June 22, 2007

NYC TV TAKES HOME 28 TELLY AWARDS

Premier Cable and TV Award Recognizes NYC TV for its Innovative Programming.  Station Takes Home Twice as Many Awards as 2007.

New York – For the second year in a row, NYC TV has been honored with the prestigious Telly Awards in recognition of its innovating programming.  This year, the station took home twenty-eight awards.  Building upon the fourteen Telly Awards the station received last year, these wins recognize NYC TV's tremendous creativity and the high regard the station enjoys from the television industry.

“NYC TV has really come into its own this year and our peers in the media world continue to take note,” said NYC TV General Manager Arick Wierson.  “In addition to this year’s twenty-eight Telly Awards, NYC TV was awarded seven Emmy Awards bringing its total number of Emmy wins to twenty-one, and four Promax Awards for excellence in visual graphics in promotion, marketing and television.”

"NYC TV has become a real force in local television and continues to raise its profile on the national and global scale,” said Trevor Scotland, Director of Business Development for NYC TV.  “In just four years, we’ve transformed the network into the leading arbiter of all things New York -- for New Yorkers and for viewers around the world who feel connected to our city."

The Telly Awards have 32 categories within the Film/Video category.  These national awards honor excellence in production across a range of crafts and are considered to be among the most prestigious industry awards in the television sector.  There are two types of awards – the Silver Telly statuette and the Bronze Telly statuette, with the Silver award denoting the highest honor.  With over 13,000 entries, less than 10 percent of entrants win this highly coveted award.  NYC TV received seven silver and twenty-one bronze Telly awards in the following categories:

Silver Tellys:

• Cultural Programming: “Rock Corps,” Live from Radio City
• Documentary Programming: “Secrets of New York,” Deep New York: How Low Can You Go in the Big Apple?
• Documentary Programming: “Secrets of New York,” New York Firsts: Pioneering Moments in New York City History
• Use of Graphics: “Eat Out NY,” Kelly’s Obsession
• Use of Special Effects: NYC TV Station Branding
• Lighting: “Secrets of New York,” Jails of New York: Secrets Unlocked
• Videography/Cinematography: “Secrets of New York,” New York Firsts: Pioneering Moments in New York City History

Bronze Tellys:                 

• Children’s Programming: “SeeMore’s Playhouse,” Rock Song
• Cultural Programming: “That’s So New York,” Salmagundi
• Cultural Programming: “City That Never Sleeps,” Gen Art
• Entertainment Programming: “Eat Out NY,” Decadent Desserts
• Entertainment Programming: “City That Never Sleeps,” Dine and Design
• Miscellaneous Programming: “50th Annual New York Emmy Awards”
• Miscellaneous Programming: “Full Frontal Fashion” Promo, Same Tent, Different Circus
• Miscellaneous Programming: “Secrets of New York” Promo Composite 3, Coming Soon
• Music Video Programming: “The Bridge,” The Greatest MC’s
• Travel/Tourism Programming: “Cool in Your Code,” Hell’s Kitchen/Upper West Side: 10019, 10036
• Animation: “Secrets of New York” Elements
• Use of Graphics: “Secrets of New York,” Facelift: The Changing Landscape of New York City
• Use of Graphics: “Secrets of New York,” New York Firsts: Pioneering Moments in New York City History
• Use of Music: “Secrets of New York,” Deep New York: How Low Can You Go in the Big Apple?
• Use of Music: “Secrets of New York” Secrets of the Subways: New York Above and Below
• Use of Special Effects: “Secrets of New York,” New York Firsts: Pioneering Moments in New York City History
• Art Direction: “Secrets of New York” Composite
• Editing: “Secrets of New York,” Deep New York: How Low Can You Go in the Big Apple?
• Editing: “Secrets of New York,” Deep New York: How Low Can You Go in the Big Apple?
• Lighting: “Secrets of New York,” Deep New York: How Low Can You Go in the Big Apple?
• Sound/Sound Design: “Secrets of New York,” New York Firsts: Pioneering Moments in New York City History

Launched in June 2003, NYC TV is the official network of the City of New York and is part of NYC Media Group, which oversees one broadcast TV station (WNYE-TV, channel 25), one broadcast radio station (WNYE 91.5 FM), five cable channels (71, 73, 74, 75, and 93) as well as production and syndication arms that produce and distribute New York City-centric content all over the world across multiple platforms.  Over the past four years, NYC TV has won twenty-one NY Emmy awards and has been nominated sixty-eight times.  WNYE-TV and WNYE-FM reach over 8 million homes in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.  NYC TV's five cable channels currently reach 1.8 million cable subscribers in New York City.

For more information about NYC TV, please visit www.nyc.gov/tv.

MEDIA CONTACT: Matthew Kelly (212) 788-2958