Cablevision expands local News 12 Westchester to 24-hour format; Move is next step in completing News 12 Metro-New York ring: Unique services will deliver local news to markets serving three million cable homes.Corporation, the nation's sixth largest operator of cable television systems and innovator in supplying targeted local news programming through its subsidiary, Rainbow Programming Holdings, Inc., today announced it has expanded its news 12 Westchester operations to 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The News 12 Westchester expansion is the next step in Cablevision's plan to complete a News 12 Metro-New York ring, providing 24-hour local news and community affairs coverage to nearly three million cable television viewers -- including 1.4 million customers served directly by Cablevision -- in the Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and Westchester County areas. Janine Rose, News Director for News 12 Westchester, said the new 24-hour format will greatly increase the amount of Westchester-specific news delivered to the community. "There is a wealth of local news in Westchester that simply cannot be covered by the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. television stations. News 12 will fill that void for viewers with round-the-clock local news, sports, community affairs updates, weather and general information of interest to Westchester residents," she said. In Westchester, Cablevision itself serves more than 84,000 customers in Yonkers, Harrison, Port Chester Port Chester, village (1990 pop. 24,728), Westchester co., SE N.Y., a suburb of New York City, on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Byram River, and on the Conn. border; settled after 1660, inc. 1868. Primarily residential, it produces some household goods. Gen. and Yorktown Heights. Cablevision has also begun discussions with additional cable television systems operators serving other parts of Westchester County for affiliation agreements to carry News 12 programming. The News 12 Westchester operation, with a staff of more than 60, is the largest regional television news team dedicated to covering Westchester County. Rainbow's News 12 organization, with services in Westchester, Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey, will employ more than 350 people and will be the largest New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. television news team. Bob Sullivan, director of Advertising Sales for Regional News 12 Networks, said the broader 24-hour News 12 Westchester format and completed Metro-New York ring will greatly benefit regional and tri-state area There are a number of places in the United States known as tri-state areas where three states or holdings meet at one point (a tripoint), or in proximity to each other. The two most well-known are for the New York and Chicago metropolitan areas. advertisers. "The completed News 12 New York metro For the region, see . Metro New York is a free daily newspaper in New York City started in 2004. Its main competition is AM New York, with which it practices many of the same distribution and marketing strategies. ring will give tri-state area advertisers a powerful option for maximizing advertising dollars, offering new and more efficient ways of reaching their target audiences in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New Jersey and Connecticut," he said. News 12 inaugurated its award-winning operation on Long Island in 1986 and this year established additional 24-hour local News 12 services in Southwestern Connecticut Southwestern Connecticut is a geographic region of the U.S. state of Connecticut. There are no official definitions for this region but generally includes one or more of the following official regions located entirely or partly in the southern part of Fairfield County: Cablevision Systems Corporation is the nation's sixth largest operator of cable television systems, serving 2.6 million customers among 19 states, with major operations in Boston, Cleveland and the New York Metropolitan area. Cablevision's subsidiary, Rainbow Programming Holdings, Inc. manages the operations of Rainbow Advertising Sales, as well as Rainbow Network Communications, American Movie Classics, Bravo BRAVO Cardiology A clinical trial–Blockade of the GP IIB/IIIA Receptor to Avoid Vascular Occlusion– which evaluated lotrafiban in preventing strokes and acute MI. See GP IIB/IIIA. , The Independent Film Channel, MuchMusic, Romance Classics, Prime Network, NewSport, the SportsChannel Regional Network and the News 12 networks. CONTACT: Cablevision, Woodbury, N.Y. Norm Fein, 516/496-1472 or Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , New York Tony Herrling, 212/704-8176 |
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