matcarl
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Channel 49 has a scroll right now telling viewers on LI and NNJ to tune to the new FiOS1 channel for local news and sports. There is no channel 1 right now, maybe it's coming soon? | |
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Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Hope NYC is not far behind | |
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icemannyr1
join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ | Does this mean NJ will have a separate FiOS1 feed from NYC?
It should be interesting if FiOS1 starts to cover college and high school sporting events. | |
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Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ really hope so | |
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Paramus, NJ | What's the "Verizon" ch 499 supposed to end up being ( & when)? | |
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matcarl
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY
| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ said by MeatChicken  :What's the "Verizon" ch 499 supposed to end up being ( & when)? It's just like another Public Access channel, I saw something on it once. | |
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Upper Marlboro, MD | FIOS 1 is nothing to get excited over folks. We have had it here in the DC area for sometime now and it broadcasts nothing significant(no local news) | |
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MacGyver973
join:2009-05-18
West Orange, NJ
| said by matcarl :Channel 49 has a scroll right now telling viewers on LI and NNJ to tune to the new FiOS1 channel for local news and sports. There is no channel 1 right now, maybe it's coming soon? I'm in Essex County and I don't see that scroll. Weatherscan Local is on Ch 49. | |
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icemannyr1
join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ
| Channel 499 is for leased access, people or companies pay for the air time.
The scroll about FiOS1 was just on here, if your weatherscan city for current conditions is Newark then you should get the scroll about FiOS1 after the messages from the Weather Channel. | |
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| IIRC, the plan for the NY version of FiOS1 was that it was to be produced by WNBC - very different than what is done for FiOS1 down in DC, which is (theoretically) produced by VZ, but in fact is largely outsourced and actually originates in CT.
I am not sure if they would be able to use it for overflow sports (ie, MSG+ - SD only, Billy2 - sorry) but that was a key part of FiOS1 in the DC market.
All this could have changed, of course, since I left. | |
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join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ it wont be used as overflow , Verizon already has MSG 2 and MSG + 2 in slots, channel 79 and 81. FIOS 1 for me and the rest of new yorkers that have or dont have FIOS is that it has to be like NY 1 and News 12 and not like NY Non Stop , and it has to for me Staten Island Programming like its seen on NY 1 on TW Cable. I know you guys want me to go back , but they (Verizon ) needs the MSG HD, MSG + HD, FIOS 1 *24 Hour NYC News Channel and Staten Island Local Programming. All FIOS has for me right now, is SNY HD, YES HD and ONE BILL with Verizon Wireless. Like I said Ill see what happens, Im keeping my options open | |
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| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ said by billy2 :it wont be used as overflow , Verizon already has MSG 2 and MSG + 2 in slots, channel 79 and 81. FiOS1 may not be used as overflow, but it is not because they already have MSG2, etc.
I am honestly surprised that MSG hasn't forced VZ to resolve the situation of 2 (extra) channels yet, because when we were working out the details of the launch, MSG was completely against having both feeds carried full time, and, like many things at VZ, it was supposed to be "just for a while." | |
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1 edit | I doubt FIOS 1 is going to be anything like News 12 or NY1. Those are both large and probably expensive news operations. I doubt Verizon would make that big of an investment especially as other news operations are scaling down (i.e. WNBC). | |
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join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ
| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ For NJ the only place to get true local news updates would be News12, that's not going to happen, or NJN News from the NJ PBS Station, I don't think that will happen.
I wonder where the local news updates will come from?
I guess there should be a press release out soon about FiOS1 for Northern NJ? | |
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@rr.com | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ there will be only one fios1 for new york and northern nj. it will be produced by WRNN not NBC. | |
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Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ is there a news link that of WRNN producing FIOS 1, how do you know about that | |
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| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ said by billy2 :is there a news link that of WRNN producing FIOS 1, how do you know about that there is not a news link for everything billy. you'll believe it when you see it next week. | |
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join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ said by baskingR :
you'll believe it when you see it next week.
Basking, is that when it's debuting, next week? | |
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join:2009-05-18
West Orange, NJ
| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ According to the article freelance reporters and photographers have been taping "for weeks". What kind of news channel is this if they can tape weeks ahead of time? Also, I don't see how this channel is going to compete with News 12 if they only cover NYC news. It would be nice to see them focus on specific regions like News 12 does. If I'm in NJ I don't care about Long Island news. And we already have enough NYC news with all the major networks' local newscasts. | |
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| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ For the DC version, the bulk of the "news" programming was special interest/features that were evergreen, along with a few short cut-ins from their broadcast partner (not sure if that happened or how long it lasted, but it was planned and we built the links for it) in the morning and afternoon drive time - but only the first one would be "live." | |
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join:2007-08-15
Paramus, NJ
| said by MacGyver973 :According to the article freelance reporters and photographers have been taping "for weeks". What kind of news channel is this if they can tape weeks ahead of time? Also, I don't see how this channel is going to compete with News 12 if they only cover NYC news. It would be nice to see them focus on specific regions like News 12 does. If I'm in NJ I don't care about Long Island news. And we already have enough NYC news with all the major networks' local newscasts. 1) as far as taping for a few weeks already ....
Even the "major" news channels do this... For example, many local stories, about the "new plastic recycled benches" installed in FuttBuck County Park, or the cell tower sceduled to be completed in Sept , finally bringing service to the "lonely stretch of Rt 209" , or a piece about a local guy that invented a new can opener....
These are taped, edited & canned, & editors "decide" when they will air, based on time constraints, other news that is day-sensitive ect ...
It's also my understanding that the Fios1 news will be "local" tristate for all of us in NNJ, Long Island & Rockland/Westchester...
I'm in Bergen county, & I'm much more interested in "local" stories from closer Nassau, Hudson or Rockland counties, than for example, stories from Salem, Burlington or Glocester county NJ...
I'm sure most people in Nassau & Suffolk as well, would generally be more interested in stories centered in Ft.Lee, Hoboken, Lodi, Yonkers & Suffern, before getting small town news from a hundred miles away in some upstate NY town .....
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join:2009-05-18
West Orange, NJ
| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ said by MeatChicken : It's also my understanding that the Fios1 news will be "local" tristate for all of us in NNJ, Long Island & Rockland/Westchester... I'm in Bergen county, & I'm much more interested in "local" stories from closer Nassau, Hudson or Rockland counties, than for example, stories from Salem, Burlington or Glocester county NJ... But that's my point. We are already getting "tri-state" news coverage from WABC, WNBC, WCBS, WNYW, WWOR and WPIX. Do we really need another news outlet with the same coverage area? I live in NJ and could care less about LI. The only thing I miss about cable is News 12 NJ that actually covers news in our local towns, rather than LI, NYC, or Westchester. We don't get news from Gloucester county or anywhere in south Jersey anyway so that's basically a moot point. | |
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join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Ny 1 has Your Staten Island news now and this week in Staten Island and sometimes segements and specials of Staten Island , so I know where you are meaning by covering Local town on News 12 | |
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Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ NY 1 on demand channel has Staten Island and Staten Island Video on demand channel, all on Time Warner, will we see this on FIOS , I don't mean NY 1 on Demand and TWC does not cover /carry News 12, FIOS still doesnt have SI CTV Channels | |
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Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ FIOS1 in DC is known not as a news channel, as said here, its some MASN 2 and sounds like what the channel will be in NYC come 6/22 | |
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join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ I guess the "taping" part for FIOS 1 is kind of like a second NY Non Stop channel | |
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Please stop following up one confusing post with another. What are you talking about?? | |
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join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ talking about many topics relating to FIOS1, NY Non Stop , NY 1 and News 12, I don't think its off topic | |
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Lakeland, FL
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| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ said by billy2 :talking about many topics relating to FIOS1, NY Non Stop , NY 1 and News 12, I don't think its off topic Billy, your not even a FIOS user, please focus your energy for your provider of Time-Warner | |
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| said by billy2 :NY 1 on demand channel has Staten Island and Staten Island Video on demand channel, all on Time Warner, will we see this on FIOS , I don't mean NY 1 on Demand and TWC does not cover /carry News 12, FIOS still doesnt have SI CTV Channels twc does carry news12 brooklyn in brooklyn and news12 NJ in northern NJ.
fios will have SI CTV channels by end of month. | |
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join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ I meant News 12 in Staten Island and I do know that Staten Island Community Public Access Channels will be on by end of June , beginning of July . Since I don't have FIOS, I will do my searching of how and what FIOS 1 is at other houses that people have FIOS I know, and I will know about it | |
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join:2007-08-15
Paramus, NJ
2 edits | said by MacGyver973 : The only thing I miss about cable is News 12 NJ that actually covers news in our local towns, rather than LI, NYC, or Westchester. We don't get news from Gloucester county or anywhere in south Jersey anyway so that's basically a moot point. I think we're essentially on the same page, & that's what Fios1 may end up being ...
Local towns news for "our areas" ( NNJ, Westchester, LI) ...
The thing that bothered me about News 12 NJ, when I had CableVision, was too much of that "local towns" news from those "FuttBuck" counties & far small towns, hours away from here, that I didn't care about, in the small & the repetitive nature of watching it for 30-40 mins, & essentially seeing the whole day's news broadcast "loop"..
Fios 1 may end up covering a somewhat similar size area, but they are trading N12NJ's southern & Western zones for closer NY counties.
No one is going to get a news channel devoted to a 15 mile radius of their home, but I think the best idea is to have this Fios 1 as a combined NNJ/LI/WestchRocklnd channel, as it seems to be. This could eventually lead to more interesting & less repetitive content, although I'm sure not in the beginning. | |
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matcarl
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY
| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ said by MeatChicken :This could eventually lead to more interesting & less repetitive content, although I'm sure not in the beginning. Could this end up being the 7th .TV channel, only not in HD  | |
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| for all those complaining of a lack of a local news channel by verizon, now they are about to launch one and there you go complaining. wait to see what the product is before criticizing. they have to start somewhere. i imagine it will be awhile before its up to par with news12 or ny1 but hey those channels were crappy in the beginning. possible if fios is successful and there are more customers, it will justify having fios1 nyc, fios1 NNJ, fios1 westchester, etc. | |
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join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ well we all have to see what it is , and then we will know and go from there . I already told Verizon that it can't be like NY non Stop and was hoping for similarities to NY 1 and News 12, but I wont even see that , after reading the blog from multichannel news | |
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join:2009-05-18
West Orange, NJ
| said by baskingR :
there will be only one fios1 for new york and northern nj. it will be produced by WRNN not NBC.
Odd that RNN is producing the news. They just recently scaled back their own news on their own network by eliminating part of their evening news block. | |
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join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
| well from what I know in the City of NY, it suppose to have weather and traffic on the 5s, and compete with NY 1 and News 12 according to this article blog from multichannel.com
»www.multichannel.com/blog/BIT_RA···iOS1.php | |
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join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ | Found this post in another forum, "RNN will begin 2 new newscast coming June 22nd. A morning and then evening show.. Verizon FIOS is backing them.. Should be very interesting- Looks like NY1 will get a run for there money." | |
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Staten Island, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ can you link this news post , where did you find it ? | |
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join:2008-08-10
Jericho, NY
| I saw the crawl on WeatherScan this morning, and I could have sworn it said Long Island and Westchester, not LI and NNJ. That would make more sense, especially if RNN is producing it - and would presumably give NJ a different feed (or partially different feed). I could be mistaken though. We'll wait and see... | |
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icemannyr1
join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ
| Let's hope FiOS1 is better then NY Non Stop.
News12 NJ is ok but it's nothing special. All the non news casts and talk shows were pulled from the channel years ago.
They take the same 30min or hour news cast and repeat it until the next live news cast is done.
If I'm correct the AM news cast repeats till 12pm and then 12pm news cast is airs till 4pm or 5pm and that newscasts repeats till 10 or 11pm. They will update stores if needed within the rebroadcasts. | |
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join:2001-04-11
Township Of Washington, NJ | Any word on if they plan to offer newscasts or will it just be news updates? | |
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matcarl
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Fios1 is on right now on Long Island. There is no audio, something is wrong already, but you can tell it's all just promos anyway that say coming soon. | |
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Franklin Square, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Audio's working now. | |
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Nesconset, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ what channel is this on? Is it actually channel 1?
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Franklin Square, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Yes, it is actually on channel 1 | |
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Montvale, NJ | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Promo is also on in NNJ | |
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join:2008-06-25
Nesconset, NY | My wife complains regularly about how much she misses cablevisions news12. I hope this is the beginning of something that will come close to that. I guess we'll start to get a better idea on Monday. | |
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| FiOS1 was launched this morning with a 'coming soon' loop. Live content will start sometime next week. There will be a unique LI and NJ feed that will have local news, traffic, weather etc... It's meant to compete with News 12 for now and NY1 is the next target... | |
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Lee GWB
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Allendale, NJ | Matt,
I checked here in Allendale and 501 and Channel 1 have the "Coming Soon" advert.
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Franklin Square, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ 501? You mean this channel will be in HD too??? | |
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1 edit | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ It does not look HD but it is on HD 501
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Lee GWB
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1 edit | Matt,
The "Promo" has "snip it's" from what I would think were fron the "Interviews" of the probable reporters. One was a a Traffic report that was local to NNJ and New Jersey is "Splashed" all over the place on the promo. So is SEEMS pretty local.
This is the only reason some folks I know have yet switch over from CV. We shall see:)
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Franklin Square, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Yeah, same here, Long Island is splashed all over it too. | |
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join:2006-04-03
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| said by Lee GWB :Matt, The "Promo" has "snip it's" from what I would think were fron the "Interviews" of the probable reporters. One was a a Traffic report that was local to NNJ and New Jersey is "Splahed" all over the place on the promo. So is SEEMS pretty local. At one point, the NJ promo also has the temperature for "Sag Harbor" at the bottom of the screen
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join:2008-05-20
Belleville, NJ | Looking forward to it! HD too? The school closings and traffic were the most important thing we used News12 for. Their weather was the most inaccurate ever! | |
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Somerville, NJ | promo in NNJ also on 501, but not currently in HD | |
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join:2007-08-15
Paramus, NJ
1 edit | I'm at work ...
But I'm goint to ASSume that even if the content itself is currently SD, the 501 feed to the box is upconverted to 720p or 1080i to be sent to the homes.
That way people won't get that momentary sync/black screen that happens on many TV's when switching between HD & SD signal stations ( Assuming you have the box's SD override set to native" 480i, for the SD channels).
Good idea, since I'm much more likley to watch this channel if it's in the HD "surf mix" between 500-950 | |
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matcarl
join:2007-03-09
Franklin Square, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ I guess right now the promo is 480i since the channel didn't start yet, I would guess it will be an HD signal after startup on Monday with the momentary lapse you call it. | |
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| Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ Just an FYI - I've watched NY1 on TWC in Queens many times and although NY1 has an SD & an HD channel, the HD channel is always in SD with blue bars on either side with the NY1 logo on it. FIOS1 may follow suit. The HD channel version may be the SD feed with bars on either side, so it will not be true HD. | |
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Franklin Square, NY | Re: FiOS1 For Long Island & northern NJ I don't think they would go out of their way and make an HD channel if they weren't planning on broadcasting some material in HD, that would be pretty dumb, but we'll see. | |
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join:2009-02-27
Staten Island, NY
| NY 1 HD was suppose to be upgraded to Full HD in May according to NY 1 General manager in an email to me, but it still has the sidebars . The Picture is better HD than SD on channel 1 as to 701 . yes I think it makes the best sense to do HD FIOS1 on Channel 501 if they are following of Ny 1 and News 12 , although I don't think News 12 has an HD Channel | |
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