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Tourism

Further information: Tourism in New York City and List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

Times Square has the highest annual attendance rate of any tourist attraction in the US,^[198] and according to Travel + Leisure magazine's October 2011 survey, the world.^[199]

Tourism is one of New York City's most vital industries, with more than 40 million combined domestic and international tourists visiting each year in the past five years.^[200] Major destinations include the Empire State Building; Statue of Liberty; Ellis Island; Broadway theater productions; museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; greenspaces such as Central Park and Washington Square Park; Rockefeller Center; Times Square; the Manhattan Chinatown; luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues; and events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village; the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; the St. Patrick's Day parade; seasonal activities such as ice skating in Central Park in the wintertime; the Tribeca Film Festival; and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage. Special experiences outside the key tourist areas of the city include, but are not limited to, the Bronx Zoo; Coney Island; Flushing Meadows-Corona Park; and the New York Botanical Garden.

In 2010, New York City received nearly 49 million tourists,^[201][202] subsequently surpassed by a record 50 million tourists in 2011.^[203][204]

Media

Main article: Media in New York City

Rockefeller Center, home to NBC Studios

New York is a center for the television, advertising, music, newspaper, and book publishing industries and is also the largest media market in North America (followed by Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto).^[205] Some of the city's media conglomerates include Time Warner, the Thomson Reuters Corporation, the News Corporation, The New York Times Company, NBCUniversal, the Hearst Corporation, and Viacom. Seven of the world's top eight global advertising agency networks have their headquarters in New York.^[206] Two of the "Big Four" record labels' headquarters, are in New York City – Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. Universal Music Group and EMI also have major offices in New York. One-third of all American independent films are produced in New York.^[207]

More than 200 newspapers and 350 consumer magazines have an office in the city^[207] and the book-publishing industry employs about 25,000 people.^[208] Two of the three national daily newspapers in the United States are New York papers: The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, which has won the most Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. Major tabloid newspapers in the city include: The New York Daily News which was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson^[209] and The New York Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton.^[210] The city also has a comprehensive ethnic press, with 270 newspapers and magazines published in more than 40 languages.^[211] El Diario La Prensa is New York's largest Spanish-language daily and the oldest in the nation.^[212] The New York Amsterdam News, published in Harlem, is a prominent African American newspaper. The Village Voice is the largest alternative newspaper.

The television industry developed in New York and is a significant employer in the city's economy. The four major American broadcast networks are all headquartered in New York: ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC. Many cable channels are based in the city as well, including MTV, Fox News, HBO, and Comedy Central. In 2005, there were more than 100 television shows taped in New York City.^[213] The City of New York operates a public broadcast service, NYCTV,^[214] that has produced several original Emmy Award-winning shows covering music and culture in city neighborhoods and city government.

New York is also a major center for non-commercial educational media. The oldest public-access television channel in the United States is the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, founded in 1971.^[215] WNET is the city's major public television station and a primary source of national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television programming. WNYC, a public radio station owned by the city until 1997, has the largest public radio audience in the United States.^[216]