NJN.......TV, Radio & Web providing broadcast of the Gov. meetings about NJN

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This will begin at 10 am....Today....

I just hope these licenses stay in New Jersey and are not sold off to another company in another state.>>>>

Tuesday, September 14 at 10 am – State House (Mercer County)
Live Coverage To Be Provided
Thursday, September 16 at 10 am – Stockton College (Atlantic County)
Live Coverage To Be Provided
Thursday, September 23 at 6 pm – Montclair Municipal Building (Essex County)
Lawmakers will hold three public meetings of the bipartisan Legislative Task Force on Public Broadcasting to hear from invited speakers and the public on the future of New Jersey Network Public Television and Radio (NJN).

The 10-member panel was created by a measure approved in June after Governor Chris Christie included a provision in the FY 2011 budget to drastically reduce state funding to the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority which operates NJN.

The Task Force is charged with issuing a report to the Governor and the Legislature by October 15. The Governor’s spending plan provides funding for NJN through the end of this year.

 

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Live on the Web.... www.njn.net

Nothing is up yet....their late....

 

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They are live now...this NJ broadcast history in the making!!

 

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They just came out with what I wanted to hear....all the licenses for NJN are owned by The State Of New Jersey and operated by the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authroity,
so this like a LMA. All of NJN is owned by New Jersey.

 

[MickeyD]

They just came out with what I wanted to hear....all the licenses for NJN are owned by The State Of New Jersey and operated by the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authroity,
so this like a LMA. All of NJN is owned by New Jersey.

Who in the right mind would buy a non-comm radio and TV network?

 

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I agree they will have it on their hands for a while. Look at all the stations you can buy where you can sell spots on.

 

[Cosmopolite]

This week NJN said one of the considerations in divesting from the state is selling the FM stations to WNYC, which became independent of the City of New York in the '80s.

More than a decade ago WNET-13 made an unsuccessful attempt to buy NJN Radio and TV. They later bought Long Island's WLIW-21.

 

[MattParker]

From what I understand WNET, New York and WHYY-TV, Wilmington-Philadelphia may take over NJN - either to operate it jointly as a separate operation or to split it into NJN-North and NJN-South. It's not clear whether this deal might include the radio stations. One possibility would be somebody like Minnesota Public Radio which also operates public radio stations in Southern California and Florida.

No commercial broadcaster could purchase any of the NJN radio or TV licenses. They operate on reserved non-commercial frequencies.

 

[mdamico25]

>>No commercial broadcaster could purchase any of the NJN radio or TV licenses. They operate on reserved non-commercial frequencies.

Is WNJB "58" non-commercial? Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Channel 58 was WRTV/Eatontown, a commerical station. By the late 1960s, the station was dormant, but from what I've heard, as late as 1969 or 1970, the owners planned to be back on the air. Supposedly, some of the equipment was then used to start WBTB-TV/68 in Newark in the mid-70s. I'm wondering if WNJB is non-commerical, if NJN could get the FCC to revert it back to "commerical" status- similar to what happened in Buffalo and Pittsburgh where the Public Broadcasting entities tried to get their commerical allocations back to sell one of their duplicative frequencies. I think WNJS/23 in Camden was also a commerical allocation in the 1960s- call letters were issued, but never made it to the air. I wonder if Channel 23 could be sold in a similar manner.

If the TV stations are sold non-commerically, would a religious broadcaster such as Daystar, TBN or Cornerstone TV be interested? The purchase of the NJN signals would give them a toehold to spread their brand of "religion" to Markets #1 and #4, although TBN operates full-powered stations in both "New York" (actually Poughkeepsie) WTBY and Philadelphia (WGTW).

-Mike

 

[MickeyD]

From what I understand WNET, New York and WHYY-TV, Wilmington-Philadelphia may take over NJN - either to operate it jointly as a separate operation or to split it into NJN-North and NJN-South. It's not clear whether this deal might include the radio stations. One possibility would be somebody like Minnesota Public Radio which also operates public radio stations in Southern California and Florida.

No commercial broadcaster could purchase any of the NJN radio or TV licenses. They operate on reserved non-commercial frequencies.

You bring up an interesting point. When the FCC takes all of the TV station's off the air, and it is just a matter of time, what will happen to the non-comms? The commercial stations will get a cut of the proceeds after their BW is sold off to the wireless companies. Many will cut and run and the cable and satellite companies will be fed by the networks directly.

How long do you think these glorified commercial and non-comm public access stations will be able to remain on the air? You will start to see a dramatic change in local TV when the Comcast/NBC merger takes place. This will be the beginning of the end for TV stations and the end of non-comms.