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Users cannot link directly to a page with the flash file without the interstitial launch page. NY1 was also featured in the film Maid in Manhattan, where it showed a Mexican hotel maid impersonating a high-class woman having an argument with a politician. Clicking this button spawns a pop-up window showing the flash file. In 2003, NY1 was featured in the movie Elf as the station on which the story of an alleged Christmas Eve sighting of Santa Claus spread throughout New York. Linking to an item on Newgrounds can only be made to a launch page, where the reader has to find and click on a Watch this movie button. Seeking to expand its political coverage, WCBS-TV attracted "Inside City Hall" anchor Andrew Kirtzman. These could be blocked using the browser or add-on software, except that to use the site, users would have to configure an exception for Newgrounds, exposing them to the advertising. On programs like "Inside City Hall", NY1 offers much more extensive local political coverage than the area's broadcast stations.

Newgrounds uses pop-up advertising. Outside of the weather updates during the top of the block at one and 31 minutes past every hour, there are interruptions "on the ones" at 11, 21, 41, and 51 minutes past the hour for local weather updates. Around 2004, people began to complain that Newgrounds.com had been adding spyware, such as 180 Solutions to certain webpages. The stories are then edited at NY1's studio. Astroseries 2 became the very first submission to be received by Newgrounds in 2006. Nearly all stories are taped, even segments made to look like they are happening live; instead of a "live" indicator while reports speak, most NY1 stories have a graphic saying merely that the reporter is (or, rather, was) "on scene." This may be because reporters generally shoot their own stories with cameras. None have been made since spring of 2005, and it's unlikely that more will be made. The remainder of the half-hour is filled with taped news segments heavily focusing on stories from the New York metropolitan region.

These collections have no theme, and seem to be primarily compilations of rejected or unused daily collection animations. The first minute contains a local weather forecast and top headlines. Some daily collections were submitted simply under the name "DailyToon________" with the cartoon's submission date in the blank space. The most common "program" on NY1 is a half-hour block beginning at the top and bottom of every hour. Certain collections are based after people, while others have been based on movies, cartoon characters, and video games. In 2006, Time Warner Cable began offering NY1 to digital cable subscribers in upstate New York. Most of them are based on TV shows, mainly sitcoms, anime productions, and kids' shows. Notably, "News 24 Houston" and "News 9 San Antonio", both joint ventures between Time Warner Cable and Belo, were closed within the first two years of operation.

The daily collections are generally themed. NY1 was the first Time Warner Cable local news channel, and Time Warner Cable went on to add local 24-hour local news networks in several other markets modeled after NY1, including "Bay News 9" in Tampa, "Central Florida News 13" in Orlando, "News 8 Austin" in the Texas capital, News 14 Carolina", which serves the Triangle and Charlotte in North Carolina, "Capital News 9" in Albany, NY and News 10 Now in Syracuse, NY. As such, various other "Clocks" have guested on daily collections, as well as members of the similar "Star Syndicate", who also produce their own type of daily cartoons. In June 2003, NY1 Noticias, a Spanish-language version of the channel, began operating for digital cable subscribers. These collections are masterminded by Newgrounds user "Coolboyman", better known as "Strawberry Clock", the self proclaimed "King of the Newgrounds Portal" and leader of the infamous Clock Crew. In January of 2002, the station moved to a brand new, all digital facility in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. Each collection features from four to five animations, typically with each cartoon produced by a single animator. The station launched in the fall of 1992.

Due to the short timeframe, the majority of the included animations are of poor quality, featuring little (if any) animation and for the most part, speech to voice synthesis used for voices. NY1 was conceived in 1991 by the president of Time Warner Cable's New York City cable group, ostensibly to add value to cable as it eroded market share to budding satellite services such as DirecTV and Dish Network. They were written, created, and submitted to Newgrounds within the course of one day. . Daily collections are existed between 2004 and 2005. In addition to news and weather forecasts, the channel also features human-interest segments such as the "New Yorker of the Week" and the "Scholar Athlete of the Week," as well as specialty programs such as "Inside City Hall" and "Inside Transit.". Currently there are a lot of collaborations based on songs, with each participating author animating one or more line each, because of the huge amount of collabs being started at the same time and spamming the Newgrounds Flash forum some members took it upon themselves to create the website NGCollabs where people with a batting average (average score of their Flash submissions) of lower than 3.00 could start collaborations. It appears on the unused-for-broadcast Channel 1 on Time Warner Cable and Cablevision service, and is owned and operated by Time Warner Cable.

They are also a great way for up-and-coming artists to get in the spotlight with the bigshots. NY1 (pronounced "New York One") is a twenty-four hour news channel available exclusively to cable television customers within the five boroughs of New York City and nearby Bergen County, New Jersey. Collaborations are a great way for artists to work together and get to know each other. Tokyo Metropolitan Television. It began with group works by the Clock Crew and flourished when the Newgrounds Time Trials sparked a more general interest among authors. Another popular activity on Newgrounds is the collab—various animators, artists and programmers collaborating on a single movie or game.

Various flash series submitted exclusively to Newgrounds. His work includes:. These are referred to as Newgrounds Originals. Tom Fulp has submitted several movies and games to Newgrounds.

The NG chat has spawned many spinoffs, such as #radiogrounds (The radiogrounds.com chat), #ngdrunks for the NGDr0kns (dr0kn.com), #blamclub for the blamclub (ADG/BlamClub Forums) and many other (smaller) user-made channels such as #ngpoker for the NG Late Night Poker Club, #nazigrounds.com, and #minimanjapan.com (minimanjapan.com). The NG Chat is accessible via any IRC client by entering the java.webchat.org, area.webchat.org or irc.webmaster.com servers and joining the channel through the irc command: /join #newgrounds.com. You go in, you get insulted and insult back. The Insult room is somewhat self-explanatory.

The Hookup room is for any users who wish to "Chat intimately", trade pictures of one another, etc., to deter users from doing so in the main chat. NG Chat also has two other smaller, less frequented channels: the Hookup room (#nglove) and the Insult room (#ngwar). If an AOL user enters the NG Chat, they are automatically kicked upon entry. America Online (AOL) users on Java clients are not allowed into the NG Chat, because their IP Mask changes dynamically when the user begins a new dial-up session, so bans and akicks can't directly affect one person using that ISP (in any geographical region).

Many people join and chat about whatever they deem fit. It's accessible via the CHAT button on the navigation bar at Newgrounds.com, or via any IRC client, such as mIRC, IRCle, Firefox's IRC clients, Trillian, etc. Newgrounds has its own chat, usually referred to as the NG Chat. The forums for regular members consist of the General section, the Politics section, the Programming section, the Flash section, the Clubs & Crews section, the Where Is/How To? section, the NG News section (for any and all news posts made by admins), the Network News section (For anything pertaining to the tech aspects of the BBS), the P-Bot's Posts section (for Portal updates from the automated Portal Bot, aka P-Bot), and the recently added Audio forum.

Next to the Flash Portal, the BBS seems to be the most popular part of the site. Site administrator, Wade Fulp, also clears the BBS of spam by deleting accounts that violate rules, a process which he calls 'terminating' or 'axing'. Thanks to the moderators, it is kept relatively free of spam. Other forums are private, for use by moderators.

Some are reply-only, where you can't start a new topic, but are welcome to read and reply to existing topics. Some are all access, where all users are welcome to read, post and reply. The BBS (Bulletin Board System) is a very popular forum on the site, which consists of multiple forums.
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Note: You must have at least 30 reviews that week to win an award that involves calculating the review score as well, such as the Underdog or Review Crew Pick awards. When a movie or game is submitted to the Flash Portal, it has the chance to win any of the following awards:. .
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On July 6, 2005, Newgrounds celebrated its ten year anniversary. The site now has over 900,000 registered members and over 291,000 submissions. This system of public voting creates a sense of community in Newgrounds and keeps visitors coming back for more. A user-friendly system of voting and rating produces lists that directs visitors to the most popular flash movies and allows the Newgrounds site designers to easily locate any material that might be considered for deletion or promotion.

Visitors are encouraged to review the various submissions that they encounter on the site, as a means of providing other potential visitors with a vague idea of what they can expect from the many flash movies and games to choose from. Over the years Newgrounds has grown to an incredible size, and with so much material to offer, it must rely on the willing cooperation and support of its many visitors in order to function properly. This site allows its users to submit their own Flash movies, games, and music, and view submissions from other users. Tim, Tom's former roommate, also assists in running the site.

It was created and is currently owned by Tom Fulp, who is assisted by his brother Wade Fulp, and is also helped by liljim, an administrator living in England. Newgrounds is a website that hosts Macromedia Flash animations and games. Ben Edelman on 180 Solutions. "Newgrounds and Me".

"180 Solutions: Kill The Sleaze Ads". Shroud. Dr. Burnt Face Man.

Madness Combat. Miss Dynamite. YAAFM. Retarded Animal Babies.

Waterman. College University. Salad Fingers. Neurotically Yours.

Broken Saints. Xombie. Pico's School. House Hunting.

Harry Pothead. Domo Kun Angry Smash Fest!. Dad 'n Me. Club-A-Seal.

Beep-Me Jesus. Alien Hominid (Later remade for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube (US only), Xbox (Europe only) and Game Boy Advance.). Turd of the Week: (Frequently referred to as TOTW) It is given to the submission with the lowest score that manages to pass judgement. Underdog of the Week: (Often referred to as UOTW) This award is given to the submission with the biggest discrepancy between the review score and the popular vote.

Review Crew Pick: This award is given to the submission with the best "overall" score in reviews. Weekly 2nd/3rd/4th/5th Place: Lesser awards given to submissions each week. Weekly Users Choice: The award given to the submission that scored the highest for the week. Daily 2nd/3rd/4th/5th Place: Lesser awards given to submissions each day.

Daily Feature: The award given to the submission that scored the highest for the day.