Thursday, October 1, 2026
Television anchor and correspondent Jim Paymar, a Rockville Centre resident, will host a new, locally-originated show that will look at the economic and business trends that impact the nearly 3 million people who call Long Island home.
The premiere episode of the “Long Island Business Report,” aired on WLIW-Channel 21 on May 1 and will be shown again on May 5 at 5:30 p.m. and May 6 at 10:30 a.m., It features guests Kevin Law, president and CEO of the Long Island Association; Lawrence Levy, executive director and dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, who also has ties to Rockville Centre, and Nancy Rauch Douzinas, president of the Rauch Foundation.
Paymar, a former CNBC and BusinessWeek anchor, who is also the executive producer of the new program, says he’ll conduct in-depth conversations with business leaders and experts about the cost of doing business, the state of the infrastructure, taxation, overlapping government entities, the lack of affordable housing and efforts to revitalize Long Island downtowns.
The president of a production, consulting, training and presentation company that bears his name — Paymar Communications Group — Paymar has served in a variety of executive and broadcast capacities that he says gives him an “insiders” understanding of executives as well as the “keen insights of a working journalist.”
Among the highlights of his career in journalism are a turn as chief financial anchor and correspondent for Business Week, broadcasting financial news and commentary for ABC News Radio and Satellite Networks and ABC-owned TV and radio stations across the county. He was also a financial correspondent for CNBC, specializing in corporate profiles, reporting on Wall Street’s markets and part of the original team of the network’s flagship “Business Center” program. Local viewers may also recognize Paymar from his appearances as anchor and reporter on WNBC, WABC and WCBS-TV, as well as on the FOX Broadcasting Network in New York.
Paymar has received four Emmy awards for reporting, writing and anchoring, a National Headliner Award, two UPI awards for investigative reporting and a Gabriel award for documentary work.
