If Arnold Diaz’s Fox 5 antics fill you with shame, if Sue Simmons’s NewsChannel 4 banter makes you want to chuck something at your
TV, if you’re just looking for something calm and earnest at eleven o’clock, no-frills, low-budget, then lovably dorky
NY1 has some great news for you: The local all-news station is starting its own late-night newscast, to launch Monday night, January 22. “You’re not going to get stories about the latest person fired off
The Apprentice or about the killer salad bar,” promises
NY1 exec Steve Paulus. Lewis Dodley will anchor along with, naturally, a white woman — Paulus won’t yet reveal who it is, but he says she’s a former
NY1 reporter who left the station several years ago — and, unlike much of the station’s news programming, it’ll be broadcast live, with the anchors tossing to a mix of taped and live segments and reporters in the field. Paulus expects a good response from
NY1’s loyal fans. “People have told me they watch us so much that our logo gets burned into their plasma screens,” he says. —
Tim Murphy
