WNET, the local member station of PBS, is to announce today its new iPhone app, MetroFocus–a mobile version of the site of the same name. The app is to feature original WNET content on local news (particularly culture news) in video form as well as the ability to save location-based stories and visit the Read More
Update: The New York Observer corrected several factual errors in this post after being alerted to them by WNET’s Laura van Straaten.
So you’ve been arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest. You’re probably looking at your summons or DAT right now and thinking to yourself, “I really should have taken the D.A. up on the deal. Mom and dad are going to be so mad if I go to jail.”
But there is a way out! Just ask John Farley, a journalist for WNET’s MetroFocus online magazine who was arrested and detained for eight hours on disorderly conduct charges during an OWS march on September 24. He managed to have his case totally dismissed last Thursday in only six steps.
As Mr. Farley’s was the only case that was dropped entirely during Thursday’s mass courtroom drama involving 70-plus Occupy-related arrests, you might want to pay attention. This is how Mr. Farley managed to get out of jail free, and exactly why you probably can’t. Read More
825 Eighth Avenue
In yet another reason to feel warm and fuzzy about public television, WNET has signed a 95,000-square-foot lease, plugging part of the giant hole at Worldwide Plaza.
The 16-year lease marks a major step forward for the 1.7 million-square-foot tower, which has been sitting 40 percent vacant Read More
Channel 13 has hired a broker to dispose of its cavernous offices on the far West Side, and to find it new offices that measure roughly half the size of the old ones.
Right now, Channel 13, also known as WNET, produces public TV like Worldfocus and Bill Moyers Journal in its 200,000-square-foot studios and Read More
This morning, Neal Shapiro, president and CEO of WNET.org, broke some more bad news to the employees of WNET-Thirteen, PBS’s flagship station in New York, and its sister station WLIW-21.
At a station meeting, Mr. Shapiro told employees that the organization would be going through another round of layoffs. Roughly 50 staffers will be Read More
WNET-Thirteen, PBS’s flagship station in New York, is on the verge of enacting significant staff and budget reductions for the coming year. The layoffs will also affect sister station WLIW-21 and the station’s parent public media organization WNET.org.
Neal Shapiro, President and C.E.O. of WNET.org, told The Observer on Thursday evening that his Read More
