Every day brings a news director and news staff the task of finding and reporting enough relevant news to satisfy the channel's voracious appetite for content. Yet the Big Apple, the nation's number-one market, is apparently juicy enough to feed eight local news channels. That fact isn't all that surprising when you consider that a metropolitan area is made up of many diverse communities. The broadcast stations in the market produce quality newscasts, but ones of general interest. Often, the biggest distinction among those newscasts is not the content, but the personalities delivering it.
Cable companies own seven of New York's local news channels.
NY1 News, which is owned by Time Warner Cable of New York, covers and serves the boroughs of New York City. Six channels make up Cablevision System Corporation's News 12 Networks. News 12 Long Island, launched in 1986, was the nation's first 24-hour regional cable news channel. News 12 also has channels serving Connecticut, New Jersey, Westchester County and the Bronx. And the network's Neighbor-hood News operation produces customized local news feeds to 12 communities in central Long Island.