Ny1

About Ny1

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."

NY1 was conceived in 1991 by Richard Aurelio, the president of Time Warner Cable's New York City cable group. 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". 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.