Type | Terrestrial television |
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Branding | "Everything New York" |
Country | United States |
Availability | New York City Tri-state area; certain feeds distributed nationally |
Founded | June 24, 2003 |
Motto | "Everything New York" |
Broadcast area
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New York City |
Owner | NYC Media Group and New York City |
Key people
|
Bill de Blasio (Mayor), Katherine Oliver (General Manager) |
Launch date
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June 24, 2003 |
Former names
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WNYE-TV (broadcast), Crosswalks Television Network (cable only) |
WNYE-DT1, WNYE-DT2, WNYE-DT3, WNYE-DT4 | |
WNYE-TV | |
Group | NYC Media Group |
Former affiliations
|
PBS |
Official website
|
www.nyc.gov/media |
Notes
broadcasts from 4 Times Square with analog back up in Brooklyn, NY. Cable head-end located in Bronx, NY. |
NYCTV (sometimes branded in lowercase text as nyctv) is a group of government-owned broadcast and cable TV channels operated by NYC Media Group, a division of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. NYC TV is considered to be the catalyst behind the trend in hyperlocal content production and news across local broadcasters in the United States.
Its main over-the-air broadcast channel, WNYE-TV (channel 25), reaches the New York City metropolitan area, which includes Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Suffolk and Westchester counties in New York state as well as portions of New Jersey and Connecticut. WNYE-TV is carried on all area cable and satellite systems. NYC TV's main broadcast signal, WNYE-TV, reaches 7.43 million households (approximately 20 million people) in the New York City market, thus making NYC TV 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 Cablevision, where it is seen on channel 22.
NYC TV is also the name given to five additional cable channels that air on Time Warner, Cablevision, Verizon Fios and RCN systems in the five boroughs of New York City. The station has recently begun operating several digital multicast sub-channels, also known as DTV channels. NYC-DT1 is a clone of the analog channel, NYC-DT2 is a clone of its cable only traffic and weather channel known "City Drive Live" and NYC-DT3, also being branded as NYCTV-HD, is expected to launch in May, 2009, and will be an all High-Definition version of the primary analog channel.