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Fate of NJN Radio Now More Clear

I don't live in New Jersey, but have an interest in public broadcasting. I noticed the following documentary aired last month on NJN TV about "The Power of the Governor" in NJ, versus other states. (please copy link below into your URL.)

Anyone wanna bet this had a role in your governor being the one to announce he was "getting rid" of the state's "Soviet-style" public broadcasting network? Wow - the rest of us had no idea NJ was really so blatently corrupt. Without any media organization HQ'd in Trenton to reach most of the state, who's really going to fill the investigative journalism gap of state govt. that's left behind? Seems like you're not much of a state without something like NJN to help pull it together with a 'statewide' identity - even tho' I know it didn't reach into Newark and the close-in NYC suburbs.

http://www.njn.net/about/pressrelease/11archive/11may-powerofthegovernor.html
 
Goldilocks94941 said:
I don't live in New Jersey, but have an interest in public broadcasting. I noticed the following documentary aired last month on NJN TV about "The Power of the Governor" in NJ, versus other states. (please copy link below into your URL.)

Anyone wanna bet this had a role in your governor being the one to announce he was "getting rid" of the state's "Soviet-style" public broadcasting network? Wow - the rest of us had no idea NJ was really so blatently corrupt. Without any media organization HQ'd in Trenton to reach most of the state, who's really going to fill the investigative journalism gap of state govt. that's left behind? Seems like you're not much of a state without something like NJN to help pull it together with a 'statewide' identity - even tho' I know it didn't reach into Newark and the close-in NYC suburbs.

http://www.njn.net/about/pressrelease/11archive/11may-powerofthegovernor.html
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New Jersey doesn't have a strong statewide identity - for a small state, we have allot of regions that don't have allot in common with one-another (people bitching about NJ101.5 being "North Jersey 101.5" on this board are a good example). I doubt any commercial radio group's news dept would fill the gap, especially Millennium given the "Ask The Gov" program.
 
NJN radio, as it existed for its misbegotten life, should never have happened. The State ate up almost all of the remaining non-comm frequencies for a service that serviced, really, no one. The only New Jersey-centric programming was just simulcasts or audio rebroadcasts of NJN-TV programs which were either Trenton or North Jersey centered.

The only way that NJN Radio would have served the purpose it was intended for would have been to essentially adopt a network/affiliate model, with stations operating independently or in clusters, serving their local areas with local programming and with the "network" providing NPR and statewide shows.

Ironically, with the stations being run from out of state, we'll be closer to the model that NJN radio should have been to begin with.
 
Pab Sungenis said:
Ironically, with the stations being run from out of state, we'll be closer to the model that NJN radio should have been to begin with.
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I wouldn't be so sure. The key aspect of the original NJN, both TV and radio, was that it was centrallized in Trenton. That was by design and by budget. The new NJN radio won't have a real budget to work with, either from WNYC or WHYY, for original local programming. That kind of local programming requires lots of money, and after paying the facilities costs, there's not much left. My expectation is there'll be local news and weather cut ins during NPR programming, and an occasional news program.
 
Pab Sungenis said:
NJN radio, as it existed for its misbegotten life, should never have happened. The State ate up almost all of the remaining non-comm frequencies for a service that serviced, really, no one. The only New Jersey-centric programming was just simulcasts or audio rebroadcasts of NJN-TV programs which were either Trenton or North Jersey centered.
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I lived in Camden County, Cherry Hill & Gloucester Twp., most of my life. I could not get WNJS-FM. Is it a low powered radio station? It's transmitter is in the same place as WNJS-DT/TV isn't it?
 
TheBigA said:
Pab Sungenis said:
Ironically, with the stations being run from out of state, we'll be closer to the model that NJN radio should have been to begin with.
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I wouldn't be so sure. The key aspect of the original NJN, both TV and radio, was that it was centrallized in Trenton. That was by design and by budget. The new NJN radio won't have a real budget to work with, either from WNYC or WHYY, for original local programming.
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True, but here in South Jersey we'll get Philadelphia metro-oriented programming from WHYY for the former NJN radio stations, and up north they'll get more New York-oriented programming from WNYC. That's more regionalized than the old NJN radio ever was.
 
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