“the city that never sleeps”

...is code for people who live in NYC and don’t watch TV because they are always busy working or playing hard. The TV uses hypnosis to put the brain in Alpha state, or lower, which is a form of sleep. Those who are in the “city that never sleeps” are always busy and if the TV is on, it’s usually just in the background, so the TV intelligence is unable to put them to sleep with the camera movements.