It looks like the New York Times will be combining some of its web videos for a weekly TV show:
The New York Times produces more than a hundred videos each month for its website and other digital platforms.
Some of those videos will reach a targeted television audience starting next week, with the premiere of “NYTV.” The half-hour show will air Mondays at 8:30 p.m. on New York’s flagship local station, NYC life (that’s channel 25 in and around the five boroughs; lowercase spelling intentional), under the banner of NYC Media, the city’s official TV, radio and online network.
Each episode will feature a selection of the latest New York-centric culture, lifestyle and fashion-oriented videos produced by Times journalists, drawing heavily on recurring segments by marquee talents, including Bill Cunningham (“On the Street“), Frank Bruni (“Tipsy Diaries“) and A.O. Scott (“Critics’ Picks“).
“What NYTV will be doing,” said Gerald Marzorati, the former Times Magazine editor who now oversees new ventures as an assistant managing editor at the paper, in an email to The Cutline, “is assembling local segments the Times has created, shot and made available on our site into a program for a platform–television–we have no presence in right now.”
Let’s just hope it’s not accompanied by those awful NYT commercials…