The New Jersey Assembly, half of its state legislature, has voted down Gov. Chris Christie’s plan to turn over management of the New Jersey Network’s TV management to WNET, the Star-Ledger reports. By ...
New Jersey would keep ownership of the lucrative broadcasting license, but would enter into a five-year renewable agreement with WNET-TV, Channel 13, in New York. NJN would be known as NJTV and would ...
Lawmakers were one vote short in their effort to reject the governor’s negotiated agreement with WNET, the nation’s flagship PBS station based in New York, according to a Star-Ledger report. A similar ...
WNET president Neal Shapiro has said the station will hire between 15 and 20 people to handle all of the programming covered by the 120 NJN employees. The treasurer said about half of the current ...
The N.J. League of Municipalities president urged the Assembly Budget Committee today or “diligently review’’ the proposed transfer of NJN The N.J. League of Municipalities president urged the ...
As June rolled around and the sale of the New Jersey Network to New York’s WNET appeared imminent, NJN’s news director — the man known as the dean of the Statehouse press corps — was approached about ...