Editing Secaucus, New Jersey (section)

==Media==
Secaucus is located within the [[Media in New York City|New York media market]], with most of its daily papers available for sale or delivery. Local, [[Hudson County, New Jersey|county]] and regional news is covered by ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', the daily newspaper that relocated its offices to Secaucus in 2014 from [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City's]] [[Journal Square]], an area of the city that was named for the newspaper that operated there for 90 years.<ref>McDonald, Terrence T. [http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2014/01/jersey_journal_ushers_in_new_e.html#incart_river "Jersey Journal ushers in 'new era,' moves into new 10,000-square-foot Secaucus headquarters"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', January 7, 2014. Accessed July 10, 2015. "The Jersey Journal, Hudson County's 147-year-old daily newspaper, officially moved into its new headquarters in Secaucus yesterday, starting what the paper's publisher calls 'a new era.' The paper called Journal Square home for more than a century and was at 30 Journal Square for nearly 90 years. In fact, that area of Jersey City was named after The Jersey Journal."</ref> The ''[[Secaucus Reporter]]'' is part of ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'' group of local weeklies.

Locally, Secaucus is covered by weeklies the ''[[River View Observer]]'' and ''El Especialito''.<ref>[http://www.elespecial.com/ El Especial's Online]. Accessed August 31, 2013.</ref> The town had been served by the ''Secaucus Home News'', a weekly newspaper that published for 107 years before abruptly shutting down in 2017.<ref>[http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/27515139/article-Secaucus-Home-News-closes-down?instance=top_story "Secaucus Home News closes down"], ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'', November 30, 2017. Accessed February 26, 2018. "The ''Secaucus Home News'', a weekly newspaper that launched in 1910, published its final issue this week, a former reporter has confirmed. 'It is done,' said Louise Rittberg, who reported for the paper from 1980 to 2001. 'One hundred and seven years.'"</ref>

[[WWOR-TV]], [[virtual channel|channel]] 9, is a television station [[broadcast license|licensed]] to Secaucus, serving the New York metro area television market as the [[Flagship (broadcasting)|flagship station]] of the [[MyNetworkTV]] programming service. Its studios and main offices were located in Secaucus, but have since relocated to the Fox Television Center on Manhattan's [[Upper East Side]] with co-owned [[WNYW]].<ref>Gautier, Andrew. [http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/mynetworktv-flagship-wwor-returns-news-to-10_b9869 "MyNetworkTV Flagship WWOR Returns News to 10"], TVSpy, May 9, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/06/bye-bye-channel-9-demolition-begins-at-secaucus-based-tv-station.html|title=Bye, bye Channel 9: Demolition begins at Secaucus-based TV station|last=Villanova|first=Patrick|date=June 4, 2019|work=The Star-Ledger|access-date=June 19, 2024}}</ref> The 1987–1989 talk show ''[[The Morton Downey Jr. Show]]'' was among the WWOR-TV programs filmed in Secaucus.<ref>Kogan, Rick. [http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-morton-downey-jr-documentary-20150817-story.html "Morton Downey Jr. paved the way for the angry talk show host of today"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', August 17, 2015. Accessed February 26, 2018. "Taped in front of a live and loud audience in studios in Secaucus, N.J., the ''Morton Downey Jr. Show'' was an immediate ratings success, moving into national syndication in 1988."</ref><ref>Smerconish, Michael. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150817192039/http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/08/16/michael-smerconish-on-reliable-sources-i-see-shades-of-morton-downey-jr-in-so-much-of-the-political-environment-today/ "Michael Smerconish on Reliable Sources: 'I see shades of Morton Downey Jr. in so much of the political environment today'"], ''[[Reliable Sources]]'' / [[CNN]], August 16, 2015. Accessed February 26, 2018. "Smerconish on seeing Downey Jr.’s influence on Trump's presidential campaign: 'I think that the Trump appeal is likely to some of the same people, those 20- and 30-somethings who would show up in Secaucus and applaud Morton Downey when he would do this nightly television program. I think it's the same mentality and frankly that it plays to the very lowest common denominator.'"</ref><ref>Staff. [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/morton-downey/thankfully-rev-al-sharpton-no-longer-addresses-his-detractors-%E2%80%9Cpunk-faggot%E2%80%9D "Thankfully, Rev. Al Sharpton No Longer Addresses His Detractors As 'Punk Faggot'"], [[The Smoking Gun]], December 16, 2010. Accessed September 1, 2014. "An upcoming documentary about the late Morton Downey Jr., the acerbic, chain-smoking talk show host, promises a meditation on the progenitor of trash TV, whose eponymous 1980s program was filmed in Secaucus, New Jersey and whose audience was filled with current and future probationers."</ref>

The warehouse at 10 Enterprise Avenue was used as the primary filming location for the hospital drama ''[[Mercy (TV series)|Mercy]]'', which aired on [[NBC]] from 2009 to 2010.<ref name=NJFilm>Wright, E. Assata. [http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/11505447/article-Getting-the-film-crews-back-to-NJ-Gov--to-decide-future-of-tax-credit-that-benefited-Hudson-County- "Getting the film crews back to NJ; Gov. to decide future of tax credit that benefited Hudson County"], ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'', February 20, 2011. Accessed July 15, 2012. "The tax credit had been instrumental in attracting several TV productions to Hudson County, including the NBC hospital drama ''Mercy,'' which was shot in Secaucus, and NBC's ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,'' which filmed throughout the county but was primarily shot in a studio in North Bergen."</ref>

Secaucus was the original home to cable news channel [[MSNBC]] until parent company [[NBCUniversal]] elected to consolidate it with [[NBC News]] at a single facility in the company's headquarters at [[30 Rockefeller Plaza]]. [[MLB Network]] took over the space after that.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newscaststudio.com/2008/10/20/mlb-network-taking-over-former-msnbc-hq/|title=MLB Network taking over former MSNBC HQ|last=Hill|first=Michael P.|date=October 20, 2008|work=Newscast Studio|access-date=June 19, 2024|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114000451/https://www.newscaststudio.com/2008/10/20/mlb-network-taking-over-former-msnbc-hq/|url-status=live}}</ref>