New York MTA Transit Transit News - December 2014

The 20th anniversary of the program is also the last. The episode includes a 20-year look at the volunteers and interns that contributed.
Dec. 8, 2014
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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
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