NY1
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| Launched | 1992-09-08 |
| Owned by | Time Warner Cable |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) (HDTV) |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | American English |
| Broadcast area | NY metro area New York State |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Sister channel(s) | NY1 Noticias Tokyo Metropolitan Television |
| Website | NY1.com |
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| Time Warner Cable | 1 (SD) 701 (HD) |
| Cablevision | 1 |
NY1 (pronounced "New York One") is a twenty-four hour news channel available exclusively to over two million cable television customers within the five boroughs of New York City, nearby Bergen County, New Jersey, Mount Vernon in Westchester County as well as Time Warner Cable systems throughout New York State. It appears on preset Channel 1 on Time Warner Cable and Cablevision service, and is owned and operated by Time Warner Cable. It is not available on the competing cable system RCN. In addition to news and weather forecasts, the channel also features human-interest segments 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" and "In Transit."
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[edit] History
NY1 was conceived in 1991 by Richard Aurelio, the president of Time Warner Cable's New York City cable group, ostensibly to add value to cable as it eroded market share to budding satellite services such as DirecTV and Dish Network. The station launched September 8, 1992 from its newsroom on Manhattan's West 42nd Street under the guidance of Vice President of News, Paul Sagan and News Director Steve Paulus. 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".[citation needed] While some of the reporters had used their own cameras in other markets, most had had no exposure to the technical side of journalism.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] A watershed event[citation needed] came in the final weeks of training, with the collapse of a former post office building on Manhattan's West Side. Although not on the air, NY1 reporters covered the story as if the channel was fully operational,[citation needed] interviewing survivors and witnesses and reporting the story more fully than competing television outlets.[citation needed] In January of 2002, the station moved to a brand new, all digital facility at the Chelsea Market in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. On June 30, 2003, NY1 Noticias, a Spanish-language version of the channel, began operating for digital cable subscribers.
NY1 was the first Time Warner Cable local news channel, and Time Warner Cable went on to add 24-hour local news networks in several other markets modeled after NY1, including "Bay News 9" in Tampa, "Central Florida News 13" in Orlando, "News 8 Austin" in the Texas capital, "News 14 Carolina", which serves the Triangle, Greensboro, North Carolina and Charlotte in North Carolina, "Capital News 9" in Albany, New York, "R News" in Rochester, New York and "News 10 Now" in Syracuse. Notably, "News 24 Houston" and "News 9 San Antonio", both joint ventures between Time Warner Cable and Belo, were closed within the first two years of operation. In late 2005, NY1 launched an on-demand service for its Time Warner Cable customers. NY1 on Demand is on Channel 1110 in the New York City Time Warner Cable system.
In 2001, Time Warner Cable began offering NY1 to digital cable subscribers in the Albany market, with other markets following soon thereafter. On March 12, 2008 NY 1 launched an HD channel in its Staten Island and Woodside, Queens, NY on Channel 701 NY 1 HD. On April 30, 2008 NY 1 HD will expand to all of Time Warner Cable's customers in Brooklyn and Queens.
[edit] 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 1's", a brief one minute weather recap. The expression "Weather on the 1's" has now been adopted by other networks (for example channel 13, the news channel of central Florida and for channel 62, News 12 New Jersey) The remainder of the half-hour is filled with taped news segments heavily focusing on stories from the New York metropolitan region. Nearly all stories are taped, 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 news. Moreover, reporters generally shoot their own stories with video-camera, and take them back to the newsroom to be edited into the broadcast rotation (and then possibly fed to CNN and other Time Warner news stations).
On programs like "Inside City Hall", NY1 offers more extensive local political coverage than the area's broadcast stations. Seeking to expand its political coverage, WCBS-TV attracted "Inside City Hall" co-anchor Andrew Kirtzman. "Inside City Hall" continues to be hosted by Dominic Carter. NY1 and its sister channels upstate have sponsored a number of political debates through this program.
Sports reports are featured throughout the day, while an all comprehensive, hour long call-in sports show "Sports on 1: The Last Word" is featured every night at 11:35pm.
In an effort to compete with local late night newscasts, NY1 introduced its own 11 o'clock newscast, "News At 11" on January 22nd, 2007. The newscast is hosted by veteran NY1 anchor Lewis Dodley and former CBS news correspondent Elizabeth Kaledin, an original member of the NY1 News team. Kaledin served as weekend anchor and reporter when the newschannel launched, before joining CBS two years later.
[edit] The Call
Launched in July of 2005, NY1's "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 email 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 often have a short interaction with his senior producer, Susanna Hegner, in which they will both offer their opinions of the days news.
[edit] On Stage
Half hour program focusing on the theatre.
[edit] Current reporters/anchors
- Jeanine Aguirre
- Adam Balkin -Technology Reporter (1997-present)
- Ruschell Boone -Queens Reporter (2002-present)
- Dominic Carter -"Inside City Hall" Host/Senior Political Reporter (1992-present)
- Roger Clark (2001-present)
- Bobby Cuza -Transit Reporter (2003-present)
- Valarie D'Elia -Travel Analyst (1992-present)
- John Davitt -Chief Meteorologist (1992-present)
- Lewis Dodley (1992-present)
- Monica Brown
- Kafi Drexel -Health & Fitness Reporter (2005-present)
- Sandra Endo -"Inside City Hall" Host/Political Reporter (1998-present)
- Amanda Farinacci -Staten Island Reporter (2000-present)
- Kevin Garrity -Sports Anchor/Reporter (1992-present)
- Susan Jhun (1999-present)
- Shazia Khan (2005-present)
- Pat Kiernan -Morning Anchor (1997-present)
- Tom McDonald -Sports Anchor (2003-present)
- Dean Meminger -Bronx Reporter (1997-present)
- Budd Mishkin -Sports Anchor/Reporter (1992-present)
- Rita Nissan -Political Reporter (2002-present)
- Elizabeth Kaledin] (1992-present)
- Annika Pergament -Business Reporter (1994-present)
- Solana Pyne -Law Enforcement Reporter (2005-present)
- Jeanine Ramirez -Brooklyn Reporter (1996-present)
- Josh Robin -Albany Reporter (2005-present)
- Neil Rosen -Movie Critic (1992-present)
- John Schiumo -The Call Host (1999-present)
- Jill Scott (1999-present)
- Lindley Pless (2006-present)
- Cindi Avilia
- Michael Scotto -Political Reporter (2000-present)
- Kristen Shaughnessy (1995-present)
- Stephanie Simon -Arts Reporter (1998-present)
- Rebecca Spitz (1992-present)
- Roma Torre (1992-present)
- Tara Lynn Wagner (2007-present)
- George Whipple -Entertainment Reporter (1992-present)[1]
- Cheryl Wills (1992-present)
[edit] Former reporters/anchors
- Duke Castiglione
- Arthur Chi'en
- Jay Dow
- Sharon Dizenhuz
- Deborah Feyerick
- Davidson Goldin
- Elizabeth Gerst
- Eunie Han
- Taina Hernandez
- Itay Hod
- Greg Kelly
- Clover Lalehzar
- J.D. LaRock
- David Lewis
- Paul Lombardi
- Andrew Kirtzman
- Kerri Lyon
- Paul Messina
- Floyd Misek
- Marjie Mohtashemi
- Gary Anthony Ramsay (1992-2007)
- Jennifer Rainville
- Carole Anne Riddell
- Melissa Russo
- Andrew Siff
- Jeff Simmons
- Adele Sammarco
- Marcus Solis
- Gigi Stone (1997-2002)
- Tanya Valle
[edit] In popular culture
- Elf The station on which the story of an alleged Christmas Eve sighting of Santa Claus spread throughout New York.
- The Yards features NY1 reporters reporting several events in the plot.
- A report on the blizzard of 2003 was shown for several seconds in the 2004 documentary Super Size Me.
- Maid in Manhattan A Mexican hotel maid impersonating a high-class woman having an argument with a politician.
- 100 Centre Street, Third Watch and Law & Order briefly show televisions in the background tuned to NY1.
- NY1 anchorman Pat Kiernan appears briefly in 2004's Through the Grinder (Berkley Books, ISBN-13: 978-0425197141) the second novel in the Coffeehouse Mystery series by Cleo Coyle.
- The Beastie Boys' song 'That's It That's All' from their 2004 album "To the 5 Boroughs" contains the line "Like George Whipple on New York 1; Got a hairy ass and that's no fun." Whipple covers celebrity gossip and high society for NY1.
- How I Met Your Mother features character Robin as an NY1 Reporter, although the show brands it "Metro News 1". She formerly co-anchored the network with Sandy Rivers, who read from the newspaper much like Pat Kiernan.
- Night at the Museum as the station that carried the story about dinosaur tracks that were leading into the New York Museum of Natural History.
- The Sopranos as television reporters or anchors.
- Liz Lemon of 30 Rock mentions that one of her fears is having her picture shown on NY1 after dying alone in her apartment.
- Denise in White Chicks is an NY1 news reporter.
- NY1's Roma Torre reports on the earthquake preceding the arrival of the monster in the film Cloverfield.
- War of the Worlds (2005 film) features a news broadcast in the beginning about the UK being put into darkness a sign that the invasion had begun in other parts of the world.
[edit] Spanish-language station
[edit] Overseas sister station
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