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New York City is the most populous city in the United States with over 8.3 million people.
Why don't we have Fios 1 News for NYC?
Why do I want to watch Long Island news, which does not pertain to me?
Cablevision has a different News 12 channel for each region.
Now with the rollout of the FiOS mobile app, the only news thats available is for Long Island.
It just doesn't make sense
Crazy unfair, right? But they were great during the hurricane. Best you can do re NYC is NY1.com (a Time Warner company) on line. And watch CUNY on channel 30. (P.S. Cablevision won't let non-subscribers view News 12 or anything they own on line.)
Most major networks are already to much NY biased in their news. Really no need for a FIOS 1 for NYC. On the other hand FIOS 1 LI covers things the majors don't although not as well as some of the competitor cable's Local news channels.
I disagree and believe me I would know. There are local News Channels (CBS/ABC/NBC) that have newscasts throughout the day. None of the 24 hr cable channels are New York Centric, as you say. Only NY1 focuses on New York City and only New York City. In fact that is my frustration. I like to turn the TV on first thing. I used to be able to put NY1 up and just have it on while I have my coffee. Now my only choice are the cable news channels which focus primarily on the politics of the day.
i strongly disagree. As I'm sure you know, local news stations cover that they call "the tri-state area". New York 1 is different in that it covers only the five burroughs. It also differs in that it's local news 24/7, and not just for a half hour or an hour a few times a day. The other cable news channels are all politics or national news. When nothing else is on, I like to keep my TV tuned to news but I want local news. It's particularly important if there's an ongoing major local story. Anyway that's my two cents worth.
Hi, my uncle lives in brooklyn, East New York, zip 11208, and he gets FIOS 1 News.... I live in Ozone Park, Queens I dont get it..... Why cant we have NY1 ? Since Verizon has deal with TWC to offer Verizon Wireless with TWC, why cant they work out a deal to offer NY1.... WE NEED A 24HOUR NEWSCHANNEL FOR NYC!!!!
I get FIOS1, too, in Brooklyn. The OP's complaint is they mostly cover LI news. (I think it's because they're headquartered on Long Island. And geographically, Brooklyn is part of Long Island. I wish wish wish we could get NY1 too but that's owned by Time Warner, a competing cable company, so that'll never happen. Same thing with News 12, owned by cablevision. What Verizon could do if they feel like investing money & giving more people jobs is open up bureaus in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island. Expect everyone's bills to soar if they ever do that. (Verizon Wireless is a different entity from FIOS.)
NY1 is a proprietary channel owned by Time Warner Cable. As I mentioned in a post downthread, they have been promising that they are creation their own version ... which I think should be called CITY 1, for years.
Really. What a bunch of crap. I live in New York City, nowhere near Long Island and have to watch that useless garbage. I see TV ads for a Fios1 Hudson Valley edition which covers Yonkers and up, apparently. I live a little more than a half hour walk from Yonkers. That would be more meaningful than Long Island. Even New Jersey would be a hour walk (to get to the other side, not just half way across the Hudson River), if I could walk on water, or less than 10 minutes by car over the George Washibgton Bridge. If they stick us with this Long Island crap, why don't they rebrand it for the entire region. And, why can't they pay Time Warner to carry NY1, because it was available when I had Cablevision. Regarding the post stating that our bills would soar if they gave us our own Fios1, like Cablevision does with their local News12, if that's the case, I assume that my bill has already soared paying for them to operate Fios1 Long Island for the benefit of the Hamptons and Montauk elite. Dismantle it and deflate my bill.
@anything wrote:Really. What a bunch of crap. I live in New York City, nowhere near Long Island and have to watch that useless garbage.
Actually you don't HAVE to watch it. There is an option called don't watch it.
i dont even have fios news 1 in my pack for verizon
i would love to have
@bklyn35 wrote:New York City is the most populous city in the United States with over 8.3 million people.
Why don't we have Fios 1 News for NYC?
Why do I want to watch Long Island news, which does not pertain to me?
Cablevision has a different News 12 channel for each region.
Now with the rollout of the FiOS mobile app, the only news thats available is for Long Island.
It just doesn't make sense
Fios 1 News for NYC
Why do I have the YES channel when I live near Baltimore?
We all have channels that we don't want.
Just don't watch them.
No offense, but if you don't even live in the area, you just don't get it.
We are talking about local news channels, not entertainment channels like YES. Do you want to turn on your TV for news about what's happening in the greater Boston area only to get a channel that is from an area you don't care about? How would that be helpful?
I know this reply is late... very late... but I came here with the same question in mind. I share your frustration. Mind you, 3 years ago before I switched to Verizon I asked about that. I was reassured that a Verizon version of TWC's NY1 was in the works. Here we are and nothing yet. It's so frustrating. Between that and the fact that for some reason my bill keeps inching up, I'm thisclose to switching back to TWC. I'm holding off because it's so much work to get it done in my apartment.
OK... Nearly four years later, I'm still waiting for a Verizon version of NY1, which I was actually promised when I made the switch. And every time call they tell me it's in the works. I work for a major news division. It shouldn't be this difficult. This along has me wondering if I should switch back to TWC, not to mention it turned out to be much more expensive.
BTW, you can't watch NY! on the internet unless you are a TWC subscriber. I tried.
To whoever is listening...
IT'S INFURIATING!!!
Why do your newcasters call the new Tappan Zee Bridge the Mario Cuomo? Only the state government calls it that. To everybody else, it's the Tappan Zee Bridge ( not the Malcolm Wilson Bridge either). You don't call the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge the "Hamilton Fish Bridge" - you don't call the Poughkeepsie Bridge the "Franklin D. Roosevelt" bridge. Everybody calls the Triboro bridge the Triboro, not the "RFK" bridge. Try using the names everybody actually knows
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