Directly from Winston Mitchell in an e-mail to me earlier today:
"Hi To All:
This is Winston Mitchell, News Director of Transit Transit News Magazine. I am so thankful to have worked with so many great volunteers and college interns over the years. They are the ones who made the award winning show and never asked for anything in return.
The show is not ending because of funding or low viewership, I really don’t know what is behind it. But that matters in the end is all the lives we have touched and careers I have started. Over 100 students now work in the broadcasting and media business because they got their start with us.
The show has over 50 national and international awards ranging from Emmys to 11 Telly’s, reached some 22 million homes in the NY tri-state area and cost zero dollars to air.
Again thank you all for watching the program and I wish you all well. You can post your thoughts at: transittransitnews@nyct.com."
For those of you who are not familiar with this TV show, check out http://web.mta.info/nyct/trantran/. For those who want to see previous episodes, just go to Youtube.com and type in the search box "Transit Transit News Magazine." I would personally recommend the December 2012 episode, where the TV show took viewers behind-the-scenes as a result of the damage from Hurricane Sandy.