blooper on 92.3 now

[nd2023]

I heard a promo saying "This is Jessica from Cherry Hill, New Jersey and here are my 3 favorite songs on 92.3 Now FM"
You lose 92.3 at exit 7 on the NJ Turnpike, Cherry Hill is exit 4, further south. You can't ever hear 92.3 Now in Cherry Hill. Oops.

 

[leethalweapon]

Could commute in...

 

[JustinCase]

Could be a webstreaming listener... or an intern with a dart and a map... and in error hitting outside the listening radius and not knowing or really not caring.

 

[nd2023]

It's not someone who phoned in, because the audio quality is too good. Cherry Hill to NYC is an 80 mile commute up the Turnpike, or a 40 mile drive to the Hamilton train station (and you can't get 92.3 Now for 30 of those 40 miles). I doubt too many people would do a 2-3 hour commute every day. And there's a better rhythmic CHR in Cherry Hill (Wired 96.5) that has been around 5 years.

When I heard it, I laughed.

 

[DanceDiva3]

;D me too, i laughed when I heard that. It's another world down in Cherry Hill with their own market. I also hate when they say ____ in "New York" for cities and towns in Long Island and Queens because they can't differentiate. In their defense, I also hear jocks on Z100 pull that crap that aren't from around here. They obviously don't know their territory and it's something that tunes listeners out bigtime.

 

[StereoBrain]

Most listeners on Now won't care where the listener was from. Only a few radio nerds will.

 

[XCountry285]

i heard them have a caller from Port Jervis, NY. They're nowhere near NYC! They can only get like K-104 or 96.1 Kiss FM.

 

[CHRles]

Port Jervis is a lot closer to NYC then Cherry Hill.

 

[nd2023]

Port Jervis doesn't have anything interfering with 92.3, and has a direct train service to NYC. I've heard a few callers who claim to be from Syracuse! But I think they're real callers who are listening on the Internet (Syracuse University was on spring break when Now FM launched), as the jocks made fun of the cold Syracuse weather.
But those pre-produced station promos that obviously sound like the person who made it doesn't know that a Class B signal can't go 80 miles just sounds dumb.
I want to record one that says "Hey this is Nick from Bordentown, New Jersey, and my 3 favorite songs on 92.3 Now FM are: Kanye West - Heartless, Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy, and Lady GaGa - Poker Face". Bordentown is where most drivers on the Turnpike tune out of the New York City stations. Cherry Hill is 20 miles south of there.

 

[DToTheJ]

I remember about 20 years ago hearing, I wanna say, WPLJ, and the morning show at the time was taking listener calls for a contest. A caller told the hosts that she was from Hartford, and the hosts were quite skeptical and moved on the next caller... who was from New Jersey.

I guess in today's radio climate, you can take all the listeners you can get!

 

[nd2023]

I remember about 20 years ago hearing, I wanna say, WPLJ, and the morning show at the time was taking listener calls for a contest. A caller told the hosts that she was from Hartford, and the hosts were quite skeptical and moved on the next caller... who was from New Jersey.

I guess in today's radio climate, you can take all the listeners you can get!

There could have been tropo that morning that brought PLJ to the Hartford area. Kiss 95.7's transmitter is 20 miles from Hartford, and there was no IBUZ back then.

 

[Bobby Chaffin]

I think some stations limit winners only to the immediate listening area. Would someone be disqualified winning from California if tyhey were listening on the Internet?