NJTV, New Jersey’s public television network, will air the first live broadcast of its weeknight news program, NJTV News with Mary Alice Williams  from its new, state-of-the-art Agnes Varis NJTV Studio at 2 Gateway in Newark tonight. NJTV’s new location also houses staff office space as well as a community room for hosting public events and program productions.

 

Tonight’s broadcast, guest-anchored by correspondent Michael Hill, will feature these stories and more:

 

  • President Obama visits Camden
  • Camden County police expand K-9 units
  • PARCC testing bills before Senate Education Committee
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s “The Composer is Dead”

 

A formal ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new studio is scheduled on May 27th.  The network also utilizes a Trenton Statehouse studio and content bureaus at colleges and universities across New Jersey.

 

NJTV News with Mary Alice Williams airs weeknights at 6pm on NJTV and THIRTEEN; with encores at 7:30pm and 11pm on NJTV. 

 

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