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Come on now!! What is with all of the commercials during drive time.. How effective are the commercials when you bombarded with all of the car ads?? It is a turn off. During the news they stick a couple of commercial in the newscast. I understand the need but this is too much. Between 06:30 AM - 07:30 AM Jim only talks about 26 mins - the rest of the time.. You guessed it commercials.

On Friday's, I enjoy listening to Bob Engle, but I do not care about what he had for lunch, the clothes he is wearing and his vacation. Why do they think I or any listerner cares? When Bob begins to talk about current NJ issues it is time for a commercial break. It is the same every week! Enough already.. You are losing me and other listeners.
 
Turnpike Tuner said:
Scott Fybush said:
Yeah! If only they'd bring back Consultant Walter Sabo... :D
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Or give more airtime to Eric Scott!
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And fire Casey Bartholomew and Ray Rossi!

After they do all of these things, there's not a thing in the world that can stop NJ 101.5. I think they would increase their ratings to the hundredth power. Every other broadcaster in the area may as well shut down, because NJ 101.5 is taking over! And all they have to do is all of these things! But it is imperative that they bring Walter Sabo back! If they don't, then I predict bankruptcy for Millennium tomorrow!
 
With Millennium having their Moody’s rating withdrawn this year http://v3.moodys.com/Pages/default.aspx and the value of AM FM radio station’s losing value with each passing day this commercial load could be to prop up revenue in preparation of attempting to sell Millennium. Only suckers would fall for this and buy Millennium but as P.T. Barnum reminds us "there’s a sucker born every minute."

Another potential possibility is with ratings way down in the highly populated and lucrative M/S/U advertisers may have demanded (and rightly so) ad rate cuts or ad credits to make up for this NJ 101.5 devastating ratings loss. The phalanx of followers of MedianJ has been kept abreast of these disturbing and concerning developments.

http://www.radio-info.com/markets/middlesex-somerset-union
 
How many imaginary friends constitutes a "phalanx" nowadays?
 
imhomerjay said:
How many imaginary friends constitutes a "phalanx" nowadays?
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Ask Perry Michael Simon ... he's the one of the only people who uses that word regularly.

Who?

Perry Michael Simon. Talk radio guy. Editor of the News-Talk-Sports section at AllAccess.com. Former Program Director, Operations Manager, host, and general nuisance at KLSX/Los Angeles, Y-107/Los Angeles, New Jersey 101.5. Freelance writer on media, sports, pop culture, based somewhere in the Los Angeles area. Contact him here. Copyright 2003-2010 Perry Michael Simon. Yeah. pmsimon.com
 
I dont know what going on with 1015 but they were on commerical overload today.After the news, traffic & weather and commericals. The topic of the hour started at 11 after during ther four o clock hour. if they want to keep peoples attention they have to lower the commerical count. Also strange was casey did two topics with limited phone calls. what happened to the callers ?
 
Take for instance... C & R takes commercial breaks between 04:26 - 04:39.. Back on the topic until 04:46 for more commercials. Back on topic at 04:52... They take 2 calls and at 04:55 they break for commercials..... News.... More commercials.... Finish the news... More commercials until 05:11. FINALLY back to the show!!!

NJ1015 is losing me as a listener...

The show should be renamed to "The Commercial Show" brought to you by Casey and Rossi..

The same is true in the morning with Jim Gearhart.
 
It is true there are way to many car commercials and commercials in general, but it is the commercials that pay's the bills, with that said, I do agree with you 100 percent about Casey and Rossi, since there are so many commercials that we are force to listen to, maybe they should get on topic quicker and stop all the non topic and getting off topiccrap that they always do every hour.

I'm also with you with Bob Ingle, every week I turn on to listen to Bob but unfortunately Casey makes a mockery of the show for the first 10 to 12 minutes talking nonsense. Its the same thing week after week. Then when they finally get into the meat of things, another commercial or Casey continually cracking jokes on Bob. Very unprofessional.

With that said, where as I used to make sure I was near a radio for Friday at 5pm, I no longer care.

Can you imagine if Eric Scott did that with "Ask the Governor". Maybe Casey should back off the jokes and act a little like Eric Scott when Bob Ingle is on.
 
With the solid ratings they've been pulling and the heavy ad load, you would think that NJ 101.5 was doing alright. But maybe there is something to what its critics (i.e. MedianJ) have been saying. It's been over a year since they let Tommy G. go, and they're still deciding to go with pre-taped rerun programming from 11 PM - 3 AM instead of giving the late-night listeners something live to listen to. If you ask me, that's rather sorry and pathetic. Takes away the participation element of talk radio, which removes a lot of its appeal. I used to listen frequently during these hours, but now I don't even bother. It's obvious they don't think much of the audience they had, if old Dennis & Michele / Casey & Rossi shows are what they decide to air. Anything would be an improvement ... heck, simulcast Coast To Coast if you don't want to produce an in-house show.
 
It's the wee hours of the night. The world has changed as far as when it's financially prudent to put a live host on and when it's not.
 
NradioManJ said:
Come on now!! What is with all of the commercials during drive time.. How effective are the commercials when you bombarded with all of the car ads?? It is a turn off. During the news they stick a couple of commercial in the newscast. I understand the need but this is too much. Between 06:30 AM - 07:30 AM Jim only talks about 26 mins - the rest of the time.. You guessed it commercials.

On Friday's, I enjoy listening to Bob Engle, but I do not care about what he had for lunch, the clothes he is wearing and his vacation. Why do they think I or any listerner cares? When Bob begins to talk about current NJ issues it is time for a commercial break. It is the same every week! Enough already.. You are losing me and other listeners.
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As Walter always says, Radio is a business, not a hobby. Be happy if you have commercials in these economic times.
 
Little Sal said:
I'm also with you with Bob Ingle, every week I turn on to listen to Bob but unfortunately Casey makes a mockery of the show for the first 10 to 12 minutes talking nonsense. Its the same thing week after week. Then when they finally get into the meat of things, another commercial or Casey continually cracking jokes on Bob. Very unprofessional.
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Casey is incapable of being serious for more than 5 minutes at a time. I think its because he is so insecure about his handle on topics of substance that he constantly takes the low road by being a clown. I always gave Carton credit for being able to handle situations with class when it called for it. The "Chrismakkah" miracle thing they used to do was a prime example. He did the "shock jock" routine, and did it well, but when it came time to do something good, he didn't crap all over it by acting like a fool.
 
I've admired NJ 101.5 for a long time. I know some people here have issues with the station and the company. Still I have to admit lately I listen and I get disappointed. Yes, ad clutter. Yes, quality of talent is down. It sounds like spot rates have dropped and they are responding by running more spots (which means they will get even less for spots and have to run even more spots ....). Some of the changes in talent sound like cost-cutting moves. Exhibit A is Michelle Jerson. Mostly the conversation sounds like high school girls having a sleep-over party. Jim Gerhardt keeps going to the same well and the well is running dry. Dennis and Michelle ain't Dennis and Judy.

The other problem is the station was water-cooler topics and now it's getting more political. Just what everybody needs, more angry conservative rants on the radio.
 
One issue with NJ 101.5 that I don't think anyone has mentioned is that they have a terrible signal in Essex/Bergen/Hudson counties. Which means this NJ-focused station is not reaching the most populated areas of the state, which I see as a major problem. I know they used to have a simulcast in south Jersey, but never anything like that in north Jersey.
 
ansky212 said:
One issue with NJ 101.5 that I don't think anyone has mentioned is that they have a terrible signal in Essex/Bergen/Hudson counties. Which means this NJ-focused station is not reaching the most populated areas of the state, which I see as a major problem. I know they used to have a simulcast in south Jersey, but never anything like that in north Jersey.
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I happen to pick up a pirate on 101.5 around Fort Lee last month playing spanish music.
 
In most places WKXW NJ-101.5 does not have a good signal north of I-80 & I-280.....The farthest north I can get a clean listenable signal from them is up to Exit 52 (Route 23) on I-287 before WPDH (Poughkeepsie, NY) rips them apart.....On the GSP it is good to about I-280 (Exit 145) while I-280 is also the cutoff point on the Turnpike (Exit 15)......After that it's a mix of heavy static, WPDH, & and even hints of W268AN (Plainview, NY).....I can't say how good their signal is in Sussex but I gather on the south facing montainsides it's WKXW while on the north facing mountainsides it's WPDH.
 
During yesterday's show, commercials between 04:55 PM - 05:11 PM with some news and traffic. Once back on the air, nothing but chit chat about C's birthdaybetween C & R with Bob Ingle. No talk about NJ Issues. At 05:18 more commercials at which time I switched to a music channel. I had enough with that station! BBY NJ105!
 
ansky212 said:
One issue with NJ 101.5 that I don't think anyone has mentioned is that they have a terrible signal in Essex/Bergen/Hudson counties. Which means this NJ-focused station is not reaching the most populated areas of the state, which I see as a major problem. I know they used to have a simulcast in south Jersey, but never anything like that in north Jersey.
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Northeastern NJ is too liberal for NJ101.5's agenda, and listeners in that part of the state have other stations to listen to, such as North Jersey 1500.

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