Media in New York City
New York is also the largest
Two of the three U.S. national
The television industry developed in New York and is a significant employer in the city's economy. The four major American broadcast networks,
New York is also a major center for non-commercial media. The oldest public-access cable television channel in the United States is the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, founded in 1971.[14] WNET is the city's major public television station and a primary provider of national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) programming. WNYC, a public radio station owned by the city until 1997, has the largest public radio audience in the United States.[15] The City of New York operates a public broadcast service, NYC Media, that produces several original New York Emmy Award-winning shows covering music and culture in city neighborhoods, as well as city government-access television (GATV).
New York City is home to a number of major
Media industry profiles
Book publishing
The book publishing industry in the United States is based in New York. Publishing houses in the city range from industry giants such as
New York is also home to
Some of the most important literary journals in the United States are in New York. These include
Film
New York is a prominent location for the American
In the earliest days of the American film industry, New York was the epicenter of filmmaking. However, the drier weather of Hollywood and tax incentives offered at the time by filming in Los Angeles made California a better choice for film production throughout much of the 20th century. The
New York was, and to a certain extent still is, also important within the animation industry. Until 1938, it served as the home of Fleischer Studios (who produced the Popeye, Betty Boop, and Color Classics shorts for Paramount Pictures) as well as the Van Beuren Studios (who produced animated shorts for RKO Radio Pictures) until 1937. New York was later the home for Famous Studios (who replaced Fleischer Studios and continued the production of Popeye shorts for Paramount) from 1943 to the 1960s. Its current position in the animation world is as an alternative to Los Angeles (where most U.S. animation is produced. The city now houses several schools and school programs concerning animation, and is a source of work for animators working for any medium, from advertising to film.
- List of film festivals in New York City
- List of New York City television and film studios
Magazines
New York City has a long history in American magazine publishing based in New York City.
- Billboard
- Bloomberg Businessweek
- Brooklyn Magazine
- The Brooklyn Rail
- City Limits
- Cosmopolitan
- Entertainment Weekly
- GO NYC
- Harper's Bazaar
- The L Magazine
- L'Idea
- Manhattan, inc. (defunct)
- New York
- The New Yorker
- Next Magazine
- Rolling Stone
- Seventeen
- The Real Deal
- Time Out NY
- Time
- Vogue
Music
In the 1930s, New York-based RCA was the nation's largest manufacturer of phonographs. In the late 19th and early 20th century, most sheet music in the United States—especially the popular songs of the day, many now standards—was printed at Tin Pan Alley, so called because the constant sound of new songs being tried out on pianos in the publishing houses was said to sound like a tin pan. By the early 1960s the radio and musical stars of the Golden Age of Broadway gave way to the Brill Building's "Brill Sound".
Salsa music, which got its start in New York City in the mid-1960s, was popularized by the New York record label Fania Records, which developed a highly polished "Fania sound" that came to be synonymous with salsa.
In the 1980s and 1990s,
Two of the
Many major music magazines are headquartered in the city as well, including
Newspapers
New York City is home to 4 of the 10 largest papers in the United States. These include
The city's ethnic press is large and diverse. Major ethnic publications include the Roman Catholic diocesan paper for Brooklyn-Queens,
Ethnic variation is not the only measure of the diversity of New York City's newspapers, with editorial opinions running from left-leaning at alternative papers like the
Major newspapers emphasizing coverage of the New York metropolitan region outside the city include
Online media
New York City's digital companies, sometimes described as "
Broadcast radio
AM stations
- 570 WMCA New York City (Christian)
- 620 WSNR Jersey City, NJ (Russian/variety)
- 660 WFAN New York City (Sports)1
- 710 WOR New York City (Conservative talk)1
- 770 WABC New York City (Conservative talk)1
- 820 WNYC New York City (NPR/talk)†
- 880 WCBS New York City (All-news)1
- 930 ethnic)
- 970 WNYM Hackensack, NJ (Conservative talk)
- 1010 WINS New York City (All-news)
- 1050 WEPN New York City (Sports)
- 1100 WHLI Hempstead (Oldies)2
- 1130 WBBR New York City (Bloomberg Radio)1
- 1160 WVNJ Oakland, NJ (Relevant Radio)†
- 1190 WLIB New York City (Gospel)
- 1230 WFAS White Plains (Conservative talk)3
- 1240 WGBB Freeport (Multilingual brokered)
- 1280 WADO New York City (Spanish sports)
- 1330 Spanish Christian music, and teaching)
- 1380 WKDM New York City (Mandarin/Spanish)
- 1430 WNSW Newark, NJ (Relevant Radio)†
- 1460 WVOX New Rochelle (Brokered/Music of Your Life)
- 1480 WZRC New York City (Cantonese)
- 1520 WJDM Mineola (Spanish Christian)2
- 1560 WFME New York City (Family Radio)1†
- 1600 WWRL New York City (Black Information Network)
- 1660 WWRU Jersey City, NJ (Korean)
- 1710 WQFG689 Jersey City, NJ (Hudson County, NJ) (Travelers' information station) [32]
- 1 clear-channel station
- 2 daytime-only station
- 3 station broadcasting in all-digital
- † non-commercial station
FM stations
Asterisk (*) indicates a non-commercial (public radio/campus/educational) broadcast.
([RDS]) — indicates a supported by the Radio Data System.
- 88.1 WCWP Brookville (College/variety)*
- 88.3 WBGO Newark, NJ (NPR/jazz)*
- 88.7 WRHU Hempstead (College/variety)*
- 88.9 WSIA Staten Island (College/alternative rock)*
- 89.1 WNYU-FM New York City (College/variety)*
- 89.5 WSOU South Orange, NJ (College/rock)*
- 89.9 WKCR-FM New York City (College/variety)*
- 90.3 WKRB Brooklyn (College/CHR)*
- 90.7 WFUV New York City (NPR/AAA)*
- 91.1 freeform)*
- 91.5 WNYE New York City (NPR/variety)*
- 92.3 WINS-FM New York City (All-news) [RDS]
- 92.7 WFME-FM Garden City (Family Radio)*
- 93.1 WPAT-FM Paterson, NJ (Bachata/reggaetón/tropical)
- 93.5 WVIP New Rochelle (Caribbean)
- 93.9 WNYC-FM New York City (NPR/talk)* [RDS]
- 94.7 Classic Hip Hop) [RDS]
- 95.5 WPLJ New York City (K-Love)*
- 96.3 WXNY-FM New York City (Spanish rhythmic AC)
- 96.7 WARW Port Chester (Air1)*
- 97.1 Mainstream urban) [RDS]
- 97.9 WSKQ-FM New York City (Tropical music)
- 98.3 WKJY Hempstead (Adult contemporary) [RDS]
- 98.7 WEPN-FM New York City (Sports) [RDS]
- 99.5 WBAI New York City (Pacifica Radio)*
- 100.3 WHTZ Newark, NJ (Contemporary hit radio)
- 100.7 WHUD Peekskill (Adult contemporary)
- 101.1 WCBS-FM New York City (Classic hits) [RDS]
- 101.9 WFAN-FM New York City (Sports) [RDS]
- 102.7 Hot adult contemporary) [RDS]
- 103.5 WKTU Lake Success (Rhythmic AC)
- 103.9 WVBN Bronxville (Christian)
- 104.3 WAXQ New York City (Classic rock)
- 105.1 Mainstream urban)
- 105.5 WDHA-FM Dover, NJ (Mainstream rock) [RDS]
- 105.9 WQXR-FM Newark, NJ (Classical)*
- 106.3 WHCY-FM Blairstown, NJ (Country) [RDS]
- 106.7 WLTW New York City (Adult contemporary)
- 107.1 WXPK Briarcliff Manor (AAA)
- 107.5 WBLS New York City (Urban AC) [RDS]
Defunct stations
- 2XG–WJX/New York City (1915–17, 1920–24)
- W2XEA–KE2XCC/Alpine, NJ (1945–54)
- W2XMN/Alpine, NJ (1936–49)
- W31NY–WFMN/Alpine, NJ (1941–53)
- WDT/New York City (1921–23)
- WDY/Roselle Park, NJ (1921–22)
- WJDM/Elizabeth, NJ (1970–2019)
- WGYN/New York City (1941–50)
- WJY/Hoboken, NJ (July 2, 1921)
- WJY/New York City (1923–27; merged into WJZ, now WABC)
- W63NY–WHNF–WMGM-FM/New York City (1942–55)
- WBBR–WPOW/New York City (1924–84; merged into WNYM, now WWRV)
- WNNJ–WPAT-FM/Paterson, NJ (1949–1951)
- WRNY/New York City (1928–34; merged into WHN, now WEPN)
- WWDX/Paterson, New Jersey (1947–49)
Television
New York City is the home of the three traditional major American
and Telemundo. They each have local broadcast owned and operated stations which serve as the flagship stations of their networks.It is also the headquarters of several large cable television channels, including
Another notable channel in the city is NY1, established in 1992 as Time Warner Cable's first local news channel and acquired with the rest of Time Warner Cable by Charter Communications in May 2016. NY1 is known for its beat coverage of city neighborhoods, and its coverage of City Hall and state politics is closely watched by political insiders.
For years, several soap operas were filmed in the New York City area, including Another World, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, All My Children and One Life to Live. As of 2012, there are no New York soap operas left on the air.
Broadcast
Asterisk (*) indicates channel is a network owned-and-operated station. Two asterisks (**) indicates channel is a network flagship station.
- 2 WCBS New York City (CBS)**
- 4 WNBC New York City (NBC)**
- 5 WNYW New York City (Fox)**
- 7 WABC New York City (ABC)**
- 9 WWOR Secaucus, NJ (MyNetworkTV)**
- 11 WPIX New York City (The CW)**
- 13 WNET Newark, NJ (PBS)**
- 14 WNDT-CD New York City (FNX)
- 21 WLIW Garden City (PBS)
- 25 independent)
- 31 WPXN New York City (Ion Television)*
- 33 WJLP Middletown Township, NJ (MeTV)*
- 41 WXTV Paterson, NJ (Univision)**
- 46 WMBQ-CD New York City (FNX)
- 47 WNJU Linden, NJ (Telemundo)**
- 48 WRNN New Rochelle (ShopHQ)
- 49 WEDW Stamford, CT (PBS)
- 50 WNJN Montclair, NJ (PBS)
- 54 WTBY Jersey City, NJ (TBN)*
- 55 Independent)
- 63 Independent)
- 68 WFUT Newark, NJ (UniMás)*
Defunct stations
- KC2XAK/Bridgeport, CT (1949–52)
- W26CE/New York City (1984–2021)
- WMUN-CD/New York City (1988–2017)
- WRTV/Asbury Park, NJ (1954–55)
- WNYJ-TV/West Milford, NJ (1996–2017)
- WWPS-LP/Kinnelon, NJ (1991–2016)
Cable and internet
- CBS News New York
- CUNY TV
- NY1
- News12
- MSG Network
- MSG Sportsnet
- SportsNet New York
- YES Network
Portrayals of New York City in the media
Because of its sheer size and cultural influence, New York City has been the subject of many different, and often contradictory, portrayals in mass media. From the sophisticated and worldly metropolis seen in many Woody Allen films, to the hellish and chaotic urban jungle depicted in such movies as Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), New York has served as the backdrop for and bastion of virtually every conceivable viewpoint on big city life.
In the early years of film New York City was characterized as urbane and sophisticated. By the city's crisis period in the 1970s, however, films like Midnight Cowboy (1969), The French Connection (1971), and Death Wish (1974) showed New York as full of chaos and violence. With the city's renaissance in the 1990s came new portrayals on television; Seinfeld, Friends, and Sex and the City showed life in the city to be glamorous and interesting. Nonetheless, a disproportionate number of crime dramas, such as Law & Order and the Spider-Man film series, continue to use the city as their setting despite New York's status as the safest large city in the United States after plummeting crime rates over many years.[33]
An essay appearing in the Arts section of The New York Times in April 2006 quoted several filmmakers, including Sidney Lumet and Paul Mazursky, describing how modern cinema shows the city as far more "teeming, terrifying, exhilarating, unforgiving" than contemporary New York actually is, and the consequential challenge this poses for filmmakers.[34] The article quotes Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen's producer, as saying that despite the increased sanitization of modern New York, "New Yorkers' personalities are different to Chicago. There's a certain kind of vibrancy and tone that you can't get elsewhere. The labor pool is more interesting than elsewhere — the salesgirl with one line, or the cop. That's who directors are looking for."
- List of books set in New York City
- List of films set in New York City
- List of journalists in New York City
- List of television shows set in New York City
- List of video games set in New York City
See also
- Culture of New York City
- List of New York City newspapers and magazines
- Made in NY
- Media in the United States
- New Yorkers in journalism
- NYC Media Group
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External links
- The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting – The city's film commission
- Manhattan Neighborhood Network – The first free public access channel in the United States
- Taxi Radio (Show for NYC taxi drivers)
- Radio NY Live – Manhattan Net-Radio
- New York, NY on American Radio Map (Radiomap.us)