News 12 Long Island is a regional 24-hour

24-hour news cycle

The 24-hour news cycle arrived with the advent of television channels dedicated to news, and brought about a much faster pace of news production with increased demand for stories that can be presented as news, as opposed to the day-by-day pace of the news cycle of printed daily newspapers...

 cable news

United States cable news

Cable news refers to television channels devoted to television news broadcasts, with the name deriving from the proliferation of such networks during the 1980s with the advent of cable television. In the United States, early networks included CNN in 1980, Financial News Network in 1981, and CNN2 ...

 television channel reaching more than 800,000 television homes on Long Island

Long Island

Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

, New York. The channel is the flagship of the News 12 Networks

News 12 Networks

News 12 Networks comprises seven regional cable news television channels in the New York metropolitan area. The channels offer local news 24-hours a day and reach approximately 3.8 million television households in the tri-state area...

, which is touted by owner Cablevision as the "first, largest and most watched regional news network" in the nation. News 12 Long Island was the "first local 24-hour news channel in the United States." The channel launched December 15, 1986.

Coverage area

News 12 Long Island can be seen on cable systems in Nassau and Suffolk counties. In 2010, the estimated population of this news coverage area was 3,100,000. The station's main studio, newsroom and sales offices are located in Woodbury, New York on Long Island.

New Studio, Graphics and HD

On April 9th, 2011, News 12 Long Island debuted its new studio layout, with a new set, a new logo, infobar, graphics (including new news intro), and music (Convergence by Stephen Arnold music). News 12 Long Island is the second of the News 12 Networks (behind News 12 New Jersey) to switch to high definition.

Anchors

• Danielle Campbell
• Ted David
  Ted David
  Ted David, an American financial journalist, recently has been heard as a free-lance anchor on New York's all news station 1010 WINS. He continues to be seen as a freelance anchor on Cablevision's News12 Long Island...
  
  
• Doug Geed
  Doug Geed
  Doug Geed is an American journalist, born in December 1958 on Long Island, New York. He was graduated from Syosset High School and received a Bachelor of Journalism Degree at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri in 1980....
  
  
• Stone Grissom
• Elizabeth Hashagen
• Jackie Lukas
• Judy Martin
  Judy Martin (journalist)
  Judy Martin is an Emmy award-winning American broadcast journalist, author and speaker. She was born in Brooklyn, New York to a mom who was an opera singer and a dad who had a penchant for news. The theatrical mix lead her to the newsroom. Judy's work has been heard on NPR News, BBC Radio 3, The...
  
  
• Colleen McVey
• Carol Silva
• Lauren Sivan
• Lea Tyrrell

Photographers/editors

• David Garden
• Brian Endres
• Brian Jingelski
• Ed Sweeting
• Sue Caron
• Andrew Singh
• David Abrams
• Keith Orpheus
• David Caceres
• Jeffrey Henson
• David Leibowitz
• Brian Stahl
• Jesse Karlewicz
• Brandon Klein
• Pete Cinnante
• Juan Monoslave

Weather

• Rich Hoffman
• Bill Korbel
• Norm Dvoskin
• Bruce Avery (regular morning sub)
• Jeff Mendelsohn (on ch. 61)
• Joe Cioffi
• Samantha Augieri

Sports

• Kevin Maher (sports director)
• Jamie Stuart
• Bob Wolff
  Bob Wolff
  Robert "Bob" Wolff , in New York City, New York is an American sportscaster. He was the radio and TV voice of the Washington Senators from 1947 to 1960, continuing with the team when they relocated and became the Minnesota Twins in 1961. In 1962, he joined NBC-TV...
  
  
• Jason Kurtz
• Daniel Jacobsen

Reporters

• Andrew Ehinger
  Andrew Ehinger
  Andrew Ehinger is an American news reporter for News 12 Long Island.-Life and career:Ehinger was raised in New York City, New York. In 1987 he graduated from Trinity School a private school on Manhattan's Upper West Side...
  
   (consumer & technology reporter)
• Erin Colton
  Erin Colton
  Erin Colton is a New York Emmy Award-winning American news reporter for News 12 Long Island and MSG Varsity.-Life and Career:...
  
   (general assignment)
• Eileen Lehpamer (general assignment)
• Matt Jablow (general assignment)
• Jill Wagner (general assignment)
• Virgina Huie (general assignment)
• Christine Insinga (general assignment)
• Jackie Lukas (general assignment)
• Ken Grimball (feature reporter)
• Shari Einhorn (health reporter)
• Lily Stolzberg (general assignment)
• Elisa DiStefano (am traffic)
• Jill Conway (general assignment)
• Drew Scott (transportation reporter)
• Sean Bergin (general assignment)

Famous alumni

• Lara Spencer
  Lara Spencer
  Lara Spencer is the lifestyle anchor for Good Morning America. She is also a correspondent for Nightline and ABC News. Previously, she was the host of the syndicated television newsmagazine The Insider and was a regular contributor to CBS's The Early Show...
  
   (host of "The Insider" - went by her maiden name, Von Seelen while at News 12.)

Former staff

• Bonnie Schneider
  Bonnie Schneider
  Bonnie Schneider is meteorologist appearing on the various platforms of CNN and HLN. She debuted on the network on June 11, 2005, just in time to cover the 2005 hurricane season. She is also the author of EXTREME WEATHER, publisher:Palgrave Macmillan, January 31, 2012...
  
  
• Jodi Applegate
  Jodi Applegate
  Jodi Applegate is an American news anchor for WPIX New York. She formerly anchored WNYW-TV's Good Day New York and News 12 Long Island.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Trish Bergin
• Patti Anne Browne
• Greg Cergol
  Greg Cergol
  Greg Cergol is WNBC's Long Island correspondent and serves as a substitute anchor. He joined WNBC in 1999 after spending 9 years as a reporter and anchor with News 12 Long Island....
  
  
• Ron Corning
  Ron Corning
  Ron Corning is an American television host at the ABC affiliate WFAA in Dallas, Texas. He co-anchors the station's morning newscast, Daybreak, and is solo anchor of Midday, the station's one-hour noon newscast....
  
  
• Carolyn Gusoff
• Melba Toliver
• Joe Moskowitz
• Roberto Torado
• John Bolaris
  John Bolaris
  John Bolaris is the chief meteorologist for WTXF, the Fox affiliate in Philadelphia. He began working for the station in January 2008 after a five year stint as meteorologist at WCBS in New York, which was his second stint at the station....
  
  
• Scott Feldman
• Kirstin Cole
• Olessa Stepanova
• Michael Coleman

Other News 12 channels

• News 12 New Jersey
  News 12 New Jersey
  News 12 New Jersey is a 24-hour cable news television channel reaching more than 1.8 million television homes within the New York City metropolitan area. The channel operates as an independent unit of News 12 Networks, the first, largest and most watched regional news network in United States...
  
  
• News 12 Connecticut
• News 12 Westchester
• News 12 The Bronx
• News 12 Brooklyn
  News 12 Brooklyn
  News 12 Brooklyn launched in 2005 and reaches more than 490,000 homes on the Cablevision and Time Warner Cable systems. It shares its studio and on air talent with News 12 The Bronx. Also, like News 12 The Bronx, News 12 Brooklyn utilizes environmentally friendly hybrid gas/electric powered...
  
  
• News 12 Traffic and Weather
• News 12 Interactive

Sources

• http://www.news12.com/Login/about News12.com
• http://www.rtnda.org/resources/nonstopnews/news12li.html Radio-Television News Directors Association
• http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/new_jersey_map.html U.S. Census Bureau
• http://tvlistings.aol.com/listings/nj/edison/cablevision-standard?zipcode=08837 AOL.com
• http://www.news12.com/li/editions?id=7 News12.com