- Manhattan Neighborhood Network
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Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) is a non-profit organization that broadcasts programming on four public-access television cable TV stations in Manhattan, New York and provides a community media center that enables individuals and groups to produce shows for its network.
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History
It has operated since 1992, and is currently funded by Time Warner Cable and RCN Corporation in a franchise agreement with New York City. Its studios were initially in a rented facility on 23rd Street above ETC/Metro-Access Inc. Studios. It currently operates out of a studio it owns at 537 West 59th Street. In 2002 MNN had two satellite facilities: one on the Lower East Side, a partnership with the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the city's oldest community media centers; and another in East Harlem, a partnership with PRdream.com, also known as MediaNoche, the city's oldest new media gallery based in a community[citation needed]. The relationship with PRdream/MediaNoche ended in 2006. MNN reopened a smaller, temporary operation in an East Harlem, basement storefront on Lexington Avenue.
MNN instituted one of the first community media grant programs in the country[citation needed], providing video equipment, staff and training for community groups in New York City. This program helped groups to document some of the most historically significant issues of the 1990s and 2000s, including AIDS activism, labor organizing, police brutality, community gardens, immigrants rights and LGBT rights. From MNN's inception in 1992, it has aimed to serve as a public access station, as well an organizational hub for community media. In addition, MNN producers, staff and community groups led opposition to the telecommunications corporations Verizon and AT&T, who the group alleged to be circumventing mandated public obligations to give back to local communities where they run their cable and wires on public streets and land[citation needed].
See also
Producers
- Anika and Jabari Osaze
- Harold Channer
- Media & Production Company
- Vaughn Oliver
- Richard Concepcion
- Doby Daenger
- Barbara Rosenfeld
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Coordinates: 40°46′16″N 73°59′19″W / 40.771076°N 73.988677°W
Broadcast television in the New York City metropolitan area English language
channelsWCBS (2.1 CBS) · WNBC (4.1 NBC, 4.2 Nonstop, 4.4 UniSp) · WNYW 5.1 / WWOR 9.2 (Fox) · WABC (7.1 ABC, 7.2 LWN HD, 7.3 LWN SD) · WWOR 9.1 / WNYW 5.2 (MNTV) · WPIX (11.1 CW, 11.3 This TV, 11.4 Antenna TV) · WPXN (31.1 ION, 31.2 Qubo, 31.3 ION Life) · WSAH (43.2 Ind/RTV) · WRNN (48.1 Ind / AMG TV / JTV / News, 48.2 Mega 48.3 Arirang TV) · WVVH-CA 50 (A1 / RSN, East Hampton) · WLNY (55.1 Ind)
Public television
channelsSpanish language
channelsReligious stations Shopping stations WASA-LD (25.1 Infomercials/RTV) · WKOB-LD (42.5 Infomercials) · WSAH (43.1 Infomercials) · W41DO-D (60.1 HSN)
Other stations WNYZ-LP 6 (Ind/Radio) · WEBR-CD (17.2-4 MBC, KRB) · WXNY-LD (32.1 Ind) · WNYX-LD (35.1Ind) · WDVB-LD 39 (ImaginAsian) · WKOB-LD (42.3 RTV) · WKOB-LD (42.4 HOT TV) · WNXY 43.1 (Ind) · WMBC (63.1 Ind, 63.4 SinoVision, 63.5 NTDTV, 63.7 WDNJ-FM, 63.8 KCBN) · WFME (66.2 WFME-FM audio, 66.3 Family Radio/KEAR audio, 66.5 foreign Family Radio audio, 66.6 RTI audio, 66.7 KWO35 audio)
Local cable channels BronxNet · BCAT · Caribbean International Network · CN8 · FiOS1 · MNN · MSG Network · MSG Plus · NET · News 12 Networks · NY1 · NY1 Noticias · NY1 Rail and Road · nyctv · Queens Public Television · SportsNet New York · Telecare · YES Network
Defunct MSG Metro Channels · New Jersey Network (PBS) · WRNY · WWOR EMI Service · KC2XAK 24 (NBC, Bridgeport, UHF/experimental)
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- Television stations in New York City
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