Meet the NY1 'Morning People'

0:00We'll end today with a little media fun, I think it'll be fun, with Pat Cannon and Jamie Stelter, who you know as the morning anchors, if you watch Spectrum News New York 1, now in addition to their Mornings on One cable show, they've just launched a 15-minute morning podcast called Morning People, which you can see on YouTube or Spotify or other platforms without having cable. They'll talk about New York news headlines every day, but also more lifestyle-oriented things like yesterday about retirees, not originally from the area who choose to retire to New York City of all places. We're going to invite some phone calls on that, if that sounds like you or someone you know. That was based on a New York Times article. Today, how much people need to get by or live comfortably in the city, according

1:03to, I think that was an MIT study, and other things like that, including to what's in the papers and other New York news. Pat Cannon and Jamie Stelter have been doing Mornings on One together for 15 years now, and Pat has been the Morning Anchor since 1997, if I have my history right. So let's talk media and life in New York with Pat Cannon and Jamie Stelter. Hi, Pat, and Jamie, congratulations on the podcast. Thanks for coming on. Hey, Brian, good morning. My 10-year sounds long until we put it up next to your 10-year WNYC and then I got nothing on you. Just a little longer. And listeners, you can chime in here too in a few ways on their chat yesterday about retirees. Anyone listening now, not from New York, who chose to retire in New York because you've grown kids, you have grown kids who are living here now, or just to live the New York lifestyle. You know, you want to wake up in the morning and be

2:04able to go to the Thursday morning New York Philharmonic rehearsals or whatever, museum's concerts, life without a car. Whatever, 2-1-2-4-3-3-WNYC, who has a story, 2-1-2-4-3-3-9-6-9-2. And what about the amount of income, a single person or family needs to live in the city or one more invite? You can talk about the media, which we're going to do. The decline of cable, other ways for a good new service like New York one, which editorial opinion here is a major cut above the regular commercial local news channels for it even to exist or related media trends, court cutters, never quarters. Where do you get local news on TV if at all? 2-1-2-4-3-3-WNYC, caller text 2-1-2-4-3-3-9-6-9-2. So, Pat, how much change have you seen in the media landscape and how it affected your place in it

3:09at New York one over these almost 30 years? Brian, how much time do we have? When I started as Morning Anchor in 1997, it really was the main way to get the news in the morning and the reason that we racked it up every half hour with repeated headlines was because you had to tune in on our schedule and you move ahead to today and you get the news when you want, how you want and that means that our role is different. And Jamie, when did you join exactly in same question about the changing media? And I will add, since you're so open about it on your show, that you're married to CNN media reporter Brian Stelter. So, you must talk about this stuff over dinner. Yeah, breakfast lunch and dinner. We're always talking about media. We just were dialing Pat in on the phone before we were with you, Brian, talking about, you know, if you were remaking morning news for 2026 because we do think it's so important for people to be in touch

4:13with the local news. What does that look like right now when everyone is on their phones? It's got to be on all platforms. It's got to be optimized for those platforms. It's got to be available everywhere and it's got to be delivered in a more casual, conversational way. Yeah. And, you know, it goes for us too working in what's called terrestrial radio, meaning AM&FM radio. People can get the brain layer show on YouTube now. This news, if you didn't know that, that's an option for you or people you know around the country, around the world, you know, who don't get AM&FM. So what's the larger goal there about New York one without cable or putting your podcast as a New York one product on YouTube and other platforms where people don't need cable? It's really about getting it to wherever the audience is. We know and thank you for the shout out that we do good journalism. But, you know, Jamie will attest to this. Every

5:19viewer has a different media diet and we want to find those people and come to them on their terms. Yeah. And a lot of the people that have said that we love New York one, but it's the thing that we miss because we moved or we cut the cord. And so can we still be in touch with the thing that you're doing best and how you go about getting the news and delivering the news? And, you know, like Pat said, meeting them where they are. And we're only two days into this grand experiment. But so far, the reaction seems to be positive. People are happy to be able to get that bit of New York one the way that they want to digest it. And I see even just to stay on this this media thing. And yeah, I don't mind saying that I think New York one is a cut above. It's one of the reasons that I keep cable. And of course, we partner with New York one, you know, full disclosure. New York

6:22one has never hired me for anything. I don't get paid by New York one, but we have partnered with New York one for the mayoral and other debates over many years because we find you guys the most substantive thing going that matches our ethic as we like to to see ourselves. And it's free now to have New York one all day, not just your podcast, but streaming with spectrum internet, which a lot more people these days have, obviously, than cable TV. So is there is there an effort to try to detach New York one altogether from the larger cable ecosystem, or at least has out there as an option if people get their internet service from spectrum? Yeah, you know, I mean, there are people above us in the corporate hierarchy who make the, you know, the detailed decisions on that. But I will say that what we heard from a lot of people was that

7:23I use spectrum for my internet provider. But for whatever reason, we've decided that we're not going to have a cable box in our house anymore. We're not going to have the video subscription. So one of the messages that we've tried to get out there over the past couple of years is if you have spectrum internet, that New York one's included in that. Whether you have a Roku box, an Apple TV, whether you want to put the spectrum news app on the iPhone. So that is Brian a message that we've been trying to get out there. And it's not as strict relationship as it was 20 years ago where the only way to get New York one was to have the old time Warner cable subscription. All right. So your chat yesterday on episode one about people retiring to New York City was I thought very provocative. And we're going to take a phone call from somebody with a story to Risa at the moment on Fire Island to Risa on WNYC. Hello. Hello. How are you? Good. Tell us your story.

8:25Yeah. So we've been living a war living in Fire Island for the past over 20 years. And then my husband and I have recently retired and did a you know what? It's really boring on Fire Island. We had to find something a little bit more exciting to do in the winter time. And as fate would have it, one of our kids was living out on the West Coast living in Seattle for the past, I don't know, over a decade. And he decided to move to Manhattan. And we said, you know what? We'll join you. And I have to tell you, it has been the best experience that you could possibly imagine for us. It's there's so much to do every day. You know, my husband and I wake up and like, what do you want to do today? You know, and it's been just such a game-changing experience for us. What do you like to do in Manhattan? What's one or two of the things? Name it. Okay. So around the holidays, let's see. I did the Cirque du Soleil, it was the night before Christmas. I did the Rockets. I did the Rockefeller Center tree lighting

9:27and the Wall Street tree lighting. We did a Christmas Carol down at the pack. Tomorrow I'm doing a mansion tour walking around Fifth Avenue. I'm a naturalist. And so yesterday I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge and landed myself in Brooklyn and just looked to see what plants were growing. You know, because it's springtime, it was just such a beautiful day. I saw crocuses in which hazel, like all the things that were just blooming. And so you can see nature in the city as well as all of the other activities that are going on. Teresa, thank you so much. So so well said. And Jamie, you know, what a different choice than, you know, I don't know, a condo in the suburbs of Miami. Yeah, but you know what? Did you hear the energy in her voice and how excited she was about all the activities that she's been doing and the vast spectrum of things and hobbies that you can get involved with in the city that will keep you young. The amount of walking that you can

10:31do on a day-to-day basis, that alone will do wonders for your health and longevity and keeping you like in a younger spirit being surrounded by all these young different kinds of people in the city. Um, let me move on. Well, actually, here's a text on the same theme. My parents retired to Queens from Syracuse. They wanted to engage more with the arts and culture, stop driving, escape the snow and live closer to two of their children and a new grandchild. The move was complicated. And although both had lived in New York City as young adults, a shock. They gave up emeritus faculty perks, a large house, friends and familiarity. Ultimately, it was the right decision for them, but it should not be done impulsively. Interesting text, Pat, and it's one of the things you brought up on the podcast yesterday. You know, inevitably, if people are making this lifestyle decision in retirement, they're going to live in a smaller space. Absolutely. And the one woman who

11:35we talked about who was profiled in the New York Times article ended up getting in touch with us on Instagram yesterday. That's me. That's the, that's the, that's the Susie you guys were talking about. And she scaled down from a four bedroom house and a second home in Texas, I think, and is now in an apartment in New York City. I have to guess that some of her old neighbors in Texas think she's crazy. Ha, you, uh, you want to touch Jamie on the thing you were chatting about the morning. How much income really, you know, depends your, your age, your child status, when you have roommates. This is an MIT study. It was in New York magazine about how much you need to live in New York. What, what did you learn from that? Well, the New York magazine cover story was tremendous surveying 60 New Yorkers who they got to be really honest about what they do,

12:37how much they make, what really stood out to me about the cover story was how many people are piecing together income with a number of jobs in order to survive in New York. And how much of that income is growing in uncertainty. So they're trying to make ends meet by picking up all kinds of our jobs, which were lucky that there's a thriving gig economy in New York. But just how anxiety written so many people are because the thing that they really would love to do is not the thing that's paying them the most amount of money right now. Pat Pylon. I thought I thought it was notable. And we talked about this this morning on the podcast was that the door man always sees the dog walkers go by and according at least to this calculation, the dog walker was making almost $100,000 a year. And the door man was making 75. So the door man had all these questions about should I just become

13:39the dog walker? You know you're in New York when the dog walker makes more than somebody with a union job, which the door man probably had in 32 BJ, right? For sure. All right, well this was fun. We could keep talking about things, you know, serious and whimsical about New York City. I'll give you a chance just to promote the new podcast again. Where can people see it in one? Jamie? So you can watch morning people every morning on New York one at 6am or you can watch it on YouTube anytime or wherever you get your podcast Apple Spotify. It's there all day every day. You can find us on social media morning people and why one and then look up Pat and I we are in the comments. We're talking to people all day about what they think is important and Brian and the same

14:40whether you gave us a compliment. We we are always listening to what you guys are doing and reading what you guys are doing because you you are in touch with the same sort of stories that we're following and it's really important that people are engaged like that. Thanks Pat. Morning people after listeners you finish listening to morning edition. Good luck with it. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for all of a sudden. Since WNYC's first broadcast in 1924, we've been dedicated to creating the kind of content we know the world needs. Since then, New York Public Radio's rigorous journalism has gone on to win a Peabody Award and a Dupont Columbia Award among others. In addition to this award-winning reporting, your sponsorship also supports inspiring storytelling and extraordinary music that is free and accessible to all. To get in touch and find out more, visit sponsorship.wnyc.org.