Gothamist: Watch Out, NY1: NBC Will Launch NYC News Channel

BongoBoy

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:37 -0500

Al Jerome was a legend. Left at just the right time [before GE] to head Spectravision. You know, the company that provided televised, pay-per-view movies to hotel rooms. Porn, too. He now runs the public tv station KCET in Los Angeles. Kershaw, he's dead. But he did invent "Live at Five". And was Jessica Savitch's boyfriend ... played by Robert Redford in that crappy movie "Up Close and Personal". Sang was the guy who promoted it all. But this all was 25 years ago ... when the greenest WNBC reporter was probably just born or was a toddler.

nivek

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:33:12 -0500

Yaay, ANOTHER useless news channel!

nyc881

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:51:50 -0500

Interesting idea, but they're many years late on this one I doubt they have the crew, editorial resources and creative supervision to pull this off. And we all know how groundbreaking the 7pm New York Nightly News has been. Steve Paulus at NY1 owns this area for now, although they tend to lag on live shots and breaking events because of their allocated budget from TimeWarner. So....will NBC be bringing back Ron Kershaw (since passed away) Al Jerome, and Peter Sang in order to make this work both operationally, and in terms of local impact and content, as the original News 4 New York?

bornbrednewyorker

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:26:22 -0500

Who needs this? Unless it's live 24/7 it's just a lousy NY 1 rip off.

wiseguynyc

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:50:10 -0500

I hope this spurs on NY1 to improve its production values some. Don't get me wrong - I love NY1's dedication to (mostly) hard news, arts programming, transit stories, etc., but their production is stuck in the mid 90s. It looks bad. But I also hope NBC doesn't have the effect that Fox News did on CNN and drag it down into the gutter. Should be interesting to watch.

sonyactivision

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:32:35 -0500

"Give us half an hour and we'll give you the My Name Is Earl."

Novanglus

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:57:41 -0500

What channel number will this be on?! Will they invent a new digit? Most importantly, they did not much the fate of "Spanning the World".

Flanny

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:40:50 -0500

Chuck and Sue ARE married, right?

PBRK

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:33:51 -0500

If they do a demonstration of Roker waterboarding Matt Lauer it will be worth it.

AHT

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:26:38 -0500

Ugh. Massive fail. I want news, not content.

zodak

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:24:17 -0500

navel-gazing

zodak

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:23:49 -0500

i'm a nevel-gazing new yorker (i'm here, aren't i?) but i don't think even i will bother with a channel like this. so unnecessary.