Re: Determining City Of License (COL) In New Jersey
> > Very informative. It's off topic too, but I wonder why
> > you think Millburn wouldn't leave Essex for Morris
> > County. The well-heeled folks in Millburn don't like
> > the thought of their high taxes going elsewhere in
> > Essex County. Time will tell, of course.
>
> If it were exclusively Millburn's decision, I would agree.
> Unfortunately for Millburn, it isn't completely up to them.
> There are a ton of hoops to jump through, not the easiest of
> which would be a 2/3 vote in the assembly and the Senate,
> and gubernatorial approval. It would take money AWAY from
> Newark and Irvington, and the politicans in Trenton (and
> state Supreme Court) are constantly making laws to send MORE
> money to lagging areas, not the other way around.
>
> And so this post won't get deleted because it doesn't have
> to do with radio, um, uh...I'm glad Rocky Allen's back.
>
Quite true. I'm sure that the rest of Essex County would
not be pleased to see the loss of so valuable a ratable
as Millburn Township. The mall itself must pay half the
bills in town.
Rocky Allen, of course, is more appropriately on
the New York City forum, so that might not qualify.
On a more sober note, it is truly sad that Essex County
does not have one full-service radio station. WBGO is
into its quasi-New York persona. The VNJs were lost to
New York. WNJR, while ethnic since the 1950s, is a
waste of spectrum. WCAA and WFME are also New York
stations.
When WNJR was sold to that Liu guy I wrote a letter to
Mayor James urging him to oppose any relocation of the
station. The bottom line of the answer was that the
city couldn't do anything about it. That wasn't true,
of course, but then Mayor James and politicians like
him don't do well when there is a concerned and probling
news media around him. A large part of the problem with
radio (and TV) in northern New Jersey is that the
politicians are not especially unhappy to be able to
operate with little attention on them. The only major
media force in the area is the Newark Star-Ledger, and
that newspaper actively persues its own agenda. And it
certainly isn't going to encourage the development of
a radio/TV industry to compete for advertising. That's
it in a nutshell.
> > Very informative. It's off topic too, but I wonder why
> > you think Millburn wouldn't leave Essex for Morris
> > County. The well-heeled folks in Millburn don't like
> > the thought of their high taxes going elsewhere in
> > Essex County. Time will tell, of course.
>
> If it were exclusively Millburn's decision, I would agree.
> Unfortunately for Millburn, it isn't completely up to them.
> There are a ton of hoops to jump through, not the easiest of
> which would be a 2/3 vote in the assembly and the Senate,
> and gubernatorial approval. It would take money AWAY from
> Newark and Irvington, and the politicans in Trenton (and
> state Supreme Court) are constantly making laws to send MORE
> money to lagging areas, not the other way around.
>
> And so this post won't get deleted because it doesn't have
> to do with radio, um, uh...I'm glad Rocky Allen's back.
>
Quite true. I'm sure that the rest of Essex County would
not be pleased to see the loss of so valuable a ratable
as Millburn Township. The mall itself must pay half the
bills in town.
Rocky Allen, of course, is more appropriately on
the New York City forum, so that might not qualify.
On a more sober note, it is truly sad that Essex County
does not have one full-service radio station. WBGO is
into its quasi-New York persona. The VNJs were lost to
New York. WNJR, while ethnic since the 1950s, is a
waste of spectrum. WCAA and WFME are also New York
stations.
When WNJR was sold to that Liu guy I wrote a letter to
Mayor James urging him to oppose any relocation of the
station. The bottom line of the answer was that the
city couldn't do anything about it. That wasn't true,
of course, but then Mayor James and politicians like
him don't do well when there is a concerned and probling
news media around him. A large part of the problem with
radio (and TV) in northern New Jersey is that the
politicians are not especially unhappy to be able to
operate with little attention on them. The only major
media force in the area is the Newark Star-Ledger, and
that newspaper actively persues its own agenda. And it
certainly isn't going to encourage the development of
a radio/TV industry to compete for advertising. That's
it in a nutshell.