NJ-101.5 goes into Hurricane Mode 48-Hours Before the Storm!

[MedianJ]

This is a big reason why I consider MedianJ's rants to be complete nonsense.

Complete Nonsense? MedianJ is not responsible for NJ101.5 WKXW FM Trenton losing almost half their audience in the M/S/U PPM over the last couple of years and is currently languishing in the 4’s. I'm sure the smart execs at Townsquare are well aware of those pathetic numbers.

As far as this weekend's coverage of the hurricane it was a joke, with most of the important information coming from the traffic and weather reports.  Being such I would expect during the next major news event Eric Scott convenes his whole news team of anchors and reporters to Trenton as the talk hosts didn’t cut it. A full analysis will be coming soon.

[Turnpike Tuner]

101.5 did a great job as usual with everything - but what impressed me was the great use of Facebook to get information out. With so many people having smartphones, staying on top online as well as on air is equally important.

Kudos also to Press for doing a great job gathering info and doing extra reports all weekend on The Breeze & Thunder 106.

[imhomerjay]

This is a big reason why I consider MedianJ's rants to be complete nonsense.

Among quite a few valid reasons, actually.

[iimutt]

This is a big reason why I consider MedianJ's rants to be complete nonsense.

Among quite a few valid reasons, actually.

Considering Jim Gearhart, Bob Williams, Demenski and Doyle and the other staff were in the building  and on air along with Big Joe Henry during the weekend coverage, the comment from Median re  NJ101.5's coverage makes no sense.

They took calls from listeners from across the state looking for information and even took calls from listeners outside the NJ101.5 listening area who had relatives or property in the area, providing them with info or requesting that other callers provide it if they couldn't.

When I listened the calls kept moving and when I sampled NJ101.5 recently, host Michele Jerson was allowing callers to request help or provide status, but not to slam those who were trying to help.  She rightfully and correctly ended a call from someone who was complaining about a Verizon tech sitting down somewhere even though she had no power.  Michele reminded them that Verizon is a PHONE company and that many of these people have been working hard to fix issues and deserve to take breaks.

[Nick]

This is a big reason why I consider MedianJ's rants to be complete nonsense.

Among quite a few valid reasons, actually.

Considering Jim Gearhart, Bob Williams, Demenski and Doyle and the other staff were in the building  and on air along with Big Joe Henry during the weekend coverage, the comment from Median re  NJ101.5's coverage makes no sense.

They took calls from listeners from across the state looking for information and even took calls from listeners outside the NJ101.5 listening area who had relatives or property in the area, providing them with info or requesting that other callers provide it if they couldn't.

When I listened the calls kept moving and when I sampled NJ101.5 recently, host Michele Jerson was allowing callers to request help or provide status, but not to slam those who were trying to help.  She rightfully and correctly ended a call from someone who was complaining about a Verizon tech sitting down somewhere even though she had no power.  Michele reminded them that Verizon is a PHONE company and that many of these people have been working hard to fix issues and deserve to take breaks.

I cracked up at that stupid caller. She called saying that she saw 6 Verizon trucks sitting on the side of the road for hours with their employees doing nothing. She was complaining that her phone bill will go up because of this. Michele told her that her phone bill would go up if she keeps making more phone calls. That idiot was the stupidest caller I heard during the entire hurricane.

Sadly, some of us have bosses who would walk in on you taking a 5 minute break, then walk by 3 hours later when you're taking another 5 minute break, then they'd stupidly assume you weren't working at all.

[Scott E]

101.5 did a great job as usual with everything - but what impressed me was the great use of Facebook to get information out. With so many people having smartphones, staying on top online as well as on air is equally important.

Kudos also to Press for doing a great job gathering info and doing extra reports all weekend on The Breeze & Thunder 106.

I couldn't agree with you more on this.  So many broadcast TV and radio stations have set up an online presence which exists solely to promote their on-air programming.  NJ101.5's presence on Facebook was truly helpful, invaluable actually.

But they haven't been owned by Press Communications for years... 

[Turnpike Tuner]

I couldn't agree with you more on this.  So many broadcast TV and radio stations have set up an online presence which exists solely to promote their on-air programming.  NJ101.5's presence on Facebook was truly helpful, invaluable actually.

But they haven't been owned by Press Communications for years... 

Whoops. Should have been more clear - I meant kudos to 101.5, as well as to Press. I know they haven't owned them in years....my apologies!