NY1

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NY1 (pronounced "New York One") is a twenty-four hour news channel available exclusively to cable television customers within the five boroughs of New York City and nearby Bergen County, New Jersey. It appears on the unused-for-broadcast Channel 1 on Time Warner, and Cablevision cable service, and is owned and operated by Time Warner Cable. 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 "Inside Transit."

Contents 1 History 2 Format 3 Parodies 4 External links

History

NY1 was conceived in 1991 by 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 in the fall of 1992. In January of 2002, the station moved to a brand new, all digital facility in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. In June 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 the cable company went on to add local news networks in several other markets modeled after NY1, including "News 14 Carolina", which serves several markets in North Carolina. Notably, their venture in Houston, "News 24 Houston," was closed after it did not achieve success as NY1 did.

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 a local weather forecast and top headlines. 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 reports speak, most NY1 stories have a graphic saying merely that the reporter is (or, rather, was) "on scene."

Outside of the weather updates during the top of the block at one and 31 minutes past every hour, there are interruptions "on the ones" at 11, 21, 41, and 51 minutes past the hour for local weather updates.

On programs like "Inside City Hall", NY1 offers much more extensive local political coverage than the area's broadcast stations. Seeking to expand its political coverage, WCBS-TV attracted "Inside City Hall" anchor Andrew Kirtzman.

Parodies

In 2003, NY1 was featured in the movie Elf as the station on which the story of an alleged Christmas Eve sighting of Santa Claus spread throughout New York.

NY1 was also featured in the film Maid in Manhattan, where it showed a mexican hotel maid impersonating a high-class woman having an argument with a politician.

External links

• Official website.
• Official Station History website