Public Television to Provide Live Coverage of Governor Patersons's Economic Address

TROY, NY (07/28/2008)(readMedia)--

NEW YORK NOW will provide live broadcast television coverage of Governor Paterson's economic address beginning at 5:00 PM on Tuesday. Host Susan Arbetter and her guests will provide an introduction followed by the Governor's live remarks. The broadcast will conclude with reaction and analysis from the NEW YORK NOW studio. WMHT-TV in Albany will air the broadcast live and will provide this coverage to all of the public television stations across New York State. WMHT will broadcast an encore airing at 9:00 PM on Tuesday.

NEW YORK NOW is freely available over the air to all households with a television set in New York State through its broadcast on each of the public television stations in New York State. NEW YORK NOW is the only statewide broadcast television series focusing on New York State government, policy and politics. It is produced by WMHT in Albany and hosted by Susan Arbetter.

Additional coverage will be provided during the weekly installment of NEW YORK NOW which may be seen at the following times:

WNET, New York City

Saturday at 11am

WMHT Capital Region

Friday at 7:30pm

Sunday at 11am

Sunday at 11pm

WNED, Buffalo & Toronto

Sunday at 9:30am

WXXI, Rochester

Sunday at 6:30pm

WCNY, Syracuse

Sunday at 1pm

WPBS, Watertown

Sunday at 7:30am

WSKG, Binghamton

Sunday at 6:30pm

WLIW, Long Island

Sunday at 6:30am

Mountain Lake Public Broadcasting, Plattsburgh

Saturday at 9:30am

Funding for New York Now is provided by United University Professionals, New York State Builders Association, Verizon and The Empire Plan/New York State Health Insurance Program with additional support from Phillips Lytle for the New York Now website.

WMHT Educational Telecommunications uses the power of non-commercial public television, radio, the web and other media to enrich the lives of more than a half million households throughout eastern New York state and portions of western Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Television broadcast channels include WMHT-TV (17, Time Warner Cable 11), WMHT-HD (17.1, TWC 1811), WMHT-ThinkBright/Create (17.2, TWC 200) and WMHT-World (17.3, TWC 532). Radio stations operated by WMHT include WMHT-FM 89.1 & 88.7 (classical) and WEXT 97.7 (alternative rock). WMHT also operates RISE, a radio reading service for the visually and print disabled. In addition, WMHT offers numerous community outreach initiatives that inspire, educate and entertain for a lifetime.

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