Time Warner sets news channel for NYC. (Time Warner Inc.; New York City)

Multichannel News, May, 1991 by Thompson, Rachel W.

Time Warner Sets News Channel for NYC NEW YORK -- New York City last week joined the growing ranks of urban markets tabbed for 24-hour cable news channels by MSOs looking to trawl a potentially deep new pool of ad dollars while cementing subscriber loyalty. Time Warner has long had plans for the New York City News Channel, which it said it will begin distributing early next year to its estimated 750,000 subscribers in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

Just as Cablevision Systems Corp. serves most of Long Island and was thus able to launch, unilaterally, the now well-established News 12, so Time Warner controls the vast majority of cable households in the city's five boroughs, allowing it to skip over carriage negotiations with other area operators...

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