Friday, February 03, 2006

Channel 9 Looses Network

With the new merger of the WB and UPN networks, Channel 9, New Jersey’s only licensed VHF station will lose its UPN affiliation. The new combined network will be on Channel 11 in New York City. Fortunately, for WWOR-TV, the UPN Network only provided 3 hours of prime time programming five days a week. This will cause a fairly big programming hole and require the station to have to create new programming to fill the void. Several very important people in government are watching to see if Channel 9 will create programming of interest to New Jersey. This time will give the station the opportunity to put more news, New Jersey public affairs and locally produced programming on the air. Important government people are watching. The station’s license is up for renewal in 2007.  

Press & WAWZ Sign JSA

Allen Lewicki, WAWZ’s Director of Operations tells QuickNews that the station has joined forces with Press Communication stations in a national Joint Sales Agreement. All of the stations will have the same national rep and will be headed by a national sales manager. In some demos, the combination is ranked #1 audience over all other New Jersey Stations. Robert McAllan of Press tells QuickNews that the deal has been in the works for several months and necessitated a change of rep sub firms. Formally, both Press and Millennium had the same rep. 

BMI makes it Official

Dan Spears, Assistant Vice President of Media Licensing, BMI and Co-chair of the Mid-Atlantic States Conference has announced that Moby will keynote the conference. A singer, songwriter, producer and DJ, Moby is widely praised for bringing techno music to mainstream America. A veteran of the music scene for more than 20 years, his unique sound integrates the genres of techno, dance, rock, pop, folk, hip-hop and soul. The Mid-Atlantic States Conference kicks off June 5 and continues on June 6 at the Tropicana Resort and Casino at Brighton and the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. 

February 1 Deadline

New York and New Jersey Stations were scheduled to place their annual EEO reports in their station’s public files and post the report on the station’s website if the station has a web site. Further, the report must show the stations compliance with the three prong out reach requirements. Stations that subscribe to EEO1Source need simply to print out their report from the program, place it in their Public File and on their web site. There is no work or effort involved. Non participating stations must manually compile the information and have placed it in their public file and on their website this past Wednesday. The two-year menu options began for NJ station on February 1, 2004 and ended on January 31, 2006. If a station has not complied, it is in serious FCC trouble and we advise contacting a FCC lawyer immediately. If a station does not have regular FCC Council, NJBA Lawyer John Garziglia will be glad to help.

Get your Best of the Best entries ready!  Memo and entry form to be mailed on or before February 15, 2006.

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