NYC Life Channel Celebrates 2025 New York Emmy Awards Nominations

Five Total Shows Nominated, with 12 Nominations for The NYC Field Guide: How to Thrive in the Five, Produced in Partnership with Next Millennium Productions

NEW YORK, NY - NYC Life, the flagship television channel of the City of New York’s broadcast network and production group, NYC Media, and part of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), recently received New York Emmy Awards nominations for five programs, including 12 for The NYC Field Guide: How to Thrive in the Five, produced in collaboration with Next Millennium Productions (NMP). The 13-episode series offers New Yorkers advice, tips and humor for thriving in NYC, featuring Bob's Dance Shop, Celebrity Chef David Burke, Comedian Roy Wood Jr., and 17 NYC Departments, including Transportation, Health & NYPD.

“We are thrilled that the City’s award-winning lifestyle channel, NYC Life, has received New York Emmy Awards nominations for 5 different programs, including our hit-show, The NYC Field Guide: How to Thrive in the Five, that highlights the work of the agencies and 300,000 employees who make NYC run,” said Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, Pat Swinney Kaufman. “Congratulations to NYC Media General Manager Karen Johnson and her team for this accomplishment.”

Following are NYC Life's New York Emmy Awards nominated programs:

The NYC Field Guide: How to Thrive in the Five - 12 nominations

• EDUCATION/SCHOOLS - LONG FORM CONTENT
• LIFESTYLE - LONG FORM CONTENT
• BUSINESS/CONSUMER - SHORT OR LONG FORM CONTENT
• INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL - SHORT OR LONG FORM CONTENT
• PROMOTION/NON-NEWS - PROGRAM PROMOTION (SINGLE SPOT)
• MAGAZINE PROGRAM (SERIES)
• DIRECTOR - LONG FORM CONTENT
• PHOTOGRAPHER NON-SPORTS / NON-NEWS CONTENT
• EDITOR - LONG FORM CONTENT
• LIGHTING - STUDIO / LOCATION
• GRAPHIC ARTS - NON-NEWS & NON-SPORTS CONTENT
• PROGRAM HOST/MODERATOR

100 Hundred Years of Municipal Broadcasting in NYC 1924-2024 - 2 nominations

• NOSTALGIA - SHORT OR LONG FORM CONTENT
• EDITOR: LONG FORM CONTENT

Native Dish - 2 nominations

• LIFESTYLE - SHORT FORM CONTENT
• HUMAN INTEREST - SHORT FORM CONTENT

Neighborhood Slice - 1 nomination

• HUMAN INTEREST- SHORT FORM CONTENT

That’s So New York - 1 nomination

• PERFORMER NARRATOR

NYC Media informs, educates and entertains New Yorkers about the city's diverse people, neighborhoods, government services, attractions and activities. NYC Life (WNYE-TV), the City's Emmy Award-winning lifestyle channel, has been providing residents with entertaining, non-commercial, educational programming for the past 57 years.

The NYC Field Guide: How to Thrive in the Five, was produced in collaboration with minority and woman owned production company Next Millennium Productions based in lower Manhattan. The Emmy-nominated company has been a MOME production partner for over a decade.

You can find a complete list of the nominations here. The 68th Annual New York Emmy Awards are scheduled to be announced in the Fall of 2025 in a livestream broadcast on the New York Emmys website.