News 12+

News 12+ (formerly News 12 Traffic & Weather) is an American cable news television channel that is owned by the Altice USA News subsidiary of Altice USA. The channel provides 24-hour live reports on traffic conditions and weather forecasts for the New York City metropolitan area, updated every 5 minutes. The channel is headquartered in Woodbury, New York.

News 12+
CountryUnited States
Broadcast areaNationwide
Slogan"Know Before You Go!"
HeadquartersWoodbury, New York
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format1080i (HDTV)
480i (SDTV)
Ownership
OwnerAltice USA News
(Altice USA)
History
Launched1980s
Former namesNews 12 Weather (1993–1998)
MSG Metro Traffic & Weather (1998–2005)
News 12 Traffic & Weather (2005-2019)
Links
Websitewww.news12.com
Availability
Cable
Cablevision61 (SD/HD)
Verizon FiOS530 (HD)

It is an affiliate of the News 12 Networks slate of regional cable news channels in the New York City area (each of which focus on areas outside of Manhattan and Queens, including the easternmost boroughs). News 12+ is carried on channel 61 on Altice USA systems in the region, and is also available on Verizon Fios and Comcast Xfinity in portions of the Hudson Valley region of upstate New York.

Background

The channel was launched in the 1980s News 12 Weather. The service originally aired each morning in place of Bravo and E!, as all three services had shared a channel slot on Cablevision's Long Island systems due to limited channel capacity at the provider's headends. Following the launch of Cablevision's Optimum TV service in 1996, News 12 Weather gained a full-time dedicated channel slot on the provider's systems.

On August 5, 1998, the service was rebranded as MSG Metro Traffic & Weather and was rolled into the MSG Metro Channels slate (as of 2014, it is the only channel that was a part of the original MSG Metro Channels slate that survives in operation); its format was also revised to include regular updates on traffic conditions in the New York metropolitan area. As a result, it became the first strictly local traffic and weather channel in the Tri-State area; although it faced competition for weather coverage via local broadcast stations and The Weather Channel, the traffic component was the feature that made the channel unique.

In October 5, 2005, the channel was brought back in with the News 12 Networks slate of channels, accordingly being renamed News 12 Traffic & Weather.[1] The channel launched high definition simulcast services of its five regional feeds in November 2012. In December 2013, News 12 Networks announced it would lay off eight of the channel's ten meteorologists and News 12 Traffic & Weather before a massive staff lay-off. The channel formerly had a full-time staff of 40 reporters and 10 meteorologists and 30 of its 40 traffic reporters; it also announced that the channels would broadcast in a semi-automated manner, with live reports only throughout the morning drive, unless significant traffic or severe weather conditions warrant extended coverage.

Original News 12+ logo. Used until early 2020.

In August 2019, Altice rebranded the network as News 12+ and expanded the programming to include short headline news stories, in addition to traffic and weather reports.[2]

Programming

As with the rolling news-formatted channels under the News 12 umbrella, News 12+ is divided into five channel feeds available in different regions of the New York metropolitan area (New York City, New Jersey, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and Connecticut), which are centralcasted from News 12's headquarters in Woodbury. The channel maintains a staff of five part-time and several freelance traffic reporters, and two on-camera meteorologists. News 12+ airs mainly traffic and weather reports, and they also air short headline news at some times.

References

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