New Jersey Network

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New Jersey Network
statewide New Jersey
Branding	NJN
Channels	Analog: see table below Digital: see table below
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority
Founded	April 5, 1971
Call letters’ meaning	all stations: W New Jersey 4th letter: see table below
Transmitter Power	see table below
Height	see table below
Facility ID	see table below
Transmitter Coordinates	see table below
Website	www.njn.net

The New Jersey Network, or NJN, is a state-wide public television and radio network in New Jersey. It is operated by the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority.

NJN is a member of the PBS network for television and the NPR network for radio, broadcasting their programing as well as producing and broadcasting their own programing, mostly relating to issues in New Jersey. With studios in both Trenton and Newark, it has stations across the state that it uses to rebroadcast its signal.

NJN's television network covers all of New Jersey, plus parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and Delaware. The radio network primarily serves several areas of New Jersey that aren't covered by the Philadelphia and New York City public radio stations.

[edit] History

The system was founded in 1968 by an act of the New Jersey state legislature establishing the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority (NJPBA). New Jersey already had a public television station licensed within the state -- WNET, licensed to Newark. However, for all practical purposes, WNET was a New York City station, effectively leaving New Jersey without a public station of its own. With state funding and four UHF licenses assigned years earlier by the Federal Communications Commission, the NJPBA went to work building the state's public television network.

NJN and its reporters have won many awards for their journalistic efforts. In the 1980s, NJN was the first media outlet to break the "Taggart Affair" political patronage scandal.

[edit] Television

As of 2008, the NJN television stations are:

Notes

• 1. WNJN used the callsign WNJM (the M standing for Montclair) from its 1973 sign-on until 1994.
• 2. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook lists the sign-on dates for both WNJN and WNJB as June 5, while the Television and Cable Factbook says both stations signed on June 2.

Signal Reach

• WNJS: all of southern New Jersey (including Atlantic City), as well as Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware
• WNJN: all of northeastern New Jersey (including Newark, Jersey City and Paterson), as well as southern New York state (New York City and western Long Island) and southwestern Connecticut
• WNJT: most of central New Jersey, partially overlapping WNJS
• WNJB: most of north-central New Jersey, partially overlapping WNJN

Cable/satellite availability

The network is available on all New Jersey cable systems. In addition, WNJN is available on many cable systems in the New York City area, as well as the New York DirecTV and Dish Network feeds. WNJS is available on many cable systems in the Philadelphia area, as well as the Philadelphia DirecTV and Dish Network feeds.

[edit] NJN-produced television programs

• Another View
• Caucus: New Jersey
• Classroom Close-up, NJ
• Congress Watch
• Due Process
• Homeless Tails
• Images/Imagenes
• Inside Trenton
• New Jersey Works
• NJN Classics
• NJN News
• On the Record
• Reporters Roundtable
• State of the Arts
• Tomorrow's Medicine Today (produced by Medical Missions for Children)
• The Uncle Floyd Show (aired in the 1980s)

[edit] Digital Television

The network's digital channels are multiplexed:

[edit] Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009^[1], each of the four NJN stations will remain on their current, pre-transition digital channel numbers. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display virtual channels for each NJN station corresponding to their present analog channel numbers.

[edit] Radio

Unlike its television counterpart, NJN Radio covers mainly southern New Jersey, with only one in the northern part of the state. The seven stations all operate at relatively low power, with none having an ERP greater than 6,000 watts.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
2. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231810&formid=387&fac_num=48457
3. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231811&formid=387&fac_num=48477
4. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231812&formid=387&fac_num=48481
5. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101231813&formid=387&fac_num=48465

[edit] External links

• NJN homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNJT
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNJS
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNJN
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNJB

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJB
• Radio Locator information on WNJB
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJM
• Radio Locator information on WNJM
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJN
• Radio Locator information on WNJN
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJP
• Radio Locator information on WNJP
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJS
• Radio Locator information on WNJS
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJT
• Radio Locator information on WNJT
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJZ
• Radio Locator information on WNJZ

Coordinates: 40°13′13″N, 74°45′34″W