And I thought we were obsessed with term limits.

NY1 is keeping a useful tally of how each of the 51 Council members plans to vote on the bill to extend term limits. At the moment, the Web site lists 14 "yes" votes, 17 "no" votes, and 20 undecided.

NY1 also plans on airing live coverage of the two hearings that will take place on October 16 and 17 at City Hall.

And most fun of all: Reporter Roger Clark has begun visiting the districts of each undecided Council member to talk to constituents.

It's not every Sunday that you pick up The New York Times and find Bill Keller's byline all over the paper. And, according to Mr. Keller, there might be a Sunday someday soon when there won't even be a paper for him to write in.

Stealing a page from the David Remnick playbook, Mr. Keller decided to drop his editor's cap and rewind back to the good old days when he was a senior writer pointing his critical eye to far-off places. In yesterday's Times, Mr. Keller's byline appeared on the cover of Week in Review and Book Review sections for articles about the  read more »

Every weekday morning at 7:42, the NY1 newsman Pat Kiernan does an eight-minute segment called “In the Papers” in which he summarizes important articles from that day’s newspapers. It is this portion of the newscast—not “Weather on the 1’s,” not “The Rail and Road Report,” not the breaking news from the station’s far-flung (in the five boroughs, at least) reporters—that has endeared Mr. Kiernan, who is 39 years old and has been with the station since 1997, to thousands of culturally literate New Yorkers who, it is safe to say, do not watch any other local newscasts. But ask them, and they’ll cop to a certain degree of sincere admiration, bordering on obsession for some, of Mr.  read more »

Look out, Pat Kiernan! The world of round-the-clock local New York news channels is about to get a whole lot more competitive.

According to The New York Times’ Bill Carter, NBC Universal is planning to start a 24-hour local news channel, to be called … “New York’s Newschannel.”

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Gary Anthony Ramsay, a longtime reporter and weekend anchor for NY1, has left the station after it was revealed that he had called into one of the channel’s live shows and criticized a story while giving a false identity, the New York Daily News reported on Saturday.

According to the Daily News, on November 9, Mr. Ramsay phoned into The Call with John Schiumo and criticized the host's handling of a segment on Bernard Kerik. Mr. Ramsay did so, said the paper, while identifying himself under the high-falutin’ moniker "Dalton, from the Upper East Side."

Mr. Ramsay has since left the channel, and his bio has been removed from the NY1 web site. "I am continually apologetic for smudging that journalistic line, but I'm a human being, and I'm subject to the same frailties," he told The New York Times, in a piece published today.  read more »

UPDATE: NY1 Political Director Bob Hardt responds: "Ms. Fulani is obviously entitled to her opinion but our award-winning record of covering her and her organizations speaks for itself. Ms. Fulani has received several opportunities to appear on our program and has had ample opportunity to give her side of the story in every report we've aired about her."

Lenora Fulani doesn't think much of NY1 host Dominic Carter.

At a panel discussion about race and media in midtown, Fulani, who was in the audience, told Carter, who was a panelist, that his network treated her like "a nappy headed ho."

"My employers are emailing your network and I liked you a lot more when you were with WBLS, LIB and [with] us in the streets because what you and your network now do, have done to me as a black woman is to relate to me as a nappy headed ho."

Fulani last appeared on NY1 in 2005 when she failed to disavow statements critics have called anti-Semitic.

After the panel, Fulani told me she was referring to how she thought the station treated all black women, not just her.