NY public media flagship WNET and Teacher’s College at Columbia University received a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop mobile games that teach children fractions. The apps will use stories and characters from Cyberchase, WNET’s Emmy-winning TV series and multimedia [Full Story…]
#WNET Showcases Lincoln Center Studio
September 21, 2012 at 8:49 am
WNET, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, recently offered Fishbowl NY a backstage view of its Lincoln Center studio. The location is unique because it is located at street level and a black curtain is kept down during all productions. The location also picks up many street sounds because [Full Story…]
WNET and NYC Media Join Forces
August 5, 2012 at 10:01 am
WNET has partnered with NYC Media in order to share content with one another and highlight different aspects of NY, according to Media Bistro. For example, in the next few weeks NYC Life (part of NYC Media) will broadcast Treasures of New York episodes while WNET will air NYC life's special about [Full Story…]
Aereo Prevails in Copyright Suit Against Broadcasters
July 15, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Aereo, the Barry-Diller/IAC backed broadband subscription service, was sued by broadcasters for copyright violations not long after the service launched earlier this year. Users would pay Aereo for a monthly subscription to wireless broadband service, but broadcasters sued Aereo because they felt [Full Story…]
WNET’s MetroFocus Website Ready to Go Live
July 11, 2011 at 3:07 pm
NY-based WNET's MetroFocus website is ready to go live, according to Media Decoder. The site will focus on local news, culture and urban life in New York City, but will not be meant for breaking news. Lauren van Straaten, the site’s editor in chief and executive producer, said the site will [Full Story…]
WNET To Start Covering Local News
March 21, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Starting sometime around Memorial Day, NYC's PBS station WNET is going to start covering local news with a new venture named MetroFocus, which has been envisioned as a half hour television show, website and eventually a mobile app. Laura van Straaten has been named the project's editor in chief and [Full Story…]
WNET Signs New Lease in Midtown
August 17, 2010 at 3:53 pm
New York's WNET has signed a new lease at Worldwide Plaza. The 95,000 square-foot lease will occupy two floors of the 1.8 million square foot building located on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th. The parent company of public TV's channel 13 and WLIW-21 will move into its new [Full Story…]
Capital New York Partners with WNET
August 6, 2010 at 8:13 am
Capital New York, the newly launched New York focused online news site, is partnering with New York PBS affiliate Thirteen.org (WNET) for an ongoing video series on the site. The series, City Portraits, launched this week on the site and for its first edition is featuring a 7-minute video profile of [Full Story…]
WNET Auctioning TV Production Gear at 33rd St. Headquarters
August 2, 2010 at 10:43 am
Tomorrow, New York's WNET (Channel 13) will be auctioning off over 400 items, offering deals on television studio equipment, including cameras, lighting and routers, and teleprompters. The TV station is downsizing from their 450 W. 33rd Street headquarters, as the building will now be sub-leased [Full Story…]
Channel 13 Produces First Program at New Studios
May 18, 2010 at 9:21 am
New York's public TV station WNET, Channel 13, recently produced its first regularly scheduled program, "Need to Know," at newly designed studios on the corner of West 66th street and Broadway. The facility is in the same building as Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and [Full Story…]
“Worldfocus” Fans Turn to Social Media to Save Show
March 23, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Recently, New York's PBS station WNET announced on its Web site that its program "Worldfocus," which covers international news, would be ending its run after 18 months. In response, fans have taken to social media and other digital means to raise awareness of the show to try to [Full Story…]
WNET Moving Forward With Street-Level Studio
March 10, 2010 at 7:11 am
WNET's street-level studio at Lincoln Center, at West 66 Street and Broadway, is intended to "raise the profiles of WNET and sister station WLIW and draw new audiences and followers," according to Neal Shapiro, chief executive of WNET.org, the station's parent company.The new [Full Story…]
WNET NY to Build PBS News Destination Site
January 29, 2010 at 7:16 am
WNET NY is building a separate news destination site for PBS, according to paidContent. In addition, WNET will be producing for it on an ongoing basis.The site will be under PBS.org, and will combine all the news and public affairs programming from various PBS stations. It is slated [Full Story…]
Low Cost Digital Production Makes Worldfocus Possible
February 5, 2009 at 9:23 am
WNET's low cost digital production of its four-month old show Worldfocus is slowly seeing pick up. The show, which has partnerships with stations around the world, receives footage through the Internet instead of satellite and is put together on the computer, minimizing studio costs. Despite its [Full Story…]
Digital TV Will Offer Tri-State Viewers More Channels
August 15, 2008 at 9:19 am
The switchover to digital will mean a lot more options for broadcast television viewers in the area. New channels will include WNBC's new 24-hour news station devoted to local news, WPIX's new substation devoted to Spanish-language programming, and new substations from WNET, which has been [Full Story…]
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