L.A. Customers to Get Live N.Y. Cable Feeds
Los Angeles cable customers now have another source of on-the-scene news coverage of the World Trade Center tragedy.
The city is devoting time on one of two public access channels to live feeds from New York 1 News, the 24-hour news channel owned by AOL Time Warner. In an unprecedented move, Channel 36, the commercial-free local educational access outlet, began airing New York 1 Friday at 10 p.m. to all 700,000 cable households in Los Angeles.
New York 1 will air on the L.A. public access channel from 10 p.m. until 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, and intermittently through the day as its schedule permits.
“I have few resources at my disposal and Time Warner is giving this to us out of the goodness of their hearts,” said Steve Grace, president of the nonprofit group, largely funded by the city, that runs Channel 36. “This is another way to connect people to the events back east. We have a lot of former New York residents who care what’s happening there.”
New York 1 is airing in several of AOL Time Warner’s cable systems, which serve 12 million customers nationwide. The company’s 125,000 customers in the West Valley have had access to New York 1 since early Wednesday, when the local cable company began airing footage on public access Channel 34.
AOL Time Warner is also making the footage available to its cable customers in South Pasadena and San Marino.
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