Traffic-Sense And Road Awareness

With the new converter box system, my TV set gets a channel it never used to get before, "WNYE-2" which only shows alternating views of Times Square, The Brooklyn Bridge at Centre Street, The F.D.R. at 155th Street, the Staten Island Express at Vooley Avenue, the 59th Street Bridge, the Long Island Expressway and Van Wyck, The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, and other images of traffic and/or people going through a street or bridge or highway and apparently these are images of what is happening as recorded by a surveilance camera at the particular area. It seems that some of the images are captured on one of those "time delay" systems and actually I am not so sure if the images are a few hours old because sometimes it seems that the scenes of the particular surveilance camera are from an ealiier or later part of the day and I wonder if the surveilance images are even of the prior day rather than the current day because they do not seem to be exactly "live" to the exact millisecond, if you get what I mean. I doubt that I strictly am the only person getting this particular channel. Anyone familiar with WNYE-2?

I would like to know if the continous coverage on WNYE-2 (Channel 25-2) which shows different parts of streets and bridges and expressways around the New York area is some kind of special channel that is meant to be presented to the public just like any other channel on TV, or has there been some kind of mix-up of signals with the new converter box system so that a lot of people’s TV sets are unintentionally catching what is being shown on surveilance cameras throughout certain areas around New York City? If channel WNYE-2 is meant to show TV viewers ongoing coverage of what surveilance cameras are recording, who’s idea was it to make such a channel? Who thought that TV viewers would want to have a channel that shows surveilance camera images? I actually find it interesting to sometimes watch what is happening at rather deserted areas of a bridge crossway or a suburban like highway, but I can’t imagine how this thing just came about.
Very funny. Some of you are giving dumb explainations. It actually did occurr to me to "Ask them" but I don’t know whom is in charge of the "surveilance channel." Anyone have a serious useful answer? (Otherwise don’t write in).

Why not ask them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYE-TV

Looks like it is planned and santioned by the City.