Time Warner's NY1 News has renewed its service
   agreement with Direct Broadcast Services, continuing the
   microwave newsvan operations first started when NY1
   commenced operations in September of 1992.  The new
   agreement is for a multi-year period.

   NY1 introduced many innovative ideas when it first began and
   DBS is proud to have participated in and assisted with many of
   their concepts.  As a 24-hour all-news station, they have
   successfully covered news in the biggest market with only two microwave news vans, able to feed and air breaking news as it happens.  Presently, each van operates two shifts per day each weekday, with one van operating a single shift on weekend days unless circumstances require greater coverage.

Following the events of September 11th, 2001, NY1 added a third van, one equipped both for DSNG and microwave, which has been added to the agreement.  This brings the total number of vehicles in the New York area that DBS either owns or operates to a total of ten.  

DBS provides for complete van operations, including dedicated operators that are scheduled and dispatched by NY1, all maintenance, licensing, frequency coordination, insurance and support.  DBS supplements the operators whenever needed, supplies a replacement van whenever maintenance -- whether scheduled or not -- is required, and replacement operators to cover vacations or illnesses.

NY1 vans are maintained on a scheduled basis at DBS's facility, with its in-house factory-authorized service for Onan generators and Will-Burt masts.  These two items comprise the majority of non-automotive routine maintenance on all microwave newsvans.

In addition to these basic services, DBS also provides a number of supplemental services for peak news and special event coverage for NY1.

DBS has been providing dedicated newsvan operations for NY1 since 1992, for CNBC since 1994, and, for the time it existed, for WBIS.

For more information, contact Leo Rosenberg at 845-267-2800.