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New York Press Club
The New York Press Club, sometimes ''NYPC'', is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes journalism in the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area. It is unaffiliated with any government organization and abstains from politics. While the club is headquarters in New York City, it serves as an association for journalists based in the United States. History The organization in differing forms has been around since the nineteenth century. In 1887, its members erected a 38-foot obelisk to mark the gravesite of a deceased reporter.David W. Dunlop, November 27, 2011, The New York TimesKnown Retrieved March 19, 2018, "...In 1887, The New York Press Club rallied its members, dug into its pockets and erected a 38-foot obelisk to set the place apart, staking out the ground with granite markers. Nearly 2,000 people attended the dedication..." But during the Great Depression in the United States, the organization fell apart. A revitalized organization was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Metropolitan Area
The New York metropolitan area, also called the Tri-State area and sometimes referred to as Greater New York, is the List of cities by GDP, largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a List of U.S. metropolitan areas by GDP, gross metropolitan product of over US$2.6 trillion. It is also the List of largest cities by area, largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass, encompassing . Among the List of largest cities#Metropolitan area, most populous metro areas in the world, New York is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the only one with more than 20 million residents according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. Census. The core of this vast area, the New York metropolitan statistical area, includes New York City and much of Downstate New York (Long Island as well as the mid- and lower Hudson Valley) and the suburbs of North Jersey, northern and Central Jersey, central New Jersey (including that state's el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Daily News
The ''Daily News'' is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format, and reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. For much of the 20th century, the paper operated out of the historic art deco Daily News Building with its large globe in the lobby. Today's ''Daily News'' is not connected to the earlier ''New York Daily News (19th century), New York Daily News'', which shut down in 1906. The ''Daily News'' is owned by parent company Daily News Enterprises. This company is owned by Alden Global Capital and was formed when Alden, which also owns news media publisher Digital First Media, purchased then-owner Tribune Publishing in May 2021 and then separated the ''Daily News'' from Tribune to form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYNY (defunct)
New Country Y-107 was a radio station simulcast on as many as four FM stations all on 107.1 MHz around New York City. Airing a country music format, the stations targeted a primarily suburban audience. Owned by Big City Radio, New Country Y-107 broadcast from 1996 to 2002; the simulcast then flipped to contemporary Spanish music as "Rumba 107" before being broken up after it was sold in 2003. The station was based at the headquarters of Big City Radio in Hawthorne, New York, moving to Manhattan in 2001. Stations New Country Y-107 debuted on three stations, later expanded to four in 1998. History Building the quadcast On December 5, 1996, two stations on 107.1 MHz recently purchased by Odyssey Communications, alternative-formatted WRGX—licensed to Briarcliff Manor, New York, and serving Westchester County—and WZVU, a rock outlet in Long Branch, New Jersey, became a simulcast of a country music format. They were joined a month later by WWHB in Hampton Bays, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEPN (AM)
WEPN (1050 kHz) is a sports radio station licensed to New York, New York. The station is owned-and-operated by Good Karma Brands and its transmitter site is located in North Bergen, New Jersey. The 1050 AM facility in New York signed on in 1922 as WHN. For the majority of its existence under these call letters, as well as during its 14-year stint as WMGM, the station broadcast several different music-based formats, finally assuming a country music format in 1973. In 1987, WHN dropped its country format to become the first radio station dedicated entirely to sports programming, changing its call letters to WFAN. A series of transactions in the late 1980s resulted in WFAN's format and call letters moving in October 1988 to 660 AM (on which WFAN has continued to broadcast since), with the brokered programming format and call letters of ''The Forward''-owned WEVD (previously on 97.9 FM) being moved to 1050 AM in February 1989. In 2001, The Walt Disney Company took control of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WABC-TV
WABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, WABC-TV maintains studios in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, co-located with ABC's corporate headquarters. The station transmits from atop the Empire State Building. WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its version of the '' Eyewitness News'' format and for its morning show, syndicated nationally by corporate cousin Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution. History As WJZ-TV (1948–1953) The station signed on August 10, 1948, as WJZ-TV, the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. Channel 7's call letters came from its then-sister radio station, WJZ. In its early years, WJZ-TV was programmed much like an independent station, as the ABC television network was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WABC (AM)
WABC (770 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, carrying a conservative talk radio format known as "Talkradio 77". Owned by John Catsimatidis' Red Apple Media, the station's studios are located in Red Apple Media headquarters on Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is in Lodi, New Jersey. Its 50,000-watt omnidirectional antenna, non-directional Clear-channel station, clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada. It is the primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System in the New York metropolitan area and New Jersey. WABC simulcasts on WLIR-FM in Hampton Bays, New York, on eastern Long Island. Owned and operated by the American Broadcasting Company for much of its history, it is one of the country's oldest radio stations. WABC began broadcasting in early October 1921, originally as WJZ in Newark, New Jersey. From 1943 through 2007, the station served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York World-Telegram
The ''New York World-Telegram'', later known as the ''New York World-Telegram and The Sun'', was a New York City newspaper from 1931 to 1966. History Founded by James Gordon Bennett Sr. as ''The Evening Telegram'' in 1867, the newspaper began as the evening edition of '' The New York Herald'', which itself published its first issue in 1835. Following Bennett's death, newspaper and magazine owner Frank A. Munsey purchased ''The Telegram'' in June 1920. Munsey's associate Thomas W. Dewart, the late publisher and president of the '' New York Sun'', owned the paper for two years after Munsey died in 1925 before selling it to the E. W. Scripps Company for an undisclosed sum in 1927. At the time of the sale, the paper was known as ''The New York Telegram'', and it had a circulation of 200,000. The newspaper became the ''World-Telegram'' in 1931, following the sale of the '' New York World'' by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps Howard. More than 2,000 employees of the morning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Island Press
The ''Long Island Press'' is a free monthly news and lifestyle magazine serving Long Island. It is owned by Schneps Media. History Its previous print incarnation was as a free, independent print and digital monthly news journal with extensive coverage of local and national news, arts and entertainment, sports and alternative political viewpoints. The newspaper was founded in 2003 by Jed Morey after then parent company, Morey Publishing, bought ''The Island Ear'', which was a free bi-monthly entertainment-oriented newspaper. Morey Publishing renamed the paper, using the same name of a daily newspaper that was forced out of business in 1977, and launched it as a free alternative newsweekly. The staff of the ''Press'' included former ''Newsday'' columnist Ed Lowe, television columnist Todd Hyman, and technology columnist Lazlow Jones. On March 24, 2011, New York City's '' Daily News'' and ''Long Island Press'' announced that the News would print the ''Press'' on its state-of-the- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit organization, not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used ''AP Stylebook'', its AP polls tracking National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA sports, sponsoring the National Football League's annual awards, and its election polls and results during Elections in the United States, US elections. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Weekly
''The American Weekly'' was a Sunday newspaper supplement published by the Hearst Corporation from November 1, 1896, until 1966. History During the 1890s, publications were inserted into Joseph Pulitzer's ''New York World'' and William Randolph Hearst's ''New York Journal''. Hearst had the eight-page ''Women's Home Journal'' and the 16-page ''Sunday American Magazine'', which later became ''The American Weekly''. In November 1896, Morrill Goddard, editor of the ''New York Journal'' from 1896 to 1937, launched Hearst's Sunday magazine, later commenting, "Nothing is so stale as yesterday's newspaper, but ''The American Weekly'' may be around the house for days or weeks and lose none of its interest." Magazine and illustration historian Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. outlined the contents and detailed the publication's leading illustrators: The name was changed to ''Pictorial Living'' in 1963 before it was finally cancelled in 1966. Due to the low quality of the paper on which it was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Journal American
:''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal'' The ''New York Journal-American'' was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 to 1966. The ''Journal-American'' was the product of a merger between two New York newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst: the ''New York American'' (originally the ''New York Journal'', renamed ''American'' in 1901), a morning paper, and the ''New York Evening Journal'', an afternoon paper. Both were published by Hearst from 1895 to 1937. The ''American'' and ''Evening Journal'' merged in 1937. History Beginnings ''New York Morning Journal'' Joseph Pulitzer's younger brother Albert founded the ''New York Morning Journal'' in 1882. After three years of its existence, John R. McLean briefly acquired the paper in 1895. It was renamed ''The Journal''. But a year later in 1896, he sold it to Hearst.(23 June 1937Hearst to Merge New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairchild Publications
Fairchild Media is a publisher of digital media, journalism, photography and design, events and summits, video and studios, and fashion. Fairchild Media brands include '' Women’s Wear Daily'', '' Footwear News'' (FN), ''Beauty Inc'', ''M'' and ''Fairchild Summits.'' Fairchild Media is a division of Penske Media Corporation (PMC), and is the leading source of fashion news and analysis for industry leaders and the global fashion community. History Fairchild Publications was founded in 1892 when Edmund Fairchild, a peddler, took over the '' Daily Trade Record'' (later the ''Daily News Record'' and ''DNR''), a failing newspaper that covered the men's clothing business. In June 1910, an insert called "Women's Wear" first appeared in the ''Record''; a month later, Fairchild published it as a standalone publication, known today as ''Women's Wear Daily''. John Fairchild, grandson of Edmund Fairchild assumed management of Women’s Wear Daily in 1955 and transformed it from a trade jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
