FiOS1
{{short description|Hyperlocal news network}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox television channel
| name = FiOS1 News
| logo = FiOS1_logo.png
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| launch_date = {{start date and age|2009|6|22}} (Long Island and New Jersey){{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/verizon-launches-fios1-channels-on-long-island-and-in-northern-new-jersey-61830802.html|title=Verizon Launches FiOS1 Channels on Long Island and in Northern New Jersey|publisher=Verizon Communications|access-date=January 20, 2017}}
{{start date and age|2014|5|28}} (Lower Hudson Valley){{cite press release|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/verizon-fios1-news-now-serving-westchester-rockland-and-lower-hudson-valley-262869851.html|title=Verizon FiOS1 News Now Serving Westchester, Rockland and the Lower Hudson Valley|publisher=Verizon Communications|access-date=January 20, 2017}}
| closed_date = {{end date and age|2019|11|13}}
({{age in years and days|2009|6|22|2019|11|13}})
| picture_format = 1080i
(480i letterboxed for SDTV feed)
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| owner = Verizon
| country = {{USA}}
| language = American English
| area = New Jersey, Long Island, Lower Hudson Valley
| affiliates = RNN
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FiOS1 was a news-based pay television network that was carried by Verizon Fios in the New York metropolitan area. Launched on June 22, 2009 in Long Island and New Jersey and later on May 28, 2014 in the Lower Hudson Valley, FiOS1 provided hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports and also original programming. FiOS1 was only available in Northern New Jersey, Long Island, and Lower Hudson Valley.
The networks focused on content produced by RNN, which produced the network's newscasts. Sports coverage featured local high schools and colleges such as Rutgers University, Hofstra University and Princeton University.{{cite web|url=http://scarletknights.com/news/release.asp?prID=7887 |title=Rutgers Athletics Partners with Verizon's FiOS TV |website=Scarletknights.com |date=June 22, 2009 |access-date=January 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224074119/http://scarletknights.com/news/release.asp?prID=7887 |archive-date=February 24, 2012 }}{{cite web |url=http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2009/more-collegiate-sports-coming.html |title=Verizon | More Collegiate Sports Coming to Verizon's FiOS1: Princeton and Hofstra Are Latest Universities to Reach Agreements to Televise Football, Soccer and Much More |website=Newscenter.verizon.com |access-date=2013-07-06 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716025621/http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2009/more-collegiate-sports-coming.html |url-status=dead }}
In 2013, the segment Restaurant Hunter received a New York Emmy Award in the "Entertainment Feature/Segment".{{cite web|url=http://www.rnntv.com/content/restaurant-hunter-fios1-news-wins-emmy-award|title=Restaurant Hunter on FiOS1 News wins Emmy Award|website=Rnntv.com|access-date=January 20, 2017|archive-date=October 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029184012/http://www.rnntv.com/content/restaurant-hunter-fios1-news-wins-emmy-award|url-status=dead}}
In August 2019, it was announced that FiOS1 would shut down through a WARN Act notice after RNN and Verizon could not come to an agreement on a contract extension. It was announced in September that Altice's News 12 would be added to the FiOS lineup beginning on November 4, 2019 as part of a wider deal to add their other news channels, Cheddar and i24 News.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2019/10/31/news-12-to-join-verizon/4096780002/|title=Watch that dial: News12 to join Verizon lineup Nov. 4|first=Peter D.|last=Kramer|website=The Journal News}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newsday.com/business/verizon-fios-news-12-1.35885384|title=Verizon FiOS customers to get News 12 newscasts|last=Madore|first=James|date=2019-09-04|website=Newsday.com|access-date=2019-09-16}}{{cite web|url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2019/08/18/verizon-shutter-fios-1-news-costing-150-jobs/2029818001/|last=Kramer|first=Peter D.|title=Verizon to shutter Fios1 News, forcing RNN to cut 150 jobs|work=The Journal News|date=August 18, 2019|access-date=August 19, 2019}} Although FiOS1 was intended to cease operations on November 15, 2019, near its closure, RNN announced via an email to its employees that FiOS1 would close early on November 13 (with its final newscast at 11 p.m.) as many of its employees were let go from their jobs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2019/11/13/verizon-fios-1-news-last-day/4177168002/|title=Verizon pulls plug on Fios1 News early, days before RNN contract expires|first=Peter D.|last=Kramer|website=The Journal News}} Immediately after its newscast, the websites and social network feeds were closed. Since 2021, all of FiOS1's websites became redirects to Verizon Fios' services.
From March 26, 2020, the former FiOS1 HD channel space (channel 501) was re-used for Verizon's "Pay it Forward Live",{{Cite web|url=https://www.verizon.com/pay-it-forward-live/|title=Pay It Forward Live | Verizon|date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614063148/https://www.verizon.com/pay-it-forward-live/|archive-date=June 14, 2020}} a weekly live program featured entertainment, mainly gaming and music, to support local businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.verizon.com/about/news/biggest-names-helping|title=4/2 Update: The biggest names in entertainment are helping the smallest names in business|date=2020-03-24|website=Verizon.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-06}} This program concluded on May 28,{{Cite web|title=Verizon PayItForward LIVE|url=https://twitter.com/i/events/1242569972498354177|access-date=2020-06-03|website=Twitter|language=en}} and the channel was eventually removed from Fios altogether later that year.
Programming
At the time of its closure, FiOS1 provided the following programs in all regions:
- FIOS1 News Morning Edition
- FIOS1 News Evening Edition
- FIOS1 News Weekend Edition
- FIOS1 News Daytime Edition
- FIOS1 News Now
- Push Pause
- Build{{cite web|url=http://www.fios1news.com/longisland/build-preview-nov-3-2016|title=FiOS1 News' new series 'Build' features top names in show business|website=Fios1news.com|access-date=January 20, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.fios1news.com/newjersey/build-preview-nov-3-2016|title=FiOS1 News' new series 'Build' features top names in show business|website=Fios1news.com|access-date=January 20, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.fios1news.com/lowerhudsonvalley/build-preview-nov-3-2016|title=FiOS1 News' new series 'Build' features top names in show business|website=Fios1news.com|access-date=January 20, 2017}}
- Yahoo Finance Market Movers[https://yahoofinance.tumblr.com/post/167191116733/yahoo-finance-market-movers-premieres-on-fios1] {{dead link|date=November 2021}}
FiOS1 provided additional local programming for its other three regions:
Long Island: [http://www.fios1news.com/longisland High Speed Fiber-Optic Internet Services Provider | Verizon Fios]:
- My Long Island TV{{cite web|url=http://www.mylitv.com/|title=Welcome To The New MyLITV.com|website=Mylitv.com|access-date=January 20, 2017}}
- Restaurant Hunter
- Heroes on our Island
- Money & Main$treet
- Traffic 360
- State of Affairs
- This is Jersey
- One on One
- Life and Living
- Caucus New Jersey
- New Jersey Means Business
The Caucus Educational Corporation once produced New Jersey Capital Report which was aired on FiOS 1 in New Jersey and ended its run in 2017{{Cite web|url=https://observer.com/2016/12/adubato-and-roman-announce-the-end-of-nj-capitol-report/|title=Adubato and Pi Roman Announce the End of 'NJ Capitol Report'|website=Observer.com|date=December 9, 2016}}
Lower Hudson Valley region:{{cite web|url=http://www.fios1news.com/lowerhudsonvalley|title=Verizon FiOS1 News - Lower Hudson Valley - We're All Over the Lower Hudson Valley|website=Fios1news.com|access-date=January 20, 2017}}
- Newsbreakers
- Giants Access Blue
- FiOS1 News This Week
- Restaurant Hunter
- Fitness Friday
- FIOS1 News, Weather & Traffic
In addition, all FiOS1 regional channels aired local high school sports events in their respective regions weeknights from 7:30 p.m to 9:30 p.m.; most of these regional newscasts and high school sports events are pre-recorded. After FiOS1's closure, Restaurant Hunters and all of the high school sports broadcasts remained available on demand for FiOS customers. All of FiOS1's programs (with the exception of Verizon's Build, Yahoo Finance Market Movers, RNN's Richard French Live and programs made by the Caucus Educational Corporation) were canceled.
Notable staff
= All regions =
- Geoff Bansen - Meteorologist, weekday mornings
- Brittany Borer - Meteorologist, weekday afternoons
- Joe Cioffi - Meteorologist, weekday evenings
- Jonathan Cubit - Meteorologist, weekend evenings
- Nicole Edenedo - Traffic Anchor / Entertainment Reporter, weekday mornings
- Larry Epstein - "Richard French Live" producer
- Brian Fitzgerald{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/login/|title=Log In or Sign Up to View|website=Facebook.com}} - Chief Meteorologist, weekday mornings
- Addison Green - Meteorologist, weekday afternoons (Now at KHOU11
- Christa Lauri - Host, "Money and Main $treet"
- Rob Petrone - "Restaurant Hunters" host
- Andrew Pineiro - Meteorologist, weekend mornings
- Joe Rao - Meteorologist, weekday evenings
- Lorin Richardson - Traffic Anchor, weekday mornings
- Christine Sloan - "Restaurant Hunters" host
- Vineeth Thomas (Vineeth .T. Chacko) - Web Editor, fios1news.com websites for all regions
- Justin Walters - Sports Reporter (now at CBS Sports and WPIX){{cite
- Shenise Ramirez - Web Editor, fios1news.com websites for all regions
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= New Jersey =
- Mary-Lyn Buckley - reporter (now at the News 12 Networks)
- Nick Delgado - Reporter
- Nicole Edenedo - Morning Traffic Anchor / Entertainment Reporter
- Mike Gilliam - Anchor / Reporter
- Emily Girsch - Reporter
- Courtney Kane - Anchor
- Kristie Keleshian - Reporter
- Natalie Paterson - Reporter
- Christine Persichette - Morning Anchor
= Long Island =
- Cecilia Dowd - Reporter
- Nicole Edenedo - Morning Traffic Anchor / Entertainment Reporter
- Chelsea Irizarry - Reporter
- Courtney Kane - Nighttime Anchor
- Claire Kerr - Reporter
- Christa Lauri - Daytime Anchor
- Ron Lee - Reporter
- Kristin McNally - Reporter
- CJ Papa - Morning Anchor
- Ray Raimundi - Reporter
- Lorin Richardson - Morning Traffic Anchor / Reporter
- Archie Snowden - Reporter
- Vanessa Tyler - Nighttime Anchor
- Jackie Zabielski - Daytime Anchor
= Lower Hudson Valley =
- Nicole Edenedo - Morning Traffic Anchor / Entertainment Reporter
- Mike Gilliam - Nighttime Anchor
- Courtney Kane - Nighttime Anchor
- Christa Lauri - Daytime Anchor
- CJ Papa - Morning Anchor
- Lorin Richardson - Morning Traffic Anchor / Reporter
- Janine Ros - Weekend Morning Anchor
- Vanessa Tyler - Weekend Evening Anchor
- Jackie Zabielski - Daytime Anchor
See also
References
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External links
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- {{cite web|url=http://fios1news.com/ |publisher=Verizon |website=FiOS 1 News |title=FiOS 1 News Home Page}}
- {{cite web|url=http://fios1news.com/all-news-li/|publisher=Verizon|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901061812/http://fios1news.com/all-news-li/|archive-date=2019-09-01|website=FiOS 1 News|title=FiOS 1 News Long Island (archived)}}
- {{cite web|url=http://fios1news.com/all-news-lhv/|publisher=Verizon|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901065951/http://fios1news.com/all-news-lhv/|archive-date=2019-09-01|website=FiOS 1 News|title=FiOS 1 News Lower Hudson Valley (archived)}}
- {{cite web|url=http://fios1news.com/all-news-nj/|publisher=Verizon|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901065749/http://fios1news.com/all-news-nj/|archive-date=2019-09-01|website=FiOS 1 News|title=FiOS 1 News New Jersey (archived)}}
- {{cite web|url=http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/verizon-fios-promotion-code-and-reviews/ |title=Verizon FiOS Promotion Code and Reviews|website=MoveYourMoneyProject.org}}
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