Brian Lehrer, the popular host of WNYC's Peabody Award-winning "Brian Lehrer Show," hosts a live, hour-long weekly television program web-extravaganza through CUNY TV.

The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC was cited for
being true "community-building radio," a shrewd blend of news analysis,
civil conversation and call-ins that brings together the city`s wildly diverse citizenry. The Brian Lehrer Show: Radio That Builds Community Rather Than Divides WNYC Radio Lehrer`s talk show is a wide open yet shrewdly managed forum in which every sort
of political, social and cultural issue is consdiered and where New
Yorkers, in all their diversity, can get to know each other.

Just like the WNYC show, Brian Leher Live on CUNY TV will be trying to get at the truth about life and politics in New York City. But unlike the radio, we are focusing through the lens of the new media empire forming on the web: Bloggers, reporters and pundits forming an unprecedented level of access to information and a whole new set of news challenges. The show examines the affect that internet has had on our daily lives, from candidates fund-raising online to community groups e-organizing, and we want you to come participate in carving out a niche in how the web affects the news. The show will continue to provide the direct access to major news makers that you've come to expect from someone like Brian Lehrer. We'll also invite people to send in photos and original videos that say something meaningful about life in New York today. And, as on the radio, we'll find our ways to sneak in some fun!"

The program is cablecast in New York City on Wednesdays from 7: 30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and is simulcast live and archived online at www.cuny.tv. We want your original content! Submit an idea for a segment, a guest, or your own home grown video to us through our website at http://bllblog.org

To interact with guests and offer your opinion about topics discussed on the show, call (212) 251-0801 on Wednesday evening from 7: 30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

"I listen to Brian Lehrer... Wow, I love that guy. I love the show." – Jon Stewart (in a speech at a New Yorker Magazine forum)

"Usually a pretty fair and smart guy" – Bill O'Reilly (on his
show)

"You are it. You are the man." – Thomas Friedman (on "The
Brian Lehrer Show")