NJBA Weekly Newsletter, Friday, June 15, 2007

NJBA Holds Annual Elections

Last week, the New Jersey Broadcasters Association held its annual election of officers at its’ annual meeting at Caesars.  There are no changes.  All present officers and Directors were reelected. Andy Santoro will continue as Chairman for another year, the first year of his own term. Santoro assumed the Chairmanship upon the resignation of Bob Dunphy. Dick Taylor, Cluster Manager of Clear Channel Tri-State, was elected to a new term on the Board of Directors. 

Complete Survey In The Mail

The Edison Research Survey commissioned by the NJBA is being reproduced and will be sent to station cluster managers and independent Station Managers early next week. The entire survey is confidential, and cluster managers are expected to hold the survey close to the vest, while still discussing it with station staff, including programmers. Meanwhile, NJBA is busy putting a meeting together so the rest of the survey can be presented to effected station personnel.

Details of the meeting will be announced shortly. Only station personnel will be permitted to attend. Further, all stations sending people must be NJBA members in good standing. 

Conference A Great Success

Three hundred thirty three were registered for the Mid-Atlantic States Conference which was held two weeks ago at Caesars. Next years Conference will again be held at Caesars Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. The attendees, for the most part, came away from the meeting excited and agreeing that this conference was great. NJBA thanks the entire conference committee and the co-chairs, Dan Spears from BMI and John Mozes. Next years conference is scheduled for June 2 and 3, 2008 and the Chairman is John Mozes. The conference committee is expected to not change. 

Arbitron Locks Down Numbers

Numbers being gathered in Houston using Arbitron’s People Meter are being locked down by Arbitron and not being distributed to clients. All Arbitron Houston People Meter numbers are embargoed pending additional quality controls, according to the company. Meanwhile, In New Jersey, The NJBA is currently talking to Arbitron regarding its switchover to people meters in some places in New Jersey and not in others. The notion that people meters are superior to the diary method should require that all responses be gathered by people meters.  

ABIP Program Head Has Cancer

Dale Gehman, NJBA’s Alternate FCC inspector, has been diagnosed with cancer and will be entered into treatment shortly. Dale will continue to perform inspections for NJBA members around his medical chemo therapy schedule. We all wish Dale a speedy recovery and hope he is back on the road to health, sooner rather than later.   

Double check your ABIP status.  Don’t let your insurance run out!

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