Media in New York City
[1][2] The media organizations based in New York City are internationally influential and include some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, biggest record companies, and most prolific television studios in the world.
[3] New York is also the largest media market in North America (followed by Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto).
[7] Two of the three U.S. national daily newspapers with the largest circulations in the United States are published in New York: The Wall Street Journal; and The New York Times, nicknamed "the Grey Lady", which has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and is considered the U.S. media's "newspaper of record".
[11] El Diario La Prensa is New York's largest Spanish-language daily and the oldest in the nation.
The four major American broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, are all headquartered in New York.
Many cable channels are based in the city as well, including CNN, MSNBC, MTV, Fox News, HBO, and Comedy Central.
The oldest public-access cable television channel in the United States is the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, founded in 1971.
New York City is home to a number of major online media companies, including Yahoo!
Other New York literary publications include Circumference, Open City, The Manhattan Review, The Coffin Factory, Fence, and Telos.
New York is a prominent location for the American entertainment industry, with many films, television series, books, and other media being set there.
Silvercup Studios has expanded in Long Island City, Queens with numerous soundstages, production and studio support space, offices for media and entertainment companies, stores, 1,000 apartments in high-rise towers, a catering hall and a cultural institution, built at the edge of the East River in Queens, overlooking Manhattan, and maintaining its status as the largest production house on the U.S. East Coast.
[citation needed] El Diario La Prensa (circulation 265,000) is New York's largest Spanish-language daily and the oldest in the nation.
Free daily newspapers mainly distributed to commuters include amNewYork, Hoy and Metro New York.
The Epoch Times, an international newspaper published by the Falun Gong, has English and Chinese editions in New York.
The tradition of a free press owes much to John Peter Zenger, a New York publisher who was acquitted in his 1735 landmark court case, setting the precedent that truth was a legitimate defense against accusations of libel.
[33][34] Newscasts from the NBC and ABC affiliates are simulcast on WVGN-LD in the US Virgin Islands and WORA-TV in Puerto Rico respectively.
It is also the headquarters of several large cable television channels, including MTV, Fox News, HBO, and Comedy Central.
Silvercup Studios, located in Queens was the production facility for the popular television shows Sex and the City and The Sopranos.
In 2005 there were more than 100 new and returning television shows taped in New York City, according to the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting.
WNET, New York's largest public television station, is a primary national provider of PBS programming.
As part of use of local rights-of-way, the cable operators in New York have granted Public, educational, and government access (PEG) organizations channels for programming.
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.
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.
[35] 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.
[36] 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.
