New York MTA Transit Transit News - December 2014

The December 2014 episode is the 20th anniversary of the Transit Transit News Magazine program, and it will also be its final show. This episode features:

• A stage door tour of Radio City Music Hall
• The annual employee sing-a-long
• A visit to Comic Con and Discovery Times Square
• the annual Department of Buses sing-a-long
• A 20-year look at the more than 300 intern reporters for Transit Transit News Magazine
• A look at the more than 60 volunteers for Transit Transit News Magazine

Some highlights and facts about the Transit Transit News Magazine program over the last 20 years:

• The Video Department produced all productions in-house
• 22 million homes were reqched on 30 cable televsion companies in the New York tri-state area per week
• More than 300 interns train in corporate communications and broadcast television. More than 100 have gone on to work in television and the media industry
• More than 30 national awards were received, including 1 Emmy, 2 Emmy nominations, 11 Tellys and several NATOA government programming awards
• More than 50 volunteers (everyone who worked on the show as a reporter was an MTA employee)
• No cost for broadcasting -- the show sponsors have paid for the air time on WNYE-TV
• 9/11 videos and documentaries -- "Above & Below" and "Dust to Steel" -- where sent out to 100 local and national libraries. The two programs are in teh collections of the 9/11 Museum, Museum of the City of NY, Paley Center for TV & Radio and NY Historical Society, just to name a few