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95-534: MSG MetroGuide was a 24-hour entertainment and local venue guide to the Tri-State area. It offered local information on places to vacation, eat at, visit, and be a resource to local viewers in their hometown. It also featured six hours daily of arts and cultural programming from WNET . Ed Koch contributed some movie reviews as part of the programming. Other-on air talent included Bobby Rivers, Christina Ha, Ed Levine and Tinabeth Piña. MSG MetroTraffic & Weather

190-531: A CableACE Award for Best New Educational Show Concept – 1995. In 1998, Extra Help was rebranded to MSG MetroLearning Center ; most of the shows initially survived the move and were now filmed from the MSG Metro set in New York City. The channel's homework help shows were now all merged under the banner School's Out which later became Studio Y , the flagship teen talk program for the networks. When

285-472: A billion dollars. Gibney was not invited to appear at the round-table and was quoted as saying, "Why is WNET offering Mr. Koch special favors? And why did the station allow Koch to offer a critique of a film he hadn't even seen? Money. Money talks. They tried to undercut the credibility of the film, and I had no opportunity to defend it." Koch did not make the large donation to WNET and resigned from their board on May 16, 2013. In September 2013, WNET launched

380-593: A channel on Cablevision in the Long Island area. When Optimum TV launched in 1996, it got a full-time location in those areas. When the MSG MetroChannels launched in 1998, a traffic element was added to the channel and it became MSG MetroTraffic & Weather . Currently, MSG MetroTraffic & Weather is the only MSG Metro channel still on the air. It now goes by the name News 12+ and is seen on Cablevision (now Altice ) systems on Channel 61 (97 on

475-513: A deal with Cablevision, but Comcast and MediaOne , with a total of 750,000 regional cable households, did not. The result was that a large percentage of households, mostly in New Jersey, were unable to watch the sporting events being broadcast on this channel. Later in Metro's existence, there were days where a game was scheduled on MetroGuide (or later on, MetroTV) but not MSG or FSN, showing

570-481: A decade. "One disputatious moment in a many-year history does not a conspiracy make," he declared. In April 2015, WNET relented and restored both strands to their original slots. In June 2015, a media furor forced WNET to postpone the third season of Finding Your Roots when the Sony Pictures hack revealed via hacked emails that a subject of the series, Ben Affleck , had lobbied for material relating to

665-677: A formal consolidation of the corporation's separate national and local production facilities occurred later that year. Following the merger, David Loxton established the TV Lab in 1972 with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts. TV Lab provided artists with equipment to produce video pieces through an artist-in-residence program. The Independent Documentary Fund and Video Tape Review series were both produces of TV Lab. TV Lab ended in 1984 when

760-472: A grant of $ 3.5 million from the Arnold Foundation, with a stated interest in 'public employee benefits reform', flunks PBS's own 'perception test', which is part of the service's Funding Standards and Practices." In late 2014, WNET programming chief Stephen Segaller received widespread criticism for proposing to push the multi award-winning documentary strands Independent Lens and POV out of

855-678: A large debt load. National Telefilm Associates put the WNTA stations up for sale in February 1961. At least three prospective purchasers expressed interest in WNTA. The most prominent was the New York City-based group Educational Television for the Metropolitan Area (ETMA), a consortium of businesspeople, cultural leaders and educators who intended to turn channel 13 into New York City's educational station. By this time, it

950-548: A lawsuit for $ 10 million against CFDA and WME-IMG for trademark counterfeiting, trademark infringement , false designation of origin , dilution, and unfair competition . On August 12, 2016, the court denied Paravas and Fashion Week Inc.'s motion for a preliminary injunction . Judge Koeltl held that although Fashion Week, Inc. does have rights in the New York Fashion Week trademark, those rights are "limited" to "online entertainment ticket agency sales". On

1045-624: A new identity for Metro was in place, which basically eradicated the MetroStories channel. The partnership was designed to add more original shows, including Subway Q&A (a Q&A show based on the New York City Subway ) and To Live and Date in New York (a dating show focusing on NY singles). Ratings continued to not change, although most of the network's use was now focused on overflow sports coverage from MSG. In 2005,

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1140-413: A non-commercial station in 1957, when Bremer Broadcasting first put the station on the block; this bid was later withdrawn. This time ETMA was competing with NTA founding president Ely Landau , who had formed a syndicate to buy the station after resigning from NTA; and David Susskind, who received financial backing from Paramount Pictures . ETMA's initial bid of $ 4 million was rejected by NTA, but

1235-474: A number of EJ's or educational jockeys who presented the different segments. Marissa Fenech, Mark Citorella, and Mark Kenny were among the first of this group. One of the High School geared segments, called "Peer to Peer," featured High School students answering questions from viewers; many of these early panelists went on to become EJ's themselves. Marc Morrone actually got his start on this channel hosting

1330-424: A number of designers either experimenting with, or planning to adopt, a "see now, buy now model", with items available from the runway immediately after (or even during) the show, rather than six months later. The charge was led by brands such as Burberry , although experiments in the format can be traced back to earlier shows by designers such as Diane von Furstenberg . Admission to shows at New York Fashion Week

1425-473: A photo bulletin board detailing events on Long Island and was available on channel 1 on most Cablevision systems. In the late spring of 1995, Cablevision "retooled" the show, improving its image for middle- and high-schoolers, and created an "adult-programming" block, which included shows on gardening, computers, cars, finance, and legal issues. Viewers were invited to "join the show" and ask questions by calling 1-800-EXT-HELP. The after-school programming featured

1520-430: A prime time slot and onto a secondary station, WLIW (Channel 21). Over 2,000 documentarians signed a petition, stating that WNET's action would lead to the shows being marginalized by PBS affiliates nationwide and have a severe effect on cutting edge documentary filmmaking. Among the prominent opponents of rescheduling POV and Independent Lens were filmmakers Alex Gibney and Laura Poitras , who had campaigned against

1615-539: A profound influence upon New York Fashion Week. The primary location for New York Fashion Week is Spring Studios at 50 Varick Street in Lower Manhattan . Locations have included a waterfront carnival, converted railway terminals and a former post office. In February 2014, Dr. Danielle Sheypuk became the first wheelchair-using model to appear in a show for New York Fashion Week; she modeled for designer Carrie Hammer. In September 2014, Karen Crespo became

1710-441: A program to ensure they honored all future federal grant requirements and agreeing to not receive $ 1,015,046 in federal grant money that was about to be awarded, WNET Vice President and General Counsel, Robert Feinberg, said to The New York Times : "This is not a scenario we want to repeat and we have no intention of repeating it." In November 2012, WNET was scheduled to air Alex Gibney 's film Park Avenue: Money, Power and

1805-454: A relative owning slaves be removed from the show. Those edits, which violated PBS ethics standards, brought strong criticism from the media to WNET and the producers of the show. PBS issued a statement saying "the series co-producers violated PBS standards by failing to shield the creative and editorial process from improper influence, and by failing to inform PBS or WNET of Mr. Affleck's efforts to affect program content". The statement promised

1900-408: A revolving set, usually four at a time, of local tri-state area high school students, which it recruited through high school principals. Many panelists were offered special opportunities to attend press junkets, which the network lucratively scored, for major motion pictures. Studio Y began on MSG MetroLearning Center as School's Out , which was mainly an after school homework help program. Each day

1995-541: A series called The Pension Peril , examining the economic sustainability of public pensions and promoting cuts to their funding. On December 18, 2013, Neal Shapiro, president and CEO of WNET was quoted in a press release saying "this is the type of complex public policy story that only public television covers in an in-depth and ongoing way. WNET is poised to lead and further the dialogue about this challenging situation all across public media, on PBS, public radio, and online". On February 12, 2014 PandoDaily reported that

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2090-412: A series of rebroadcasts of older programs titled Thirteen Revisited . In 1998, WNET moved to 450 West 33rd Street , straddling the railroad tracks going into Pennsylvania Station . Channel 13's transmitter facilities, including a newly installed digital transmission system, were destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . Gerard (Rod) Coppola, channel 13's head transmitter engineer,

2185-621: A show called Extra Help: Pets . This "retooling" was entrusted to Thomas Garger and Brad Dorsogna, executive producers, William L. Palminteri, production designer, Michael Zmuda, assistant production designer, Rocyna Yoingco and Kathleen Nugent, producers. Mr. Palminteri notes that the studio was re-designed from the ground up to accommodate the new series, and Rick Ruggles installed the new broadcast console. Numerous students from Hofstra University got their internship requirements fulfilled during this period, including Lorraine Buzzetta. The approach to educational TV pioneered during this time has become

2280-492: A similar move by WNET in 2012. TV producer Norman Lear wrote an op-ed in The New York Times accusing WNET and PBS of a ratings-chase that "could devastate independent documentary film making". He criticized the broadcaster for "threatening, for the second time in four years, to downgrade documentaries, which are at the heart of its public mission." Many of the subjects POV and Independent Lens covered – like

2375-573: A strike on the morning of WNDT's debut. Engineers and technicians who were members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) refused to cross the AFTRA picket line, leaving the station's management and other non-union employees to produce the three-hour inaugural broadcast. Immediately afterwards, channel 13 went off the air again, as the strike continued for nearly two weeks. The striking workers returned WNDT to

2470-448: Is typically in the form of accreditation , with specific events by invitation only. Most of the time attendees are other designers, celebrities, and social media influencers . In spite of CFDA's claim to run the "official" New York Fashion Week calendar, and as further purported by publications such as Women's Wear Daily , it has been pointed out in publications such as The Fashion Law that CFDA has "little, in any, legal rights in

2565-648: The All-Channel Receiver Act passed in 1961, most viewers could not view UHF stations except with an expensive converter; only a few manufacturers made sets with built-in UHF tuning. Even for those who could access UHF stations, reception was marginal even under the best conditions. With assistance from the University of the State of New York , ETMA had attempted to purchase channel 13 and convert it into

2660-493: The FCC repack , WNET relocated from channel 13 to channel 12. WNET has produced, created and/or presented a number of PBS shows. This includes, but is not limited to: *indicates a program that was originally presented by Connecticut Public Television . **indicates a program that was originally presented by Maryland Public Television . WNET has also produced programming for public television stations distributed outside of

2755-691: The Lincoln Center complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side ; WNET's transmitter is located at One World Trade Center . WNET commenced broadcasting on May 15, 1948, from a transmitter located atop First Mountain in West Orange, New Jersey , as WATV, a commercial television station owned by Atlantic Television, a subsidiary of Bremer Broadcasting Corporation. Frank V. Bremer, the CEO, also owned two North Jersey radio stations, WAAT (970 AM) and WAAT-FM (94.7 MHz). The three stations were based in

2850-561: The Mosque Theatre at 1020 Broad Street in Newark. WATV was the first of three new stations in the New York City television market to sign on the air during 1948, and was also the first independent station . One unusual daytime program, Daywatch, consisted of a camera focused on a teletypewriter printing wire service news stories, interspersed with cutaways to mechanical toys against a light music soundtrack. Another early series by

2945-675: The National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts between September 2001 and January 2008. The suit asserted that WNET had used grant money that was given for the production of programs including American Masters , Great Performances and Cyberchase for other purposes. WNET settled the lawsuit in June 2010 by paying back the United States government $ 950,000, pledging to instate

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3040-483: The New York Mets baseball team for its inaugural 1962 season. Faced with either consummating the transaction or seeing it canceled, ETMA settled their differences with New Jersey officials on December 4, 1961. After a few last-minute issues arose to cause further delays, the transfer became final on December 22. Later that evening, WNTA-TV signed off for the final time. ETMA and NET then went to work converting

3135-504: The public affairs program The Open Mind until his death in December 2013. During the transition, and after the inaugural broadcast, WNDT faced an immediate crisis. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) was concerned about the use of teachers—some of whom were union-certified performers—on non-commercial television, and how they would be compensated should their work be distributed nationally. AFTRA called

3230-555: The 1980s. NYFW is based on a much older series of events called "Press Week," founded in 1943. On a global scale, most business and sales-oriented shows and some couture shows take place in New York City . A centralized calendar of citywide events (including those affiliated with WME/IMG) is kept by the CFDA, and was acquired from calendar founder Ruth Finley . The annual economic impact of New York Fashion Week upon New York City

3325-684: The American Dream produced by Independent Lens . The film compared the wealth gap between the New York residents of Park Avenue in the Bronx and the wealthy residents of an exclusive Manhattan apartment block at 740 Park Avenue , including David Koch , a billionaire businessman and political activist. At the time Koch was a board member of WNET and was planning on making "a seven-figure donation—maybe more" to WNET. A furor erupted when The New Yorker revealed in May 2013 that to appease Koch,

3420-464: The CPB withdrew funds. Since 1979, the station has been known on-air as "Thirteen". It continued to include Newark in its legal IDs (though logos for national productions read "New York") until the late 1990s. Since then, it has identified mostly as "New York", though it is still legally licensed to Newark. Even after becoming a noncommercial station, channel 13 retained its original studios and offices at

3515-754: The Council of Fashion Designers of America, CFDA , led by president Stan Herman and executive director Fern Mallis , consolidated the citywide events known as "New York Fashion Week" by staging them in a cluster of white tents in Bryant Park . The event was branded with the trademark "7th on Sixth". Internationally, most business and sales-oriented shows and some couture shows have taken place in New York City since 2010. The emphasis, however, has perennially been financial . New York's LGBT fashion design community contributes very significantly to promulgating fashion trends, and drag celebrities have developed

3610-707: The Educational Broadcasting Corporation and later as WNET.org), it is a sister station to the area's secondary PBS member, Garden City, New York –licensed WLIW (channel 21), and two class A stations: WMBQ-CD (channel 46), and WNDT-CD (channel 14, which shares spectrum with WNET). The WNET Group also operates New Jersey's PBS state network NJ PBS , and the website NJ Spotlight through an outsourcing agreement. WNET and WLIW share studios at One Worldwide Plaza in Midtown Manhattan with an auxiliary street-level studio in

3705-540: The FCC would move the channel 13 allocation to New York City, petitioned the United States courts of appeals on September 6, 1961, to block the sale of WNTA-TV. The court ruled in the state's favor two months later. The unsettled deal almost caused National Telefilm Associates to reconsider its decision to sell the station altogether, and NTA made plans to go forward: WNTA-TV made a play to acquire broadcast rights for

3800-541: The Ford Foundation brokered the merger of WNDT and NET, which took effect on June 29, 1970. Channel 13's call sign was changed to the present WNET on October 1, 1970. NET ceased network operations three days later, with PBS taking over the following day. The station continued to produce some shows for the national PBS schedule with the NET branding until early 1972, when they began to be identified as "WNET/13" programs;

3895-577: The Guide, removing the Zagat-style programming, and the combined channel was simply named MetroTV . Key shows like Studio Y moved to MetroTV, and Learning evolved into a digital channel, MetroStories , which showcased biographical type programming premiered on MetroLearning. Soon after, MSG Metro dropped the MSG from the title and focused on the simple Metro logo for its networks. By the end of 2000, Metro

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3990-625: The Koch brothers' influence on American politics in Alex Gibney's film, Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream — have been controversial, leading the Indie Caucus, a group of Independent filmmakers to speculate if the provocative subjects they explored might also be relegating them to the more obscure TV schedule. Segaller said it was "preposterous" to suggest that WNET had a censorship agenda when both programs had run for more than

4085-704: The MSG name was dropped from the channels, the channel was renamed to MetroLearning . After School's Out moved to MetroTV (formerly MetroGuide, the Learning element from the channel went with it. The channel still kept the MetroLearning name for a year or so, until it was renamed MetroStories . By this time the channel aired the show "MetroStories" back to back 24/7, which focused on the history of New York City, its people, and its sites. During New York Fashion Week , they would air nothing but Full Frontal Fashion on this channel. Eventually, Full Frontal Fashion

4180-524: The Metro channels, since Cablevision would only sell all three channels together as a package. In addition, the programming on the MetroChannels was very Manhattan-specific and carried content thought to be of little interest to people who lived outside of the local New York City area. Satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network did not carry Metro and therefore could not show every game of every local New York–area team. Time Warner Cable did reach

4275-464: The MetroChannels disappeared for good, leaving only Metro Traffic & Weather to be the sole survivor, which was rebranded as part of the News 12 suite. WNET WNET (channel 13), branded Thirteen (stylized as THIRTEEN ), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey , United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as

4370-669: The Mosque Theater in Newark. The station eventually moved to the Gateway Center office building, also in Newark. In 1982, more than 20 years after becoming the New York area's flagship public television station, WNET moved its operations to the Hudson Hotel at 237 West 58th Street in Manhattan, while retaining the Gateway Center studios for a few more years. In 1987, channel 13 celebrated its silver anniversary with

4465-686: The NYFW name". Therefore, trademark rights remain unclear, at best. In 2013 Fashion Week Inc., founded by business executive Trisha Paravas, registered the trademarks "New York Fashion Week", "NYFW" and "NYFW The Runway Shows" to use in conjunction with the production of its consumer-based fashion shows after realizing the current slate of New York Fashion Shows were invitation-only and designed for industry professionals and media. Trisha Paravas launched bi-yearly shows in December 2013 and initially called them "New York Fashion Shows". After her first few shows drew increasing interest, she decided to rebrand it. At

4560-559: The New York City market its first educational station, and with a dial position on the coveted VHF band (in many other cities, including large ones, educational stations had to make do with UHF frequencies). New York's non-commercial UHF channel, on the other hand, signed on as WNYE-TV four-and-a-half years later in April 1967. Richard Heffner was appointed as WNDT's first general manager, serving in that position in its first year; Heffner continued to appear on channel 13 as producer and host of

4655-536: The New York showcase for nationally syndicated programming and produced several such entries, notably the anthology drama series Play of the Week ; the talk show Open End , hosted by David Susskind ; children's show The Magic Clown ; and a popular dance program emceed by Clay Cole . The station continued to lag behind New York's other independent stations— WNEW-TV (channel 5), WOR-TV (channel 9) and WPIX (channel 11)—in terms of audience size, and NTA incurred

4750-603: The PBS system, including: WNET was also one of the original co-producing entities of the PBS NewsHour , along with Washington, D.C. PBS member station WETA-TV and MacNeil-Lehrer Productions. The show debuted in 1975 as a local news-analysis program, The Robert MacNeil Report . Jim Lehrer , a frequent guest on MacNeil's show, became co-host the following year, when the show was picked up by other PBS stations. WNET produced weekend editions of PBS NewsHour alongside WETA-TV for

4845-556: The Performing Arts agreed not to renew their contract with IMG. As a result, the February 2015 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week was the last one staged in Damrosch Park. In 2014, New York State passed legislation designating models under the age of 18 as child performers, restricting the hours they can perform and requiring additional documentation. Actress Jamie Brewer became the first woman with Down syndrome to walk

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4940-552: The Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center were built at the southwest corner of 66th Street and Broadway ; this facility houses two television studios. The space can also accommodate lectures, screenings and concerts. The facility is named in honor of James S. Tisch and his wife, Merryl H. Tisch, whose $ 15 million gift was, at that time, the single largest donation from individuals in WNET's history. On May 9, 2017, it

5035-415: The afternoon and at night they would air MSG MetroLearning Center. Most non-upgraded systems aired this channel on channel 1, Extra Help's old channel slot. When MetroGuide was rebranded as MetroTV , it took up most of the schedule on this channel; MetroTraffic & Weather continued in the mornings, but MetroLearning programming was bumped to late night. This channel has since ceased programming in 2005 with

5130-518: The air after ten days and on September 28, the labor dispute was settled. However, the station's financial resources were drained, requiring an infusion of cash from the Ford Foundation to help keep the station running. NET originally wanted to merge its operations with WNDT, which would have given the station a direct line of funding as well as make channel 13 NET's flagship station. The Ford Foundation, which supported both groups, stopped

5225-524: The citizens' group remained persistent. With the support and guidance of National Educational Television (NET), ETMA later received an endorsement from newly appointed FCC chairman Newton N. Minow , who established public hearings to discuss the fate of channel 13. The pendulum quickly shifted in favor of channel 13 going non-commercial, and the commercial suitors withdrew their interest. On June 29, 1961, ETMA agreed to purchase WNTA for $ 6.2 million. About $ 2 million of that amount came from five of

5320-549: The city's six remaining commercial VHF stations (WPIX was the lone holdout), all of whom were pleased to see a competitor eliminated. In addition, CBS later donated a facility in Manhattan to ETMA and NET to use as a studio. The FCC approved the transfer in October, and converted channel 13's commercial license to non-commercial. The outgoing New Jersey governor, Robert B. Meyner , addressing state lawmakers' concerns over continued programming specific to New Jersey, and fearing

5415-427: The deal, WNET airs NJTV's nightly statewide newscast, NJ Today (which was renamed NJTV News on November 4, 2013), to meet its local programming obligations since it still operates on a frequency allocated to Newark. Previously, it had aired NJN's newscast, NJN News , which it co-produced with NJN from 1978 to 1981 (the program continued to air on WNET even after NJN took full control over its production). In 2014,

5510-521: The demand and continued with the production of the critically acclaimed documentaries). At one point, President Nixon, frustrated with NET's documentaries criticizing his administration, especially its handling of the Vietnam War , almost managed to cut NET's $ 20 million funding grant in half. This led both the Ford Foundation and the CPB to threaten NET with funding withdrawal in early 1970, unless it merged its operations with WNDT. Not long after,

5605-562: The demise of Metro. News 12 Traffic & Weather aired in its spot for a while, but it has since been replaced with SportsNet New York in those few systems that have not yet been upgraded to Optimum. At the time the MSG Metro channels launched, Cablevision owned the local television rights to all seven MLB , NBA and NHL teams in the New York Metropolitan area. These games were regularly scheduled to air on MSG Network and FSN New York . When more than two teams played at

5700-441: The episode would be withdrawn from distribution and that the series would employ "an independent genealogist to review all versions of program episodes for factual accuracy". After the suspension of the series, Adweek commented: "The network clearly understands that its integrity has been thrown into question by this controversy. Even if they understood where the producers of the show were coming from when they decided to entertain

5795-609: The establishment of the Public Broadcasting Service as the CPB's own distribution system—which was a direct threat to NET's territory. It has been intimated that the CPB's creation was an attempt to curb NET's production of controversial documentaries and replace it with a less controversial, government-friendly broadcaster, less hostile in particular to the Johnson , and later the Nixon administrations (NET ignored

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5890-496: The extra space. In November, WNET announced that all WNET.org employees would take an unpaid furlough for three to five days between Christmas and New Year's Day, with a skeleton crew of engineers remaining during that time to keep the stations on the air; however, they, too, would have to go on furloughs at the start of 2010. In 2011, WNET moved its studios and offices to Worldwide Plaza. WNET has been broadcasting digital-only since June 12, 2009. On July 1, 2011, WNET took over

5985-504: The facts and the optics. We all take very, very seriously any suggestion that there's a perception problem about the integrity of our work or the sources of our funding, and we came to the conclusion that it's better to err on the side of caution". WNET and PBS issued a joint statement saying the series would go on hiatus and WNET would return the $ 3.5 million grant it had received from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. Segaller said in

6080-481: The film's introduction by Stanley Tucci with a new introduction calling the film "controversial" and "provocative". Immediately after the broadcast, they aired a statement from Koch Industries criticizing the film as "disappointing and divisive", although a Koch spokesperson said David Koch had only watched the trailer. WNET followed the statement with an on-air round-table discussion where the moderator repeatedly mentioned that Koch's philanthropic contributions totaled

6175-723: The first quadruple-amputee to walk at New York Fashion Week, also for Carrie Hammer. On December 12, 2014, a New York state court approved a settlement in a lawsuit by community activists over whether allowing the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week tents in Damrosch Park was a violation of the public trust doctrine . In accordance with the settlement, the City of New York, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and Lincoln Center for

6270-466: The former Service Electric system in Sparta acquired by Altice). MSG MetroLearning Center actually began in the late 70s as a public service by Cablevision. Throughout the 80s and into the 90s, it aired as Extra Help on Long Island's TeLICare channel before finding its home on Long Island One in the early 90s. Long Island One featured mostly Public-access television cable TV shows, as well as

6365-738: The monopoly that Cablevision had over local sports. The monopoly ended in 2002, when the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets started the YES Network , lessening Cablevision's need to show pro games on Metro. The Mets would leave Cablevision and start their own network, SportsNet New York , at the end of the 2005 season. For the start of the 2005-2006 NHL and NBA seasons, Cablevision revived MSG2 and FSN2 for overlapping games, which DirecTV and Dish Network carry. MSG Metro's suite did not bill success and had to make adaptations to stay alive. By 2000, MSG Metro merged Learning and Guide into

6460-431: The president of WNET, Neal Shapiro , called Koch offering him the opportunity to screen Gibney's film before broadcast and rebut it after it aired with a written statement. Shapiro said to The New Yorker that he "just called David Koch. He's on our board. He's the biggest main character. No one else, just David Koch. Because he's a trustee. It's a courtesy. I can't remember doing anything like this [before]". WNET replaced

6555-473: The press, and the general public. It is one of four major fashion weeks in the world, collectively known as the "Big Four," along with those in Paris , London , and Milan . The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) created the modern notion of a centralized "New York Fashion Week" in 1993, although cities like London were already using their city's name in conjunction with the words fashion week in

6650-464: The programming of New Jersey Network 's television stations, which were relaunched as NJTV (now NJ PBS ). The network features increased coverage of news and issues pertinent to New Jersey, as well as programming from the WNET and PBS libraries. The transfer of programming to WNET was part of Governor Chris Christie 's plan for the New Jersey government 's exit from public broadcasting. As part of

6745-500: The proposed mergers on at least two different occasions in 1962 and 1965. Events that began in 1967 led the Ford Foundation to change its stance and push for a WNDT-NET merger. The newly formed Corporation for Public Broadcasting (created by an act of the United States Congress ) initially supported NET's network role, while providing government funding for programming. But that move was followed two years later by

6840-689: The red carpet at New York Fashion Week, which she did for designer Carrie Hammer. In December 2015, the CFDA announced that it had hired the Boston Consulting Group to study revising the format of New York Fashion Week to adapt to changes brought about by social media. One option being explored is to bifurcate the event, with private showroom appointments of next season's designs for buyers and public fashion shows displaying in-season merchandise for consumers. The first New York Fashion Week dedicated menswear shows, called "New York Fashion Week: Men's", were produced. The season ended with

6935-623: The request, PBS and the veracity of all that's included in their documentaries, requires decisive action that conveys just how serious this infraction was". The series returned to the air in January 2016. The station's signal is multiplexed : New York Fashion Week New York Fashion Week ( NYFW ), held in February and September of each year, is a semi-annual series of events in Manhattan typically spanning seven to nine days when international fashion collections are shown to buyers,

7030-418: The same time, Cablevision made those games available to cable systems with additional feeds such as MSG2 or FSN2. However, since these channels were not permanent channels, cable companies had to find an available channel or sometimes temporarily replace an existing channel to carry these additional feeds. Cablevision claimed that companies whose advertisements appeared during those sporting events were upset at

7125-435: The show was renamed School's Out on Metro . Eventually, the learning element was removed entirely and the show was renamed Studio Y . MetroTV , previously known as MSG Metro Channel , was a mix of all three of the MetroChannels for Cablevision's systems that were not upgraded to Optimum TV yet. In the mornings they would air MSG MetroTraffic & Weather, during the day and weekends they would air MSG MetroGuide, and during

7220-399: The show would have a different subject, School's Out: Math , School's Out: Science , School's Out: English , and School's Out: Social Studies . It brought in several teachers of different subjects each day, who used to have shows on the former Extra Help channel and offered live call-in homework help. The show moved to Metro, which had greater reach since it was also on Time Warner Cable and

7315-588: The sole sponsor of The Pension Peril was former Enron trader John D. Arnold who had financially backed efforts to cut public employee pension benefits. Stephen Segaller, WNET's vice president for programming told The New York Times on February 13, 2014, that he had "absolute conviction" that the Laura and John Arnold Foundation was an admissible funder and the funding did not violate PBS' "perception" rule. On February 14, Segaller told The New York Times that WNET had reversed course after discussing with PBS "both

7410-501: The statement, "We made a mistake, pure and simple". PBS ombudsman , Michael Getler , commented that PandoDaily's article "shines a light, once again, on what seems to me to be ethical compromises in funding arrangements and lack of real transparency for viewers caused, in part, by the complicated funding demands needed to support public broadcasting, and in part by managers who make some questionable decisions". Getler added that WNET "went seriously wrong" and that their "decision to accept

7505-587: The station was Stairway to Stardom (1950–1951), one of the first TV series with an African-American host. WATV's transmitter was moved to the Empire State Building in November 1953. On October 6, 1957, Bremer Broadcasting announced it had sold its stations for $ 3.5 million to National Telefilm Associates (NTA), an early distributor of motion pictures for television, joining its NTA Film Network . On May 7, 1958, channel 13's call sign

7600-696: The station, which they said would return with its new educational format within three months. Ten months later, channel 13 was ready to be reborn under new call letters, WNDT (for "New Dimensions in Television"). With Edward R. Murrow —then director of the United States Information Agency —as host of the maiden broadcast, ETMA—now the Educational Broadcasting Corporation—flipped the switch on September 16, 1962. The return of channel 13 as WNDT gave

7695-652: The template for educational TV throughout the country. In 1997, Extra Help was expanded to 24 hours on weekdays, and the Long Island One branding was removed. On weekends, they would still show the Photo Bulletin Board, but the Cablevision logo was pasted over the Long Island One logo in the banner that showed up every five minutes telling viewers how to submit events. At the end of its first Spring Season (March 1995 to July 1995) Extra Help won

7790-545: The time, Paravas claimed there was no trademark filed for "New York Fashion Week", and filed for "New York Fashion Week" trademark, along with the abbreviation "NYFW". The Council of Fashion Designers of America ( CFDA ) lacked registrations for the "New York Fashion Week" trademarks, and tried to cancel Fashion Week Inc's registrations. Nonetheless, the CFDA was unsuccessful in its effort to have Fashion Week, Inc.'s "New York Fashion Week" trademark cancelled. On June 28, 2016, Fashion Week Inc. and its CEO Trisha Paravas filed

7885-542: The two stations into one operation. While most of the two stations' operations have been merged, they still have separate studio facilities, separate governing boards, and conduct separate fundraising efforts. During 2009, WNET's parent company, WNET.org, sustained financial difficulties, and in January, the company pared its workforce from 500 employees to 415, due to severe problems with its budget and fundraising. In October, WNET announced that its studios at 450 West 33rd Street would soon be up for sale, as it no longer needed

7980-402: The use of these additional feeds since it resulted in a lower number of viewers. With the creation of the three new MSG Metro channels, Cablevision decided to place some of these "overflow" games on MetroGuide. These games were only available to subscribers who had the MetroChannels on their cable system, causing an uproar among area sports fans. Outside of Cablevision, few cable systems carried

8075-622: The weekday editions until 2022 when WETA assumed production for the weekend edition in addition to the weekday editions. In 2010, the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York , filed a lawsuit asserting that the WNET subsidiary, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, misused grant money worth $ 13 million, donated by the National Science Foundation ,

8170-467: Was all this channel showed. By this time, Cablevision removed the channel from its analog lineup and replaced it with TV Land . MetroStories then went to Cablevision's digital cable service, iO on channel 174, where it would die, along with Metro in Summer 2005. Studio Y became the network's flagship program carrying the ratings. The series was a teen-oriented talk program which began with a hot topic and

8265-443: Was also meant to showcase American designers for fashion journalists , who had neglected U.S. fashion innovations. Press Week in New York was a success, and fashion magazines like Vogue , which were normally filled with French designs, increasingly featured American fashion. By the mid-1950s, the event was known as "Press Week of New York". Spring 1951 (held February 1951) was the 16th Annual Press Week of New York. In 1993,

8360-747: Was among those who died when the north tower collapsed. His remains were discovered on December 25, 2001. For the next ten months, WNYE-TV, headquartered in Brooklyn , became WNET's surrogate transmitter and airwave: for those without cable, repeats of WNET's prime time schedule were broadcast on WNYE until Channel 13 could re-establish transmission facilities back at the Empire State Building. Some time later, in February 2003, WNET completed its merger with Long Island PBS broadcaster WLIW (licensed to Garden City and based in Plainview ), combining

8455-505: Was announced that WNET would resume broadcasting from Lower Manhattan at One World Trade Center by the end of the year. In 2019, WNET acquired New Jersey news website NJ Spotlight. The following year, it merged NJ Spotlight with NJTV's newsroom, with the NJTV newscasts becoming NJ Spotlight News . NJ Spotlight would merge with NJTV News in 2020. On March 25, 2021, WNET.org was reorganized as The WNET Group. On July 2, 2020, at 9 a.m. during

8550-600: Was changed to WNTA-TV to reflect the new ownership; the radio stations also adopted these call letters. NTA's cash resources enabled WNTA to produce a schedule of programming with greater emphasis on the people and events of New Jersey, compared to the other commercial television stations. NTA also sought to make channel 13 the center of a new commercial network, though during its run the NTA Film Network offered only one night of "in-pattern" network programming, Friday nights in 1957–58, and for most purposes WNTA served as

8645-422: Was discussed by the hosts and panelists. The meat of the show included interviews with celebrity guests, schoolwork discussion, musical acts (usually in the alternative rock range, including Cooter, Little T and One Track Mike, The Rosenbergs, Clearview 77, Dry Kill Logic), and movie/music reviews and general chat. What made the show unique is besides its two hosts, primarily Welly Yang and Leila Sbitani , it had

8740-627: Was estimated at US$ 887 million in 2016. The first New York Fashion Week was created in 1943 by Eleanor Lambert , press director of the American fashion industry 's first promotional organization, the New York Dress Institute. The event, the world's first organized fashion week , was called "Press Week", and was created to attract attention away from French fashion during World War II , when fashion industry insiders were unable to travel to Paris to see French fashion shows. It

8835-506: Was obvious that the non-commercial frequency that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) originally allocated to the city, UHF channel 25, would not be nearly adequate enough to cover a market that stretched from Fairfield County, Connecticut , in the north to Ocean County, New Jersey , in the south. Prior to 1964, when the FCC required television manufacturers to include UHF tuners in newer sets as per

8930-434: Was spun with completely new programming and had added on more sports programming, including Game Face with Dave Sims . Management also hired new producers, who changed much of the programming including its flagship Studio Y and had deleted the panelists, focused on two new hip-hop hosts and converted the show to a hip-hop format. Both shows dissolved in early 2001. By 2002, Metro had joined with New York Magazine and thus,

9025-479: Was the first sole traffic and weather channel in the tri-state area, and while local news networks and The Weather Channel offered weather news, the traffic component was the network's main feature. MSG Metro Traffic & Weather originally began as News 12 Weather . In the early 1990s it would air in the mornings on most Cablevision systems in place of Bravo (which was owned by Rainbow, but sold to NBC Media in 2002 and later NBCUniversal ) and E! when they shared

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