About MNN Home Our Mission Founded in 1992, the mission of Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) is to ensure the ability of Manhattan residents to exercise ... See more ise their First Amendment rights through the medium of cable television on an open, uncensored and equitable basis. MNN administers the four Public Access cable TV channels in Manhattan, reaching 620,000 cable subscribers on the RCN, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS cable systems. In 2009, MNN presented 13,210 hours -- or about nine hours per day per channel -- of non-duplicative locally-produced programming in more than 40 languages. Cablecasting occurs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. MNN offers free training and certification classes in video production, editing and broadcasting to Manhattan residents. In the last five years, between 2005-2009, MNN trained 12,016 people and certified an average of 701 individuals annually.