Lately WKXW/New Jersey 101.5 has been airing some new jingles. Does anybody know where I can get them on the internet, or any other of their jingles? Lately their self promoting campaigns have gone downhill and I think this is their idea of trying to get back up to the top. Townsquare changed too much with the station in beds and format, right?
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WKXW/New Jersey 101.5
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Here are some that other users have posted on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tqn0nDDP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YSuY2HQGOE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tqn0nDDP4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YSuY2HQGOE
http://tmstudios.com/jingles.asp?category=News-Talk
TM Studios has the "Proud to Be New Jersey" package on their website which has their current beds for news/traffic/weather/etc. (although some of the ones they use on-air are alternate mixes), as well as one sung jingle. Other jingles New Jersey 101.5 uses are resings of 70's WABC jingles by JAM Creative Productions.
TM Studios has the "Proud to Be New Jersey" package on their website which has their current beds for news/traffic/weather/etc. (although some of the ones they use on-air are alternate mixes), as well as one sung jingle. Other jingles New Jersey 101.5 uses are resings of 70's WABC jingles by JAM Creative Productions.
I changed them to WKXW AM/FM in 1979. When I got there the calls were WBUD AM and WTRT FM which were just changed from WBJH FM.
I couldn't do anythng with those calls. I renamed the station and flipped the calls to WKXW AM/FM Trenton/Fairless Hills. By the way at that time it took 3 moths for call letter change aproval. Incidentally WXKW sued to stop me and was denied. Also They day I got there I had to rebuild the studios and encase them in copper to stop the RF leak. So we sueged tracks and cart drops using 101 FM as our handle. We were immediately sued by WCBS and WEAZ (Now WBEB) for saying 101FM. So we changed it to kicks 101 and a half. The Hot One! With the devistating half! Kicks 101 1/2
I went number 1 on both AM & FM on my first book 3 months later. 15.9 share on FM 6.4 on AM. It made headline on both newspapers, "Blood bath in Trenton, LIT's take the dial", as all the other station fired all their employees. The only two who stayed in the market at the other stations were Tom Taylor and Jay Sorenson. WKXW was an instant number 1. We owned it and we knew it. And so did the listeners. It was sweet. And profitable.
And at that time WABC was still rockin. So was WNBC with Howard Stern on in afternoons. WPLJ, WNEW was Rockin. WCBS FM was Oldies, WYNY was country. WKTU was at 92.3 doing disco. Every nook on the dial had a station. So had two depending on which way you swung your antenna. 101 FM get Phillt and new York stations. Even today. 100.3 same thing two stations. It's a DX'rs dream terrain. Trenton is the most conjested radio market in the country with 77 signals. Everything from NY, PHILA, Jersey Shore, Allentown.
Tom Taylor could not stop bad mouthing us. And couldn't beat us either. As soon as Hy and I left the station died. They eventually switched to talk. Kept the calls. Who knows why. Historical reasons I guess.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/showbiz/hfr-rock-dj-profiles
Some things are rare and only happen once in a lifetime. Sometimes there's offspring to carry on. My father alway's told me to carry on my son. Carry on.
I couldn't do anythng with those calls. I renamed the station and flipped the calls to WKXW AM/FM Trenton/Fairless Hills. By the way at that time it took 3 moths for call letter change aproval. Incidentally WXKW sued to stop me and was denied. Also They day I got there I had to rebuild the studios and encase them in copper to stop the RF leak. So we sueged tracks and cart drops using 101 FM as our handle. We were immediately sued by WCBS and WEAZ (Now WBEB) for saying 101FM. So we changed it to kicks 101 and a half. The Hot One! With the devistating half! Kicks 101 1/2
I went number 1 on both AM & FM on my first book 3 months later. 15.9 share on FM 6.4 on AM. It made headline on both newspapers, "Blood bath in Trenton, LIT's take the dial", as all the other station fired all their employees. The only two who stayed in the market at the other stations were Tom Taylor and Jay Sorenson. WKXW was an instant number 1. We owned it and we knew it. And so did the listeners. It was sweet. And profitable.
And at that time WABC was still rockin. So was WNBC with Howard Stern on in afternoons. WPLJ, WNEW was Rockin. WCBS FM was Oldies, WYNY was country. WKTU was at 92.3 doing disco. Every nook on the dial had a station. So had two depending on which way you swung your antenna. 101 FM get Phillt and new York stations. Even today. 100.3 same thing two stations. It's a DX'rs dream terrain. Trenton is the most conjested radio market in the country with 77 signals. Everything from NY, PHILA, Jersey Shore, Allentown.
Tom Taylor could not stop bad mouthing us. And couldn't beat us either. As soon as Hy and I left the station died. They eventually switched to talk. Kept the calls. Who knows why. Historical reasons I guess.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/showbiz/hfr-rock-dj-profiles
Some things are rare and only happen once in a lifetime. Sometimes there's offspring to carry on. My father alway's told me to carry on my son. Carry on.
The 50kW FM was on site at the time. We had no choice. The RF was unmanageable. But I did have an open checkbook for the copper. I suspect you would still need the shelding if the AM is running at 5kw. Or is it running at 500w. That was the last I heard. And the DA doesn't meet spek either. That marsh is alway's sinking. But why fix it. It has no ratings anmore anyway. The last owner dumped it just as to not pay the electric bill.
The DA DOES meet spec now, since I signed the station as an engineering client. Replaced a few items in the phasor, and cleaned all the coils up, did impedance measurements for each tower etc.
It's also running the full 5kW from a Harris DX-10.
Press/millennium/Townsquare does not own it any more, they haven't for the past 5 years.
There is a CP for a 4th tower to let the pattern out and add almost 1kW towards Philly now that the 1260 in Delaware is gone.
I really wish people on these boards would refrain from wild accusations about the technical operations of a given station. It's my professional reputation on the line that everything is operating properly, and damned if any station on my watch will be out of tolerance. Some of the other companies may not care, but I do.
It's also running the full 5kW from a Harris DX-10.
Press/millennium/Townsquare does not own it any more, they haven't for the past 5 years.
There is a CP for a 4th tower to let the pattern out and add almost 1kW towards Philly now that the 1260 in Delaware is gone.
I really wish people on these boards would refrain from wild accusations about the technical operations of a given station. It's my professional reputation on the line that everything is operating properly, and damned if any station on my watch will be out of tolerance. Some of the other companies may not care, but I do.
WNTIRadio said:The DA DOES meet spec now, since I signed the station as an engineering client. Replaced a few items in the phasor, and cleaned all the coils up, did impedance measurements for each tower etc.
It's also running the full 5kW from a Harris DX-10.
Press/millennium/Townsquare does not own it any more, they haven't for the past 5 years.
There is a CP for a 4th tower to let the pattern out and add almost 1kW towards Philly now that the 1260 in Delaware is gone.
I really wish people on these boards would refrain from wild accusations about the technical operations of a given station. It's my professional reputation on the line that everything is operating properly, and damned if any station on my watch will be out of tolerance. Some of the other companies may not care, but I do.
It was 4 towers when I was there. How does it meet spek with only 3? Was there a previous modification?
I remember when WKXW signed on. I was living in Pottstown, and had purchased my first McIntosh piece, a hybrid receiver. Replaced a Scott Kit tuner which was still pretty darn good stuff, but not compared to that Mac 1500. 101.5 pulled in full quieting Stereo, and that station was ass-kicking. In my opinion, what evolution WOULD have brought to the table by WIBG/WFIL if they were on FM.
It was 4 towers when I was there. How does it meet spek with only 3? Was there a previous modification?
We're talking about 1260, former WBUD, now WFJS-AM, correct? Not the 1300 across the river with the 4 towers.
That array is 3 towers, inline, 5kW with a "butterfly" or "figure 8" pattern.
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=53443
WNTIRadio said:It was 4 towers when I was there. How does it meet spek with only 3? Was there a previous modification?
We're talking about 1260, former WBUD, now WFJS-AM, correct? Not the 1300 across the river with the 4 towers.
That array is 3 towers, inline, 5kW with a "butterfly" or "figure 8" pattern.
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=53443
1260 was 4 towers when I got there. But it didn't meet spek. So we got a special authority and went omni 500w. Which actually performed pretty good. At least it had a consistent signal audience day/night. And a 6.4 2+ on the first book was the highest the freq. ever had before.
quote author=Sam Lit link=topic=237859.msg2148304#msg2148304 date=1374853026]
I changed them to WKXW AM/FM in 1979. When I got there the calls were WBUD AM and WTRT FM which were just changed from WBJH FM.
I couldn't do anythng with those calls. I renamed the station and flipped the calls to WKXW AM/FM Trenton/Fairless Hills. By the way at that time it took 3 moths for call letter change aproval. Incidentally WXKW sued to stop me and was denied. Also They day I got there I had to rebuild the studios and encase them in copper to stop the RF leak. So we sueged tracks and cart drops using 101 FM as our handle. We were immediately sued by WCBS and WEAZ (Now WBEB) for saying 101FM. So we changed it to kicks 101 and a half. The Hot One! With the devistating half! Kicks 101 1/2
I went number 1 on both AM & FM on my first book 3 months later. 15.9 share on FM 6.4 on AM.
Sam- wasn't WTRT playing oldies before the changeover to WKXW? I seem to recall they were "T-101" or "Trenton 101" and the music was oldies. I was only a kid back then. What was the programming on the AM when you and your Dad took over? I know earlier in the 1970s, they were broadcasting NBC's "News and Information Service", which was also heard at the time in NYC on 97.1 FM.
You mentioned the newly christened "Kicks 101 1/2" went to #1 in its first book- what was the format in the early '80s that made it go to #1? I remember in the mid '80s, it was a Top-40 skewing AC station, although more "A/C" than WPST. In the late '80's shortly after Press bought it, it was more of an A/C/Oldies mix, which lead up to the Talk/Oldies hybrid NJ 101.5 format change in March 1990. I seem to remember that the station had a Sunday night oldies show through its various A/C iterations in the '80s, which I think continued into the early NJ 101.5 days. Norm Latham the host if I remember correctly? He played really "old" oldies- 1950s and 1960s stuff which one of my uncles absolutely loved.
Few more questions. 1260 was WBUD by the time I got interested in radio in the mid-late '80s. Did they simulcast the FM in the WKXW (AM)/WKXW-FM days? When did they go back to being WBUD? I think they had a "nostalgia" format in the '80s, which evolved more to an oldies format by the late 80s/early 90s after Press took over. I seem to remember Press importing their "Great Gold" slogan/jingles from WJLK (AM) 1310 after they sold it and took over the Trenton stations.
When did 101.5 "power up" and move to the big WNJT tower? Something tells me it was around 1987 or so? I remember 101.5's signal was always "iffy" in Hazlet Township, NJ (Monmouth County) where I grew up, until they moved to the big tower and then they came in like a local. Did 101.5 maintain an aux antenna on their old tower after the move?
Thanks. I always have a fond spot for Kicks- back when I was 16 and 17 years old in the late '80s, it was my favorite station. Good "oldies/A/C mix." Of course, what goes around comes around- many of the A/C songs heard on the station in the late 1980s are now featured on the weekend on NJ 101.5!
-Mike
I changed them to WKXW AM/FM in 1979. When I got there the calls were WBUD AM and WTRT FM which were just changed from WBJH FM.
I couldn't do anythng with those calls. I renamed the station and flipped the calls to WKXW AM/FM Trenton/Fairless Hills. By the way at that time it took 3 moths for call letter change aproval. Incidentally WXKW sued to stop me and was denied. Also They day I got there I had to rebuild the studios and encase them in copper to stop the RF leak. So we sueged tracks and cart drops using 101 FM as our handle. We were immediately sued by WCBS and WEAZ (Now WBEB) for saying 101FM. So we changed it to kicks 101 and a half. The Hot One! With the devistating half! Kicks 101 1/2
I went number 1 on both AM & FM on my first book 3 months later. 15.9 share on FM 6.4 on AM.
Sam- wasn't WTRT playing oldies before the changeover to WKXW? I seem to recall they were "T-101" or "Trenton 101" and the music was oldies. I was only a kid back then. What was the programming on the AM when you and your Dad took over? I know earlier in the 1970s, they were broadcasting NBC's "News and Information Service", which was also heard at the time in NYC on 97.1 FM.
You mentioned the newly christened "Kicks 101 1/2" went to #1 in its first book- what was the format in the early '80s that made it go to #1? I remember in the mid '80s, it was a Top-40 skewing AC station, although more "A/C" than WPST. In the late '80's shortly after Press bought it, it was more of an A/C/Oldies mix, which lead up to the Talk/Oldies hybrid NJ 101.5 format change in March 1990. I seem to remember that the station had a Sunday night oldies show through its various A/C iterations in the '80s, which I think continued into the early NJ 101.5 days. Norm Latham the host if I remember correctly? He played really "old" oldies- 1950s and 1960s stuff which one of my uncles absolutely loved.
Few more questions. 1260 was WBUD by the time I got interested in radio in the mid-late '80s. Did they simulcast the FM in the WKXW (AM)/WKXW-FM days? When did they go back to being WBUD? I think they had a "nostalgia" format in the '80s, which evolved more to an oldies format by the late 80s/early 90s after Press took over. I seem to remember Press importing their "Great Gold" slogan/jingles from WJLK (AM) 1310 after they sold it and took over the Trenton stations.
When did 101.5 "power up" and move to the big WNJT tower? Something tells me it was around 1987 or so? I remember 101.5's signal was always "iffy" in Hazlet Township, NJ (Monmouth County) where I grew up, until they moved to the big tower and then they came in like a local. Did 101.5 maintain an aux antenna on their old tower after the move?
Thanks. I always have a fond spot for Kicks- back when I was 16 and 17 years old in the late '80s, it was my favorite station. Good "oldies/A/C mix." Of course, what goes around comes around- many of the A/C songs heard on the station in the late 1980s are now featured on the weekend on NJ 101.5!
-Mike
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