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Jack Ellery Retiring
- Thread starter DToTheJ
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It certainly was an abrupt announcement. Earlier in the week, Allan David Stein said he was "filling in for the vacationing Jack Ellery". As of today he started calling it "the WCTC morning show with Allan David Stein".
It makes me wonder if WCTC is for sale. A few weeks ago they turned off the AM Stereo and cranked up the audio processing to the point of distortion, maybe in an attempt to squeeze the most out of their 1 kW "graveyard channel" signal to potential buyers. I e-mailed WCTC's engineer about this and all he said is that they are "testing alternate configurations".
I know in the past EBC Radio, who currently runs the Indian music station 1170 WWTR, have expressed interest in buying WCTC, to have a full-time signal reaching the core of their demographic base in Middlesex County. I wonder if Greater Media will take them up on their offer this time...
It makes me wonder if WCTC is for sale. A few weeks ago they turned off the AM Stereo and cranked up the audio processing to the point of distortion, maybe in an attempt to squeeze the most out of their 1 kW "graveyard channel" signal to potential buyers. I e-mailed WCTC's engineer about this and all he said is that they are "testing alternate configurations".
I know in the past EBC Radio, who currently runs the Indian music station 1170 WWTR, have expressed interest in buying WCTC, to have a full-time signal reaching the core of their demographic base in Middlesex County. I wonder if Greater Media will take them up on their offer this time...
I thought I read somewhere where it was only the morning show he was giving up? Jack must be near 80 years old by now, isn't he? Time to retire completely. Turning WCTC into an Indian format does make a lot of sense.
I saw in the Star Ledger and in another place that Jack has completely retired.
Jack had a good career. But, it's time to shake things up, and I for one think that Tommy G will be able to do that. New Jersey 101.5 is going to be sorry that they let Tommy walk.
Jay Sorenson was on WCTC a few years ago. He became the station's Assistant Program Director, and tried to turn it into a mini-NJ101.5, renaming the station "Central Jersey 1450" and forbidding the hosts from saying "WCTC". Listeners didn't like the changes, and it was a flop.
Soon afterward, WCTC flipped to an automated Oldies music format, and now that they've flipped back to talk, the listeners have not returned in enough numbers to sustain the format; WCTC's latest 0.1 rating is pitiful compared to the 2.0 - 2.5 they were getting a decade ago.
Soon afterward, WCTC flipped to an automated Oldies music format, and now that they've flipped back to talk, the listeners have not returned in enough numbers to sustain the format; WCTC's latest 0.1 rating is pitiful compared to the 2.0 - 2.5 they were getting a decade ago.
I listen weekdays and he didn't say anything about it - no obvious last show, though he would occasionally aside that he was getting a little tired of the scene, and perhaps all those days of giving out the phone numbers (including the 1-888 # - but the one listener on the internet in Alabama had stopped calling a while ago) and no one calling.
Don't see why that means they're selling though.
No one seems to mention WJHR when they list his station history.
Don't see why that means they're selling though.
No one seems to mention WJHR when they list his station history.
Then again I just saw the ratings for their home county. 0.1 in Middlesex. Located in Middlesex, though with a terrible signal - multiple places within 10
miles that you could hear something under it (not WMGQ bleed either). A point one in the Middlesex-Somerset-Union market, that is really sad.
miles that you could hear something under it (not WMGQ bleed either). A point one in the Middlesex-Somerset-Union market, that is really sad.
njradionj said:Then again I just saw the ratings for their home county. 0.1 in Middlesex. Located in Middlesex, though with a terrible signal - multiple places within 10
miles that you could hear something under it (not WMGQ bleed either). A point one in the Middlesex-Somerset-Union market, that is really sad.
It didn't help that when Jack moved to the morning show, WCTC told him not to discuss politics anymore. When he was on in the afternoons, he was an outspoken liberal and criticized President Bush frequently. It was more exciting to listen to, and got more people calling in to either agree or disagree with him. But in recent years Jack was very careful to not criticize Gov. Christie, even though you could tell he was clearly unhappy with many of the things Christie was doing. Maybe WCTC didn't want a liberal host to be the lead-in for the very conservative Laura Ingraham, but it made for a very boring morning show.
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