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NYC Media is the official public radio, television, and online media network and broadcasting service of
New York City
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, which has been called the
media capital of the world. The network oversees four public television channels, a public radio station, and an Internet
video on demand
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service.
Located in the
Manhattan Municipal Building at
1 Centre Street, NYC Media occupies the tower portion, from the 25th floor to the 29th floor, as well as transmission facilities in the
Empire State Building
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, in the
Condé Nast Building
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in
Times Square
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, and in
Brooklyn
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.
NYC Media is an amalgamation of channels, studios, distribution and production entities.
NYC Media was originally called NYC TV when it took over Crosswalks Television in 2003; it became NYC Media Group when it acquired control of broadcast stations
WNYE-FM
WNYE (91.5 MHz) is a non-commercial educational FM radio station licensed to New York City. The station is operated, along with WNYE-TV (channel 25), by NYC Media, a division of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Studios are located ...
and
WNYE-TV as well.
In late 2009, it was announced that NYC Media Group would be split off from the
and merge with the
Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting to form the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. As of 2018, the general manager of NYC Media is Janet Choi.
History
In 2003, co-founders
Seth Unger and
Arick Wierson both aides to
Mayor of New York City
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Michael Bloomberg
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launched NYC-TV, which replaced "Crosswalks Television," the name of the previous network.
In 2005, NYC TV expanded when it acquired WNYE-TV along with the radio station
WNYE-FM
WNYE (91.5 MHz) is a non-commercial educational FM radio station licensed to New York City. The station is operated, along with WNYE-TV (channel 25), by NYC Media, a division of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Studios are located ...
. The new group was called NYC Media Group. The local cable channels programmed by NYC Media provide coverage of a diverse array of programming formats ranging from local politics and government news on channel 74, traffic camera feeds on channel 72, and ethnic/international programming on channel 73.
NYC Media has received attention as an innovator in municipal broadcasting. Since its inception, NYC Media has been nominated for 160 New York Emmy Awards, winning 42. It has also won 42 Telly Awards and 4
Promax Awards and was recently nominated for 4 Webby Awards.
Cities such as
Seoul
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,
Paris
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,
Rio de Janeiro
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, and
Los Angeles
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have expressed interest in replicating the station's success.
On September 24, 2007 Mayor Bloomberg held a
press conference to introduce ''NYC Media On Demand'', a partnership with online video platform
Brightcove to offer
on demand
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programming online.
Its main over-the-air broadcast channel,
WNYE-TV (channel 25), reaches the
New York City metropolitan area
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, which includes
Nassau
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Canada
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,
Orange,
Putnam,
Suffolk
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and
Westchester
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counties in New York state as well as portions of
New Jersey
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and
Connecticut
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. WNYE-TV is carried on all area cable and satellite systems. NYC Media's main broadcast signal, WNYE-TV, reaches 7.43 million households (approximately 20 million people) in the New York City market, thus making it the fifth largest local television station in the United States. The main broadcast station is seen in the New York City area on channel 25 on all cable and satellite systems with the exception of
Altice USA, where it is seen on channel 22.
Television
NYC Media operates four television channels: NYC life, NYC gov, NYC drive, and NYC world.
* NYC life, is NYC Media's flagship television station and broadcasts as
WNYE-TV channel 25.1 as well as appearing on local
cable television
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as channel 22 on
Altice USA and on channel 25 on other cable services.
* NYC gov, covers city government meetings and press conferences. It appears on most local cable services as channel 74.
* NYC drive, formerly known as City Drive Live, provides live feeds from
traffic cameras
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. It appears on most local cable services as channel 72.
* NYC world provides international and ethnic programming. It appears on most local cable services as channel 73.
Services on most of these channels had previously each been branded as NYC TV or nyctv with a cable channel number since 2003, and before that as Crosswalks Television.
Radio
NYC Media operates
WNYE-FM
WNYE (91.5 MHz) is a non-commercial educational FM radio station licensed to New York City. The station is operated, along with WNYE-TV (channel 25), by NYC Media, a division of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Studios are located ...
, branded as "Radio New York".
See also
*
WNYE (FM)
WNYE (91.5 MHz) is a non-commercial educational FM radio station licensed to New York City. The station is operated, along with WNYE-TV (channel 25), by NYC Media, a division of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Studios are located ...
*
WNYE-TV
*
Media of New York City
*
New Yorkers in journalism
* ''
Secrets of New York''
*
Kelly Choi
Kelly Choi (born February 7, 1986) is a Korean-American, Emmy-nominated television personality on NYC Media, the official broadcast service of the City of New York. A former host of Bravo TV's ''Top Chef'' spin-off, '' Top Chef Masters'', she has ...
*
Harry Hunkele
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*
Katherine Oliver
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