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JSE ROCKS!

Working for JSE (Parinello Enterprises, Access 1, and Atlantic Broadcasting) I can say JSE was successful from about 2002 thru 2005, it started to build again in 2008 but the rug was pulled out in 2010. I call it successful because a 3,000 watt station billed almost a million a year for about 4 straight years, this was the Howard Stern years and beer money was flowing. In 2003 JSE had a 5.1 12+ and billed the most it ever had. The next year the deal was set in place to sell JSE-FM to Access 1 for $5,000,000. Access 1 may have overpayed but they did pay that for JSE, I call that just a little successful. That's what small business success is all about in my opinion. I wish the new JSE good luck and hope they respect the call letters that have been good to me.

Scott Reilly
103.7 WMGM Rocks
 
106.3's RDS has been mostly "106.3 WJSE Coming August 31st" or just simply "WJSE1063".......I did however see "Fun 106.3 WFNE" last night but it was brief.
 
Scotty1037 said:
Working for JSE (Parinello Enterprises, Access 1, and Atlantic Broadcasting) I can say JSE was successful from about 2002 thru 2005, it started to build again in 2008 but the rug was pulled out in 2010. I call it successful because a 3,000 watt station billed almost a million a year for about 4 straight years, this was the Howard Stern years and beer money was flowing. In 2003 JSE had a 5.1 12+ and billed the most it ever had. The next year the deal was set in place to sell JSE-FM to Access 1 for $5,000,000. Access 1 may have overpayed but they did pay that for JSE, I call that just a little successful. That's what small business success is all about in my opinion. I wish the new JSE good luck and hope they respect the call letters that have been good to me.

Scott Reilly
103.7 WMGM Rocks
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I'm sorry, Scott, you described just about every business on the planet for those years. Everyone had money to spend and would spend it on everything, hence the $1,000,000 sales income. If JSE was billing $1,000,000 in the late 90's or the late 2000's, then I'd give it to you. I mean no disrespect, that's your perception, but success is long term, over time, something that JSE couldn't sustain.
 
I'm not offended, I don't believe the new JSE will bill $1,000,000 or come anywhere close to that. I was just clearing up some information about JSE from years past. The economy being good or bad JSE made money and had ratings, at least for a window of time. We'll never know how JSE would've ended up in the late 2000's because Access 1 flipped the format to "The Ace" (Active/Classic/Modern) in 2006 and it was all downhill from there. It's not a perception that a company had goodtimes in a good economy it's just the luck of that owner. Either way it's very funny to see the JSE call letters all over this board again. I wish success to everyone in radio because we all could use some more of it.

Scotty
 
WJSE is now on the air........The last song was "Last Dance" by Donna Summer then one last ID as Fun 106.3 and went into a set of commercials......At midnight the was a legal ID "WJSE North Cape May, Atlantic City, Somers Point" and kicked off with "Freedom" by Rage Against The Machine.
 
Please continue to update us on what is happening there. I'd like to include as much as possible in my new book, "Examples of How to Fail at Radio."
 
But only for the sake of the record, WJSE in it's day was neither successful or a market factor, either in revenue or ratings. It is doubtful whether it ever billed a million and certainly not in cash that was collected, even most of the employees don't believe that. JSE did produce beer ratings within Howard Stern but the rest of the day was not even vaguely marketable. Rough as this sounds, the intent is not to be disparaging of the station or the people connected to the station. I'm sure eveybody in the game worked hard and did the best they could. Nonetheless, inventing a picture of its past that just didn't exist doesn't seem relevant to any conversation. Managing to sell it for 5 million though is accuate and a miracle to be remembered and worthy of praise to the owner.
 
If the new JSE sounds like it did about ten years ago, I think they will be very successful. Back then they had a better selection of songs than the rock stations out of Philadelphia.
 
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