Gothamist: NY1 Re-Launches Its Website

Gwinny

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:30:51 -0500

Please. If I could borrow an expression, "when it comes to" lame reporting with a totally predictable reliance on horrible puns, Jill Scott blows them all away.

S_R

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:59:59 -0500

Don't knock Jill Scott! I wish she was featured more prevalently. I'd keep Roger around as well, if only for Pat Kiernan to pick on him.

Gwinny

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:15:30 -0500

Great. While they are revamping things, I suggest getting rid of the following "reporters": Roger Clark: he is an unprofessional buffoon -- literally unwatchable. He brings down the general appeal of the channel to the lowest common denominator. Neil Rosen: I used to work in film and know firsthand what a self-important dick this guy is. He asks terrible questions, and his film reviews are totally predictable. There are a ton of way more intelligent film critics in NY -- why not get one of them, or just let Owen Gleiberman do them all? Jill Scott: her reports are fine, but her predictable use of cringeworthy puns in absolutely every voiceover (and her overreliance of the phrase 'when it comes to...') render her segments quite painful. Shelly Goldberg: please get rid of this harpy with the worst hair on all of television and get someone with a more refreshing outlook and less phony take on things...like Roger Clark, she is literally unwatchable. I mute her segments every time they come on. However, major props to Pat Kiernan, Lewis Dodley, Shazia Kahn, Adam Balkin, and Susan Juhn (among others).

nycat

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:06:16 -0500

Welcome to the 21st century, NY1. Now, here's hoping it will continue keeping up with the time, and timely news.

drchadwick1

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:04:41 -0500

God, finally. And it has RSS feeds and ditches RealPlayer? Awesome. Now let's just see if it crashes next time there's a crane collapse or steam pipe explosion.

TJ

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:33:36 -0500

About time. This site was using realplayer until yesterday. How sad is that?

Reflect

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:26:55 -0500

Yea how about yanking the failed ny1 rappers from there jingle. I stopped watching them because of them.

rawn

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:09:59 -0500

They mention Flash video as if that's a good thing.

Jake Dobkin

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:42:02 -0500

I'd like to see them: 1. Tighten up the design a little (too much stuff in the left column, too much white space in the header and right column) 2. Make the videos embeddable on to other sites 3. Make the search box more prominent 4. Get the videos up faster (in the papers was yesterday's version) 5. Offer a live Flash Video feed of what's playing right now-- for Breaking News Any other ideas?

nomnomnom

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:39:37 -0500

The real question is whether or not the site crashes when any big news hits. I would hope that with the new, high-bandwidth content, they also upgraded their servers.

moocowtoo

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:22:06 -0500

Holy about time. I love it when there is a major news story and they change the entire site over to a single bare bones HTML page so the server doesn't fall over. You would think the news for an entire specific city would have a bit more resources to do things right or at least enough to hire a graphic design intern for half a day. New site is looking better, though I'm not sure how it would have been possible to doing anything worse then what was there before.

lanciano

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:33:58 -0500

FINALLY!!! Ugh, that old website was the worst. Now, hopefully they'll try keeping the content fresh as well. The NY1 website was never as current as it should have been. it always seemed like someone forgot about it. They'd keep the same borough stories up there for days. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. nice about the videos. i'll have to check those out later.