News 12 Westchester Wins Two New York Emmy® Awards

April 2, 2012 - PRLog -- News 12 Westchester was honored by The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with two New York Emmy® Awards. The awards were presented last night at the 55th Annual New York Emmy® Awards Ceremony at The Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City.  

"As always we are extremely proud of the entire team at News 12 Westchester,” said Janine Rose, News 12 Westchester News Director. “These wonderful Emmy Awards are great recognition for all the hard work."

We congratulate the following News 12 Westchester New York Emmy® Award Winners:
- ARTS: NEWS – The Sole Man. (Douglas Pawlikowski, Henry Naccari)
- WRITER: NEWS – Tara Rosenblum, Composite. (Tara Rosenblum)

The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, founded in 1955, is the preeminent membership organization serving the television industry. NY NATAS encourages the pursuit of excellence and promotes the highest standards of quality in television by conferring the industry’s classic and most coveted peer-recognition symbol of distinction – the Emmy®.

About News 12 Westchester:
News 12 Westchester is the exclusive 24-hour local news channel dedicated to serving the county of Westchester, New York.  The cable exclusive service is currently available to households on the Cablevision and Time-Warner systems in Westchester, and the Comcast system in Putnum County.  News 12 Westchester is part of News 12 Networks, the country’s first, largest, and most watched regional news network.  News 12 launched on Long Island in 1986, and today the network of 7 individual local 24-hour news channels remains a cable-exclusive in the New York tri-state area; serving New Jersey, Connecticut, Westchester, Hudson Valley (Rockland and Orange Counties), the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Long Island.  News 12 Networks also includes five traffic and weather channels, providing constantly updated information in those two key subject areas, throughout the same coverage footprint.  In addition to the 12 cable channels, News 12 also features the award winning news12.com, the premiere destination for local  news on the web; and News 12 Interactive, channel 612 on iO TV, providing local news on-demand to Cablevision subscribers.   News 12 Networks is owned and operated by Cablevision Systems Corporation.

About Cablevision:
Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation's leading media and telecommunications companies. In addition to delivering its Optimum-branded cable, Internet, and voice offerings throughout the New York area, the company owns and operates cable systems serving homes in four Western states.  Cablevision’s local media properties include News 12 Networks, MSG Varsity and Newsday Media Group.  Cablevision also owns and operates Clearview Cinemas.  Additional information about Cablevision is available on the Web at www.cablevision.com.