i would recamend this station for news to everyone it has gotton so interesting and thanks for your weather man michael rizzo he is terrific finaly someone you can enjoy just love him thank you for a great newsroom .ill be watching read more

If the woman answering the tip line is any indication, this is not a good place or thing. She comes off very arrogant and hostile, and should probably be immediately replaced. Not only that, but perhaps if she wasn't fighting with the callers trying to give them news, they might actually have stories worth watching and listening to. I also watch them in my doctors waiting room and I am sad that the receptionist is subjected to this useless nonsense all day, on a short endless loop of 'mean nothing to no one' sensationalist stories designed to cater to the lowest common denominator of mindset. I was not at all surprised to go online to give them a recview, after weeks of feeling annoyed by her attitude, and when I got to this page, noticing that they have two or less starts out of five from almost every reviewer. They need to clean house entirely and start fresh, starting with the person doing the hiring there. read more

News 12 New Jersey - Television Stations Near Me - Edison, New Jersey

Noelle lilley,this reporter needs to speak her words more clearly and louder so the public can understand, sometimes she styfele her words. Jordan Kissane she speaks like she needs to be telling kids stories, sometimes she sounds like she wants to sing the news . Syeda Abass she does too much hand movements,not professional, anytime someone is speaking hand movements are irrelevant be more professional. read more

With on-air talent and production values more reminiscent of a high school AV Squad News12 NJ is a 24 hour news service that aspires to keep tabs on the major happenings around the Garden State. Originally developed by Cablevision (now Optimum) in the 1990s to improve cable's rock-bottom consumer and lobbying image among lawmakers in Trenton, News12 basically runs a set 60 minute news package with live cut-ins for weather and traffic. A package that is updated several times daily or scrapped all together when major news or a weather event warrants. The reporting is earnest but talent runs the gamut from intern to aqualung. Most of the studio anchors are so low key that many times they can barely be heard as they perfect their low baritone Ted Baxter parodies. In the field newbie reporters can be seen hyperventilating at traffic court or mailing in a segment on street mimes at the shore. It's a real mixed-bag of entry level screw ups and ancient mariner survival. At this point I find their frequent mistakes and technical glitches charming. With local reporting fading faster than the compact disc I check-in frequently so that I'm not a total ignoramus about the place that I call home. Five stars for always being there. Ted Baxter would certainly approve. read more

Everytime I tune in they're playing some warm&fuzzy feature like Road Trip or Be Well or other nonsense when I want weather, traffic and especially NJ current events. They should cut these features to 10 min max. The crime feature is good for weekend evenings. The new crew is ok but I do not see how they could have let Carissa Lawson leave. And watching now is like betraying familiar faces like James Gregorio and Rick Holmes who were favorite long timers who seemed to have been 'slaughtered' in some kind of purge - and replaced with those warm&fuzzy annoying features. One of their new lady reports seems to be on a constant caffeine high. She does a good job but have to switch her off or I start twitching. read more

I wasn't around in the days of brave, authoritative journalists like Edward R. Murrow, and I just barely remember sober, serious Walter Cronkite (I was too busy watching cartoons while he unflinchingly brought the horrors of Vietnam into America's living rooms and helped inform/arouse the public to such a degree that that tragic war was finally brought to its conclusion, at least as far as American involvement in it went). When Mom turned the channel from my watching of "Gilligan's Island" or "The Munsters" to the nightly news before dinner (she preferred Jim Jensen to Cronkite because he was ruggedly handsome), I went into another room to play with toys. So I really wasn't too cognizant or aware of the vaunted "glory days" of journalism. During the early days of Reagan-ism, I was still "wet behind the ears," not especially well-read, and no one was confusing me with a Brainiac, but I remember being startled by the fawning reaction of the press to the Gipper. Even back then, I was smart enough and well-informed enough to know that much of what he said was false (the best you could say was that he probably actually thought what he said was true), and yet it seemed as if no one in a position to do so would call him out. Not that I was expecting reporters to act as editorialists, but the most I remember hearing in the way of contradiction was a lone reporter saying (at this late date, I'm definitely paraphrasing), "Well...that wasn't exactly factual, what he just said about Nicaragua, but...what the heck!...the Gipper has such a way with a 1-liner, he's so warm and personable, and he has that wonderful twinkle in his eye!" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. But hearing it I was. And, of course, it just deteriorated from there (the transition from the half hour nightly newscast to 24 x 7 cable TV coverage certainly didn't help, when "journalism" became inextricably synonymous with "entertainment"). The slide down has progressed so far in the 40 years since Reagan that we've gone from "the Gipper" to the depths of the gutter with the likes of the Orange Vampire. And the press, the 4th estate, has been complicit in this treasonous degeneration from the start. At this stage of the game, if I'm looking to the news for any sort of accurate, relatively objective information, I'm going to the BBC, or PBS, or...in a pinch...NPR. Still, in the mornings, when I'm waiting bleary-eyed for my coffee to brew, I'll flip through the channels to pick up whatever tid-bits of pertinent news I can, and I usually end up at Channel 12. This is especially true in the winter, when I'm wondering what my commute to work is going to be like-- am I going to be taking my life in my hands, should I "man up" like those hardy stalwarts on "Ice Road Truckers,"(a TV show I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit I watch compulsively), or should I just call in sick? Channel 12's general run of news focuses on local events...it's been my experience that you're not going to see anything in-depth on what's happening nationally or internationally...but if it happens to be a locality I'm familiar with, I'll stay with it even after my jolt of caffeine is ready. A shooting in Paterson. A "hate crime" in Jersey City. Election fraud in Bayonne. Corruption in Hackensack. As my Yelp friend Michael N. mentions in his (as always) great review, the reporters range in ability from engaging and informative to just-barely-competent, but sometimes the just-barely-competent quality has a charm all its own. I prefer it to the slickness and vacuity of the networks (CBS, NBC, ABC). When reporting on winter weather conditions, they're not as alarmist as the network stations tend to be (some of the meteorologists on the bigger stations seem like they're one step away from a "happy ending" when they're able to report on an impending, hazardous blizzard of epically Biblical proportions). Channel 12's coverage is extensive, and encompasses the entire state, but seems much less heated, more sober and responsible. In some ways, they engage in the same frivolities that the bigger stations engage in (I guess it's a necessary evil if you're in the news business), but not on the same scale. Tony Caputo covering the "grand opening" of a boardwalk snack stand in Seaside Heights? Apple is introducing a "newfangled" gadget for sale and the lines at their store in Paramus are 2 miles long? Let's celebrate the 10th birthday of the son of a regular Channel 12 viewer? Look, I don't care. But I'm less repulsed by that than I am by the excruciating, fingernails-down-the-blackboard "banter" between the weatherman and the "reporters" on Channel 7, or the superficial editorializing among the reporters on Channel 2, or the breathless interview with "dazzling" Nicki Minaj on Channel 4. So, I tend to watch Channel 12 in scatter-shot fashion, but I do watch it. Even in the summer. And if its purpose is to inform (although not necessarily enlighten), then it succeeds. read more

new 12 nj unfortunately doesnt update there online weather videos fast enough despite there forecast coming up on there cable subs often the online does not all with the purpose of getting people to subscribe to cable through there provider read more

I consider news12 "social media news" it seems like that's where they get their stories from. They report events such as fairs, etc. after they happened. Shouldn't something like that be mentioned before it happens so viewers that may want to go are aware of these events? Its the same 15 minute stories over and over sgain and sometimes for days. I think Syma reports well, but Syma seriously needs to stop the corny puns, is this news for children and really stop with the constant posing. It's very obvious and she doesn't look natural. She looks like she's trying to hard. She's a very pretty woman no need for all that. Hilda needs more practice, that's all I'll say about that. read more

Please take Lauren Due off air. Not only is she loud and annoying, but she is inappropriate when she's out on the road. We saw it for ourselves when she made a visit to our town a few weeks ago. We are (or were) big fans of News12 NJ so it's very disappointing to see them choose such an unprofessional class-less individual to put on air. read more

James Gregorio really doesn't know weather. He just tries to make stupid jokes and talks about the surf. Today he said the rain would stop at 10:30am!!!!! The rain didn't stop till 6pm!!!! He is wrong 90% of the time! read more

What a second-rate so called News Channel. Everyday we watch the governor's press conference waiting for reporters to ask question. We all waited today for one of the reporters asked questions on when are we going to receive unemployment benefits. Your jackass cut away was done when the first question was being asked to report about unemployment benefits. This should be critical news not for some dumb blonde to report a recap of everything that he has said over and over over the past two weeks. Your channel is 5th rate and there are people starving because they don't have unemployment benefits! You can't make this stuff up how incompetent for you to cut away when people are starving and can't feed their children I can't reiterate this more than I have. read more

What happened to News12 NJ? It's supposed to be a local news channel reporting news in New Jersey, but when I turned on news12 NJ this morning all of their reporting was about Long Island. They stopped giving the traffic report months ago and today they finally had a traffic and transit report BUT ONLY FOR LONG ISLAND. If I am in NJ I would need nj transit information NOT LIRR. What's the point on having a local news channel if it doesn't report LOCALLY. read more

Well... I love News 12. Always have. Always my go to station... Very disappointed because the one feature I couldn't live without is now gone... no more temperature information on the bottom right hand corner... it's been gone for a few weeks... PLEASE BRING IT BACK.. don't want to stop watching my favorite Channel News 12... read more

They are not always live when they say they are, and the production team doesnt know what they are doing at all. It makes my day watching them figure out which graphic goes on the screen for 5 mins, then muting the video clip right after lol XD. read more

I am a cable tv viewer of News 12 with perfect hearing ability and a newer TV. But for many months, I have been unable to hear the weather forecast on Channels 12 and 61 without raising the volume up to a level that would be a painful volume on any other channel. What is the problem with your weather broadcasts? Improve your service or you will be losing otherwise loyal viewers - including me! read more

News12 New Jersey are exaggerated hyped weather people who are always wrong. I wouldn't mind if optimum tv gets rid of them.

All these critical reviews, so sad. Take it for what it is. A locale show that do,s a nice job. I enjoy it every day!

News 12 is Awesome. Even when they predict 2 Feet of Snow and we get 4 inches. Hey it got me out of work! I don't know many people who could have a bad thing to say about News 12. I've wanted to take a tour of the studio for a while, but it's closed for tours last time I checked. I got a sweet News 12 shirt and Wine Koozie from News 12 at the Red Bank Food and Wine festival last year. Every day when I wake up and before bed I make sure I invite Dela, Erica, and the rest of the crew into my living room to fill me in on the days stories. The Pet Stop is my favorite weekend segment. News 12's Got your Back Jersey. read more

The Weather and Traffic channel 61 used to be very, very good. I would check it before I left the house every morning. You would get the information you needed on a regular basis. But recently it's been very frustrating. Tons of commercials and a smattering of news when you need weather and traffic! I'm happy to go to channel 12 for commercials and news but not when I need immediate weather and traffic updates! read more

Can you please fix your weather forecast? I already dislike Dave Curren and to hear the most choppy, lagging broadcast is incredibly frustrating. Please update! Thanks! read more

They're rude- they do not let you finish speaking - they "Kevin" interrupted me before I could finish a sentence. If you would have allowed me to finish...you lose!! read more

Watch just about every day! Love the humor and '3 things you should know'. All the anchors are wonderful. Love Carissa, 'the vegetarian'. :) read more