WCBS New York

Rich Paleski joins CBS-owned WCBS-WLNY New York from the company’s KYW-WPSG Philadelphia where he’s being succeeded by Marc Musgrove. Both have the title of director of broadcast operations and engineering.

Considering Time Warner Cable serves a large chunk of New York City, it stands to reason the WCBS blackout would hurt the station’s efforts to attract ad dollars in the heavily contested Big Apple mayor’s race. And indeed, that appears to be the case with only one candidate having booked time covering any period during the darkness that started Aug. 2.

WCBS New York, which is also working with Syncbak to stream its live signal, is also deploying a mobile DTV signal under the Dyle mobile TV environment.

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In the nation’s No. 1 market, local broadcasters are experimenting with mobile and streaming content in an effort to keep up with their newspaper competition — including giants The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which have the advantage of drawing traffic from a global audience. Part one of a special three-part Digital DMA examining the complexity of the New York media market. Next week: newspapers.

Long Island-based WLNY’s final 11 p.m. newscast under the current ownership will air on March 29. A regularly scheduled newscast won’t return until mid-June, a couple of months after the outlet is officially acquired by CBS-owned WCBS New York.

The former local sales manager of WPIX New York moves to the CBS O&O.

The CBS O&O says its 244,000 average viewers to the city’s New York Giants parade between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. yesterday was tops in the market.

The CBS New York O&O is boosting its Long Island bureau by hiring Carolyn Gusoff and increasing its entertainment coverage through Katie McGee. The moves are the latest in a series of personnel shifts the station is expected to make in preparation for its acquisition of Long Island’s WLNY.

When CBS announced on Dec. 12 that it was acquiring WLNY and creating a New York duopoly (with flagship WCBS), it didn’t release the price. But it shows up in the FCC application seeking approval of the deal. WLNY is an independent station owned by Michael Pascucci and family.

Covering the Occupy Wall Street story has been a challenge for local stations and Thursday was no different. Protesters, pedestrians and a heavy police presence triggered a scuffle for superiority on the sidewalks.

The CBS New York O&O is working on final details for a digital channel to launch before the year’s end that will rival WNBC’s Nonstop and local cable news channels. CBS New York Plus will combine the news and information-gathering power of the TV station and CBS’s New York AM stations WCBS, WINS and WFAN.

Dan Forman today was named managing editor at CBS New York O&O WCBS. A veteran media executive and producer with nearly 30 years of experience in the New York market, […]

Vanessa Murdock has been named weekend morning meteorologist and weekday reporter at CBS O&O WCBS New York, it was announced by David Friend, senior vice president, news, CBS Television Stations, […]

Chris Wragge will rejoin CBS O&O WCBS New York as co-anchor of the station’s weeknight 6 p.m. newscasts, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 6. Prior to leaving WCBS last December, Wragge was […]

To commemorate the anniversary of the attacks, TV stations and cable news channels in New York and Washington are planning a host of special programs ranging from recollections to analysis of all that’s changed since 2001. The broadcast networks’ news departments also have a full plate of coverage planned. This is the second in a TVNewsCheck series this week on how broadcasters responded to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Whenever the CBS New York O&O’s chopper is aloft over a fire, the footage from cameras is fed not only to the station, but to the FDNY’s operations center. This unusual sharing agreement was born out of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as a way to put more information into the hands of emergency officials.

Whenever the CBS New York O&O’s chopper is aloft over a fire, the footage from cameras is fed not only to the station, but to the FDNY’s operations center. This unusual sharing agreement was born out of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as a way to put more information into the hands of emergency officials.

Rob Morrison today was named co-anchor of the weekday editions of CBS 2 News This Morning at CBS’s New York O&O WCBS. Morrison, who has anchored the station’s weekend morning […]