- Ruschell Boone — Queens
Queens is the largest in area, the second-largest in population, and the easternmost of the Five Boroughs which form New York City. The Borough of Queens' boundaries are identical to those of the County of Queens , a subdivision of the State of New York in the Northeastern United States.Located on...
reporter (since 2002)
- Monica Brown
- Dominic Carter
Dominic Carter is an American news reporter and anchor of the NY1 news and commentary program Inside City Hall, which focuses on New York City politics. He has been a reporter and anchor for the station since its inception in 1992.- Education :...
— host, Inside City Hall; senior political reporter (since 1992)
- Roger Clark (since 2001)
- Bobby Cuza
Bobby Cuza is the transit reporter for NY1. He is the host of the In Transit program also on that station.Before joining NY1 in January, 2003, he worked two years for Newsday. At Newsday, he reported on breaking news on the transit beat, including the effects of the World Trade Center attacks, and...
— transit reporter (since 2003)
- John Davitt — chief meteorologist
Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting . Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the eighteenth century...
(since 1992)
- Valarie D'Elia — travel analyst (since 1992)
- Lewis Dodley (since 1992)
- Kafi Drexel — health and fitness reporter (since 2005)
- Amanda Farinacci — Staten Island
Staten Island is a borough of New York City in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
reporter (since 2000)
- Kevin Garrity — sports anchor and reporter (since 1992)
- Taunia Hottman — general-assignment reporter (since 2008)
- Lily Jamali — law-enforcement reporter (since 2008)
- Susan Jhun (since 1999)
- Elizabeth Kaledin (since 1992)
- Shazia Khan (since 2005)
- Pat Kiernan
Patrick Kiernan is a New York City news anchor, appearing as the morning anchor of NY1 since 1997. Kiernan has become widely known in New York City for his "In the Papers" feature, in which he summarizes the colorful content in New York City's daily newspapers, replete with his deadpan humor...
— morning anchor (since 1997)
- Tom McDonald — sports anchor (since 2003)
- Dean Meminger — The Bronx